#colorwork knitting

[paisleycowboys]

shrimp socks 🦐🦐

[ancientknitter]

Ladies' Wool Knit Swim Suit (Massachusetts, 1930s), Augusta Auctions.

This knitted bathing suit features a repeated motif of blue intarsia sea creatures against a neutral background.

[theeverlastingmuse]

The Joan of Arc sweater is complete! Made entirely out of secondhand acrylic yarn. Started April 22nd, finished July 11th.

[slowmotionmovesme]

Just one more thing… now with sleeves!

(Here)

[possiblythembo]

I haven’t talked about The Sweater on here, which is a travesty. It’s gonna take me FOREVER but I adore it already. I found an all-over colorwork pattern I was already kind of obsessed with, and then I realized I could swap out the existing charts for anything I wanted~

The tension is a little rough on these starting rounds and I wish I had done a couple extra rows of ribbing, but I’m still in the ‘wait and see if it resolves’ phase before I frog and try again.

Pattern is Nordic Mix, yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash in Winter White and Berry Pink!

[bygonethreadsstudio]

A waistcoat I knit last year for my sister, using an original 1941 pattern.

This was my first attempt at colorwork knitting, and of course I jumped in the deep end with a vintage pattern. Luckily, it turned out to be a simple slip-stitch pattern. A lot simpler than expected.

Of course the resizing and added waist shaping wasn’t so simple, but all things considered, I think it turned out really well! And my sister agrees!

[yllene]

I believe I am onto something interesting with this. I am actually quite excited.

This is not stranded knitting, but slip stitches. In my opinion it is easier to knit with many colours using slip stitches rather that stranded knitting, because I get to knit with only one yarn at a time. And slip stitches create such interesting textures.

This is going to be my contribution to scrapalong 2025, even if it is not strictly scrappy, only partly scrappy. It is going to be socks.

[lazystitches]

realized I finished this sweater back in November and never shared it

anyway its been one of my staple sweaters this past winter <3 it's nicely oversized and warm