Creative Knitting Embellishments
With the duplicate stitch, you can easily add creative knitting embellishments to your knit projects. It blends in so smoothly, it looks like part of the knitting, but it's actually embroidery. Your friends will think you're a master at juggling bobbins for color changes, but this stitch produces intricate colors and patterns without the tangles of the intarsia or stranding methods. It's our little secret!
Duplicate Stitch
Think of the duplicate stitch as tracing directly on top of knit stitches. It works best if you use a yarn of a similar weight to what you knitted with so that it covers well. First, bring up the needle at the bottom point of the knit stitch to be worked. Then insert the needle under both loops of the knit stitch one row above to come around, and pull the yarn through. Insert the needle back into the bottom point of the knit stitch you are covering and bring it out at the bottom point of the next stitch to continue embroidering. When you are done, sew the ends into the area where you added color so they are secured and well hidden.
The duplicate stitch keeps the knitting more stretchy than using the typical crewel embroidery stitches on top. Since it blends in smoothly to become part of the knit stitches, it will receive less wear than standard surface embroidery.
You can also try
creative knitting embellishment on afghans
using knitting or crochet for the afghan base.
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