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Should you go down a needle size for the stockinette part? The pattern suggests this in case your colorwork comes in a tighter gauge than one-color work.The stranding makes each row pretty much permanent. It’s virtually impossible to correct the flower stitches if you discover you’ve made a mistake.(Up to 39 stitches here, which means a lot of weaving of the floats on the back side.) Single-stitch colorwork can be hard to make consistent, when the floats are long.It’s a single thickness elsewhere in the pullover. The colorwork makes the fabric double thick for the flower section, due to the strands carried on the back side.The strands on the back might show through if you use a very light main color and very dark color for the flowers.A person wants to get to the flowers as soon as possible. The flowers are what this sweater is all about. You get to make the flowers pretty early in the creation of this sweater.This is a design choice: do you want dimensional flowers or a fabric with flowers built in? Duplicate stitch creates a dimensional effect. The stitches for the flowers are integral to the fabric-they don’t sit atop the background.If you love to knit stranded colorwork, this is a good workout of your skills.Let’s break down the pros and cons of duplicate stitch versus stranding for this project. Every stitch is an adventure.Ĭouldn’t a person stitch the flowers rather than strand them?Īs you may recall, I’ve been in something of a duplicate stitch mood recently. There is absolutely no repetition or rhythm to the chart. The chart must be worked four times to cover the front and back of Papa. Junko Okamoto thoughtfully provides us with a chart, 50 rows high and 90 stitches wide, for working the flowers in stranded knitting-you know, working two colors alternately in a round. You know Papa: it’s that pullover with the winsome flowers that look to have been doodled all over it. If you enjoyed this How-To the check out Simple Stylish Knitting.Getting there! My queue of MDK March Mayhem projects is down to 62, now that I am well on my way with the Papa pullover by Junko Okamoto. This post is from Simple Stylish Knitting. Finish at the back of the work and weave both warn ends in neatly on the back. Continue to work in this way until you’ve completed the design. Turn the work 180 again and insert the needle at the bottom of the first stitch to be covered in row 3.For the final stitch in this row, instead of threading the needle under both legs of the stitch above, simply insert the needle through to the back, so forming a half stitch.You’re now at the bottom of a stitch and can repeat steps 2 and 3 to work across the row.

Turn the work 180 and take the needle under the new adjacent stitch – pull the yarn through to work the first leg of the first stitch on row 2.To work across row 2 from left to right, insert the needle into the bottom of the first stitch to be worked.Repeat steps 2 and 3 to complete the row from right to left.

From here you can angle the needle into the bottom of the adjacent stitch to the left. To create the left leg, take the needle back through the bottom of the same stitch.

Pull the yarn through so that it’s covering the right leg of the stitch – don’t pull the yarn to tight or you’ll distort the stitch.

Take the needle under the stitch above, threading it under both loops from right to left.

Thread a Yarn needle with the appropriate colour yarn, and starting on the first stitch indicated on the chart, insert the needle at the bottom of the stitch from back to front, leaving a 10cm end at the back of the knitting.

This will save cutting and re-threading the yarn needle and will make following the chart a lot easier as you come to fill in the last few colours. It’s often easier to work one colour of the chart at a time, starting with the most frequently used, down to the least frequent. So the starting point is the lowest coloured stitch on the chart – marked A in the example on the right. Charts are numbered along the bottom and at each side for easy reference.Īs with most charts in knitting, duplicate stitch charts begin in the bottom right-hand corner and are worked up to the top. Each square on the chart represents one stitch and each line of squares represents a row. The pattern or motif is shown on a chart, which looks a lot like a Fair Isle colour chart, but is actually much easier to work. Duplicate stitch is a great way to add colour to a plain piece of knitting, or even a shop bought sweater! The stitches are applied to the right side of stocking stitch once the knitting is finished – they follow the natural curve of the V shapes and mimic the stitches.