Double knit hot pad

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(Sept 2021 - Dec 2021) Double knit hot pad

 

Details

• Yarn: Peaches & Creme 100% cotton yarn and Sugar ‘n Cream (Overcast)
• Needle size: US 9 (5.5mm)
• Pattern

Notes

The chart as provided was a bit annoyingly non-symmetrical so I decided to adjust it a bit - see my new chart! This was my first double knit piece so I had to learn it from scratch and a lot of the tutorials online just say to hold the 2 strands of yarn together when casting on but I found that it didn’t reliably alternate the 2 colors. So I instead followed this tutorial which essentially just says to explicitly, manually alternate the colors and it worked!

Working with cheap 100% cotton yarn is the absolute worst so I started this briefly but then put it down for a LONG time before getting the motivation back to pick it up again. Double knitting is also pretty slow-going because you’re essentially making 2x as much surface area but the final product is pretty cool I guess! My bind off was a bit wonky (I just did a regular stretchy bind off because I didn’t want it to be too tight) but now it is too loose and looks pretty bad :( Oh well, at least it works as a hot pad!