8/15/2023 0 Comments Knitting duplicate stitch appIf you can't find a display of this stuff in your LYS, a thin and woolly sock yarn is a pretty good substitute. I recommend high-wool content sock-heel reinforcement yarn-it is thin and tough, and comes in many colors. Laying two strands side-by side increases width without increasing thickness, reducing both peep-through and bulk. But for decorative use, the best results come with using a thin yarn, doubled. Today's post starts with the how-to for basic duplicate stitch, then features some tricksĬlassically, duplicate stitching is worked with a yarn of the same weight as the underlying garment and this is fine for utility use. However, there are TECH-tricks which can help (somewhat) with these problems. In short, thick fabric, peep-through and pixelation combine to give color duplicate stitching a bad rep as clunky and stiff. This means duplicate stitch has a "pixelated" or stair-step look, especially on curves or diagonal lines (have a look at the leaves on the little hat, above.) For one thing, putting a different color yarn on top gives the bottom yarn a chance to misbehave by peeping through.įor another thing, you can't just put designs wherever you want them (although some graphic designer at Tim Horton's thought you could!) In fact, duplicate stitch is constrained by the underlying fabric, each stitch must lie exactly over a stitch in the knit fabric. Using a contrasting-color yarn causes appearance problems, too. When working a secret message into the lining of a hat or a flower motif on a sweater front, thick, stiff fabric is not going to be popular. Further, since mending is done "invisibly" (in a matching color yarn) there is no issue about appearance.įor decorative purposes, the situation is different. Similarly, stiff reinforcement improves little kid sweater-elbows. When mending a thinning heel, restoring thickness is actually the aim. For utility use, this isn't much of a problem. a little heart over a moth-hole in an old glove.Īs you might-imagine, working another strand of yarn into each underlying stitch thickens and stiffens the fabric. A colorful flower worked over a thinning elbow, or a little heart over a moth-hole in an old glove combine utility with decoration. You have certainly seen this use, the little hat below was worked in classic duplicate stitch.Ĭlassic duplicate stitch embroidery on a little girl's hat The second use is when a perfectly sound fabric has duplicate stitch on top to add color-decoration. You can feel the fix, but I couldn't get the photos to show.) (So undetectable, in fact, that I'm not posting my before-and-afters of a mending project. If the color-match is good, the fix is undetectable. In its utility guise (also called "Swiss darning") duplicate stitching is used for "invisible mending." With this trick, a worn fabric-an elderly sock-heel, perhaps-can be fortified by exactly following (duplicating) the path of the underlying knitting with strand of yarn threaded on a dull-tipped sewing needle. Duplicate stitching has two uses: utility and decoration.
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