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TECH-niques to turn HOME MADE knitting into HANDMADE knitting (+ sporadic forays into politics) TECHknitting.com Written by a human since 2006 Access how-to index at https://techknitter.blogspot.com/2010/04/revised-unified-index-for.html

two buttonholes in white knitted fabric
A yellow square of stockinette displays a developing greek key pattern in red stitches on its surface. A dropped column of knitting with a crochet hook in its middle indicates how the pattern is made: the hook pulls red stitches onto the yellow surface from a red fabric, also with a dropped column, held behind the yellow.
A knitted fabric with puffy vertical baffles. The baffles are separated columns of rust-colored stitches. The overall fabric features horizontal green and blue stripes separated by rust-colored rows. The overall effect is alternating bands of contiguous green or blue squares outlined by rust-colored knitting, the squares being formed by the intersection of rust-colored columns and rust-colored rows.
A midwestern garden in sunshine
A three-panel photo showing double knitting from both sides. Panel 1: mirror-image double knitting with the word "BIG" reversed--this is what would happen in ordinary double knitting with words. Panel 2: the reverse of panel 1, where the word "BIG reads correctly. Panel 3: like panel 1, this is also the reverse of panel 2, but the word "BIG" now reads correctly. Via a label at the bottom of the three panel illustration, the reader is given to understand that the difference between the mirror-image "BIG" and the correctly oriented "BIG" has occurred through a double knitting technique called "uncoupling."
A green striped, double knit, cabled fabric is doubled over so the stuffed baffles show in profile. Below that is another green striped double knit fabric, this one in alternating stripes of seed and stockinette, also in profile along the horizontal edge
graphic in two parts. The top shows the four-needle double-knitting set-up to be two circular needles with a total of four tips, each tip is numbered. The bottom shows four double-pointed needles (dpn's). Each needle is numbered. The title is "similar names, different set-ups."
A photo showing alternating blue and green horizontal stripes, four rows high, separated by single rows of rose colored yarn. The work is in stockinette and is understood to be reversible from the subject title.
The illustration shows two hands holding four knitting needles, with each needle tip numbered. The needles are working a double-sided "double knit" fabric, green on the front, maroon on the back.
Four panel photo showing a red and white potholder made via double knitting the top, bottom and sides, while working the large one-color area in the middle via simple stockinette fabric. Two panels show the work in progress (front and back). The other two panels show the finished work (front and back).
A sock being double knit, which is a black outside layer and a white inside layer, with the stitches arranged alternately on three double-pointed needles. The sock has diamond designs on it in white on the visible black layer, and (because the sock is double knit) the implication is that there are corresponding black designs on the inside white layer.
Blue crown on a gold background with graffiti-like writing on left side saying "no kings."
Close up of top and bottom edges of a red and white double knitting project
A purl graft at the top of a blue and white double knitting project. The graft makes a fold line, applying a contrasting color line of purls to one side, and a line of attractive bumps in same color, to the other.
An individual serving apple dumpling cake sitting on a plate, plate is on a counter
A maroon honeycomb cabled cowl photographed on a white background
A roll-up pencil case, repurposed as a holder for circular knitting needles
view of a knitted sample, steeked, offering inside and outside views of a new technique. The sample is worked in bright blue stockinette and has dark blue garter stitch borders. Notable is that the cut ends from steeking are completely hidden.
A red knitted heart on a white background
The word "knitting," knitted, showing lots of ends "parked" on the fabric surface.
Everyone lost, some just don't know it yet
Knitting in a world on Fire
4-ply yarn being unspun (split) into two 2-ply strands, making a thicker yarn into two thinner strands