What about embroidery and thrum? I suppose they are not knitting techniques but still if duplicating is these are not that far from it. TY for a good introduction.
There are plenty of other ways to add color to your knitting. I wouldn't consider embroidery as a category since it's kind of it's own thing. Technically duplicate stitch is a form of embroidery, but it's specific to knitting since it follows the path of the stitches themselves. With thrumming it's kind of a one trick pony. It's not a technique you can do much with beyond making dots. I focused on techniques that have more to explore from a design perspective. There are other techniques like Marlisle, Marltarsia, Fusion and Fission knitting, Twigg stitch, Di-Stitch, Typographic knitting, and probably more I've never heard of. But those all build on these more foundational techniques.
Intarsia is if the color of the letter is only used in that spot. (You probably have a lot of yarn ends.) Stranded is if you carry the color from beginning to end of row or round. Stranded can be used to form letters and words.(e.g. in a hat)
I have not been able to do colorwork but I have knit stripes so there is hope for me 😊
Thanks for the shout-out to TechKnitter - those posts are revelatory!
You're welcome! That site has probably taught me more about the language of knitting than anything else out there.
Clockwork, mosica, fair isle,
Intarsia was the first colour work I learnt, and I’m too intimidated to learn brioche
If you can handle intarsia you can definitely handle brioche. It's just ribbing with a yarn over thrown in. 😉
@@yarnistco I think most times we get in our head about a new technique, whereas we should just dive in and make all the mistakes
@@heidiross8592 I couldn't agree more. The fastest way to learn is to make a mistake.
What about embroidery and thrum? I suppose they are not knitting techniques but still if duplicating is these are not that far from it. TY for a good introduction.
There are plenty of other ways to add color to your knitting. I wouldn't consider embroidery as a category since it's kind of it's own thing. Technically duplicate stitch is a form of embroidery, but it's specific to knitting since it follows the path of the stitches themselves.
With thrumming it's kind of a one trick pony. It's not a technique you can do much with beyond making dots. I focused on techniques that have more to explore from a design perspective.
There are other techniques like Marlisle, Marltarsia, Fusion and Fission knitting, Twigg stitch, Di-Stitch, Typographic knitting, and probably more I've never heard of. But those all build on these more foundational techniques.
When I knit words in a recent design, do the letters count as Intarsia? Curious
Intarsia is if the color of the letter is only used in that spot. (You probably have a lot of yarn ends.) Stranded is if you carry the color from beginning to end of row or round. Stranded can be used to form letters and words.(e.g. in a hat)
Also in stranded you might have to catch the floats. In intarsia there are no floats.
It really depends on how it was done, but if the letters were created through floating blocks of color, then yes.