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changing colors--need help!

Help gang! My choir suddenly decided to participate in our church auction with a music-type basket of goodies--of course, I decided to knit a piano-key scarf. BOY do I have to work fast! Due in a week and of course have a zillion other things on my plate. So I'm using size 9 circular needles with worsted weight, knitting a piano front and a white back section to it.

Ok--to my question--imagine the piano keys----I consistently must switch from white to black by stopping the white and starting the black (it's too much distance across to carry the white yarn behind), and therefore, I have a natural division of stitches right at the color change. I have tried tying the black/white ends together in the back to cinch up the gap, but it's still there.

Is there some easy, attractive way I should be doing these color switches? Again, the distance is too long to bother carrying the black across for the 3/4 of the scarf that is knit in white. So it just keeps stopping and starting, leaving gaps. Ugh. Thanks all!

Wendy

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myswendy
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WoolyGooly

I have knit many, many hats, mittens, etc with intricate patterns and intarsia before. The problem this time seems to be different. I have a block of color change that is consistent over several rows (the width of a black piano key). I can't carry the white because the gap is too long and it seems wasteful. I can't carry the black because that absolutely WOULD be wasteful, since 3/4 of it is white (and I don't want the black to show through, at any rate). So in effect, one color ends and one begins en bloc, causing a vertical gap in the work.

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myswendy

Here's a similar pattern -

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- maybe there's a good explanation you could use.sue

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suzee

Are you twisting the colors when you switch colors? When you are knitting with the white yarn, at the color change pick up the black yarn for the next stitch with the white yarn on top of the black. Be sure to keep the stitches at the change close together on your needles. DA

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DA

Hallo Wendy i knitted a lot of color changes , but what you describe here looks mostly like my "Log Cabin Sweater , where i have rteal blocks with straight lines ,,, thus you knit some rows in complete color 1 and part rows with 2 colors, you should TWIST the thread when coming to that part ,,, if that is you true email i can scan the back of this sweater and send it to you as `help` picture. mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

Oh, ok. I misunderstood the problem. There's a technique for doing intarsia in the round that may be useful to you, in Interweave Knits Fall 1999 issue. I'm sure by now it's been "genericized" and published all over the web.

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WoolyGooly

Thanks to all of you, guys! I will try that! It's coming out great but for the open spaces (I guess I will have to go back and weave those together--this is a rush job).

Wendy --panting on the piano scarf. HAHAHA! :D

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myswendy

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