Jester is the intarsia hat that I knit as a sample for KnitWhits. The hat will be felted into its final form before it is displayed.
This is a fun hat to make and a good way to practice your intarsia technique.
This is a fun hat to make and a good way to practice your intarsia technique.
I used bobbins to keep an ample length of each color dangling as I knit.
It looks confusing at first, but it's actually much easier to detangle than if I had sixteen balls of yarn attached to my work.
To avoid holes when changing colors, I flipped one color over the next, twisting the two strands one time. (Since this hat will eventually be felted, small holes are not a big deal.) The yarn is not carried across the
work.This is different than two-handed fair isle, where each hand is controlling a separate color and both yarns are carried all the way across the work. I'll post another sample hat soon that uses the fair isle technique.
3 comments:
What a cute hat! And that's beautiful intarsia work (I love how the wrong side looks beautiful too).
Thank you for posting about this technique. I hope someday to make those beautiful floral sweaters and had wondered about having so many bobbins. But it seems to work out just fine. Is there a trick for knowing how much yarn to put on the bobbin for each area?
No real trick for winding the yarn onto the bobbins. I just wind as many yards as will fit comfortably. With wool, it's easy to spit-splice another few yards, if needed.
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