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fairisle foibles...
On the Two-Faced Wendy, I did a scoop neck, 10
cm (D) down and the vee, 15 cm (other D) down from the top of the shoulder, both with a half width of 9 cm (B from the schematic), shortrowing both. On the vee piece, because the row count for fairisle is different (42 rows to 10 cm as opposed to 50 rows for stockinete) I recalculated the decreases (need 30 sts in 64 rows), starting at RC170 which is 15 cm below the top of the shoulder. Put the left side in hold - used the ravel cord method just to make sure not to damage that line of stitches and to make it easier to keep track of the vee shaping: [1 st, KWK, 2 sts, KWK] 7X; 1 sts, KWK, 9X which puts 30 sts in hold in 46 rows. Leave these in hold and knit to top of the shoulder without wrapping. After removing the shoulder (see below), pick up the remaining neck portion edge to the top of the shoulder, knit a loose row in the neckband colour (dark brown here) over this side of the vee and chain off. This is a neat, quick way to get the vee done in fairisle! Love it! I'll be using this method again!
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A few other details about knitting fairisle: shoulder
was shortrowed over 5 rows and then all returned to UWP. Change to stockinette
and knit 1 row in the background colour (tan here), then remove on waste. Do the same for the other one. If you don’t
knit the plain row, good luck picking up those stitches! Just saying! To join
the shoulder, pick up the first one, knit side facing. Hang the second piece,
wrong side facing and rip out that row of stockinette (easy to do because
that’s the way it was knit). Pull this set through the back set and presto! you
have a nice seam, without a line of plain knitting because the second set of
stitches is fairisle and when pulled through the plain row of the first side,
disguises the plain row. For comparison, the shoulder join on the left of the
photo, I hung the first side, the way it was knit, ripped out the row of
stockinette and then turned the piece on the garter bar. Hung the second side,
ripped out the row, and joined as above, putting last fairisle rows, one through
the first and then cast off. You be the judge - there is a slight difference
looking at it like this but not enough to make it worth the danger of loosing a
stitch! And who’s going to be studying your shoulder seams?
On the Two-Faced Wendy, I did a scoop neck, 10
cm (D) down and the vee, 15 cm (other D) down from the top of the shoulder, both with a half width of 9 cm (B from the schematic), shortrowing both. On the vee piece, because the row count for fairisle is different (42 rows to 10 cm as opposed to 50 rows for stockinete) I recalculated the decreases (need 30 sts in 64 rows), starting at RC170 which is 15 cm below the top of the shoulder. Put the left side in hold - used the ravel cord method just to make sure not to damage that line of stitches and to make it easier to keep track of the vee shaping: [1 st, KWK, 2 sts, KWK] 7X; 1 sts, KWK, 9X which puts 30 sts in hold in 46 rows. Leave these in hold and knit to top of the shoulder without wrapping. After removing the shoulder (see below), pick up the remaining neck portion edge to the top of the shoulder, knit a loose row in the neckband colour (dark brown here) over this side of the vee and chain off. This is a neat, quick way to get the vee done in fairisle! Love it! I'll be using this method again!
A few other details about knitting fairisle: shoulder
was shortrowed over 5 rows and then all returned to UWP. Change to stockinette
and knit 1 row in the background colour (tan here), then remove on waste. Do the same for the other one. If you don’t
knit the plain row, good luck picking up those stitches! Just saying! To join
the shoulder, pick up the first one, knit side facing. Hang the second piece,
wrong side facing and rip out that row of stockinette (easy to do because
that’s the way it was knit). Pull this set through the back set and presto! you
have a nice seam, without a line of plain knitting because the second set of
stitches is fairisle and when pulled through the plain row of the first side,
disguises the plain row. For comparison, the shoulder join on the left of the
photo, I hung the first side, the way it was knit, ripped out the row of
stockinette and then turned the piece on the garter bar. Hung the second side,
ripped out the row, and joined as above, putting last fairisle rows, one through
the first and then cast off. You be the judge - there is a slight difference
looking at it like this but not enough to make it worth the danger of loosing a
stitch! And who’s going to be studying your shoulder seams?
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