Colorwork: Success!
I am really proud of myself. I have only done colorwork in knitting two times, and you’re looking at one of them.
I’ve been wanting to knit a Christmas stocking for a while, and got the motivation to swatch out my ideas last week. I sketched out a few potential charts and liked this one enough to try it. It’s quite simple, but the colors and the contrast really bring it out. While I was knitting I was a bit worried about my tension because stranded knitting is so different and awkward. I struggled with whether to hold my two colors in two hands, or in one and in the end it was much easier to use one hand with them separated a bit.
A few of the stitches are either too loose or too tight, but for the most part I got a pretty even tension. It’s amazing what blocking will do to remove puckering too. I’m excited now to soon start the stocking, and I don’t care that Christmas is ten months away. I think I’ll start at the toe and go up as I don’t know how big I can get it with the yarn I have. Now I’m all excited to start sketching out charts for other colorwork ideas!
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Ooo, great job on this! Looks fabulous
February 24th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I’ve been playing with colorwork lately as well and I tried both stranding and weaving. While the book I was using said that weaving is only necessary over long spaces, I found that I got more consistent results with less puckering when I used the weaving technique.
Your swatch does look beautiful and I am sure your stockings will be fabulous.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Very pretty! I really admire your creativity!