Same technique, different effect
At the previous page you saw how to do the cast on with 2 colors, where the sideways V-shapes where alternating with their colors. You could also do it a bit differently. The technique stays the same (so do that tutorial first if you haven’t done that yet), but starting off with the colors placed differently, gives different looks. In this tutorial I will show you the effect of 2 variations. The first variation is shown at the top of the page, the second one you can see below.
Index
I’ve spread the tutorials about casting on over several pages. Click on the links for each subject.
- The cast on basics: click here to go to that page
- Variations with 2 colors: on this page
- Casting on with 3 colors: click here to go to that page
Steps for variation 1
Turn the threads around each other this way. This is at the half of both strands of yarn.
Now bring the blue thread up.
Here you see the blue threads are both on top at each side, and the green threads are on the bottom. Insert the first warp thread.
Fold the left threads to the right and spread them.
Bring the middle 2 threads to the left and add the second warp thread.
Fold the left threads to the right and spread them.
Bring the middle 2 threads to the left.
Fold the first warp thread downover the two weft threads.
Fold the left threads to the right and spread them.
Bring the middle 2 threads to the left.
And this is the result! You see that all the top legs of the V-shapes are blue, and all bottom legs are green.
When you would take the warp threads out, without undoing the weaving of the weft threads, you see that the strands of yarn of the same color are twisted around each other.
Variation 2
Here you start the same way as variation 1, but now you just leave the blue thread on the bottom.
Following the weaving steps like normal, you will get the result as shown in the picture here.
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