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April 24, 2004Miss Bea's Tinkerbell Sweater UpdateFirst attempt at intarsia. I finished both sleeves and the back. I can no longer avoid the flower. 
I should have swatched a study sample exercising the fundamentals of intarsia. Though I will have to rip and start again, I am now motivated enough to work on that swatch. It will much better to work out the kinks without 30+ stitches on either side of the flower. I did the things that you always hear about. Unfortunately, reading about them did not keep me from executing them. I knitted too tightly at the first and last stitch creating a pucker. And I need to work at duplicating the same tension throughout the garment. I tend to knit tighter when I am really concentrating on a new technique. Warning: SCARY first attempt photos ahead! Here's a close-up of the front. And here's the back. Somehow I missed whatever is supposed to keep the yarn from being carried along the back. Can anyone offer any advice or recommend resources that they have found particularly useful?
Comments
First of all, do not carry the yarn along in the back - rejoin with a new strand instead. When I did my punk rock backpack, I followed the intarsia instructions in my Vogue Knitting Quick Reference. It tells you how to join the new color and twist the strands around each other so that you don't get gaping holes between each change. Posted by: Clara at April 24, 2004 12:41 PMWhat Clara said !No carrying.Seperate balls/lengths of yarn. Hiya, The flower is your friend :) Posted by: Lynette at April 25, 2004 07:46 PMi'll add that you might want to wrap the yarn every few stitches so that you don't have such long floats, Posted by: shobhana at May 1, 2004 09:33 AM |