It’s virtually impossible to correct the flower stitches if you discover you’ve made a mistake.(Up to 39 stitches here, which means a lot of weaving of the floats on the back side.) Single-stitch colorwork can be hard to make consistent, when the floats are long.It’s a single thickness elsewhere in the pullover. The colorwork makes the fabric double thick for the flower section, due to the strands carried on the back side.The strands on the back might show through if you use a very light main color and very dark color for the flowers.A person wants to get to the flowers as soon as possible. The flowers are what this sweater is all about. You get to make the flowers pretty early in the creation of this sweater.This is a design choice: do you want dimensional flowers or a fabric with flowers built in? Duplicate stitch creates a dimensional effect. The stitches for the flowers are integral to the fabric-they don’t sit atop the background.If you love to knit stranded colorwork, this is a good workout of your skills.Let’s break down the pros and cons of duplicate stitch versus stranding for this project. Every stitch is an adventure.Ĭouldn’t a person stitch the flowers rather than strand them?Īs you may recall, I’ve been in something of a duplicate stitch mood recently. There is absolutely no repetition or rhythm to the chart. The chart must be worked four times to cover the front and back of Papa. Junko Okamoto thoughtfully provides us with a chart, 50 rows high and 90 stitches wide, for working the flowers in stranded knitting-you know, working two colors alternately in a round. You know Papa: it’s that pullover with the winsome flowers that look to have been doodled all over it. Getting there! My queue of MDK March Mayhem projects is down to 62, now that I am well on my way with the Papa pullover by Junko Okamoto.
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