The pattern calls for the carry yarn to be worked every other stitch on the RS row, never done it, but think I’ll get it. What I don’t get is that the carry color is not worked in the wrong side row. So how do I get the carry color that I dropped at the end of the RS row back to the other side?
I wanted to add that each row is 72 stitches so I’m thinking I just have to cut the carry yarn each time? Now that I think about it, maybe leave the carry yarn and start a new one on the next rs row so on a so forth, carrying them up each side as I go. Does that sound right?
This is a lionbrand pattern for the fall wreath and it’s gorgeous. I’ve never tried anything this hard. The pattern says easy but not to me. I’m excited if I got it right.
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I went and looked and this wreath is beautiful! I would love to give one to my oldest daughter as she loves to decorate at Thanksgiving. I’d sure find the cheapest wool I could find. KnitPicks may have some at a better price than they give here. Webs too. Oh, the questions…
I looked at the charts and the both of the colors that are used are used on each row. So your question:
What I don’t get is that the carry color is not worked in the wrong side row. So how do I get the carry color that I dropped at the end of the RS row back to the other side?
is a misunderstanding of the pattern. They have the rows numbered on the right (odd) and the left (even). The odd numbers are supposed to be worked in knit and worked right to left across the chart. The even numbered rows would be your purl back rows and they would be read left to right.
It says to use some of the leaves with the back side of the fabric showing but you would have running strands going a long ways across some of them (you can catch the yarns in more often if you want) and even caught in unless you did it very often, I don’t think the back side would work very well in the places where the yarn is carried for a distance. It would work for the parts that are checkerboarded, changing the colors often.
If I was doing this I believe I would work the pieces in the round. Knitting stranded color work in the round is much easier because you only knit and never have to purl and you always have the front side of the work facing you. Since this will be felted it would be very easy to do. You would cast on your 72 for the pattern and a couple extra stitches (a steek) for cutting later (3 stitches woud do) and join to work in the round (a 16" circular needle would be good). All the rows would be knit and all the chart rows read from right to left. When you do the extra stitches work them alternately in the two colors checkerboard style. Then when you felt the piece do what they say until the piece is quite felted and almost dry, then cut it in the middle of your extra stitches and flatten it out to finish drying.
The chart shows some stretches where they go a long ways without using the second yarn. Be sure to carry the other yarn very loosely across the back or when it is felted these will cause the fabric to bunch up. I even wondered if you couldn’t cut the long runners in the middle before you felt the piece leaving the tails hanging (but I haven’t tried that, just a thought, you could do a test piece with some waste wool if you have any laying around).
Another thought I had… Since the idea is just to do random spots of color so the leaves look natural, you could throw in an extra dot of color on the real long carries so they are not so long, but again, be sure to keep any carried strand very loose.
If you do the pattern as written you never have to cut the yarn over the whole chart, and if you did it in the round you wouldn’t either.
Good luck. Maybe I’ll show this pattern to my daughter and she can make it. Too much crafty stuff for me and she loves that part.
Thank you so very much for the helpful information! I can’t wait to get started.
I have one more question though, under the LEAVES Notes: item #2 2nd sentence it says “Carry color not is use acrosse WS of work.” What does that mean?
It means carry color not being used across the wrong side of the work. by carrying evrytime you knit two or three stitches, lay the non working yarn across the working yarn on the back side of the yarn, carrying it acrosssecuring it by knitting two or three stitches with working yarn to keep no working yarn from falling .
Say you knit 3 stitches of brown and then knit 3 stitches of olive and then when you want to knit the next st in brown you will be bringing the yarn from where it was used last and knit with it next, when you do that you make a strand of the brown across the back, that is carrying it along the wrong side. You will have strands of yarn where you bring the colors over to use them again every time you change colors in a row. Just make sure they are all in the back of the piece whether you chose to knit them all (in the round) or purl, they all need to be on one side of the fabric (the side you don’t intend to look at).
I would love to give one to my oldest daughter as she loves to decorate at Thanksgiving. I’d sure find the cheapest wool I could find. KnitPicks may have some at a better price than they give here. Webs too. Oh, the questions…
