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Knitting duplicate stitch garter9/8/2023 ![]() Is it hard to knit a teddy bear? Free teddy bear knitting patterns may seem intimidating at first, but they are usually much easier to knit than people assume. There are also a few teddy bear knitting patterns that are knit in the round – some using double pointed needles and some using the magic loop method. That way, the final piece will be nice and 3-dimensional once it’s all sewn up. The work relies on increases and decreases to shape the body and limbs. So, how do you knit a teddy bear anyway? Well, most teddy bears are knit flat – some in pieces and some all in one piece. If you have never knit a teddy bear before, then you are in for a real treat! You can be the one to make the magical introduction with one of these fantastic and free teddy bear knitting patterns. I’m still working on this, so if you have any other ideas, please let me know.There is a very special relationship between a child and their first teddy bear. I had much more success with simply sewing a circle onto the knitting in running stitch.Īlthough it still needs some imagination and perhaps more sewing skill than I have. ![]() Because all the stitches are raised, you can’t simply embroider over the existing stitch, the colour you’re embroidering with simply slides off and you’re left with a confusing mess. Oversewing or Duplicate Stitch simply doesn’t work with garter stitch. Having exhausted all the possible ways I could think of for knitting in colour I started to think about embroidery. This technique of knitting every other row in the alternate colour could lose the line in the middle if you started a new length of yarn in each row although that would mean a lot of woven in ends. This may be the best way I can find of doing colour work in garter stitch. I tried to overcome this with some fair isle style carrying the yarn along the back side of the work, but where I twisted it together with the working yarn it made a very obvious line: This solution, looks OK but, because you’re only working across the alternate colour every other row, the alternate colour yarn end is not there for you to work with when you start the third row of the colour bloc it’s still at the other end of the block. I even tried knitting every other row in the alternate colour. ![]() That was also very ugly and of course it didn’t work because stockinette stitches are slightly taller and slightly narrower than garter stitches. So I tried working the colour changes in stockinette stitch patches. I’ve used this technique before for this robin’s red breast, I hid the colour change under his beak because it looked a little clumsy. It looks ok if you’re just making vertical lines, but it won’t stand up to a complicated design. Instead of the familiar alternate above and below stitches of garter stitch, the colour change creates two below stitches. You can see from this photo that doing this switch results in what looks like an extra stitch: If you search the internet hard enough you will find knitters who claim that the answer to this problem is simply to swap the yarns over, put the front yarn in the back and the back yarn in the front, this will certainly link the yarns to connect the line of knitting, but it also creates a problem. When you join the second colour on the back of the right side of the work, you will tun and find that when you knit the wrong side, the first colour yarn you dropped will be forward of the work, so you can’t wrap it with the yarn in the back. Traditional Intarsia work in garter stitch is impossible because you are always knitting with the yarn at the back of your work. I’d like the cow design to use short rows and garter stitch so she could match the Round Pig, Round Sheep and Round Duck. Garter stitch is great for short rows and terrible for colour work. Cows and especially giraffes need some colour work to really identify them. My sleek and vicious looking shark design is being tested so I thought I’d take a break from knitting killing machines and try something more peaceful, like a giraffe or a cow. This slightly uncomfortable looking mess is the result of my experiments in colour work in garter stitch. ![]()
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