My husband rarely makes requests for knits but when he does they are very specific. His last two requests have involved intarsia as a technique and I finally decided that 2024 was the year for me to finally learn how to knit intarsia. And as luck would …
My husband rarely makes requests for knits but when he does they are very specific. His last two requests have involved intarsia as a technique and I finally decided that 2024 was the year for me to finally learn how to knit intarsia. And as luck would have it, my LYS Fibre Space had a class in the spring so I could finally check this skill of my list. For the class, we were tasked with making the Warp Vest.
It is knit with a marled yarn effect, holding two strands of fingering weight yarn together, which helps to make joins look a bit smoother than if you're knitting with just one strand. For my first Warp Vest I settled on a palette of green, blue and a sparkly yellow yarn with flecks of blue and green in it.
Oddly enough it reminds me a lot of knitting colorwork and just being consistent with how I change my colors as I go along my row. the vest is knit in panels and seamed together and then you pick a contrasting color for the ribbing.
I decided on a purple/pink yarn to really pop against the blues and greens and I really loved it. and I also realize that when I learn a new technique, I like to knit a project twice to just reinforce what I learned, so for my second Warp Vest I knit it with cotton and linen yarn instead to make it kind of an all year round vest.
For my second vest I went with a softer color palette of pastels with pink, white and purple and a minty pop of color. And now that I've tackled learning intarsia I've got a list of projects I'm ready to tackle!
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