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Fair Isle question
Hi all!
In a moment of insanity last night, I started my first fair isle sweater and I am wondering what to do with the colours if I am not using them on a row. The sweater is a Philosopher's Wool kit with 9(!) different colours. I've done a few of inches of the first sleeve and I carried all the strands of yarn up, which makes for an extremely bulky line going up the sleeve. I think I am going to frog what I have done so far and restart, but I just need some advice on how I should proceed. Should I weave the yarn in and out every time it is used or carry them up if they are used within a set number of rows? for example, some colours are used for one row and then, 6 rows later, it is used again for only one row. What to do?! TIA Joycelyn |
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Knitting in the round is your friend.
Break the yarn if you won't be using it for a while. The ends will felt themselves in with wear over time. On 3 Dec 2003 12:57:27 -0800, (Joyce Poon) wrote: Hi all! In a moment of insanity last night, I started my first fair isle sweater and I am wondering what to do with the colours if I am not using them on a row. The sweater is a Philosopher's Wool kit with 9(!) different colours. I've done a few of inches of the first sleeve and I carried all the strands of yarn up, which makes for an extremely bulky line going up the sleeve. I think I am going to frog what I have done so far and restart, but I just need some advice on how I should proceed. Should I weave the yarn in and out every time it is used or carry them up if they are used within a set number of rows? for example, some colours are used for one row and then, 6 rows later, it is used again for only one row. What to do?! TIA Joycelyn |
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Joyce Poon wrote:
Hi all! In a moment of insanity last night, I started my first fair isle sweater and I am wondering what to do with the colours if I am not using them on a row. The sweater is a Philosopher's Wool kit with 9(!) different colours. I've done a few of inches of the first sleeve and I carried all the strands of yarn up, which makes for an extremely bulky line going up the sleeve. I think I am going to frog what I have done so far and restart, but I just need some advice on how I should proceed. Should I weave the yarn in and out every time it is used or carry them up if they are used within a set number of rows? for example, some colours are used for one row and then, 6 rows later, it is used again for only one row. What to do?! TIA Joycelyn Hi, Joyce, I find weaving in such a pain that I think I'd do something like move the ball of unused yarn in or out of the knitting at the beginning (or end, ha ha) of each round...sort of passing the yarn back and forth "across" the rows so as to weave them in but leave them attached. That might not work for flat knitting, though. If it's a color used in just one row and then one more row six rows later, though, I think I'd break it & weave in the ends. |
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Thank you Slinky ,i never did that always kintted it in with other
threads , mirjam enlighted with new idea. |
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Hi Joycelyn,
I, personally, carry the yarn up (making sure that they do not pull tight). Then when I sew up the "bulky" seam I catch the strands down while seaming. Now here comes the MAGIC TIP.... I turn the finished, sewn up garment inside out with the seam "running" down the middle of the section (as thought you were going to pleat a seam in a pair of trousers/pants - not with the seam on the edge of the section) and STEAM the seams "flat"!! As you may know - steaming "thins" out the fabric - Hey Presto! Seam is not so bulky. -- Kari (in the UK) SpamTrap: I will have "no spam" emailed to me! "Joyce Poon" wrote in message om... Hi all! In a moment of insanity last night, I started my first fair isle sweater and I am wondering what to do with the colours if I am not using them on a row. The sweater is a Philosopher's Wool kit with 9(!) different colours. I've done a few of inches of the first sleeve and I carried all the strands of yarn up, which makes for an extremely bulky line going up the sleeve. I think I am going to frog what I have done so far and restart, but I just need some advice on how I should proceed. Should I weave the yarn in and out every time it is used or carry them up if they are used within a set number of rows? for example, some colours are used for one row and then, 6 rows later, it is used again for only one row. What to do?! TIA Joycelyn |
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