Occasionally you will need to change your stitch count IN PATTERN when you’re doing stranded colorwork.
- Eunny Jang wrote a great segment on decreasing in colorwork here (scroll down, it’s the latter half of the post)
- As it happens Eunny actually wrote a great post about increasing in colorwork here (again scroll down)
- Sometimes your pattern doesn’t have the increases built in. In this case, sticky notes are your friend! I use them to block out areas of the chart that aren’t relevant to me while leaving the chart intact. So for instance. let’s say this chart is going on a sweater (Metamerism, actually) and I need to increase on each side of the chart every 6 rows while repeating the boxed section. You can stagger the sticky notes to match your increase pattern, and see at a glance where you are supposed to increase and exactly the portion of the chart you need to knit.
In this case, the increases are every 6 rows on both sides of the repeat and I’m in the process of finishing the post-its on the left side.
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