Knitting the Almanac - February Double Knit Blanket
Sl1, K1 ad nauseum I'd like to begin by admitting that I probably should not be so hard on this project. If I hadn't already learned this technique, I would have been dazzled and charmed. However, as it happens, I have already used this technique and found it to be largely unnecessary. Double knitting is when you product two "right" sides of knitted fabric at once. The stitches alternate which side they belong to, and working double knit produces a stretchy, cushy, thick piece of fabric. Double knit lends itself particularly well to colorwork, because if you work the two sides of your piece as inverses of each other it virtually eliminates floats. I will admit that while the end...