Those who like to knit know how colored patterns made in the jacquard technique decorate products. It can be whole plot scenes tied up. And you can use ornaments for knitting.
Jacquard patterns will never go out of style
Stripes consisting of identical repeating segments - ornaments, can be located at the collar of a sweater or dress, across the chest, along the bottom of the product, along the sleeve. The use of color patterns in the manufacture of stockings, socks, leggings, children's pants, hats is common. Knitting mittens with an ornament are also often performed.
Sometimes masters use this method. They let out several different transverse stripes, and separate ornaments are knitted inside each. For knitting with needles of such patterns, geometrically simple figures and their combinations are suitable. It can be squares, rhombuses, triangles, crosses. If desired, you can make them flowers, stars.
Often, craftsmen use Norwegian ornaments. For knitting, both geometric flowers with diamond-shaped petals, and deer, spruce are suitable.
The technique of knitting jacquard patterns
To do this, choose suitable ornaments for knitting. It is best to take those that involve the use of two colors: the background primary and secondary - to execute directly the pattern itself.
First, the master knits with a background thread. Then, in the right place, additional color comes into play. Therefore, a thread of a different color is tied to the main and knit the desired number of loops. The main thread at this time is pulled along the wrong side of the product.
Having completed as many loops as indicated on the diagram or indicated in the instructions for the drawing, the colors change. To do this , leave the additional color thread on the wrong side, and take the main background into the work.
How to knit mittens with an ornament?
There are two options for using a jacquard pattern in knitted gloves. One involves the location of the main pattern on the back of the mittens. In this case, that half of the mitten, which is located on the palm of your hand, is decorated quite simply: either staggered colored loops, or cells, or stripes, or even remains monophonic.
The second option offers the entire mitten knit in a circle with the same pattern. In this case, it is most convenient to make non-wide colored stripes around the circle, in which the simplest geometric ornaments are allowed.
Are patterns of ornaments really necessary for work?
Only naive people can assume that the drawing can be done without any scheme. It's impossible! Indeed, even if someone is observing, observing nowhere, knitting ornaments with knitting needles, the patterns of these drawings were once studied by him.
Some especially gifted masters can “compose a pattern from the head”, this is true. But even in this case, knitting ornaments with knitting needles is carried out spontaneously and haphazardly - drawing patterns are simply created and held in the memory of the needlewoman. Presenting them in his imagination, the master and performs the pattern.
Where to get jacquard patterns?
A lot of design designs are printed in special magazines for needlewomen. Knitting patterns are widely represented on knitting sites.
And there is such an option: for example, a childish knitting ornament can be taken from an already finished product, having carefully examined it.
But for convenience, it is still recommended that you first transfer the scheme to paper lined in a cage. After all, otherwise you will have to constantly keep in front of you the product with the pattern you like.
They will help those whose hobbies are knitting children's ornaments with knitting patterns for embroidery. You can even do a little work yourself. Having chosen the segment he likes in the printout, the master can create his own version of the ornament with it.
Can I create a knitting ornament myself?
The answer is clear: of course you can! For creativity, the master will need only a pencil and a notebook sheet in a cage. The paper will simulate the knitting area to scale. Therefore, you should select a section that will correspond to the part of the product covered with an ornament. For example, the master plans to create a strip with a height of 10 rows, and the segment itself will be 12 loops wide. Consequently, a rectangle with sides equal to 12 and 10 loops should be highlighted on the notebook sheet.
Now the artist either completely paints over some cells, or puts a cross in them, placing them in a certain order. And how to do it - the fantasy will tell.
But if such an option for the master is quite difficult, you can go in a simpler way. Having chosen the simplest drawing, for example, a leaf or a kitten, its silhouette should be transferred to graph paper or the same notorious notebook sheet. Now it remains to paint over those cells that are half in the object. The same cells that entered the smaller part remain unshaded.
Thus, it is possible to make an ornament not only two-color, but also three-color, and even four-color. True, then working on multicolor patterns is much more difficult. But the result is more interesting.
You can perform ornaments not only with hand knitting, but also with a typewriter. Modern models already provide such a function in advance. On the old (simplest) models of knitting machines, they knit an ornament in two steps. First, the hooks that will knit a thread of additional color are put into an inoperative position, and the row itself is knitted with a background thread. The next stage of work involves changing the position of all the hooks to the opposite. A number of knits in a different color.