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This last method is a bit more complicated because you are dropping and picking up several colors in each row. This is one of the methods that I prefer a graph to written directions. With a graph I can look ahead and see when I need to carry a color completely through all my stitch to the other side and when I can just drop it once the stitches are complete and pick it up in the next row.
A
B
In row A I can see I need to carry the green along with my background color white across as I make my red stitches, but one the red stitches have been made I can drop the red and pick it up in the next row.
It is the same in row B, but I will be carrying the background white, green and red when I make the single gold stitch.
As always when you are dropping and pick up colors your yarns have a tenancy to twist and tangle together. I recommend stopping at the end of every row and untangling the yarns. If you are using small balls of color like you would in the flower patch example it helps if you get hair pins and insert them into the ball to hold the yarn in place. Hair pins are found in the hair care isle of most stores along with the barrettes and Bobbie Pins. You don’t want a Bobbie pin as it is too closed, you need the wider spaced hair pins. Also make sure the ends of the pins are coated.
It is the same in row B, but I will be carrying the background white, green and red when I make the single gold stitch.
As always when you are dropping and pick up colors your yarns have a tenancy to twist and tangle together. I recommend stopping at the end of every row and untangling the yarns. If you are using small balls of color like you would in the flower patch example it helps if you get hair pins and insert them into the ball to hold the yarn in place. Hair pins are found in the hair care isle of most stores along with the barrettes and Bobbie Pins. You don’t want a Bobbie pin as it is too closed, you need the wider spaced hair pins. Also make sure the ends of the pins are coated.
The hair pin is the one to the left and a light brown color. The darker one is a Bobbie pin.