![]() ![]() If you decide not to carry the yarn you have two options: It can be a good choice to make a swatch and see how it turns out. How many rows you can carry yarn with you depends entirely off the look you wish for, the yarn you’re knitting with and how you’re going to finish off your work. Or the opposite, that there isn’t enough yarn in them and you get a tight and wonky edge. There’s also a risk that the strands you’re carrying with you get at bit too long and create loops at the side. When you knit flat and choose to do wider stripes you can carry your strands with you along the side as explained earlier. The only difference is that you twist the yarn at the back of the work (at the inside the tube you’re creating). The same way of carrying yarn can be used when knitting in the round. with that I mean when you are turning your work at the side where your nonworking strand(s) are waiting. To do this you can simply twist the waiting and the working yarn strands after every second row. If you knit flat, and your stripes are more than two rows it’s a good idea to carry the strand (or strands) of yarn you’re not knitting with at the moment along the side of the work. This means it doesn’t matter how many rows your stripes are, both even and odd numbers of stripes work just as well. When knitting in the round you always come back to the same point at the end of a row. This way your next color will be waiting for you at the end of the row when it’s time to change the yarn. Some tips for knitting stripes! Knitting thin stripes:Īre you knitting flat (back and forth) and want to make thin stripes? It’s easiest to do this if every stripe is an even number of rows. Then let the first color hang and start knitting with a new color. You knit with your first color for as many rows as you need to get the height of the stripe you wish for. Knitting stripes is just as easy as knitting with one color. The easiest colorwork technique: Stripes!įirst out is the easiest technique to knit with two or more colors, let me present: Stripes! Stranded knitting techniques, including Fair isle.You just have to pick one and get started □ Table of contents: In this post, I have listed seven techniques you can use to add some color to your knits. If you want to take a look at some of the patterns from the book, you can see them at Judy Brittains Ravelry-page. If you think it looks expensive, I understand but it’s worth every penny! And, at least when I last checked, there were some quite cheap used ones available too! ![]() If you ever get the chance to lay your hands on this book promise me that you bring it home with you, it’s amazing! You can learn everything from knitting techniques (like mosaic knitting!) to how to measure when sewing curtains or how to do macramé. The book, by the way, was Step-by-step encyclopedia of Needlecraft, written by Judy Brittain.
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