The sweater I’m knitting has rows of dots in contrasting colour going down the middle at the front and the back. It’s a weird technique – the main colour yarn runs behind the dots and the dots themselves are barely attached, they just sort of hover over the main yarn. It’s neither proper intarsia knitting nor proper stranded colourwork. I’m still not fully convinced that the dots will lie in place properly in the long run. On my first attempt at this sweater I actually skipped them and thought it would be better to embroider the dots afterwards, but it was a bit boring to just knit a single colour all the time and barely any pattern. So this time I’m following the instructions.
[…] The first one was in a grayish speckled yarn from MadelineTosh, and the second one a speckled greenish yarn from Apmezga. This latest one also looked mostly speckled at first but turned out to be more variegated than that, and now the sweater is coming out striped. The subtle, thin stripes towards the top were nice, but then as I started decreasing for the waist, the colours pooled more and more and I was getting strong tiger stripes instead. Not the look I was going for! I introduced a second ball of yarn and alternated between the two balls on every row, which mixed up the stripes, but also didn’t look anything like the top section. And then the first ball ran out, and the second ball on its own gave thick stripes again, but by that time I was doing hip increases and the stripes evened out after a while. […]