I've watched a bunch of other tutorials trying to figure out intarsia but this one was the one that finally made it make sense-- you are so good at showing and explaining! Thank you!
I've recently decided to advance my knitting skills and do something new with every new project after knitting and purling my way through very basic scarf and hat patterns for 40 years. You've addressed every single thing I've wanted to try and you explain everything in a way that's easy to understand. Your channel is outstanding!
Thanks to your wonderfully clear demonstration of how that little twist/wrap of the dropped yarn around the picked up yarn is done, from now on my intarsia shapes are going to look a lot less like the "blobs" they usually end up resembling! ;•D
Very pink, Thank u so much for being so helpful. You always have the answers I'm looking for. I just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate you being there when i need help. Thank you Donna
It's impossible to work intarsia in-the-round without breaking and restarting your intarsia color each round. A better option is to knit your piece in the round as normal, then go back and duplicate stitch your intarsia design into the work after the fact. I have a video that demonstrates this called Knitting Help - Duplicate Stitch. Hope that helps!
Thank you so much, I now know how to work intarsia with my knitting, something I have only just started doing, and have made a dreadful mess with my first attempt, which resulted in huge gaps between the different colours! This is until I learnt how to do it properly, thanks to you making it so simple and straight forward with your great tutoring! Thank you, I can now enjoy doing something new with my knitting!
Nataly Zaks - Intarsia is sort of a "blob" of a different color in your knitting, while fair isle is a pattern that is carried across the entire row (or round).
Thank you for the great Intarsia video Staci- I was able to understand what I needed to do to finish a sweater for my grandson! Always appreciate your videos!
Thank you for the most lucid explanation/demonstration of intarsia that I have ever seen! PLUS...I just learned that I have been mispronouncing the word 'intarsia' all my life!
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video very clear and concise. New to this intarsia technique. Watching your video, it looks so very simple to do. Thank you !!!!!
Yes - you've got the difference between fair isle and intarsia correct. The little heart pattern is just something I made up for the video. You can find tons of charted designs to use for intarsia by googling "cross stitch motifs".
I just added links to both the pattern for the sweater I'm wearing, and the poncho on the mannequin. Just check the video description field (just below the video).
Yes - that is totally possible. That technique is called fair isle - carrying two colors of yarn throughout, and alternating colors to make a pattern (in this case, alternating every two stitches. I don't have a short technique video on it, but I do have a tutorial - "Learn to Knit Fair Isle". You can find it by searching my channel page (sorry, UA-cam won't let me give you a link here).
This is the first colour work tutorial I’ve watched after starting colour work myself and I seem to be carrying the yarn and twisting it like with intarsia
I don't have a video on specifically adding a color for intarsia, and I think the hole you see can probably be fixed by tying a knot from the old color to the new. I do have a video called "Knitting Help - Changing Colors" that covers the general technique of adding a new color. Good luck!
Yes - that's exactly what you do. You'll only need one strand of the blue to continue when the heart is finished, so you can just stop knitting, and break the other blue yarn to tie it off.
It really depends on how wide you're making the vertical stripes. If the stripes are narrow (like less than 5 stitches wide), you'll want to use a fair isle technique, carrying a "float" of the background color behind the stripes. If the stripes are wider than that, you'll want to use this intarsia technique for it. Hope that helps!
Yes - wrapping your two working yarns together is a normal part of intarsia that keeps you from getting holes in your work...but it does not make it possible to knit intarsia in-the-round. Intarsia has to be knit flat for your working yarns to be in the correct spots. Yes - your options are to either knit the piece flat (using intarsia) and seam it when you're finished, or to stitch in the design when you're finished using Duplicate Stitch.
@theatetus Maybe I'm not understanding your question...I have to have three working yarns, as you said, so that I don't carry the blue across the back of the cream color. That gives me two blues and one cream color, or three working yarns total.
@mhorsesbiz I just took a look at that Bunny Socks pattern, and that is actually more fair isle than intarsia. (You can't really work intarsia in the round without breaking and reattaching the yarn each round.) I have a video tutorial on fair isle that can help you - just search my channel page. (Sorry, UA-cam won't let me give you a link here in the comments.)
