How to do a Kitchener StitchBack to Search |
Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
Jeanne from Jimmy Beans Wool demonstrates how to do the kitchener stitch. We hope you enjoy it! Fun Fact: Lord Kitchener (he was a British military hero of the Boer War and World War I) wanted a better sock that didn't have seams on the tops of the toes so that his soldiers wouldn't get sores while they where in the trenches. So he worked to design a new sock and while doing so he invented this new grafting technique for the toes which makes a smooth invisible graft -- that grafting technique was later named the Kitchener Stitch! Leave a long tail when you have finished knitting. Have your live stitches to be joined separated equally on two needles. Hold the two needles parallel with each other with the wrong sides together and the tail coming from the needle in the back with the needle points pointing to the right. Thread a darning needle with the tail.
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