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Time to sew on your googly eyes on the Giles EEK hat using the Duplicate stitch. This technique allows you to create the effect of your motif being knitted into the piece. Instead of knitting with multiple colours at the same time, you simply knit up your piece in the background colour and then embroider on the motif, following the graph on the previous page. Easy as pie!
1. Secure your yarn on the wrong side of your fabric, in the place where you want to start sewing.
2. Bring the needle through to the right side of the fabric, at the bottom of the first stitch you’ll embroider over.
3. Tug on the yarn until all of it has been pulled through to the right side.
4. The spot where you’ve pulled the yarn through is at the bottom of the little ‘V’ formed by the stitch in the knitted fabric. Your duplicate stitch will sit on top of this stitch, hiding the yarn under it, and it will look as if it was a knitted stitch. First, form the right-hand ‘leg’ of the stitch by inserting the needle at the top of the stitch, under both ‘legs’ of the stitch above it.
5. Now pull the yarn through.
6. Complete the stitch by inserting the needle in the same place where you started off.
7. Pull the yarn through to the wrong side of the fabric, and finish off the stitch. Repeat steps 2 to 7 to continue your duplicate stitching.