weaving in an extra thread/layer HELP!!!

I would think you could just turn the finished hat inside out and pick up stitches on dp and knit the "inside" hat the same as the outside.

On 12 Mar 2006 12:04:34 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@paradise.net.nz spewed forth :

Thread a yarn needle, start whipstitching around the column formed where two stitches meet.

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Hi Rach!

I haven't thought of that problem earlier, but my suggestion is this: (I knit with the yarn over my left forefinger, but I am sure you can adapt it to your way of knitting) You let the merino-inside yarn "leap" on the backside of your work, (parallell to the knitting yarn, over my left forefinger), while you pick up the knitting yarn *3 times(sts) OVER the merino, then

3 times(sts) under the merino thread*. Then the inner yarn will bind to the inside with loops 3sts long. You can adjust the length of the loop to he gauge, may be it's better with shorter or longer loops. If you *bind* the yarn for each sts you knit, I think the work will be a little *stiffer*, if you know what I mean, but I am not sure that is the best. I would use a colour of the inner yarn as like the hat yarn as possible, then it will be more invisible at the utter side. Anyone else who have comments to this??? AUD ;-)

If I'm not mistaken, you are describing what you do when you are knitting with 2 colors and have to carry the unused color across several stitches. In this case, the "floating" yarn is never used for stitches and just carried along at the back of the work to create a thicker fabric. It is not easy to explain without pictures but you did well. I agree that this would produce the effect that Rach wants.

By the way, I saw a woman wearing a beautiful, multi-color cardigan sweater at a concert this afternoon. Recognizing it as hand-knit, I had to compliment her and ask some questions. She told me she used Dale of Norway Peer Gynt yarn and showed me the inside so I could see how she had managed to keep the floats laying very neatly. How long did it take, I asked. She laughed and answered "years!"

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**You are quite right!

Nice! But takes shorter and shorter time the more you knit! AUD ;-))