Following "the straight and narrow" in Stranded Knitting!
Look at this simple row of turquoise stranded stitches....they look a bit topsy-turvey, a bit wonky, some are up, some are down..... Let me help you get your stranding on the "straight and narrow"! When I say "the straight and narrow", I am talking about the position of your background and pattern yarns. Some stranded knitters call this yarn dominance....but yarn is very docile, it follows you wherever you ask it to go! Look at this example of two rows of simple stranded knitting - this photo of the "back side" shows you perfectly what I am referring to....the pink is going along it's "straight and narrow" path...while that red, hmmm, it does a little turn and switches position half way across the row. Did it do that on it's own? NO! It just did what the knitter told it to! To keep things simple here, I have used the cream yarn as the background, and a variety of colours for the pattern stitches in my photos! The yarn used...