Congratulations Sarah! I’ve never seen two stranded colourwork done in this manner. No matter that it start from left or right, one usually returns to the opposite side of the work with the same strand of yarn, whether on the current row or the next. This is the first time I’ve seen yarn carried across the entire width of a piece! My experience is limited, but I have many books of Tunisian crochet stitches and techniques, and never have I seen this. Thank you for sharing your innovations with us!
Thank you, Gregory. 😊 My only concern with this method is in case of big projects worked flat: in such cases, it would probably be a waste of yarn to carry the yarns all the way from one side to the other... 🤔
I was searching for a stitch that I could use two colors for! One scratchy yarn needed a companion to soften it up and this works perfectly! I remember in my early days of knitting I had tried something like this on my own, but I thought I was crazy and that it wouldn’t work, but it does! Thank you for sharing!
Brilliant idea, using up scratchy yarn with tunisian. Often scratchy yarn is also cheaper. If we consider the yarns more globally as "secondary" or "surrounded" and "primary" or "main" yarns, there may also be other qualities to consider for each yarn, like stretchiness, texture, sparkle, variegated colour and more. For example, a cotton secondary yarn can stabilise a very stretchy primary yarn horizontally, or an luxury yarn can surround a cheaper base yarn.
your method is good, but I came up with another method used in conventional knitting. if you knit with two strands of yarn, the Strand that you don't need is always twisted when knitting each subsequent Stitch. the method that I use in Tunisian is to carry and work both strands of yarn by alternating between the two strands on your return pass. You will have a multicolored return pass and end with both strands to begin the next forward pass.
Congratulations Sarah! I’ve never seen two stranded colourwork done in this manner. No matter that it start from left or right, one usually returns to the opposite side of the work with the same strand of yarn, whether on the current row or the next. This is the first time I’ve seen yarn carried across the entire width of a piece! My experience is limited, but I have many books of Tunisian crochet stitches and techniques, and never have I seen this. Thank you for sharing your innovations with us!
Thank you, Gregory. 😊 My only concern with this method is in case of big projects worked flat: in such cases, it would probably be a waste of yarn to carry the yarns all the way from one side to the other... 🤔
Brilliant. Great method, thank you for sharing xx
I was searching for a stitch that I could use two colors for! One scratchy yarn needed a companion to soften it up and this works perfectly! I remember in my early days of knitting I had tried something like this on my own, but I thought I was crazy and that it wouldn’t work, but it does! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for your comment 😊
Brilliant idea, using up scratchy yarn with tunisian. Often scratchy yarn is also cheaper. If we consider the yarns more globally as "secondary" or "surrounded" and "primary" or "main" yarns, there may also be other qualities to consider for each yarn, like stretchiness, texture, sparkle, variegated colour and more. For example, a cotton secondary yarn can stabilise a very stretchy primary yarn horizontally, or an luxury yarn can surround a cheaper base yarn.
Thank you so much for sharing this. It is just beautiful!
Thank you, I'm glad you find this helpful. 😊
Revolutionary indeed! So clever!
Thank you, Leslie!! And not so complicated, right? 😊
Sooooo beautiful ❤️❤️
Thank you soooo much!! :)
Thank you for this. I wanted to do the honeycomb pattern flat using this technique, but couldnt figure out how without having to cut the yarn.💜💜💜
Glad to help! 😊
Yes yes yes thank you that's great.
Thank you 😊 💙
your method is good, but I came up with another method used in conventional knitting. if you knit with two strands of yarn, the Strand that you don't need is always twisted when knitting each subsequent Stitch. the method that I use in Tunisian is to carry and work both strands of yarn by alternating between the two strands on your return pass. You will have a multicolored return pass and end with both strands to begin the next forward pass.
Thank you, I'll try this! 💗
So sad is not on your channel anymore, it was brilliant :(
I really think you would be interested im my video. It's the second video on my page. It's a different way to do this very thing.
Ok, I will. 😊
Struggling to do this in smock stitch. Seems impossible.
I'll try myself. 🙂
So I've just tried it and had no problems. I'll make a tutorial for this. It might be struggling to do the tps though.