Hi, I've watched your video on intarsia knitting and using bobbins. I am knitting a baby blanket with bunnies inserted into the pattern per the following. My questions is...How do I determine how much yarn to put on each bobbin for the bunnies? There are 6 of them along each end of the blanket. Thanks for your help....your video are very helpful and I also enjoy your podcasts. Row 23 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x *p10, slip 2st purlwise onto a cable needle & place behind work , k2, k stitches off the cable needle, slip 2st purlwise onto the cable needle & place forward, k2, k stitches off the cable* repeat 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k Row 24 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (p, k) 2x, * k10, p8 * 6x, k10(p, k) 2x p Row 25 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x, * p10, k8 * 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x k Row 26 - Repeat row 24 Row 27 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x, * p10, k4, MB, k3, p10, k3, MB, k4 * 3x , p10 (k, p) 2x, k Row 28 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (p, k) 2x, *k10, p8 * 6x , k10 (p, k) 2x, p Row 29 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x, * p10, k8 * 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k Row 30-34 - Repeat rows 28 & 29 Row 35 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (k, p) 2x, * p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place behind, k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle , p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place forward, k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle * 3x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k Row 36 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (p, k ) 2x, * k10, p8 * 6x, k10 (p, k ) 2x, p Row 37 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p ) 2x, * p10, k8* 6x , p10(k, p ) 2x, k Row 38- 42 - Repeat for rows 36 & 37 Row 43 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (k, p) 2x, * p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place behind, k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle , p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place forward, k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle * 3x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k Row 44 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (p, k) 2x, * k10, p2, k4, p2 * 6x, k10 (p, k) 2x, p Row 45 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (k, p) 2x, * p10, k2, p4, k2 * 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k Row 46 - 52 - Repeat row 44 & 45
(I'm happy to answer your question, but please edit your comment to remove the rows of the pattern, that is copyrighted information, and we don't want to cause an issue with the designer of the pattern you're knitting.) Regardless of the pattern, all you can really do is make an estimate and wind the bobbins up with some yarn...it is most likely that you'll need to refill the bobbins multiple times before the pattern is complete.
Done. Sorry, didn't realize the copyright issue. Thanks for your help. I've started the blanket and knitted 2 rows of the bunny pattern, wrapping the colors and carrying them in the back but the yarn is getting really twisted. Using the bobbins should alleviate the twisting.
I would like to see a video on how to frog intarsia. I know there is a way to take out one section at a time without having to the whole thing. I enjoy intarsia very much. I think of it as counted cross stitch knitting! I used to do lots of cross stitch.
This was really helpful. I'm trying to knit a TARDIS scarf for someone I like, but my test-run looked really bad because I was trying to carry the yarn through the entire project. I'm also not great at knitting. Thanks, though.
Hey, I was wondering what you do when you get to the end of the color (in this case, the top of the heart). Do you just cut off one of the blue threads and continue with the other?
Very useful! Do you have any videos that talk about how to add in a new color? I've tried making an intarsia heart pattern similar to this one, but I always end up with a huge gap where I join the new color for the heart.
No, this technique does not work when you're knitting in the round. If you're looking to do a "blob" of color when you're working in the round, I recommend using duplicate stitch. You can find my video on that my doing a search on my channel page. Hope that helps!
I saw a video that people did a wrap and turn to attach in the end. Would you recommend that. Or maybe just make the piece flat and see it together after. I want to make a hat with Face. He face is square blocks. It's under chemknits. It's a minecraft creeper. Hat.
What’s a good way to estimate the yarn length for the different yarn bobbins to minimize waste from 1) having multiple tails (because it wasn’t enough and needed another) or 2) was too much and now there’s an awkward yarn length leftover? I did a huge sports logo and couldn’t bring myself to cut the yarns to make bobbins. I just knitted with the entire balls of the yarns and it was so awful 😭
You are always so helpful and I truely appreciate it. I have just 1 question. Where do you get your knitting supplies. I have purchased 3 different bobbins and they all broke. Some broke as I was winding them and the others just broke.
I recently made a pair of gloves with a 3x2 rib pattern and wanted to know if it was possible to use alternate colours with a technique like intarsia in a rib, so on the right side the knit stitches would be blue and the purls stitches (only visible when stretched) would be yellow.
This is so much easier to understand then most videos I have seen! I have a question though, I want to knit vertical stripes instead of knitting in a repeating pattern. Is it pretty much the same idea with joining the two colors vertically or is this a whole different thing?
