- [Kristen] Have you found it confusing
making double knit stockinette?
There's so many different ones around.
Well today, we're going to compare six different ones,
why you would use them, the differences,
and actually to how to make each one of them.
Stay tuned, and we'll solve that today.
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I love double knitting on the knitting loom.
It's much easier than using needles,
because you can see it working up, as you go,
and you can make modifications really easily.
So, I wanna cover what I'm working with today.
I'm working with a double rake loom.
This is from Knitting Board.
So I have an upper and a lower board.
You can use any shape from any brand,
whether it's called a long loom, or a knitting board,
an S-shaped loom, any of them that have pairs of pegs.
I'm using a super bulky six weight yarn.
You can use other yarns, that's fine.
In fact, you wanna test these in multiple weights of yarns.
This setting between the two boards,
if you're able to do it,
I've got mine at the two centimeter setting.
You can do it at one to three and test the different ones
to see what you get.
I wanted to see what the thickest one was,
without going too far.
So this is two centimeter setting,
on the 28 inch knitting board.
For more information, go click on our blog down below
and you can see more details written out for your reference.
I'm going to be comparing and contrasting these
in the very beginning of the video,
so you do wanna stay through here,
especially the first time.
Go ahead and watch through the video the first time,
and then towards the end,
we're gonna have some demonstrations of each stitch.
So, just to overview, when you're looking at these visually,
all the ones that have the blue,
are using traditional v-shaped stitches.
There is no twisting or E-Wrapping.
These here, are all E-Wrapping,
or making that twisted stitch.
So we are working with six samples, it looks like five.
This sample right here, is actually two of them together.
You can see where I've got
this different anchoring yarn here
just showing the difference.
You can see, there's a very striking difference on here.
It looks twisted, but it's not (chuckling).
Let's cover the first ones that you need to know.
This is stockinette.
The one on the left is a classic stockinette.
Whenever you see it set up,
you see it passing, running every other peg,
and then you pick up the missed pegs on your way back.
It's the same one with this one,
except this one is using a twisted stitch, or E-Wrap stitch.
So we're gonna call this stockinette classic,
and stockinette E-Wrap.
That's the really the different between the two.
They make a nice thick fabric.
You don't pull it apart too much.
It does have a little bit of give.
It would be something nice for a very thick blanket
or a warm coat or jacket.
These over here, are modifications.
Two of these, this one and this one,
which you'll see in a moment, are more of a brioche stitch.
They have a look like stockinette.
The one you're most familiar with, is this one right here.
This is what a lotta people call
the figure eight, or twisted stockinette.
We're going to talk about them,
like this is actually both stockinette,
and we're gonna call this a stockinette figure eight,
and this one is the twisted figure eight.
So it's a modified version.
There is no slip stitch in this one.
And what happens is, when we wrap,
we're gonna wrap both of them in one direction
and that gets one row.
That's on both of these, actually on this one down here too.
You wrap them up,
and then when you come back on the next pass
if you use a slip stitch,
where you ignore the very first stitch,
you can actually line up the wraps.
So you're gonna be lining them up in one direction
just like the row before.
If you don't line them up, and make sure they cross over,
it actually makes this one.
Here's the difference between the fabrics that they make.
So when I pull apart this fabric,
it looks different than when I pull apart this fabric.
Let's look at the one that you've seen before, likely.
When you pull this apart,
you can actually see your fingers through it.
It has this laddering yarn, and everything.
When I go over here, and I pull it apart,
I can't see my fingers through it.
I actually can see the back of the knit stitch
from the back board.
I can see that little purl stitch peeking through.
So it's not as thick as this over here,
but I get the benefit of not being able
to see through my stitches.
Do you see that?
So if you have been frustrated with this one,
move to this one.
So it's not super thick, but you still get that benefit.
The way to do that, you'll see how to wrap it.
Basically, this one here, has no stitch on the first one.
You're gonna do a slip stitch.
Down here on this one, this is called the zigzag.
The zigzag is down below here,
everything is wrapped all in one direction,
just like the figure eight,
except it's not twisted around the loom.
It's just simply going over.
So, we're going to go back in the other direction
and it will cross itself.
The wrapping pattern does not line up.
The wrapping pattern does line up when you decide
to not use the first stitch, which is slipping it,
and you make this duplicate zigzag pattern.
All right, let's go through
and show you how to actually make these stitches.
So now we're ready to cover how to wrap.
