If you know how to knit and purl and
how to change to a new ball of yarn
(see page 28), you can knit horizontal
stripes.
Stripe patterns are easiest to knit
if you use an even number of rows
for each stripe. This way, changing
colors always occurs at the same edge,
enabling you to carry the yarn up
the side of your work, and ultimately
saving you the trouble of weaving in
a lot of ends later.
1 To make a stripe in a contrast color, work as many rows as you want the first
stripe to be. At the beginning of the next row, drop the old yarn and knit or
purl across the row in the new yarn, depending on which side you are on.
How to Make Horizontal Stripes in StockinetteMake Horizontal Stripes.
2 Carry the yarns up the side by twisting the first yarn around the second yarn
at the edge of every other row. (If the stripes are only two rows each, this
isn’t necessary.)