Hello, I am knitting a baby jumper with this elephant motif on the front, and I have a question about which technique would be best use?
I am trying to work out if it’s best to use intarsia or fairisle, or both. I would assume intarsia, that is what the pattern says to use, but I was always taught that you should avoid having very narrow sections of one or two stitches in intarsia, as it’s difficult to get those stitches secure, but I can see on this chart that would be the case here in several places. So my question is, would it be better to mix and match the two techniques and use fairisle for these narrow parts (ie in between the legs, and around the ear and eye), and then switch to intarsia for the larger blocks of colour? Or is is better not to mix the two techniques and just pick one or the other and stick with it throughout? If so, which one would you suggest would be better here?
Thanks!