2022 Geek-A-Long: Pokémon Enhanced

Hello you magnificent fibermancers! We’ve reached the end of our Pokémon Sock journey with this week’s download: Pokémon Duplicate Stitching. This is an optional enhancement to your socks to add whimsical pops of color. I like to think of it as giving my little starter team a Pokémon evolution, and the added colors elevated the whole set for me. I’ve also got the full pattern version of the Pokémon Yellow sock available for download.

Next week we’ll wrap on Pokémon with the full pattern download for Catch ‘Em All socks (this single file will have the instructions for all 4 socks plus the duplicate charts), and photos of all the awesome Pokémon socks I’ve seen you guys making! If you want to have your pictures included in that make sure you are tagging them on Instagram with #Lattesandllamas, #CatchEmAllSocks, #Geekalong2022, or tagging me in a comment on the photo (@doctor_llama) so that I can find your fabulous photos.

Adding Color to Socks With Duplicate Stitching

Duplicate stitching looks complex, but is fairly simple to execute. We’ve done a number of tutorials on it on Lattes & Llamas over the years because it’s a technique I love to use. We’re revisiting some of those today to add some flair.

If you want to add duplicate stitching to enhance your Pokémons with pops of color you can add those pops anywhere you like. The charts included in today’s download are recommendations of where you might want to add color.

Getting ready to stitch

Cut a long enough length of yarn to work all the stitches you want to add duplicate stitching to, but don’t go longer than 24” or so. If the sewing/duplicate yarn is too long it gets unwieldy to work with. Thread that yarn through a tapestry needle. Before duplicating the first stitch you can secure the end of your stitching yarn with a knot, or if you’re anti-knot, you can just catch the end of the yarn behind your work in the loop of the next few stitches. I typically knot the end of my stitching yarn to one of the floats on the back of my piece that is very close to the first stitch I will duplicate.

Working Duplicate Stitches

Bring the tapestry needle up, from the back of the work to the front of the work, at the bottom of the stitch you want to duplicate. The bottom of the stitch is the point of the V made by knit stitches.

Slip your needle horizontally under the 2 legs of the stitch ABOVE the stitch you are duplicating.

Bring your tapestry needle from front to back at the same point that you brought it to the front of the work in the first step.

Repeat these steps for any stitch you want to duplicate with a new color. The tapestry needle should always begin behind your work, come up through the point of the V at the bottom of the stitch you want to duplicate, then slip under the legs of the stitch above, then return to the back of the work at the same exact point it came to the front of the work at the start of the duplicate stitch.

View Pokémon: Duplicate Stitching by clicking the button below. When you download the pattern from our website instead of through Ravelry, you will NOT receive automatic updates. You will have to come here and download the next clue every time. Please download it via Raverly if you are able, so you have immediate access to the clues as they are released and any errata that may appear.

~Megan-Anne

There was a great gnashing of teeth today when Mr. Llama saw me photographing the finished socks and was VERY bothered by the placement of the black on Pikachu’s tail. He felt that the black belonged at the top of the tail. Turns out we were both right: Pikachu merchandise typically has a black tipped tail, while Pikachu in the games does not. I looked for some sort of official Nintendo explanation for this but could not find one.

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