Double Moss Stitch

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Permalink Reply by Nutty4Knitting on January 26, 2012 at 1:17pm

Susan, the double moss is my FAVE ground stitch.  Let's see if this helps.  It is a four row pattern of alternating knit and purl sts.  Rows 1: work your knit 1, purl 1 pattern, Row 2: work knit over knit, purl over purl.  Row 3: work purl over knit, knit over purl,  Row 4: knit over knit, purl over purl.  When you begin row 1 again, it will be a knit over purl, purl over knit.

Sometimes chaning the wording to represent how I will see the stitches as I look at the knitted item helps me visualize better.

Permalink Reply by Peggy Stuart on January 26, 2012 at 1:23pm

Perfect analysis, Nutty! It's like seed st except that you do a row of matching the st below before a row of knitting the opposite. I love how it looks. It's used a lot in Aran knitting. There's a lot of it in the Landscape shawl. Nice! Seed st is nice, too. Just looks a little different.

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on January 26, 2012 at 1:39pm

Peggy, Thanks for the added info...both descriptions were better than anything I have found.  I love the seed stitch, too... it is super simple for me. 

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on January 26, 2012 at 1:38pm

Nutty!  Thank you so so much... I've been studying this all day, and I thought I had the sequence right, but YOUR description is so, so marvelous!  One person sent me some instructions, and the phrase "work each stitch in the manner it presents"... I HATE that phrase, which means absolutely nothing to me.  But your description is PERFECT... ever thought about teaching knitting?  LOL 

Permalink Reply by Nutty4Knitting on February 2, 2012 at 6:07am

Thanks Susan and Peggy!  Teaching knitting?  Well, I do.......and I do on occassion.  Three of the Little Ones are in the beginning learner stage.  And......I teach a class at my LYS every once in a while.  Having babies to take along kind of preciptates doing it too often.  Besides, the owners usually handle the beginning stuff.  Most of the outside teachers usually do some kind of KAL class.

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on February 6, 2012 at 8:59am

Thanks again Nutty, I started the Double Moss Stitch portion of the back and it is looking great... just wanted to post a pic to let you know that  I GOT IT!!

Permalink Reply by Nutty4Knitting on February 6, 2012 at 9:30am

Yea!!  And you're welcome!!  That looks fantastic! I'd love to curl up in it right about now!  Well, at least as soon as it was big enought to curl up in! =))

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on February 6, 2012 at 10:07am

Thanks!  I think it will be super warm when finished...