Roll over, Beethoven
Friday June 15th 2018, 10:56 pm
Filed under: Knit

I’ve done plenty of intarsia knitting in my life but I do it Kaffe Fassett style: snip as long a strand for each color as you can stomach dealing with and just pull it through and through and through, out from among the tangle of the others.

Except this time I’ll need enough of each color in this area that I decided it was time to cave and finally do knitting bobbins for the first time in my life.

It will surprise nobody that I didn’t have any.

An empty toilet paper tube cut in fourths actually seems to work quite well. Except I need more than… The recycling went out already, didn’t it?

Somebody go spill something for me, okay? Quick? That paper towel roll is almost ready.


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I was taught not to use bobbins. Instead, you make a “butterfly” doing a figure 8 and a simple tie-up in the middle. Fingers are free, and generally available (-:

Comment by Anne 06.15.18 @ 11:16 pm

Yep! That’s the way I do it to. Less weight hanging there too.

Comment by Jayleen Hatmaker 06.16.18 @ 4:45 pm

I pray you enjoy the process!

Comment by Suzanne in Montreal 06.16.18 @ 7:44 pm



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