

My plan is to further simplify the intarsia chart down to a stranded colorwork chart. I’d enjoy it if you sent me a photo though, so I can cheer you on. If you want to use this chart on your knitting, or the twist stitch one, be my guest. It will join other swatches in a bag until there are enough to piece into a blanket.

Bring the needle through to the right side of the fabric, at the bottom of the first stitch you want to embroider over. If you don’t count the 3 times I picked out the embroidery, this owl has the honor of being knit once from the first chart. Secure your yarn on the wrong side of the fabric by sewing a couple of stitches close to where you want the first stitch. My husband and sons are always telling me to use more color in my knitting, so this swatch had a happy reception. The embroidery took longer than the knitting did, because I cannot count! I actually had to pick out my embroidery 3 times. I love it when the computer does fiddly things for me. Then the program re-colors the sections for you. a question box will jump up asking which color you wish to replace it with. One feature of Stitchmastery that makes simplifying colorwork charts easier is that if you are, say turning all of your midtone brown into pale brown, you can highlight the midtone brown in the key, and delete it. The more references for embroidery the less I get lost.

I was happy with how it turned out, so I’m not going to re-do it, but if I were, I’d knit in the white patches in the tail, body and edges of the face. Once I had knit the intarsia base, I duplicate stitched the details on it.Īctually the first chart I’d made had the details, and I simplified it to the intarsia chart above. I was gambling that the proportions would work from twist stitch to intarsia, since twist stitches pull in, and intarsia does not.
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The Duplicate Stitch is also a great way to cover errors and wonky stitches you wish you had discovered prior to binding off. Search: Stitch Fiddle Interlocking Crochet. These added stitches are placed on top of stockinette stitches after the piece is complete with the use of a tapestry needle. One had an owl sitting in a pine tree, which was great because the green yarn that I had went with the brown yarn better than the blue yarn that I had. Many knitters use the Duplicate Stitch in lieu of small areas of Intarsia. I did monkey with the colors a bit, it turns out there are color variations in Northern Saw Whets, so I looked at reference photos on Google Images until I found a pretty one with colors like yarns I had in leftovers or stash. I decided to do the intarsia owl next because I found a chart on my hard drive all ready to go, based on the twist stitch owl.
