What is Intarsia Knitting? (Beginners Guide)

Intarsia is a knitting technique used to make designs with various tones. Similarly as with the carpentry method of a similar name, fields of various tones and materials give off an impression of being decorated in each other, fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. 

In contrast to other multicolour procedures (counting Fair Isle, slip-fasten shading, and twofold sewing), there is just one "dynamic" shading on some random line, and yarn isn't conveyed across the rear of the work; when a shading changes on a given line, the old yarn is left hanging. This implies that any intarsia piece is topologically a few disjoint sections of shading; a straightforward blue circle on a white foundation includes one segment of blue and two of white—one for the left and one for the right. Intarsia is regularly worked level, instead of in the round. Nonetheless, it is feasible to sew intarsia in round sewing utilizing specific procedures. 

Regular instances of intarsia incorporate sweaters with enormous, strong shading highlights like natural products, blossoms, or mathematical shapes. Argyle socks and sweaters are regularly done in intarsia, albeit the slim slanting lines are frequently overlaid in a later advance, utilizing Swiss darning or now and then a basic backstitch.

Knitting intarsia should theoretically require no additional skills beyond a clear understanding of knit and purl stitches. Multiple colors of yarn, standard needles, and bobbins are all needed. Bobbins keep the inactive yarn contained and prevent it from being tangled.