#double knitting bind off

[ezekiellsplayground]

The long awaited double knitted twisted rib bind off method is finally here! Big shout out to the genius in my fibre community who developed this method for me and graciously allowed it to be shared. Happy knitting!

[ub-sessed]

I finally managed to do both the double knitting invisible cast on and invisible bind off!

The cast on took me at least 17 tries: I kept dropping stitches as I was working the first row and then not knowing how to recreate them: the loops would just disappear. The bind off was much easier, except that because I really didn't want to use my metal dpns, I had to move all the stitches back and forth about four times, which is not easy with my tremor!

Still experimenting with selvages: On the left I knit then slipped the last two stitches together, but even though I tried very hard to do so loosely, that edge ended up being way too tight. On the right I tried to twist the yarns around each other but just ended up with an uneven gappy mess.

Going to try again!

[ub-sessed]

This is a very cool bind off. In this video he's demonstrating it for double knitting, but I imagine it would work with regular knitting as well.

I used a crochet hook, because I find passing stitches over each other super difficult.

This is just a little swatch to see what my stitch-to-row ratio is with this thrift-store acrylic. It came out to 18 stitches (36 if you include the other side) to 28 rows. So I guess that's 9:14. What an impractical number.