Color - finally

I had a 3 hr class at the LYS last night (it was supposed to be for 2, but
the owner let us keep going) making winter headbands in two colors, and I
think I finally have the hang of it! All the instructions, and the books,
but for some reason I just needed someone there in front of me to actually
show me before it would "click". My biggest problems, now corrected, were
that I was very inconsistent with which yarn was over and under, and I also
had problems with the tension too tight between color changes, resulting in
puckering. And I had been twisting the yarn with every color change. The
instructor was wearing this GORGEOUS fair-isle sweater that she had done
herself, and that alone was inspirational! She said it was an Alice
Starmore pattern, which I had not heard of, but she said she loved it
because even though there are over a dozen colors in it, it wasn't as
difficult as it might seem because there were never more than two color
changes in a row. It was really stunning. I was just happy with my
headband.

Karen in MN

Hi Karen,

I loved knitting with more than one color and once you get the hang of it, it
goes right along fast. That might one reason I enjoy counted cross stitch so
much too, so many colors.

Hugs,

Nora

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I had a 3 hr class at the LYS last night (it was supposed to be for 2, but
the owner let us keep going) making winter headbands in two colors, and I
think I finally have the hang of it! All the instructions, and the books,
but for some reason I just needed someone there in front of me to actually
show me before it would "click". My biggest problems, now corrected, were
that I was very inconsistent with which yarn was over and under, and I also
had problems with the tension too tight between color changes, resulting in
puckering. And I had been twisting the yarn with every color change. The
instructor was wearing this GORGEOUS fair-isle sweater that she had done
herself, and that alone was inspirational! She said it was an Alice
Starmore pattern, which I had not heard of, but she said she loved it
because even though there are over a dozen colors in it, it wasn't as
difficult as it might seem because there were never more than two color
changes in a row. It was really stunning. I was just happy with my
headband.

Karen in MN

See Karen, there you go:..... stranding and weaving!! .....Way to go
kiddo. Are we going to see your headband. (maybe we should start
exchanging headbands)......LOL

Els

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