How do you determine how much yarn to cut from each ball of yArn to wind onto each bobbin? Will patterns tell you? E.g you’ll. Need 5 yards per heart. I can see that one must allow for plenty of waste..
Hello! Thank you for the videos! I have a question: continuing this heart pattern, I reach the point where the blue colour should get again between the two cream-coloured bulges of the heart-top. How do I get the blue yarn there using intarsia? Thank you in advance for any answer!
Thank you for this, im working on a pattern right now and im half way through it and noticed the word "intarsia" 😢 didnt know it was a way of knitting. Now the rest of my work will be done correctly cause right now its a hot mess lol 😂
Where do you get your mugs or do you design and print them yourself? I noticed how you have almost an entirely different coffee mug per video, and it's like a little easter egg, I always look for it and giggle.
I think you misunderstood. There is a UA-cam video if you type in intarsia in the round that says to wrap and turn the last stitch of the round to connect the rows not at the color change
So basically the difference between fair isle knitting and Intarsia is that with Intarsia you work with multiple lengths of yarn instead of using only two lengths and carrying them over? Sounds pretty cool! Is that pattern just one you made on spot or is there a place I can find it because I totally want to try doing this! :D
Great video! thanks for sharing. I was wondering, how can I do a small pattern in the round? I want to make a hat (beanie) and the pic is small and only on one side. Kind of like a logo. Would the unused color be carried around? Thanks :)
BeadsNyarn - intarsia doesn't work in-the-round. When I want to achieve the look of intarsia when I'm knitting in-the-round, I knit the item in one color, and finish it with a duplicate stitch design: ua-cam.com/video/-cfmjyaaAdw/v-deo.html
Thank you!! that helped a lot. Would the design be worked from left to right? down and up? same example as my previous question. A small logo on a beanie... thanks again!
Hi! I'm doing my first intarsia project,which is a sweater with two vertical rows of argyle diamonds. (I'm working with the background color and diamond color only for now, and will add the cross-hatch color using duplicate stitching later.) I've seen other demonstrations where the yarns are only twisted if it's a right-leaning slant and not a left-leaning one, though in your demonstration, you twist the yarn every time, regardless of the slant. So that if you knit a row with a left-leaning slant, you would not twist the yarn, but when you purl back on the wrong side, that same color change would then be right-leaning, and you'd twist the yarn -- effectively twisting any given slanted color change every other row. What is the rationale for this? Does it make the finished work look better, or do you recomment *always* twisting yarns, regardless of slant? Thanks for your advice, Stacy! Your videos are SO helpful!
Allison Byrd - I twist the yarns at every color change in intarsia. There is so much potential for holes in the work when you use this technique that any additional structure you can provide to the stitches is helpful!
That makes perfect sense, and there's less chance of my making a mistake and not twisting when I'm supposed to, if I just twist every time. Thanks for the advice, and for all the great videos!
I'm new to the knitting community, so bear with me if this sounds silly but when you knit you have one tail. I understand why you need to have the two blue and the one cream tails to make this work without dragging colors across but how did you get three tails?
Intarsia can't really be worked in the round, your working yarn is always in the wrong place when you come back around to work the second color. Your other option is duplicate stitch, this video explains more: ua-cam.com/video/js6xxPcq8pA/v-deo.html
You will want to find (or make) a chart to follow, then follow the chart like you would any knitting color chart. This is an advanced technique...if you are new to knitting, I recommend stitching in a letter using duplicate stitch, it is easier, and it usually looks better: ua-cam.com/video/js6xxPcq8pA/v-deo.html
Kevin Wanlass - no...you'll work purl rows every other row to maintain stockinette. If this is new for you, I really recommend that you follow a pattern! There are other issues that can pop up when working fair isle flat...best to work from a pattern where someone else has figured it all out for you!
VeryPink Knits I'm trying to figure out how to do reversible intarsia in English Rib. It's a little bit daunting, but I'm glad to know intarsia can be done in any stitch!
I want to make a friend of mine a hogwarts house scarf with the house crest on it I have used intarsia befor but it was a stockinette stitch pattern, this scarf is a k1 p1 and I was wondering If you had to do anything differently for it to look the same as it would in stockinette?
+Abby Willis - a design like intarsia or duplicate stitch really only shows up in stockinette stitch. You can make a design using intarsia in ribbing (as you describe), but it won't have the detail I think you're after in a Hogwarts crest.
