Question

Look up "double knitting". I don't know what the crochet term for it is.

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:17:13 -0400, "norma woods" spewed forth :

In article , "norma woods" wrote:

Hello Norma that was me. It is a technique also discribed in one of the last Piecework Magazines issue Sept/Oct 2004 They call it tapestry crochet. I use a cord cotton. It is worked in single crochet stitches. Start with your main colour. Some stitches before you want to use your second or third colour you put these colour(s) on the top edge of your work and crochet over them. Leave tailends hangingout to be finished later on. The single crochet is putting your hook through both top loops of your work, pick up your thread and pull through, now you have two loops on your hook and you pick up your yarn again and pull through the two stiches. When you are ready to start your second colour, go through the two loops on the top of your work, use your main coloured thread and pull through, now you have two loops on your hook (main colour). Now pick up your second colour and pull through the two stitches of the main colour. continue on with the second colour until you want to change colours again. (Note: you can use more than two clolours) When you change colours, you do have of the stitch with the colour you are working in and half with the one you want to use nexts. All the colours not in use are crocheted over in sit inside the stitch. Make a little sample and you will right away see how it works. I do think that most of the items you make in this technique are done circular. Also note that you do have to watch when you switch yarns that you do not get them so twisted that you can't pull the yarn of the ball anymore. Hope this is clear enoguht Norma, other wise let me know and I will photo copy the instructions for you

Els

Wooly

I do think that double knitting is different. There you create two distinct layers, In the crochet method I know, you only have one layer and carry the extra threads inside your work, so you can't see them on the wrong side of your work.

Els

This sounds like the technique I use for crocheting with two or more colours. However, it doesn't have "each one showing on one side only" as Norma said. The colours are the same on both sides. For instance, if I crochet a white flower on a blue ground, the flower will be white on both sides.

I have used this technique also with double crochet and with work that was worked back and forth, not just circular.

By the way, Els, the other day I forgot to turn off the gas on my stove. There was a pot lid sitting on top of the very low flame, and a cotton potholder on top of the pot lid. After about 20 minutes, my husband smelled something burning and discovered the problem. The potholder was charred black, but it didn't burst into flame! The potholder was the first thing I ever crocheted about 3 years ago, and I was sorry to lose it, even it it wasn't a masterpiece.

Wow, Barbara, talk about luck! I'm so glad that you were ok!

Somehow, I remember this technique was in stripes of two colours, but not double knitted.. Oh well, maybe someday I will come across it again. Thanks anyway.

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OH!!!Sorry for the potholder, BUT: Good it was the potholder that you lost; not your home! AUD :- |

Vertical stripes? Like a tight corrugated ribbing, maybe?

Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist

Hi Barbara,

Sorry that you lost your pot holder. Great that it did not caught fire. I sounds though that the cotton was not directly touched by the flame, and it scorched the fiber but did not burn it I would think that you are very lucky.

After we had the last discussin here about cotton being flammable, I did a test and lost my old oven mitt. It caught fire with a whoosh.

BTW. I now have a little sign by the stove asking me to make sure that I have turned the stove off. It is so easy to forget, when you are walking back and forth while cooking.

Els

Well!! I've come to the conclusion that I was dreaming the technique! LOL It must have been double knitting, although I don't remember it being that, 'cause I know how to do that one. Anyway, I guess I'll put it down to either dreams or brain cramps.

Norma , you make me remember something , i am sure i knitted something like that AGES ago ,,, must think about it ,,, [ only first coffe and still drawsy ,] mirjam

Norma, Could you possibly be thinking of the stitch that uses a double-ended crochet hook? I believe it is referred to as Cro-hooking or Cro-knit and is a different version of afghan stitch(Tunisian crochet). The following link gives a quick set of directions, in the second half of the first block.

I think maybe you were remembering a book I saw. I think it's just titled _Reversible Color Knitting_ but I can't remember the author's name. It's a woman but it's not Barbara Walker or Mary Thomas or Zimmermann or Swansen or any of the usual. It's all kind of patterns that are done with two or sometimes three colors and all of them are reversible. Some make the same pattern and some make different patterns, and at least one is plain on one side and striped on the other. Also one is striped horizontally on one side and vertically on the other side.

Another possibility is the Beverly Royce method of double knitting on two dpns, done using slip stitches instead of using both yarns at once. (She got it from Mary Thomas but developed it more.)

=Tamar

Somebody posted yesterday something about a double knitted bacy blanket knitted by the wife of President Hoover. I think this might be the knitting technique you were looking for. There were three different variations, one identical on both sides, one with alternating stripes of colors, and one with different colors on each side.

I seem to remember that one of Elizabeth Zimmerman's books also had this technique, maybe her Almanac?

As for the crochet equivalent, I've never heard of one.

Nope, wasn't that either, Carey. LOL

ok, thanks Mirjam.

I think it might have been done by knitting into the back of the stitch? Again, I was probably dreaming.

thanks Barbara, I'm at a loss to explain this one. LOL I would have sworn that someone here posted a link to what I'm talking about, but like I said, I was probably dreaming.