I'm not going to be covering the cast on in these,
but I will refer to them.
So, in the cast on, on this particular one,
this is the stockinette,
we are going to start our wrapping with this upper peg.
So we're gonna wrap around, this upper peg is the first one.
So if you were starting,
you would start with a slip knot on your first row,
and cast on.
So you just take the slip knot and put it here.
So it always ends on this lower peg, on number one.
So I'm starting my wrapping on number one upper
and then I'm gonna go down to the even peg on the lower one.
So we're just gonna wrap around.
I'm not twisting or anything, I'm just simply going around.
Go around the second one, and then we're gonna go up
to the third peg, so the odd on the upper board.
So we're going to all the odds on the upper
and all the evens on the lower.
And we just wrap all the way around them.
I'm doing 12 pairs of pegs on all my samples.
And I get down to the 12th peg,
and then I'm going to go straight up and wrap around
and then come down.
And now I'm gonna pick up all the odd pegs on the lower
and pick up all the evens on the upper.
Now, in other videos, you will see recommended,
a particular company likes
to recommend turning your board around.
It's too much for me.
I don't like continuing to move my board
and turning it around.
So, I'm just gonna wrap it this way today.
So I've picked 'em all up, I'm gonna go down
to the very last one.
I still wrap around that,
because I want a loop on every single one of my pegs.
So I'm going to lift the bottom one up and over
and knit that off.
And now it's locked in, I don't have to worry about it.
I'm just going to knit off from left to right
and stop in the middle.
And I'm just doing the front of the board.
And then I'm gonna go from right to left,
and then off.
And you can vary where you end this middle,
the center portion.
You can go one stitch over, or every other row or so
just so that you don't get a center line down the middle.
Then I'm gonna turn it and look at the upper board
and knit those over.
You can turn the whole board around,
I'm just turning it downward to see it,
instead of flipping it around.
It's whatever you prefer.
And then we're just gonna push it down.
And we've made one row.
To do the next row, it's exactly the same
because we have still ended on this end.
So we're just going to wrap it the same way.
We start with the one peg
and then go down to the two on the lower
and go back and forth, exactly how we did before.
There's nothing different about it.
And that's it on the stockinette classic.
For the stockinette E-Wrap,
it's the same thing as the stockinette classic,
except we will be using an E-Wrap stitch.
So we're gonna start with this upper one.
So we're gonna wrap around to where it twists.
If I started my cast on here,
I would put my slip knot right there.
I'm gonna come down to the lower portion
and go to the second peg.
And we're gonna come around in between the next two pegs
that we're gonna be going, so the direction we're going,
so I'm gonna go between the two and three
and wrap it around like a little E-Wrap, cursive E,
and go up to the third peg on the upper portion
and go between the peg that I'm going, I'm gonna wrap,
and then in the next one.
Gonna wrap around and make that E-Wrap.
Then come down to the fifth peg, or sorry,
the fourth peg on the lower board.
So we're picking up all the even stitches on the lower board
and the odd stitches on the upper board.
The only difference between this and the classic,
is the fact that it's E-Wrapped.
So come all the way down 'til we get to the 12th one,
or wherever you decide to stop,
and then you're gonna go around to the inside peg here,
and then twist around to pick up.
So let's work this again.
So I'm gonna come down,
pick it up at the last stitch.
We're come straight across
in the direction we're gonna be going,
which is we're gonna be going back in this direction.
So we're gonna go up and then I come around the outside
and then go down to this board here, and twist around.
So everything's still twisting around
in that E-Wrap stitch fashion.
And then it ends on this lower left,
which is the number one peg.
And then you're just going to lift up and over.
And you're gonna work left to right,
and then right to left.
Just working towards the center, vary your center.
And then do your back board, or upper board.
And then just push that down.
And you ended where you began
and you would wrap exactly the same way.
So two passes in order to do one row.
So now we're ready to do the stockinette figure eight.
And this one is a twisted stockinette.
And all of the stitches are going to line up.
This one has a slip knot.
So if you want to do a twisted brioche,
which is what this actually is,
this is what we're gonna be doing.
So this is where you'd start your slip knot,
on this top part,
and you're just going to ignore this stitch.
You're not going to be having an extra wrap on it.
I'm gonna go down to the first stitch down below
and we're doing all of our wrapping in order.
I'm not skipping any pegs.
