Knitting Update

[moon_custafer]

The fairisle sweater is coming along. I just hope I don't run out of the reddish-purple yarn before I finish the yoke (all the other colours were purchased for this project and I should have enough). I also made a chart after-the-fact for the fairisle motifs (I actually worked from charts scrawled in ballpoint pen on bits of scrap paper.)

ETA - found another ball of the purple yarn. Yay.

Comments

[leave-harmony.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh it looks fantastic.
I have no idea how people do multicolour / wool patterns within a piece, I assume it involves voodoo?

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Fairisle's easier than it looks - you never use more than two colours per row.

[leave-harmony.livejournal.com]

Do you knit with both at the same time?

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Sort of - you make the stitches with one colour or the other, and carry whichever you're not using at the moment along the back until needed. If there's more than five stitches of one colour in a row, you generally have to catch the other strand in a loop at some point to keep it under control.

[leave-harmony.livejournal.com]

Ahhh that's sort of what I thought must happen. You can do the same thing with looms, I think, but I've not yet tried.

[fragrantwoods.livejournal.com]

That is gorgeous! I'd have to vote for magic being an ingredient (I suspect that about pretty much all yarnish projects, though).

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

green_trilobite refers to knitting as "stick-magic."