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Giveaway: Simple Color Knitting

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Patrice is the winner!

I’m a big fan of color knitting — I’ve written a book on it! — and I love books that help encourage knitters not the be afraid of using colors in their projects.

Erika Knight’s Simple Color Knitting does just that. It’s a pretty gentle approach to working with color that starts with things like stripes and working with two different colors held together to make an ombre effect.

It also covers stranded knitting, intarsia, slipping stitches and add color with duplicate stitch and embroidery.

In all there are 20 patterns (including one that’s actually a solid color), and these are pretty nice, entry-level, introduction to color knitting technique kind of patterns. It’s maybe not a book for people who are already comfortable with many of these methods for adding color to knitting, but if you want to stitch more colorful projects and don’t know where to start, this book is a good place.

One winner this week will get a copy of this book.

If you’d like it to be you, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, Feb. 28. I’d love to know where you are in terms of color knitting experience. Have you only worked with multicolored or self-striping yarn, or maybe knit stripes or tried some other techniques? Or maybe you’re a pro and want to gift this book to someone else? Either way I’d love to know.

Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing, and good luck!

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Comments

  1. I am a brand new knitter, and I am so hooked! I have made scarves, mittens and hats…all solid colors!

  2. I have done a tiny bit of color work, and have never been confident of my technique. I would really love to be able to make some of the beautiful designs I see. Please consider me!

  3. I have knit a few things where I have had to change yarns due to color but most often when knitting with color it is with yarn that changes.

  4. I have made projects with multicolored yarn and I have knit stripes. I am a novice with other color techniques. I could learn from this book. Thank you for the giveaway.

  5. I have used multicolored yarns and self-striping yarns. I have also knitted with stripes. I just finished a double sided fair isle cowl using 2 colors. I have knitted a very simple fair isle hat and a fair isle Christmas stocking. I knitted a cowl using 2 colors in the Mosaic method and a potholder in double knitting using 2 colors. I knitted a fall scene intarsia scarf.

  7. I’m *extremely* new to knitting. Just purchased my first loom and am looking forward to starting my first project. Kinda scared though, to be honest.

  8. I love seeing stranded colorwork projects. I’ve made a few. I wish I had more confidence in making my own color choices instead of just having to follow what is given in the pattern.

  9. I love knitting with color – I recently made an orange and purple cowl using a beehive stitch; it turned out looking like a sunset with little purple window frames. I’m looking forward to reading this book and seeing new ways to play with color.

  13. I must have picked “beige” as my favorite color as a child. I’ve no color UMPH at all. Maybe a book like this would help?! Fingers crossed?!

    from sunny and bright VT where the sap is running,
    thwe Vermonster

  16. As a fairly new knitter I have always admired things knit with lots of color. The thought of doing it myself is a bit intimidating to me, but I would love to try it!

  17. I haven’t tried color knitting and this book seems to be a great help. Thank you for having the drawing.

  18. I’m a new knitter with only one color work project under my belt. It was a knit along and fun, but I would love this book to help further my work.

  20. I’ve done stripes before, and worked a little bit with ombre yarns, but there are a lot of techniques that I’d love to try in this book!! What a wealth of information!! Thank you for the great giveaway!!

  21. I have a lot to learn about color work and believe this book would be a very valuable asset. Thank you for the great giveaway.

  22. I’ve done small projects with stripes or fair isle knitting, but want to learn so much more. Thanks for the opportunity!

  23. Love colorful knitting. I have knit a couple simple hats with two colors. Need to figure out how to control my tension better.

  25. I have been knitting a very long time. One of the first techniques my mother taught me was how to weave in colors when adding to a design. I’m working on wash cloths now with plenty of changing colrs!

  26. I love working with color but am not always confident in my choices, both colorwise and/or color placement. This looks like a great resource to boost my confidence! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  27. New to knitting so have only used solid colors but would love to learn how to incorporate multiple colors!

  28. Still a pretty new knitter… Although I am working on a brioche project. Would love to try stranded knitting and intarsia.

  29. I have worked a couple of projects with stripes and stranded knitting, but would love to explore further. I love color!

  31. I’m a color-works infant. I’ve used sock yarn and variegated, but haven’t done a whole lot of color changes like in intarsia.

  32. One of the true joys of knitting is that feeling I get when I look at a display of yarns! It’s like a candy shop for crafty people!

  33. I’m a knitter just beginning to explore color knitting. I have not been able to find a book that’s right for me to understand color knitting and which technique applies unless there is a specific pattern that literally spells it out for me! I’m looking forward to checking out your new book for reference. Thanks!

  34. I have used self striping yarn and have also done a little color stranding knitting. I am in the process of tackling the Koiku Magique Cloak. If and when I complete that, I will feel as though I have done something major!

  36. I have knit a few stripped pieces where I carried the other color; tackled a couple of fair isle projects; did that one stranded color hat because a friend really wanted a skull figure hat and he knew I could do it; even did a long illusion scarf once. With this history I can say I’ve attempted color knitting but I haven’t gain confidence in it.

  37. I love the look of it but have been afraid to try it. I am not intuitive about knitting and I struggle with anything that involves counting and correct placement. Not that I don’t try but need to fix most things like that after I work on it.

  39. The only striping I have done is with self striping yarn. I am still a beginner so intarsia is totally foreign to me.

  42. I’ve had a few try and fail color knitting experiences, but I am determined to conquer this knitting challenge!

  44. I’m not very confident choosing colors that complement each other so usually end up using only one. I have tried variegated yarn before but am not keen on the way the pattern of color emerges. I have a friend who made socks from colored sock yarn that made its own fair isle-like pattern- fascinating! (I’m from Australia so may not be eligible to enter this giveaway)

  45. I have some experience with knitting stripes and self striping yarn. I have also done a lot of double knitting, but I feel like I have a long way to go. I would really love to have this book

  46. I love working with different colors, whether it is self-striping yarn or some other kind of colored yarn. I also like using multiple skeins of different colors of yarn for the same project.

  50. I have knitted a striped Harry Potter scarf and a Fair Isle hat, but would like to experiment more with colours in my knitting!

Have you read?

Use Your Sock Yarn Scraps to Knit a Colorful Scarf

Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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