{"id":1918,"date":"2014-10-13T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:24:11","slug":"knitting-two-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/knitting-two-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Two At A Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has asked me to make her a pair of mittens in her school colours, to match the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/gypsygirl73\/bu-hat-take-2\">beanie<\/a> I made her a month or so ago. Earlier this year I finally finished my first pair of socks, which I had started in 2011. I didn&#8217;t find making socks difficult, but after I finished the first one, I got bored and it was literally years before I picked up the project again to finish it. I have the same problem any time I have to make two of something, socks, sleeves, mittens, etc. So I vowed to myself that I would learn how to knit two at a time, and this is the first project I&#8217;ve taken on since then that involved a pair of items.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of searching, I found <a href=\" http:\/\/www.spinfoolish.com\/knitting-in-the-round-two-at-a-time\/\"> this great tutorial.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This technique uses a single circular needle &#8211; there are also instructions out there for knitting two at a time using two circulars, but since I&#8217;m already comfortable with magic loop knitting, I specifically searched for instructions that used a single needle.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one addition I&#8217;d make to the tutorial, based on the way I join to knit in the round. It took me years to feel comfortable knitting in the round because I could never get the join tight, and always ended up with a ladder between the first and last stitches. I finally found a suggestion somewhere on the web to cast on an extra stitch, and knit it together with the first stitch. After that, there was no stopping me.<\/p>\n<p>So, to use this joining method with the knitting two at a time technique:<br \/>\nAfter casting on for the second item in the pair, slip the extra stitch to a locking or split-ring stitch marker, then continue to the second half of the first item in the pair. That way, when you get back to the second item, you&#8217;ll be able to slip the extra stitch to your needle and knit it together with the first stitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has asked me to make her a pair of mittens in her school colours, to match the beanie I made her a month or so ago. Earlier this year I finally finished my first pair of socks, which I had started in 2011. I didn&#8217;t find making socks difficult, but after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}