I took a VK Live class this morning on a technique I have been looking into for a while. It doesn’t seem to have a formal name, though the teacher of this class called it the double-pass technique.
Essentially, you are working with two colors of yarn, and instead of working two rows (back and forth) with color A and then two rows with color B, you work a row with A, then a row with B, then knit back with A and back with B. Then to make cables or traveling stitches, you are basically slipping stitches of one color and cabling those slip stitches around to make the pattern.
It’s one of those things that looks like it’s hard, but it’s not. Which I’m glad of, because I am thinking about doing Lucy Hague’s Lindisfarne (Rav link) which uses this technique. So I was pretty thrilled to see a class on it. The teacher was Maddie Harvey, who also has some patterns using this technique and did a very good job with the class. I had to get up really early this morning to take the class – it was 6 – 8 am! – but I’m glad I did.
Quite A Yarn 
What time zone are you in? 🙂 It’s 6 am here. It looks really nice!
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I’m in the Alaska time zone – how about you?
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I’m in Eastern daylight time.🙂
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I am on the eastern time. 🙂
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I’ve always been afraid of Lucy Hague’s patterns. Glad to know it’s not as hard as it looks!
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You will get it easy!
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That looks like a great technique. It’s so interesting to learn things that look difficult but aren’t. I would guess just to look at it that it’s a challenge:)
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It really isn’t hard! You do have to pay attention somewhat, but it is pretty straightforward.
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Nice! Your little swatch looks great! I’ve done something like this with socks in the round, where I alternated colors every row and did cables in different colors on different sides of the socks
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I’m looking forward to trying it in the round – I suspect it will be pretty fun to work it that way 🙂
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So the technique results in single-row stripes when knitting flat. Very useful indeed.
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That looks really interesting! I knew that I should commit to getting up early for some classes. 🙂
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I’m not going to make a habit of it, but once in a while it is worthwhile 🙂
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It’s a very interesting look. Wish I was more into knitting than I am right now!
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It does look very cool! I’m planning a project using it, hopefully a bit later this year!
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That looks great! So of course it has me thinking…could you do that in a single pass? Hmmmmm.
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Boy, I don’t know! If you are working it in the round, it does go one round at a time to make the same effect. But if you’re knitting flat it may have to be double pass
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It’s neat!
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It is!
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I would call that “hard as heck looking technique” – ha! You seems to be able to take on any technical knitting challenge 🙂
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It’s another one of those things that look hard but really isn’t! There are a few techniques I’m trying to build up to 🙂
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