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RE: #Needlework : Finished square made using 'double knitting' technique and first drawing using a tablet - 261218
oooh... thick fabric might just be perfect for a cosy scarf, no?
this double knitting looks interesting... so the whole surface is attached to another? It's not just two layers joined at the seams?
A different, but loosely-related, technique for a double fabric: knit half the stitches while slipping half, then repeat by knitting the stitches you slipped before and slipping the one you knit before. This forms a tube. Or, if you knit stitches that would ordinarily be slipped, you join the two layers, a bit like a quilting stitch joins layers of fabric.
The main thing is that you carry the colours together, @googlyeyes. All the stitches together but the colours alternate.
You knit the colour in front of you, but then you have to purl the one that goes on the other side. This happens at the same time.
When you finish the row and you turn your work you will again knit the colour in front and purl the colour at the back.
You don't actually slip stitches, @fiberfrau. You need to knit / purl both one at a time.
The problem I had before was that I wasn't twisting the yarns at the end of the row so I was just knitting two pieces separately.
By twisting you actually achieve the 'flat tube'. This video tutorial clearly showed me how to avoid this.
OK, I was confusing with knitting concentric tubes for socks. Different techniques. So you are knitting the right side of one color and the wrong side of another color at the same time, holding one color in each hand? I think I can visualize it now. Will need to try after I finish some current projects.