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January 30, 2006

Bartending hats, part two

i got a couple of questions about doing intarsia in the round. i think maybe i did a "cheating" version of fair isle. i'll try to explain. on the round, i "wrote" everything backwards. so line one, i intarsia normally. then i let the word color (yarn b) sit tight and hang out while the main color (yarn a) works its way around to the letters again.when i got to the needle that had the letters start, i would measure how much of yarn b i would need by counting the number of knits that would be done with it, and make that many loops on my extra needle, and also measure the length from where yarn b was hanging out to where i needed to start with it. then i tied a cast-on knot to remember how much yarn i had just rationed for line two. so then line two was intarsia-ed with that section of yarn i just got, and if it was too tight or too loose, i would be all anal and scoot more yarn where it needed to be. then, i would do the back with yarn a, and when i got back to where i needed yarn b, it would be there waiting for me, and i would undo the cast-on knot, and just repeat the process. sorry if thats confusing. its probably easier to do than to read. here's a pic of a hat inside-out though:

Posted by SQ at January 30, 2006 09:58 AM