I’ve been getting my double knitting groove on again.
For some time I’ve wanted to try another one of Beverly Royce’s amazing patterns from the out of print “Notes on Double Knitting“. I’ve been lucky enough to rent a copy via Interlibrary loan and photocopied some pages for my reference.
Image from book, © Schoolhouse Press/Beverly Royce
This is the Stuffed Pony pattern from the cover. It’s really an amazingly ingenious pattern. Worked entirely on two needles back and forth, using Double Knit, short rows, and inc/dec shaping to form a nearly seamless horse. It’s also worked “inside-out” as it’s easier to work the “knit1, slip 1″ double knit pattern this way.
This rather nondescript blob is part of the body. It starts at the underbelly with inset stitches worked in waste yarn to be removed later for the leg openings. This picture is it at half way through the 4th set of short rows. It calls for four different colors of yarn for each leg (labled A,B,C, and D) but I couldn’t be bothered to find that many in the same gauge so I just added knots on the end of each (1-4 respectively) to label them. So far so good!
That is so cool! I’m just getting into double knitting, thanks to your posts about it. I will definitely be checking out that book!