Darq asked:
I am knitting a pair of fingerless gloves (http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTknucks.html) in black, and want to put a space invader design (http://www.hawk-huang.com/portfolio/SpaceInvader.jpg) on the backs. What is the best method to do this–duplicate stitches? embroidery? some form of fair isle? I don’t know how to do intarsia, so if this is the best method, where can i find a good tutorial?
(in case you were wondering, i was going to use 1 stitch for each pixel–the space invader is 11 pixels wide at it’s widest point, so that would be 11 stitches across.)
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1 Shishkani // Sep 27, 2009 at 8:44 pm
sewing-embroidering.com
I think fair isle would work pretty well, with a bit of a ‘twist’, so to speak – each invader could be from a separate small piece of yarn, so the only stranding on the wrong side would be small. If you did all the invaders with one piece of yarn, then you’d have long pieces of stranding to deal with.
It seems pretty simple to me. Duplicate stitches would also work okay; and it would be simpler, even. You might try taking your gauge swatch and duplicate stitching a single invader on it to see how it comes out; if you like it, just go with that.
2 mickiinpodunk // Sep 29, 2009 at 3:16 am
Embroidery Machines
Intarsia would be the most common method of designing it into the knucks, but duplicate stitch is probably your best bet if you don’t know intarsia, because intarsia in the round is complicated even to explain and there are very few tutorials on-line for it because it isn’t a particularly common technique (intarsia in the round).
3 vnelson85 // Sep 30, 2009 at 7:47 am
Embroidery Software
your second link is dead and says that there is no such website.
other than that i cant help you without a picture to see.
4 ♥mat // Oct 2, 2009 at 2:48 am
Sewing Machine
duplicate stitch will be easier
duplicate stitch
fair isle
5 Pam D // Oct 2, 2009 at 3:36 am
Embroidery Machines
Your second link will work if you take the end bracket off the link.
If you are knitting the fingerless gloves in the round it will have to be done in duplicate stitch.
With both fair isle and intarsia you would have the yarn ends on the left side of the picture and have to cut and rejoin each time you went across them as it is too many stitches across to carry back. If you did try to carry the yarn across the inside to restart on each row it would pull the design out of shape and also be fairly annoying as your fingers would get caught on the strands when you wore the gloves.
The purl bee site on duplicate stitching above is very good info.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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