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There’s a lot of eyeballing and checking back at the chart to make sure you didn’t blow a column of stitches. The chart can be hard to follow when you’re stitching these irregular flower shapes-you can overlook a flower by mistake if you’re, say, binge watching Scandal and Olivia Pope is really chewing somebody out. Duplicate stitch follows the shape of the flowers.Duplicate stitch is no fun if you don’t like stitching!.Duplicate stitch is done on the surface of the finished knitted background, so you can snip out a problem area and redo it without affecting other stitches around it.

It’s easy to take out irregular parts or to fix mistakes if you discover you’ve made a mistake.A design choice, whether the flowers should be flat in the fabric as with stranded knitting, or raised a bit with duplicate stitch. The stitches have a bit of dimensionality to them, making the flowers stand out.

It goes pretty quickly when you load up a tapestry needle and just get to it.

Duplicate stitch is very much like counted cross stitch embroidery.

Puckering, pooching, too tight, too loose-all are possible problems here. But with such irregular floats and single stitches, Papa is a pretty challenging piece of colorwork. My stranded knitting looks tons better after I’ve given it a good soak and blocking.

You can’t really tell how your stranding will turn out until you’ve finished the entire sweater and blocked it.

(Confession: I have never done that and never will.) Who knows if your stitches will look better or worse? This is basically a shot in the dark unless you’ve swatched in the round.

Should you go down a needle size for the stockinette part? The pattern suggests this in case your colorwork comes in a tighter gauge than one-color work.

The stranding makes each row pretty much permanent.

It’s virtually impossible to correct the flower stitches if you discover you’ve made a mistake.

(Up to 39 stitches here, which means a lot of weaving of the floats on the back side.)

Single-stitch colorwork can be hard to make consistent, when the floats are long.

It’s a single thickness elsewhere in the pullover.

The colorwork makes the fabric double thick for the flower section, due to the strands carried on the back side.

The strands on the back might show through if you use a very light main color and very dark color for the flowers.

A person wants to get to the flowers as soon as possible. The flowers are what this sweater is all about.

You get to make the flowers pretty early in the creation of this sweater.

This is a design choice: do you want dimensional flowers or a fabric with flowers built in? Duplicate stitch creates a dimensional effect.

The stitches for the flowers are integral to the fabric-they don’t sit atop the background.If you love to knit stranded colorwork, this is a good workout of your skills.Let’s break down the pros and cons of duplicate stitch versus stranding for this project. Every stitch is an adventure.Ĭouldn’t a person stitch the flowers rather than strand them?Īs you may recall, I’ve been in something of a duplicate stitch mood recently. There is absolutely no repetition or rhythm to the chart. The chart must be worked four times to cover the front and back of Papa. Junko Okamoto thoughtfully provides us with a chart, 50 rows high and 90 stitches wide, for working the flowers in stranded knitting-you know, working two colors alternately in a round. You know Papa: it’s that pullover with the winsome flowers that look to have been doodled all over it. Getting there! My queue of MDK March Mayhem projects is down to 62, now that I am well on my way with the Papa pullover by Junko Okamoto.