Would argyle be considered intarsia… or fair isle?
I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be stranding, or using bobbins
I did an argyle afghan in crochet and couldn’t have survived without bobbins. I always considered it intarsia, but I’m no expert!!! You can see my afghan under the crochet section. I would include a link here, but I don’t know how!!
Argyle is done with intarsia and is done flat. Fair Isle is stranded and usually done in the round. It can be done flat, but it’s easier in the round.
What about argyle socks?
How about entrelac?
Most argyle socks are worked flat though the argyle section Then seamed at the end. I’m sure there are some that are done like fair isle and stranded, but that’s not traditional argyle although the results could certainly be the same. I found a few free patterns that show what I mean.
http://www.socknitters.com/argyle/index.htm
http://www.freevintageknitting.com/socks/5710-socks-pattern.html
How about entrelac?
Ummm…:?? It can be done either way.
Entrelac is neither. You use one color yarn for an entire “tier” of the knitting and then change for the next set of blocks.
If you worked argyle with stranding, you’d have an awfully thick fabric. I believe most are worked in intarsia, sometimes with the thin stripe that’s in some done in duplicate stitch.
I should have used duplicate stitch for the thin stripe on my crocheted argyle afghan, but I didn’t know what I was doing! That stripe was the most tedious part for me.
My first attempt
I somehow did a bobbins/stranding mixture
:shrug:
heh
I did the same thing. I stranded my major background color and used bobbins for all the rest. As it was I had about 40 bobbins hanging off at a time; if I hadn’t stranded the background, who knows how many there would have been!
Exactly what I did! It didn’t look poorly or anything. It just took me a bit to not pull it too tight.
I’m glad you came to the same conclusion! I think the back looks much neater doing it that way. Perhaps the experts would judge our method, but so long as we like the outcome, that’s all that should matter, eh?
I think its sort of a personal preference thing. If it works, what could be wrong with it? 
So true–whatever works for you is the right way for you.
I have a sock pattern book by Bucilla from the seventies. It shows four different argyle patterns and they are all worked flat with bobbins. It also gives an alternate for the thin lines to be done in duplicate.