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I've watched a bunch of other tutorials trying to figure out intarsia but this one was the one that finally made it make sense-- you are so good at showing and explaining! Thank you!
I've recently decided to advance my knitting skills and do something new with every new project after knitting and purling my way through very basic scarf and hat patterns for 40 years. You've addressed every single thing I've wanted to try and you explain everything in a way that's easy to understand. Your channel is outstanding!
Definitely one of the most clear explanations of intarsia I've ever seen.
you have the best tutorials! very succinct for someone impatient like me
Thanks to your wonderfully clear demonstration of how that little twist/wrap of the dropped yarn around the picked up yarn is done, from now on my intarsia shapes are going to look a lot less like the "blobs" they usually end up resembling! ;•D
Very pink,
Thank u so much for being so helpful. You always have the answers I'm looking for. I just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate you being there when i need help. Thank you
Donna
It's impossible to work intarsia in-the-round without breaking and restarting your intarsia color each round. A better option is to knit your piece in the round as normal, then go back and duplicate stitch your intarsia design into the work after the fact. I have a video that demonstrates this called Knitting Help - Duplicate Stitch. Hope that helps!
Very helpful pinned comment - exactly what I was struggling with
Thank you so much, I now know how to work intarsia with my knitting, something I have only just started doing, and have made a dreadful mess with my first attempt, which resulted in huge gaps between the different colours! This is until I learnt how to do it properly, thanks to you making it so simple and straight forward with your great tutoring! Thank you, I can now enjoy doing something new with my knitting!
Nataly Zaks - Intarsia is sort of a "blob" of a different color in your knitting, while fair isle is a pattern that is carried across the entire row (or round).
Where can I get those bobbins ?
Diana Lovatt - lots of retailers, just Google "knitting intarsia bobbins", and you'll see all different kinds.
Thank you!
Intarsia is at the top of my Must Learn list for 2015
Thank you for the great Intarsia video Staci- I was able to understand what I needed to do to finish a sweater for my grandson!
Always appreciate your videos!
Thank you for the most lucid explanation/demonstration of intarsia that I have ever seen! PLUS...I just learned that I have been mispronouncing the word 'intarsia' all my life!
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video very clear and concise. New to this intarsia technique. Watching your video, it looks so very simple to do. Thank you !!!!!
You made that so simple. I looked at another video before yours and I hadn't a clue what she was talking about.
Yes - you've got the difference between fair isle and intarsia correct. The little heart pattern is just something I made up for the video. You can find tons of charted designs to use for intarsia by googling "cross stitch motifs".
I just added links to both the pattern for the sweater I'm wearing, and the poncho on the mannequin. Just check the video description field (just below the video).
Thank you for this video. Your description was clear and easy to understand!
Thank you! As always, your video is so helpful. Seeing the technique up close is invaluable - thank you!!
Yes - that is totally possible. That technique is called fair isle - carrying two colors of yarn throughout, and alternating colors to make a pattern (in this case, alternating every two stitches. I don't have a short technique video on it, but I do have a tutorial - "Learn to Knit Fair Isle". You can find it by searching my channel page (sorry, UA-cam won't let me give you a link here).
This is the first colour work tutorial I’ve watched after starting colour work myself and I seem to be carrying the yarn and twisting it like with intarsia
I don't have a video on specifically adding a color for intarsia, and I think the hole you see can probably be fixed by tying a knot from the old color to the new. I do have a video called "Knitting Help - Changing Colors" that covers the general technique of adding a new color. Good luck!
To finish the top of the heart pattern, you have to attach a second ball of yarn to do the second "bump" at the top of the heart. Hope that helps!
Yes - intarsia works, regardless of the size of the knitted piece or the size of the intarsia design.
Yes - that's exactly what you do. You'll only need one strand of the blue to continue when the heart is finished, so you can just stop knitting, and break the other blue yarn to tie it off.
It really depends on how wide you're making the vertical stripes. If the stripes are narrow (like less than 5 stitches wide), you'll want to use a fair isle technique, carrying a "float" of the background color behind the stripes. If the stripes are wider than that, you'll want to use this intarsia technique for it. Hope that helps!
Thank you for this simple and straightforward info!!
Yes - wrapping your two working yarns together is a normal part of intarsia that keeps you from getting holes in your work...but it does not make it possible to knit intarsia in-the-round. Intarsia has to be knit flat for your working yarns to be in the correct spots. Yes - your options are to either knit the piece flat (using intarsia) and seam it when you're finished, or to stitch in the design when you're finished using Duplicate Stitch.
