Fission knitting is a reversible colorwork technique where the fabric is worked with yarns held in a marl. The design elements are slipped stitches placed on both sides of the fabric. The marl is broken apart to work these stitches. The resultant fabric has a marled middle layer and an overlaid design on each side. It is possible create a different cabled design on each side of the fabric.

Technique Requirements: knit/purl, cast on/bind off, increase/decrease, cables

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Yarn: small amounts of 2 solid coloured contrasting yarn in sock/fingering to DK weights. Smooth/not textured yarn is recommended. Leftovers of sock yarn are perfect.

Needles: 4.5mm/ US7 needles for fingering weight yarn; 5.5mm/US9 needles for DK weight yarn.

Other: cable needle, removable stitch marker, hair or regular elastic, small bag (eg. a plastic sandwich bag that holds both balls of yarn)