Design a knitting pattern

Design a knitting pattern - Double knitting

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This page is for designing patterns for double sided knitting, which has two layers, but can be knitted on an ordinary pair of needles. You use two, or three, colours of wool. Every row is knit, purl, knit, purl, etc. All wools are brought between the needles after each stitch. The colour used for knit will show towards you. The colour used for purl will show away from you. For alternate rows, you will be knitting the opposite way, with the opposite side towards you. If you use three colours, then the colour not needed at the moment will be brought between the needles like the others, but just not used. (This means that it will hide between the two layers of knitting). I advise that you twist the wools round each other at each end, to stop the two layes of knitting separating.

This designer will help you design patterns within the restriction of this technique. For two colours, the back will be the same as the front, but mirrored, and reversed in colour. You can alter either front or back pattern, and the change will be made to both. Click on a square to change to the other colour. For three colours, you can have different patterns front and rear, but you can't have the same colour in the same place. Click on a square for a different colour to the current one, and click again for the third colour. The other side will change so it is different to the colour you've chosen (and you can click on it to change it again.)

You can alter width and depth. The width is the apparent width - what you see. The number of stitches cast on is twice this, because it includes the stitches of both sides.