@tinyknitter I just made that little heart design up for this video - it looks like I increased to 9 stitches for the widest part of the heart.
Very clear communication. Thank you.
@theatetus Maybe I'm not understanding your question...I have to have three working yarns, as you said, so that I don't carry the blue across the back of the cream color. That gives me two blues and one cream color, or three working yarns total.
I've shied away from intarsia for years because it always seemed so confusing to me but this has just made it sound so simple
So clear and concise, thank you so much!
Thanks for making it so easy to understand… grateful
Thank you so much. You are very specific when explaining a technique.
Always the best tutorials ❤️
Thank you for a clear demonstration!
@maplestoryfreak10 You can do it with this method, or you can do it fair isle. (You can search for my fair isle videos for more explanation.)
@mhorsesbiz Sorry - I haven't reviewed the pattern, just looked at the photo. But if it's working for you, then I think you've got it! :)
I like your bobbins. What brand are they? Thx
Yes I would like to know as well!
@mhorsesbiz I just took a look at that Bunny Socks pattern, and that is actually more fair isle than intarsia. (You can't really work intarsia in the round without breaking and reattaching the yarn each round.) I have a video tutorial on fair isle that can help you - just search my channel page. (Sorry, UA-cam won't let me give you a link here in the comments.)
Thank you for your excellent explanation!
Thank you so much for explaining this technique. Where do you get your clips for the bobbins?
Thanks a lot for this. How am I to weave in the ends, just regular like I would with seaming stockinet ?
Hi, I've watched your video on intarsia knitting and using bobbins. I am knitting a baby blanket with bunnies inserted into the pattern per the following. My questions is...How do I determine how much yarn to put on each bobbin for the bunnies? There are 6 of them along each end of the blanket.
Thanks for your help....your video are very helpful and I also enjoy your podcasts.
Row 23 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x *p10, slip 2st purlwise onto a cable needle & place behind
work , k2, k stitches off the cable needle, slip 2st purlwise onto the cable needle & place
forward, k2, k stitches off the cable* repeat 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k
Row 24 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (p, k) 2x, * k10, p8 * 6x, k10(p, k) 2x p
Row 25 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x, * p10, k8 * 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x k
Row 26 - Repeat row 24
Row 27 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x, * p10, k4, MB, k3, p10, k3, MB, k4 * 3x , p10 (k, p) 2x, k
Row 28 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (p, k) 2x, *k10, p8 * 6x , k10 (p, k) 2x, p
Row 29 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p) 2x, * p10, k8 * 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k
Row 30-34 - Repeat rows 28 & 29
Row 35 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (k, p) 2x, * p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place behind,
k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle , p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place
forward, k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle * 3x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k
Row 36 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (p, k ) 2x, * k10, p8 * 6x, k10 (p, k ) 2x, p
Row 37 - Slip the 1st st purlwise, (k, p ) 2x, * p10, k8* 6x , p10(k, p ) 2x, k
Row 38- 42 - Repeat for rows 36 & 37
Row 43 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (k, p) 2x, * p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place behind,
k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle , p10, slip 4st purlwise onto a cable needle & place
forward, k next 4 st, k4 off the cable needle * 3x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k
Row 44 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (p, k) 2x, * k10, p2, k4, p2 * 6x, k10 (p, k) 2x, p
Row 45 - Slip the 1st st purlwise (k, p) 2x, * p10, k2, p4, k2 * 6x, p10 (k, p) 2x, k
Row 46 - 52 - Repeat row 44 & 45
(I'm happy to answer your question, but please edit your comment to remove the rows of the pattern, that is copyrighted information, and we don't want to cause an issue with the designer of the pattern you're knitting.) Regardless of the pattern, all you can really do is make an estimate and wind the bobbins up with some yarn...it is most likely that you'll need to refill the bobbins multiple times before the pattern is complete.
Done. Sorry, didn't realize the copyright issue. Thanks for your help. I've started the blanket and knitted 2 rows of the bunny pattern, wrapping the colors and carrying them in the back but the yarn is getting really twisted. Using the bobbins should alleviate the twisting.
I would like to see a video on how to frog intarsia. I know there is a way to take out one section at a time without having to the whole thing. I enjoy intarsia very much. I think of it as counted cross stitch knitting! I used to do lots of cross stitch.
