Hi all! I’m knitting a stockinette scarf (with a garter border…hasn’t curled too much yet, so fingers crossed it won’t curl tooo much). I need some help though and I’d be very grateful if someone could give me a hand.
I’d like to put some letters on my scarf. So I’ve found a template of letters on the internet. There’s two parts to this question:
If I want to do the letters in a contrasting colour, do I have to use fair isle? I’m not that keen on it since it makes the wrong side look messy…and my knitting is probably a bit close and fine to do the lettering afterwards in a double knit…any suggestions?
If I decide to do the letters in texture rather than contrasting colour, will this work? So if I make each stitch of the letter template into a reverse stockinette, will this work? What about if I make each stitch into a garter?
If I want to do the letters in a contrasting colour, do I have to use fair isle? I’m not that keen on it since it makes the wrong side look messy…and my knitting is probably a bit close and fine to do the lettering afterwards in a double knit…any suggestions?
To add color you will have to do fair isle and/or some intarsia. All depends on the size of the letters. Yes, this will make the backside look messy, if you are making a flat scarf. Also, in case you forgot, the backside letters will be mirror images of the front. If you want to put letters on a scarf, I recommend 1) making two flat (or one large wide that gets doubled over) pieces to sew together and hide the backside 2) making a tubular scarf this hiding the backside on the insdie 3) doubleknitting which will still produce backwards letters on one side unless you do some two-pattern knitting.
If I decide to do the letters in texture rather than contrasting colour, will this work? So if I make each stitch of the letter template into a reverse stockinette, will this work? What about if I make each stitch into a garter?
Trying to make garter letters on stockinette background or vice versa, causes a bit of a problem because the row guage of the two is invariably different which can lead to some puckering within/around your letters. However, if you accomodate for this by making the garter stitches a bit looser then it can work.
did you think of crocheting the letters onto the scarf after you are finished?
hold the yarn underneath the scarf, pull a loop through, make simple crochet stitches from above through the fabric. This produces a line of crochet “tops” to form the letter and just a line (like a sewn seam) on the bottom. you can write however you like then, too. Even in “handwriting”, since you are not tied to stitches.
The backside will be a mirror image, no matter what, if you only make one fabric.
Ahhh - I think I saw this somewhere but since I haven’t done any crocheting before, I was a bit unsure…Is it difficult? The stitches on my scarf are quite close together - will this be a problem?
Good ideas. I would not have thought of the crochet.
How about a pocket scarf?
Kind of like this one http://www.patonsyarns.com/pattern.php?PID=2789&cps=21191
except you wouldn’t want to flip up the ends for the pockets because then your backside would be showing but you could make the pocket covers with lettering separate and stitch them on the ends.
Then you could use fair isle, intarsia, duplicate stitch, whatever and the back would be hidden.
there are videos all over youtube for crochet. And proably on many websites. It is really not so difficult with a little practice.
Don’t get me wrong: crochet can go to levels many people will never reach. It can be extremly detailed and diverse. But you just need simple crochet. You don’t want to be a ballet dancer, you want to walk. And that, everybody can learn.
