How do You Knit With Two Strands of Yarn?

How do You Knit With Two Strands of Yarn?

In the book, "Knitting" by Sharon Turner, "Sometimes you want to knit with two strands of yarn at the same time: Your knitting pattern might call for it, or you might want to substitute a double strand of a thin yarn that you have on hand for a thicker yarn required by a particular pattern," (Turner 35).  Basically knitting with two strands of yarn is just knitting, except instead of one strand you have to combine the two strands.  I am going to purl knit with two strands. 

Let's get started!

According to my book on knitting, you do everything such as casting on, knitting, and purling as you do with a single strand of yarn, only you hold both strands together as if they're one and knit or purl both strands at the same time, (Turner 35). 

First, what are the supplies needed?

The supplies needed are two balls of yarn and needles. 

 

 Now time to start purling with two different strands!

 Here is my finished square...

So am I done?

My goals for this blog post were to create a square knit piece with two different strands of color by purling and also casting off; and I did do this.  Therefore I successfully completed my goals for this specific blog post.  The book, "Knitting" by Sharon Turner gives me the insight I need in order to successfully knit/purl.  I have learned so much from this book.  It gives me a clear understanding with instructions on how to do the specific skill that I want to accomplish.  This time I was wanting to learn how to do a double strand knit piece, and with the instructions given in this book, I figured out how to do it.  This book definitely helped me with this hobby because now I know another skill that I wanted to figure out for knitting.  Before reading this book, I didn't even know how to knit.  Now I know how to purl, do double-strands, cast-off, cast-on, etc. because of the instructions like the ones listed above. 

A question for all fellow knitters out there...

Have you tried a triple strand knit?
Is the knit piece supposed to look thicker after this double strand is applied?

What should you take away from this?

My argument throughout these blog posts is that learning a new skill may be hard at first, but with practice it can become very easy and the end result is always rewarding.  I apply this message throughout this blog post because I show how I didn't know how to do a double stranded piece before and thought it would be hard, but now looking at my instructional book, I now know how to accomplish a double stranded square and still apply the other skills that I learned (such as purling, casting-off, etc.).


Also to answer the question "How are you using evidence from the text to improve your performance in the chosen activity?"  I am using evidence from the text (listed above) to improve my performance with knitting because with the book "Knitting" it lists all the steps that I have to take in order to achieve my goal (in this case it was a purl double stranded knit square).  I am improving by learning how to do a double stranded square. 

MLA CITATION Turner, Sharon. Knitting: Teach Yourself Visually. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Pub., 2007. Print.

Dated: 1/6/16