This was really helpful. I'm trying to knit a TARDIS scarf for someone I like, but my test-run looked really bad because I was trying to carry the yarn through the entire project. I'm also not great at knitting.
Thanks, though.
Very clear and very interesting, Thank you.
Hey, I was wondering what you do when you get to the end of the color (in this case, the top of the heart). Do you just cut off one of the blue threads and continue with the other?
Very useful! Do you have any videos that talk about how to add in a new color? I've tried making an intarsia heart pattern similar to this one, but I always end up with a huge gap where I join the new color for the heart.
Do you know how to make a knitting patttern of a Toronto Maple Leafs blanket - I've tried knit pro web app and the screen is left blank.
Hola, podrías decirme cuál Bobbins son los mejores?
No, this technique does not work when you're knitting in the round. If you're looking to do a "blob" of color when you're working in the round, I recommend using duplicate stitch. You can find my video on that my doing a search on my channel page. Hope that helps!
Would you have any advice when using Portuguese style knitting?
How do you start the bobbins off, especially when beginning with the one stitch at the bottom of the heart!
Like the explanation.....what is the name os the poncho at the back?.......
I saw a video that people did a wrap and turn to attach in the end. Would you recommend that. Or maybe just make the piece flat and see it together after. I want to make a hat with Face. He face is square blocks. It's under chemknits. It's a minecraft creeper. Hat.
What’s a good way to estimate the yarn length for the different yarn bobbins to minimize waste from 1) having multiple tails (because it wasn’t enough and needed another) or 2) was too much and now there’s an awkward yarn length leftover?
I did a huge sports logo and couldn’t bring myself to cut the yarns to make bobbins. I just knitted with the entire balls of the yarns and it was so awful 😭
You are always so helpful and I truely appreciate it. I have just 1 question. Where do you get your knitting supplies. I have purchased 3 different bobbins and they all broke. Some broke as I was winding them and the others just broke.
I recently made a pair of gloves with a 3x2 rib pattern and wanted to know if it was possible to use alternate colours with a technique like intarsia in a rib, so on the right side the knit stitches would be blue and the purls stitches (only visible when stretched) would be yellow.
I would like to know how to make intarsia in the round. What to do at he end to connect so you can purl back?
This is so much easier to understand then most videos I have seen! I have a question though, I want to knit vertical stripes instead of knitting in a repeating pattern. Is it pretty much the same idea with joining the two colors vertically or is this a whole different thing?
How do you determine how much yarn to cut from each ball of yArn to wind onto each bobbin? Will patterns tell you? E.g you’ll. Need 5 yards per heart. I can see that one must allow for plenty of waste..
Can you, please, make a video about vertical intarsia? When I do it, right color become uneaven.
Would Intarsia work for doing an artillery pattern?
Hello! Thank you for the videos! I have a question: continuing this heart pattern, I reach the point where the blue colour should get again between the two cream-coloured bulges of the heart-top. How do I get the blue yarn there using intarsia? Thank you in advance for any answer!
Thank you for this, im working on a pattern right now and im half way through it and noticed the word "intarsia" 😢 didnt know it was a way of knitting. Now the rest of my work will be done correctly cause right now its a hot mess lol 😂
how many stitches do you inc. tofor your heart ?i love your videos and i am newly subscribed.
can you do intarsia on a large item that the design is only on one small portion, say an infinity scarf?
Where do you get your mugs or do you design and print them yourself? I noticed how you have almost an entirely different coffee mug per video, and it's like a little easter egg, I always look for it and giggle.
Can this technique be used in knitting in the round?
I think you misunderstood. There is a UA-cam video if you type in intarsia in the round that says to wrap and turn the last stitch of the round to connect the rows not at the color change
I'm knitting a plaid baby blanket with intarsia, it can get frustrating when yarn gets tangled.
So basically the difference between fair isle knitting and Intarsia is that with Intarsia you work with multiple lengths of yarn instead of using only two lengths and carrying them over? Sounds pretty cool! Is that pattern just one you made on spot or is there a place I can find it because I totally want to try doing this! :D
Great video! thanks for sharing. I was wondering, how can I do a small pattern in the round? I want to make a hat (beanie) and the pic is small and only on one side. Kind of like a logo. Would the unused color be carried around? Thanks :)
BeadsNyarn - intarsia doesn't work in-the-round. When I want to achieve the look of intarsia when I'm knitting in-the-round, I knit the item in one color, and finish it with a duplicate stitch design: ua-cam.com/video/-cfmjyaaAdw/v-deo.html
Thank you!! that helped a lot. Would the design be worked from left to right? down and up? same example as my previous question. A small logo on a beanie... thanks again!
