![]() ![]() Heather Zoppetti lives and works in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her husband and yarn collection. Have you tried using duplicate stitch to fix your colorwork mistakes? How else have you used duplicate stitch? Repeat these steps across the area you are working (Figure 1). The stitches have a bit of dimensionality to them, making the flowers stand out. It goes pretty quickly when you load up a tapestry needle and just get to it. Begin at lowest point and work as for horizontal duplicate stitch, but end by bringing the needle back out at the base of the stitch directly above the stitch just worked. Pros Duplicate stitch is very much like counted cross stitch embroidery. When working a series of horizontal duplicate stitches, complete one. Complete the stitch by returning the needle to where you began. Place needle from right to left behind both sides of the stitch above the one being duplicated. Vertical duplicate stitch is worked in a similar fashion. Bring yarn to the outside at the base of the stitch below the stitch to be duplicated. You can work duplicate stitch either horizontally, like I did with the Flurries Cowl, or vertically. Repeat for as many stitches as you need to fix (Photo 6). This is done by a sort of embroidering with a darning needle. If you’re fixing multiple stitches, bring the needle back out at the base of the V of the next stitch to the left to begin the next duplicate stitch. How to Knit the Duplicate Stitch Whether knit a sweater, socks, handbag, toy or any other item, you can personalize it or decorate it with duplicate stitch. Take needle right to left under base of V stitch above one to be covered. 2Bring yarn to RS (right side) at base of V of knit stitch to be covered. On WS (wrong side), anchor yarn by threading under 4 or 5 stitches, finishing behind stitch to be darned over. Step 3: Take the needle back into the fabric at the same place it entered, completing the stitch (Photos 4 and 5). 1Thread a blunt needle with 30cm of yarn. Step 2: Trace the stitch by taking the tapestry needle behind both legs of the stitch above (Photo 3). From the back of the fabric, bring the needle up into the bottom of the stitch to be fixed (Photo 2). Step 1: Thread the correct color yarn onto the tapestry needle. ![]() I’ll show you how to use duplicate stitch to fix this square (Photo 1). Here are the actual errors in my Flurries Cowl as you can see, I made several. However, instead of using knitting needles, you’ll use a tapestry needle threaded with the correct color to trace over the stitches of the wrong color to correct them. The technique is called duplicate stitch because you will be duplicating stitches that you have already knitted. This technique is especially helpful for small bits of color that are not worked all over, such as words, faces on dolls, and little-used third colors in Fair Isle patterns. You can also use duplicate stitch to add colorwork after knitting when you do not want to use stranding while you’re knitting. Let me show you how you, too, can use this magic technique to fix errors in your stranded colorwork. I wanted to fix them before I sent in the sample, of course, but I did not have time to rip back to the beginning. While I was finishing up knitting the Flurries Cowl for knitscene, I noticed that I had made some mistakes in the stranded colorwork way back at the beginning. ![]()
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