Knitting Help - Intarsia

Intarsia is a way to knit a different color into your work. Unlike fair isle, the two colors aren't carried as "floats" across the back of the work. Intarsia patterns are usually a block or a blob on a background of another color. This is the way that argyle patterns are knit.

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Howto & Style

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• knitting
• knit
• intarsia
• color
• bobbin
• chart
• argyle

[mhorsesbiz]

This is great, but I need to do this in the round, Marshmallow Bunny socks. Help!

[verypinkknits]

@mhorsesbiz I just took a look at that Bunny Socks pattern, and that is actually more fair isle than intarsia. (You can't really work intarsia in the round without breaking and reattaching the yarn each round.) I have a video tutorial on fair isle that can help you - just search my channel page. (Sorry, YouTube won't let me give you a link here in the comments.)

[mhorsesbiz]

@verypinkknits I think I got it! If I use both balls of white, one on either side of each bunny... I'm doing one bunny front, one in back of cuff... Does that make sense?

[verypinkknits]

@mhorsesbiz Sorry - I haven't reviewed the pattern, just looked at the photo. But if it's working for you, then I think you've got it! :)

[theatetus]

I'm new to the knitting community, so bear with me if this sounds silly but when you knit you have one tail. I understand why you need to have the two blue and the one cream tails to make this work without dragging colors across but how did you get three tails?

[verypinkknits]

@theatetus Maybe I'm not understanding your question...I have to have three working yarns, as you said, so that I don't carry the blue across the back of the cream color. That gives me two blues and one cream color, or three working yarns total.

[verypinkknits]

@maplestoryfreak10 You can do it with this method, or you can do it fair isle. (You can search for my fair isle videos for more explanation.)

[rnsmosley]

Really helpful, thank you very much.

[verypinkknits]

@tinyknitter I just made that little heart design up for this video - it looks like I increased to 9 stitches for the widest part of the heart.

[tinyknitter]

how many stitches do you inc. tofor your heart ?i love your videos and i am newly subscribed.