Tired of stockinette rolling up? Knit Double Stockinette Instead! -

Do you hate knitting in stockinette because of the rolling that happens along the sides and across the bottom and top edges? Do you look for ways to prevent the rolling like ribbing, knitting several garter stitches at the beginning and end of the rows or use a straight edging like a selvage? Well, then double stockinette may be the answer! I have fallen in love with this technique. It is perfect for a scarf, cowl, or headband. Something that you want to be really warm. I may even try it as a blanket edging, perhaps with an extra long edge to sew up to match for the top and bottom. I love brainstorming new ideas for projects, don’t you?

Its alright if you’re not there yet. I really enjoy trying new things out for my projects, and sometimes they work out, and others, not so much, but hey, maybe I learned something new, maybe I got another idea that will work better.

Double Stockinette

Today’s tutorial of double stockinette is a nice and easy pattern. It helps if you have some experience with knitting both knits and purls, but is a simple enough tutorial, that even a beginner should be able to follow us.

But, I bet you’re wondering, why would I use double stockinette instead of regular? As I said above, it is double thick so extra warm, and it also doesn’t roll like regular stockinette, but its also stretchy, and has the added bonus of no purl stitches. Sometimes, I don’t want to do purls, and I like this one instead.

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So how does it work? For this pattern, you’re going to use any multiple of 2 stitches, for our headband we’re using 30. You’ll want double the number you’re using for your correct width. So, for example, if your gauge says you need 10 stitches in 4″ then you will cast on 20, for this style of knitting.

Now, I haven’t played around with different patterns in the double stockinette but I’m sure other patterns can be achieved, you just have to remember you’re working on every other stitch which shows up as a knit stitch on the side you’re looking at.

The second stitch is worked on when we work our way back on the other side of the work, normally the wrong side, but this pattern doesn’t really have a wrong side.

Anyway, lets get to the tutorial/pattern itself.

Double Stockinette Headband Pattern

Materials: 4.5mm knitting needles (single pointed is fine for this)Yarn: Caron Simply Soft Party in Purple Sparkle, but any medium weight yarn will do.

Cast on any even number of stitches in your favourite cast on method.

Row 1: *knit(image left below), with yarn in front(image center below) slip next st, as if to purl(image right below)* repeat across.

Row 2: repeat Row 1 and continue until your work is your desired length.
That’s it, honestly.

We worked until ours was about 20″ long so as to make it into our twist front headband like in our previous post. Check that out or watch the video below to see how to sew the ends together to make the twist.