double knitting

noun

1. 1. a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool

   2. ( as modifier )

      double-knitting wool

Example Sentences

She occupied herself with making cot blankets, in double knitting, for the babies of her young friends; some of them among her poorer neighbors, whom she had known when they were little children themselves and she came first to Ambleside, others among more distant and wealthier couples.

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When the Redditers caught on, they got very angry and immediately picked a new video to make popular, "Cast on for Double Knitting I," which is also very boring and quite a bit longer.

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Cast on one hundred and forty stitches; knit six rows plain, knitting four on each pin plain, and purl, twelve rows of double knitting, twenty-four rows narrowing at the end, in double knitting, eight rows plain knitting, and cast off.

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Plain double knitting, with six-thread fleecy, in pieces of six inches square, each of the pieces being about twenty-four stitches each way; when finished, they are to be sewn together with a tuft of black wool at the corner of each square.

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In double knitting you cannot very well increase oftener than every 3 rows, as you do not complete the increase in less than 3 rows.

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