I'm going to go around and twist it,
and then go up to the next peg
that's not wrapped, number two, twist it,
go down to the number two peg on the bottom,
and twist it, and continue twisting.
And if you can see the portion down below
this is matching the exact way
that all of my pegs were wrapped previously.
And you can see I end on this right side over here,
down at the bottom.
And then knit over.
Work into the center.
Then start at the other side on the front,
work your way to the center.
And repeat on the back.
And where your slip stitch began,
you will not have any wrap on to knit over.
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Push it down.
And the next row is going to work in the opposite direction.
You're still skipping this first one and E-Wrapping across.
Just repeat to get this stitch here,
that you can't see through
and you see that purl stitch behind it,
and it'll have that nice wrapping.
And look at the back, and it looks almost identical as that.
So this produces a nice stretchy fabric.
This one is the stockinette twisted figure eight.
It is a twisted stitch,
or a modified figure eight wrapping pattern.
It does not line up, so when we want to start it,
we actually will go down
and pick up the stitch down here.
Then go back and pick up our first stitch
and wrapping that.
Then pick up all the other stitches.
And if you look carefully, you will see
that it is not lining up
with how the stitches previously wrapped.
So the stitches laying in this one, laying this way,
and after I wrap this, you'll see that they lean this way.
You see how the stitches are kind of having
this lean in this direction?
And so that causes that twisting
in the fabric, not just the individual stitch.
So I'm gonna end at the upper right and knit over.
I'm just gonna lock that in.
I still like to work
my front of my board
knitting over first.
Left to right, right to left, knitting over.
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And that makes the front tight.
Then when I work the back, it's looser,
and it produces this loose stitch here.
So it has that kind of Y-shaped,
or extra emphasized
Y-shaped stitch here.
And if you wanna make sure
that you're always on the correct side,
if it's gonna be tight on one side and loose on the other,
then you might want to mark the front of your board, front.
So when you pick it up,
after leaving the project for a while,
it will continue to be the same stitching,
and your project won't get messed up
like mine has been before, when I first started doing this.
It got funny, because I had a very tight,
for six inches or so, and then I had a very loose stitch.
Work the next row, you're just going to start again
by going down to the next stitch
and then coming back up and wrapping
that stitch again that you came from,
and continue in the figure eight all the way down.
So wrap in a figure eight, it's gonna go just like this.
And that's it.
So continue doing that 'til you get
the stockinette twisted figure eight.
Let's do the zigzag stich.
The zigzag, I really like,
because it uses less yarn than the figure eight,
but also, if use a duplicate zigzag,
I can get this brioche look here.
It looks like it's got the purl stitch behind it.
It has that classic V-shape, just like the duplicate stitch.
So let's go ahead and show you how
to do this first one here.
It uses less yarn than the twisted figure eight stitch.
You're gonna start by wrapping these,
and you're gonna cross over whatever was wrapped before.
So say you're wrapping was going this direction,
the previous row, now we're going to go in
that leaning opposite direction.
So I'm gonna come down here and wrap around this first peg
and I'm gonna go up to the top, and make sure I wrap it,
so that all the ends get the same amount of stitches.
So we have two wraps on each peg.
I'm gonna come down here and go.
So if you see the wraps before, were headed this way,
now I'm wrapping them,
and they're all headed in this direction.
So we've changed directions.
So we come all the way down, just easily wrapping.
This is like the easiest one to wrap.
We're gonna knit over this last stitch
and then work all of your loops, one over the other.
So work right to left, left to right, towards the center
and then do the back row.
And that will get you this look, because the next row,
you're gonna go around again,
and it will cross and start angling in this direction.
All right, so let's do the duplicate zigzag.
And the duplicate zigzag is going to continue
in the same direction that you were going before.
So every row is going to still angle in the same direction.
We're gonna ignore the first stitch
and not work that one over at all.
So we're just gonna go straight down, and around the outside
and then go up to the next stitch up top.
And you're just simply following this patterning here.
So you don't have to think about it all, just follow
the wrapped pattern of the previous row.
Till I get all the way down to the end.
And it will be this last stitch.
Work all these stitches.
And push down.
And then if I was to start another one,
for the Duplicate Zigzag
I would ignore this first peg
and go around the outside of my first one on the upper board
and then go around. So its going to continue going
in that same direction for my next row.
Just like that.
And then we'll end on the opposite side.
So one pass for each row
Ending at the opposite end.
And that is it.
So I hope that you have enjoyed working on
your stockinette stitches.
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