I love that you are taking on the role of family stocking knitter, Deedi - what a cool project. And your practice stocking looks great. Sounds like you have plenty of help and advice locally, but just in case this is helpful (I am a life long knitter) there are 2 techniques for colourwork - stranded colourwork, which is much easier to do in the round, and intarsia which is much easier to do on flat knitted pieces. Intarsia in the round is possible and I know knitters that love it but it does feel complicated when you are first learning it. Depending on the pattern you decide on for your stockings you may find that a mix of stranded colourwork and intarsia is the way to go.
Anyway, please ignore me if you already know all of that - I’m just really thrilled that you are taking on this project and wanted to help a bit if I could.
Thank you so much for this! The prospect of knitting intarsia in the round is definitely something that I have been chatting with the woman from my local yarn store about. Part of me is simply determined to use intarsia because that’s how my great grandmother did it, but also I am hesitant to carry floats because I don’t want anything to snag on the stocking when gifts are put in and pulled out. I’m sure I will end up doing some kind of combination of the two of them!
I truly needed a good t-shirt rec!
I love that you are taking on the role of family stocking knitter, Deedi - what a cool project. And your practice stocking looks great. Sounds like you have plenty of help and advice locally, but just in case this is helpful (I am a life long knitter) there are 2 techniques for colourwork - stranded colourwork, which is much easier to do in the round, and intarsia which is much easier to do on flat knitted pieces. Intarsia in the round is possible and I know knitters that love it but it does feel complicated when you are first learning it. Depending on the pattern you decide on for your stockings you may find that a mix of stranded colourwork and intarsia is the way to go.
Anyway, please ignore me if you already know all of that - I’m just really thrilled that you are taking on this project and wanted to help a bit if I could.
Thank you so much for this! The prospect of knitting intarsia in the round is definitely something that I have been chatting with the woman from my local yarn store about. Part of me is simply determined to use intarsia because that’s how my great grandmother did it, but also I am hesitant to carry floats because I don’t want anything to snag on the stocking when gifts are put in and pulled out. I’m sure I will end up doing some kind of combination of the two of them!
Sounds like you have it well under control :)
This is the perfect reminder to use my overnight oats packets sitting in the cupboard! I'm glad you love them.