Hey I'm trying to make the Swedish flag. And I not entirely sure how I'd do it.
Hi! I'm doing my first intarsia project,which is a sweater with two vertical rows of argyle diamonds. (I'm working with the background color and diamond color only for now, and will add the cross-hatch color using duplicate stitching later.) I've seen other demonstrations where the yarns are only twisted if it's a right-leaning slant and not a left-leaning one, though in your demonstration, you twist the yarn every time, regardless of the slant. So that if you knit a row with a left-leaning slant, you would not twist the yarn, but when you purl back on the wrong side, that same color change would then be right-leaning, and you'd twist the yarn -- effectively twisting any given slanted color change every other row. What is the rationale for this? Does it make the finished work look better, or do you recomment *always* twisting yarns, regardless of slant? Thanks for your advice, Stacy! Your videos are SO helpful!
Allison Byrd - I twist the yarns at every color change in intarsia. There is so much potential for holes in the work when you use this technique that any additional structure you can provide to the stitches is helpful!
That makes perfect sense, and there's less chance of my making a mistake and not twisting when I'm supposed to, if I just twist every time. Thanks for the advice, and for all the great videos!
I'm new to the knitting community, so bear with me if this sounds silly but when you knit you have one tail. I understand why you need to have the two blue and the one cream tails to make this work without dragging colors across but how did you get three tails?
Thank you for this video!
Is there a video of intarsia in the round?
Intarsia can't really be worked in the round, your working yarn is always in the wrong place when you come back around to work the second color. Your other option is duplicate stitch, this video explains more: ua-cam.com/video/js6xxPcq8pA/v-deo.html
Sorry auto correct!! Would Intarsia work for an Argill Pattern?
Yes, argyle is usually worked in intarsia.
this is what i have been looking for for a project, but do you know how to put in a letter
You will want to find (or make) a chart to follow, then follow the chart like you would any knitting color chart. This is an advanced technique...if you are new to knitting, I recommend stitching in a letter using duplicate stitch, it is easier, and it usually looks better: ua-cam.com/video/js6xxPcq8pA/v-deo.html
Hi Stacy;
I just like to ask you how can I knit fair isle in flat?
Traditional fair isle is knit in-the-round, but you can knit it flat by working a fair isle purl row every other row.
Is this mean that i have to purl every sts in every row?
Kevin Wanlass - no...you'll work purl rows every other row to maintain stockinette. If this is new for you, I really recommend that you follow a pattern! There are other issues that can pop up when working fair isle flat...best to work from a pattern where someone else has figured it all out for you!
Can Intarsia be done with all garter stitch, or is it only for stocking stitch?
Yes, intarsia can be worked in garter stitch, or any stitch combination.
Thank you. All examples/tutorials I've seen all use stocking stitch. Always new things to learn on your channel. Love it !!
VeryPink Knits I'm trying to figure out how to do reversible intarsia in English Rib. It's a little bit daunting, but I'm glad to know intarsia can be done in any stitch!
So helpful, thank you
Very helpful. Thanks!
Okay. Show me that again in Continental please.
thank you! :)
Very helpful
I want to make a friend of mine a hogwarts house scarf with the house crest on it I have used intarsia befor but it was a stockinette stitch pattern, this scarf is a k1 p1 and I was wondering If you had to do anything differently for it to look the same as it would in stockinette?
+Abby Willis - a design like intarsia or duplicate stitch really only shows up in stockinette stitch. You can make a design using intarsia in ribbing (as you describe), but it won't have the detail I think you're after in a Hogwarts crest.
thank you VeryPink Knits for your help. I may just add a patch on later.
Ud hace cosas bonitas,y le entiendo algunas palabras,pero como uds hablan muy rápido ,no le entiendo,no understand.Por favor ponga titulos en español y palabras claves en español.Y otra pregunta un tip o truco para q las lanas no se enreden
what is the difference between intarsia and fair isle/stranded knitting?
excellent
Thank you :)
Wow