I was asked a couple of questions about the construction of the Kauni Cardigan. Here are the responses:
1) When you knit the garter stitch block trim, do you work it in the round and steek that portion of the sweater open, or do you work it back and forth (flat)?
I worked the garter stitch check in the round with a steek.Â
2) The color transitions are mesmerizing. Did you consciously select combo B by picking where you started each of the skeins? You probably have to be careful when you join in a new skein? I imagine that your tension has to be pretty consistent to maintain the color combo.
The way I chose B was not very scientific, though I did not want to start with light colors. I started from the outside of the two different skeins I had. I did not want to pull from the center because the balls are very large and collapse on themselves as they get empty in the center. I wound off a bunch from one skein – just enough to guarantee that the same color would not meet as I was knitting. I had decided early on that I would not try to lose sleep over the color combinations — just let it evolve.Â
The tension just takes care of itself — nothing special there.Â
I wound each of my full Kauni skeins into two balls because the skeins are so big.  I will simply join to the end where I broke the yarn and it should continue in the color transition as established without a problem. This yarn is 2-ply and very similar to Shetland wool so it splices incredibly easy. I have come across a couple of knots and just spit splice it together.
This is an intriguing design!
Comment by Carol — July 12, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
You know what…I don’t understand what you mean about
getting the colors like you have managed to get them to
go.
I have some of that yarn coming for a shawl…..
I am unnerved about how I’m gonna get that
“melding of colors” look.
I’ll keep reading your post over and over…
Maybe I’ll have an “ah ha” moment!!!!
Comment by Thomasean — July 12, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
I don’t even know if you will see this Susan, since this part of your blog is so far in the past, but I am ready to start the Kauni and really like your edging better than the 1×1 rib. I do not understand, though, if you added additional stitches to the edge in order to do a steek or if you just knitted the cast on stitches. I hope you will be able to get this and will have the time to answer me. I appreciate having your blog to refer to…almost like you are holding my hand!! 🙂 Thank you! Char Rickey
Comment by Char Rickey — March 16, 2010 @ 9:28 pm