Welcome to this Arnall-Culliford Knitwear tutorial on intarsia joins on the diagonal. This tutorial is
part of our Little Lessons Intarsia series designed to accompany Modern Daily Knitting
Field Guide Number 16: Painterly. This lovely Field Guide is packed full of designs by Kaffe
Fassett that each use the intarsia technique, and I hope that these videos in this series will
help give you the skills and confidence to tackle any of the projects in the book.
You'll find links to the other tutorials in the series in the notes section for this video.
On my previous video on intarsia joins, I used this Cityscape Scarf to demonstrate the join process,
and in this scarf each of the joins happens with the color change happening on a vertical
line. So the yarns are always lying directly in the right place, and you're always working
the same color stitches with the same color yarn. I thought it would be helpful to do a similar video
for the Watercolor Cowl, which is this lovely design here. In the Watercolor Cowl, you've got
a diagonal yarn change, and, although it's worked in a very similar manner, it does look ever so
slightly different, and it's one of the things that tripped me up when I was first doing intarsia.
So I thought it'd be helpful to film a little video of how it looks so that you can be really
confident you're doing it correctly. So here I am working along in the light green yarn,
and I need to work one more stitch in light green than I did last time. So here's my first stitch
using the dark green stitch to knit it in the light green yarn,
and now I'm ready to do my intarsia join so that I can continue with dark green.
So I'm going to take my yarn anti-clockwise over, and then I'm going to pick up the dark green from
underneath, and I'm going to move it in that same anti-clockwise direction.
So the movement is exactly the same as it was when I was working the vertical intarsia join,
and in fact I'm just going to come to one. so I'll show you that it's exactly the same.
So anti-clockwise with the dark green, that's the old,
and pick up the light green now from underneath,
there we go, pick up the light green from
underneath, and again, it's moving in that anti-clockwise direction.
So it's sometimes described as being the old yarn passing over the new yarn,
but it doesn't look exactly like that on the diagonal, although the movement is exactly the same.
So here we come again, our light green is going to do one more stitch. Obviously I'm holding the yarn
in my right hand. It does work in exactly the same way if you're holding the yarn in your left hand.
Pulling my yarns from the tangle. So I've done my stitch anti-clockwise over, oh, dark green picks up
and comes around in the same anti-clockwise direction, and when you pick up that new
yarn, the stitch that it's attached to is that one you've just knitted.
So it's quite easy to over tighten that or under tighten it, so just have a look at it when you pick
that yarn up and just make sure you haven't made a mess of that previous stitch on the previous row.
And then you're ready to knit the next one, and just again,
once you've knitted that stitch just have a look at it make sure you're happy with it.
Okay and then here we've come to that vertical join again, where the color change is vertical.
So anti-clockwise pick up the new yarn, pull it from the tangle, anti-clockwise again.
And we've got one more join to do before the end of the row.
Here we go, last stitch in the green, it's going to be knitted in the light green,
and then, boom, pick up from underneath, and bring it up in the anti-clockwise direction. Look at the
stitches, make sure it's not over tightened, knit it and double check it, and then finish your row.
On the wrong side rows that color change on the diagonal is worked in just the same way.
So this next stitch needs to be light green, so we go over in that direction, we pick up
the light green from underneath, pull it from the tangle, and it goes, oh, in there anti-clockwise.
Move that dark one out of the way now we're done with it.
And you can see that it's making nice loop along the edge there.
Right and here's our vertical change again,
yarn's going anti-clockwise, new one's being picked up also going anti-clockwise.
Okay and you can see down the back here, there's the looped join on the vertical
and here's one on the diagonal down here, it's maybe not quite so clear, but it is
just the same looped join between the two colors.
Okay, so here we're doing the on the diagonal again, going anti-clockwise
picking up and round
You've got a combination of the, uh, purl bumps from the dark green yarn here in the way, but
here's our intarsia join. You've got the light green loop there, and then the dark green loop here,
light green, dark green, light green, all down that diagonal, and if you look at it on the right side,
it's really nice and smooth, and there's no,
no gapping or anything like that. It's just nice and even tension.
I do hope you found it helpful to see how that intarsia join has worked on a diagonal.
It's worked exactly the same on the diagonals, leaning in the opposite
direction. You just keep going with our anti-clockwise movement of the two yarns,
doing the one you're using first, and then picking up the new yarn from below and moving it round.
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