Patchwork Problems

#1

I am a very novice knitter, and for my i-am-too-sick-of-scarfs project I am making a little baby blanket out of knit squares to form a patchwork. I am finished now making all the squares but I want to make sure I sew them together in a way that isnt too horrible. I would like to make it so you couldnt see the seam but I used a very thin yarn on little needles and so my work has holes you can see through. Is my only hope choosing another color to sew it together? or is there some fabu knit trick to geting a nice seam between 2 different colors?

thanks!

katy

#2

That is a dilemma. Maybe you could try the edge-to-edge seam? I’m not sure if it would work for your squares, but it seems like the stitches wouldn’t show as much.

#3

Oh thanks that is a huge help :slight_smile: Incase you were wondering what it looks like you can see a picture at http://katymaria56.blogspot.com/

Thanks again!

#4

I don’t know if you know how to crochet, but you could add a border and join them that way. If you are interested, I could dig up a few good links.

#5

honestly, as one of my first projects, and as I cant crochet, i think I will just do the edge to edge with one of the colors I am using, I dont think it will be to bad. not half as bad as my crudy tension on the sides (lucking after watching some of the clips on doing things I had already being doing I saw some of the mistakes I was making- now I slip the first stich on each row and that helps) plus I obviously had some very odd way of casting on that made kniting from very tricky - my new and improved method is much nicer. This all means that the kniting is a bit wonky the whole way through but that is how you learn right? anyway yarn in argentina is INSANLY cheap it was 14 pesos (about 4 dollars) for all the yard I needed for this blanket- a super soft cotton. oh by the way there is a picture of my patwork blanket on http://katymaria56.blogspot.com/

thanks again for your help!

#6

I occurred to me that you could use two strands–one of each color you’re joining-- to sew them together, too.