Colorwork?

[aedifica]

O ye knitters,

I'm curious to try colorwork. I've been knitting a while, have done socks and scarves and a sweater, and have dabbled in cables, but I've never done colorwork and know really nothing about it. Do you have any suggestions for an easy project to learn on?

Thanks,
aedifica

Edited to clarify: What I'd really like is a good pattern for a first-timer--I've tried looking for one on Ravelry and Google, but my search skillz are failing me this time.

Comments

[medrin]

I think I learned colourwork by just... doing it. I've never really knitted after patterns until very recently so I did a lot of socks/hats/mittens with my own patterns. It's really easy to draw your own! Just draw it up and knit a standard sock/hat/mitten with many colours.

Things so think about when using multiple colours:

When knitting a pattern with colour changes after every few stitches the trick is to not twist the yarns on the backside. I use continental knitting and always keep the yarns in the same order on my finger. I've never mastered english style so I don't know about that but I've heard that if you can do both it's practical to do one style with each yarn. Also, if you draw your own pattern there should be no more than four stitches of the same colour in a row.

The trick with knitting blocks of colour is to always twist the yarn. Otherwise you'll end up with a big hole in whatever you're doing. Throw the yarn you've used over the one you're picking up so they hook in to each other.

[aedifica]

Cool, thank you very much for the tips!