![]() ![]() Kerin did a really great video tutorial on darning socks with the duplicate stitch (which you can find by clicking here)!Īnd I’m sure by now you’ve probably seen the irresistibly cute collection of wristees from tiny owl knits – The Woodsy Association. Not only can you embroider fun, colorful motifs onto your projects after your project is finished, but you can also use duplicate stitch to help mend socks with thin spots. Knowing how to do the duplicate stitch is helpful in so many ways. So to help you get started with the duplicate stitch, check out Kerin’s video tutorial on this technique. And I must say – this is the perfect technique for smaller projects when I don’t feel up to using stranded knitting or intarsia to create the motif or pattern. It also mimics the structure of your stitches, making it a fairly seamless way to add colorful motifs or other designs onto your knitting. Marly Bird shows you how this simple hand-sewn stitch is applied to. I can just imagine how many fun details can be added to simple projects.To round out our embroidery tutorial series, this week’s technique is all about duplicate stitch! This particular stitch lets you embroider on top of your existing stitches of stockinette fabric in a contrasting color. Learn how to add customized monograms to your knits with the magic of duplicate stitch. You can see my moves to the different stitches. ![]() You can also move left or right under the fabric in order to embroider any stitch. Once finished weave in ends to like color. Step 4: If you want, you can continue upward Making another stitch above the previous stitch. ![]() If you are not stitching above, just pull through the base of the “V”. Once you pull through, you will have a completed embroidered stitch! You will also be set up to continue to the stitch above. Pull through, but don’t pull too tight.See how my needle is going through the stitch above the “V” that I am embroidering? So you go to the stitch ABOVE the stitch you are covering with your new yarn. Put needle through both “legs” of above stitch.Sorry! You can see the needle if you look closely! Pull up through the fabric. ![]() I made the mistake of using a tapestry needle the same color as my swatch. Pull through, under the selected “V” stitch (see how the knitting stitches are a bunch of “V”s – pull your yarn through the base).Leave a tail under the fabric that you will weave into like colors at the end.Thread a tapestry needle with a length of your contrast yarn (for this, I used an off white color).Today's post, first of a series, shows the how-to, as well as a few little tricks to overcome some common problems. It gets its name because the path of the embroidery yarn exactly follows-duplicates-the path of the underlying knitting. It looks like embroidery but is actually knit. Imagine drawing a picture and then going over parts of it with a different coloured pen to create a nicer picture. And stay tuned – this little swatch is turning into a fun little pattern in the next day or so! Duplicate stitch is a form of embroidery worked on a stockinette fabric. 1 Understand that Duplicate Stitch simply means covering existing stitches with a different coloured yarn to create a picture, monograms, or words. It’s really easy to embroider using “duplicate stitching”, and I am so happy to have learned this! I am posting this picture tutorial on how it is done. I love the look of Fair Isle knitting, and knitting with various colors. Often you have to count stitches in order to do this, and sometimes I just want to add some detail to my knitting without difficulty (I have a toddler that almost always interrupts me, so I really need mindless knitting projects-ha ha!). ![]()
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