How to Use Duplicate Stitch to Add Color Accents and Fix Mistakes // Technique Tuesday

In this week's Technique Tuesday, I demonstrate how to use Duplicate Stitch (aka Swiss Darning) to add accents of color to your finished knitted fabric. This technique can also be used to fix errors in intarsia or stranded color work.

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ADDITIONAL USES FOR DUPLICATE STITCH
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The bent tip yarn needle I used is a Clover Chibi needle.
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The sweater I am wearing is a WWI-era sweater which is part of my long term project to knit a sweater from each decade from 1890s to 1990s.
My Ravelry project page for the sweater is here: https://ravel.me/Rox/a

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0:00 Introduction
0:20 Uses for Duplicate Stitch
1:19 Single Stitch
3:22 Multiple stitches (same row)
4:39 Avoiding twisted stitches
5:21 Demo of horizontal row (no sound)
7:05 Vertical columns
9:42 Multiple adjacent rows

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