The Double Stockinette Stitch is a knitting pattern that can be used for beginners and experienced knitters.
The Stockinette Stitch is the most common knitting stitch pattern and we like it a lot.The Double Stockinette is its cousin.
Double Stockinette is just as smooth and beautiful as the regular stock inette.The perks of Double Stockinette...
The Stockinette Stitch has higher tension in it than the purl Stitch.It pulls towards the knit side.There are as many knit stitches on both sides of the fabric in the Double Stockinette stitch.
A lot of things can be done with Double Stockinette.It can be used as cuffs for a sweater or cardigan design and is elastic enough to replace ribbing.
It is perfect for the brim of a winter hat.A ribbed look is more elegant than a thick one.
It is suitable for double-sided projects, like scarfs, because of the lack of a wrong side.Or really warm blankets.
The Double Stockinette stitch is very easy to do.You don't have to know how to cast on stitches, knit, slip, and bind off.It was easy as pie.
As this is a stretchy stitch, I held my needle tips together and added the stitches around both at the same time to get enough yarn for the edge to be able to stretch out.I do this when using this method as well.
Bring your yarn to the front.If you were going to purl, put your needle into the next stitch.Without knitting the stitch, let it slip over to your right needle.You should repeat this for your stitches and rows.
Decreasing in double stockinette is difficult.I tried the common k2tog and ssk but it looked messy at the back.Two stitches have to be decreased at a time to keep the pattern.
I think it is important that the decreases look nice on both sides of double stockinette.
The best way I have come up with is to slip 2 stitches knit wise, knit one stitch and pass the slipped stitches over, using a sl2tog, k1, PSSO.
If you don't start the decrease when your next stitch is a knit stitch, you will get a completely different result.
A chain of knit stitches resting on top of the fabric is created by sl2tog, K1, PSSO, a decorative decrease used on regular stockinette.Instead of making left and right leaning decreases in pairs, this can be used.
In double stockinette, there is a new column of knit stitches on the right side, and there are two columns of knitting that are missing from the back.
The pictures above show how this looks.It is easy to perform, especially on the wrong side, and I think it looks neat.
You can download a cheat sheet with 88 knitting abbreviations to help you remember them.
There is a downside to this way of decrease.You can't open your work as a pocket after using the sl2tog, k1, PSSO.
The decreasing looks great on a scarf.If you are planning on making a bag, you need to make it in a different way.I have spent a lot of time trying to solve this, but I couldn't.
Sarah who runs A Yarn Weaver's Journey is a talented woman and she has cracked this nut for us.If you need to decrease double stockinette without stitching the two sides together, read ”The Curious Tale of Double Stock inette Stitch” on her website.
Do you want to learn everything about the Stockinette Stitch?How to fight the curling edges?Do you want to know more about slipped stitches?Knitting with Slipped Stitches is a post for you.
The increases need to be done two at a time, just as the decreases, to keep the pattern intact.
I tried both increases that use the bar between stitches, as well as one that uses an existing stitch.
The stitches got tight and crumpled up the fabric because there wasn't enough yarn.Maybe another yarn would be more forgiving than the one I used.
You can easily add two new stitches without the stitches getting too tight if you use working yarn.
The increase I used is called M1BL and it can be done both right and left-leaning.It is sometimes referred to as M1 left and right loop.
This is just using new stitches.You can make this by wrapping yarn around your thumb.Pull the yarn and tighten the loop if you want to make a new stitch.
You can make a bridge between two pieces of fabric by adding stitches at the end of a row.I usually use this to add stitches under the arms when knitting sweaters top-down.
There are a couple of things you have to change to make Double Stockinette work.
When knitting this stitch flat, the right side and the wrong side rows are worked the same way.To make it work in the round, you have to add a wrong side row.Here is how to do it.
Bring your yarn to the front.If you were going to go purl it, put your needle into the next stitch.Without knitting the stitch, let it slip over to your right needle.For your first row, repeat this.
You know you have finished your first row when you reach your marker.The second row begins when you slip your marker over to the right needle.
When you were going to purl, bring your yarn to the back and slip one stitch.The next stitch should be purled.This should be done at the end of the row.
If you don't know how to knit in the round, this post will show you how.This is a good post to read.