How to Do an Intarsia Knitting of Your Initials
- 1). Plot your initials on graph paper. This type of paper is perfect when creating your own initials. Each square will represent one stitch. Note how many stitches are needed to create your letters for your piece. Number the rows on the graph paper to keep track of rows knitted. You can also find a pattern in a knitting book or online that uses your initials in their work.
- 2). Begin knitting your work as usual. Follow the pattern or the graph paper carefully. Add the second color of yarn in a row. Slide the right needle into the first stitch as if to knit, but don't make the new stitch. Lay the new color of yarn across the tip of the needle, leaving about a six-inch tail hanging to the left and the ball end of the yarn to the right.
- 3). Bring the ball end of the yarn around and underneath the old color, then wrap it around the needle to make a stitch. Finish the stitch in the usual way, dropping both the old loop and tail of the new yarn over the newly formed stitch.
- 4). Change from one color to the next in the middle of the row. Bring the old color up the left, then bring the new color up from under the old color and make the new stitch. This hooks the two stitches together.
- 5). Weave in all the ends. Work away the ends to their corresponding color so they won't show through the front of the work.
