SPANISH HITCHING

Here is a tutorial for an alternative form of Spanish Hitching where the strands are worked in "pairs", 
thus allowing different patterns to be made.

To avoid confusion I am only working one pair, red and blue. The tan cords are unpaired.

The tan cords are unpaired. This is inside hitching. ( ABOK#3555). 

It is useful to keep in mind that, in forming a hitch, you pass over 2 parts of warp then back up under 1 part. 

In starting off, blue is the working strand and red the underlying "lazy" strand. 

Notice how I have inserted red to the left of blue. 

I did this after I completed the first 2 "rows" of normal hitching and let the warp go slack in order to get red in under all, including the warp. 

Always keep the lazy strand trapped to the left of the working strand.

What I want is 3 blue hitches, 3 red, 3 blue .........

So, at this point bring red up over the top of the warp.

Let blue fall down to the left as shown

but don't hitch with blue.

Carry on hitching with the tan strands as shown.

Here I have come round to the "pair".

Pass blue down over 2 parts of warp and under the working part of the warp. 

Hitch with red, trapping blue to the left as shown.

This just shows, after a few more rows have been completed, 

the point at which we change from red to blue.

Try to avoid adjacent (horizontally)" changeover points. ". At these points there is no hitch and so there is a very slight depression there which will only be noticeable to you or me. After the finished work is "rolled" these depressions will virtually disappear, especially if you use a cord that is not too stiff.

Two samples I made for knotboards. 

The lower one of the two is a good example of the idea of working with "pairs". 

Here, orange is paired with green, 

black with yellow and blue with white.

 Red is ordinary Spanish Hitching.