I have a small piece I’m wanting to knit and felt that would have a little logo on it. It had been my intention to do intarsia for the logo but as it is a cursive type letter, and I only have 15-20 sts to play with across, I’m having a difficult time charting the design to look correct. KnitPro charted it well but on 48 sts across.
My question is this… would you go ahead and intarsia the design or knit the swatch then embroider the logo over it and then felt the piece.
Yes, I’m needing to felt the item.
ANY guidance as to how I can best try and pull this off would be so greatly appreciated. I’ve attached the image I’m wanting embedded on this.
Could you embroider after you felted? I haven’t felted, but I do sew and my sewing brain is thinking that if you did intarsia or embroider and then felted, that the design would ‘shrink’ and get distorted - that’s my sewing brain. Now, my knitting brain is saying try a sample both ways and see what happens.
Hopefully, someone who has done something similar in the past will be able to give you a definite answer.
Post a picture when complete - I’d love to see how it turned out.
Thanks for that idea. I’m really unsure that doing the intarsia is going to give me the image I want, since I don’t have enough sts to make it “smooth” enough. Although, I’m still waiting for someone to tell me otherwise, cause I AM interested in learning if it can work.
That said, I have done some embroidery of part of the logo on two swatches… One that is knit but not yet felted and the other was embroidered onto a felted piece. I’ll felt/refelt both and see if one of these will provide me the look I’m seeking.
Thanks so much for taking a moment to give me your thoughts regarding my little problem.
I’ve needle felted onto knit felted fabric. It looks good I think but ultimately that decoration is nowhere near as durable as the base fabric. I wouldn’t do it again on anything that might suffer a lot of rubbing. Janet