A Unique Neckline Technique For Your Next Sweater!

Have you ever heard of a double knitted neck welt? Well before last year I had never heard of it and I was at a knit night and a knitter was describing how she used that to go from her neck edge into the ribbing or whatever edging you're going to do on the sweater. I was fascinated and I had never come across it before. So this is something that you can see on ready to wear sweaters. So it mimics that idea of having this little welt. It's in because of the way that they're constructed it's put in for ready to wear but it actually makes a very nice feature within an actual hand knit as well. Now I kind of I learned it at that point then promptly forgot all about it and as I was knitting this sweater this is the Lucas sweater that is I've just recently released and the Lucas sweater I thought that it could make a really nice feature to go from the edge of the neck into the ribbing. So what I basically went ahead and did is I dug up the tutorial again and kind of figured out my own way of doing it that worked because there's quite a few ways that you can actually create this end effect so I found the way that I liked the best and I'm going to show you how to do it in this tutorial. I'm now working on the neck edging for this sweater and I've gone ahead and picked up all the stitches. I started at the middle of the back of the neck and just picked up one stitch for each cast on stitch. What I'm trying to do now is create what I've seen described as a welt or a double knitting transition from the picked up stitches into the neck edging and it just creates a really interesting little effect. You don't have add it to the sweater but i do think that it kind of creates quite a nice um it just looks quite nice and it's it's a new detail to add if you haven't tried this before so what we're going to do now is we're going to double the number of stitches and the second stitch we increase is going to be used for the inside layer or the double knit so that one will sit inside the other so the there's a few ways of doing this um what i'm going to do is i'm just going to go ahead and knit that first stitch and then we're going to create a backwards loop increase so just twist the yarn like this and pop it on the needle so you'll knit the next stitch and then create backwards loop increase on the needle so we're just going to work our way around increasing a stitch every second one so we're going to end up with double the number of stitches by the time we get to the end of the round and i will see you there and we'll work our first round i've now gone ahead and increased all my stitches i'm doing magic loop but it's very stretched out so the likelihood is it'll probably have to be kind of compressed in a little later on to maybe just use the full cord but we're going to create double stitches now so the first one is as it was previously we're just going to go ahead and knit it now the next one was our increase stitch so we're going to bring our yarn in front and slip it purlwise then bring this back knit the next stitch and then the stitch that had been increased bring the yarn in front and slip this stitch purlwise we're going to keep working this one all the way around we're now going to begin working our next round we ended the last one with the slip stitch with the yarn in front and this first stitch was the knit stitch on the previous round so we're now going to leave our yarn in the back slip it purlwise then bring the yarn in front and purl the next stitch bring our yarn behind slip the stitch that had previously be our knit stitch then bring the yarn in front and purl the next one so almost the opposite of what we would have done before and we're now working the second of our double stitches all the way around so when you've finished this round you're going to go and do one more round that was like the first one with the purl round but you'll stop one stitch before the end so i will see you there at the end of round number three i've now reached the end of round three which is my knit one slip one and i'm at the very last stitch so this would normally be slipped with the yarn in front but i'm going to leave the yarn where it is and i want to move this marker over here because i now want to decrease stitches and i want to work the original knit stitch with the increase stitch and knit two together is probably the most straightforward way of doing it so we want to knit these two together to make this decrease stitch hide behind so i'm going to slip this stitch over remove my marker move this back over and pop that on and then all we're going to do all the way around is knit two together for every single stitch so that will bring us back down to our original stitch count and get rid of all of those increased stitches and it's going to give us a little welt at the bottom of our neck and let me hold this back here so this is what you will see at the bottom of the neck and then above that you're just going to have all of the the standard ribbing so in our case we're going to be doing a one by one twisted rib but you can go on to do any kind of ribbing you want after that