Winter pattern as another opportunity for comfort

Warm knitted items will become more comfortable if they are decorated with a winter pattern. This decor can be done in different ways: jacquard, braids, it is possible to move with the same color and change the front and back loops.

Scandinavian patterns

One has only to look at a sweater connected by a jacquard pattern with snowflakes, you immediately realize that winter is the very time of the year when you can’t do without this type of clothing. The Scandinavian jacquard is probably the main pattern, the winter motif of which is as if created in order to warm it with its beauty in the most severe frosts. In addition to the fact that the drawing, which is often called Scandinavian, is beautiful, it also has a second functional feature - the finished canvas turns out to be quite thick and dense due to the interweaving of colored threads. Knitting a winter pattern with knitting needles in Scandinavian technology is quite simple, because there is no combination and transfer of loops. The main difficulty is to correctly count the loops from the drawing, changing yarn in a timely manner.

Another nuance is the constant twisting of the working threads in the process of knitting. This is done so that the canvas is solid, and there are no holes between the color changes.

Tale of Lapland

You can often see that the winter pattern made using the jacquard technique is not only snowflakes. Frequent guests in cozy warm sweaters - deer and moose. These animals are the personification of a winter fairy tale, because they are driving a sled with the upcoming holiday. Figures of deer can be very different, there can be several, or there can be only one. In any case, work on such a pattern, as well as on any jacquard, requires certain rules to be followed, including the exact count of loops and the twisting of the thread at work.

Jacquard rules

The technique of jacquard with knitting needles, and the winter pattern in most cases refers specifically to it, looks spectacular if done correctly. Therefore, having decided to tie a thing with jacquard, you should familiarize yourself with some rules of work in such a technique.

• Colored patterns require accuracy in changing loops along the pattern.
• In order not to form gaps between the colored loops or sections of the fabric, the working threads should be twisted during knitting. It is best to twist one row of threads from above, and the next - from below. Thus, the working threads will be spun first and then spun independently. You can, of course, change each color change with a different transition - let one go from above, one from below, but working in rows is somewhat easier.
• The thread at work should be stretched evenly, should not be allowed as much tension of the yarn, and large sagging of non-working in this section of the thread. Uneven tension will negatively affect the result of the work, the pattern will either be skewed or will “disperse” over the color sections.
• If the intervals of color fragments are large, it is better to work from several balls, for example, two deer on an empty field should be connected from two skeins of yarn, and not from one with long broaches. Such a design is both convenient and practical.

Pigtails on guard of comfort

A warm sweater, hat - this is something voluminous, comfortable. The winter pattern can be not only a flat ornament, but also a relief decor of braids and transitions of loops. The simplest braids will become a symbol of warmth in winter frosts. A simple change of 4 to 4 loops with the same rapport in height can already become an ornament of any knitted thing - from mittens to a plaid. But winter patterns for knitting, which are based on braids, are very diverse.

The simplest braid can look very beautiful if the transitions are done in different directions. For example, a braid with 9 stitches can knit like this:

1. 3 seam loops, 9 facial loops, 3 seam loops.
2. All loops fit in the pattern.
3. 3 purl, 3 loops to leave on the auxiliary pin at work, 3 facial main, 3 facial with pins, 3 facial loops main, 3 wrong.
4. All loops are in the picture.

Or maybe the same braid knit a little differently:

1. 3 purl loops, 9 facial loops, 3 purl loops.
2. All loops fit in the pattern.
3. 3 purl, 3 loops to leave on the auxiliary pin before work, 3 facial main, 3 facial with pins, 3 facial loops main, 3 wrong.
4. All loops are in the picture.

One small nuance, and the braid already looks completely different.

Braids and moving loops create amazingly beautiful decors. Many elements from offset loops allow you to create complex patterns. Moreover, the same elements, but located in a different order, with different intervals of rapports, create a different result.

Snow openwork

Not always a winter pattern - this is absolute closeness, a dull canvas with drawings or braids. Winter is snow and snowflakes. And they are, by definition, light, openwork. And without such elements it is impossible to imagine winter patterns with knitting needles. Patterns of lace necessarily include yarn and knit stitches together, forming holes. On the placement of these elements, a drawing of lace is built.

To keep the openwork winter pattern with knitting needles neat and beautiful, the knit stitches together must be done in different directions, depending on their location relative to the crochet near which they are located. This will give the pattern more neatness.

Also, monochromatic patterns can be made according to jacquard patterns, but instead of changing the color, use the change of front and back loops.

Clothing looks beautiful when it is decorated with patterns. Winter motifs just ask for knitwear, warming in the winter cold. Good luck