How to knit an argyle pattern? Carry the wool?
Cute hat! It sounds as though you are carrying the unused yarn along each row. Rather than carrying the yarn, you drop it when you have completed using it in one color-block segment. If I were knitting that hat, I’d have four white bobbins, six green bobbins, and eight blue bobbins. Also, remember that Argyle patterns are knit flat, so you need an extra stitch on one side for sewing. For the first row: I’d knit the white until I came to a blue stitch; attach the blue, knit a stitch, and drop blue, picking up white again. With a single blue stitch, it makes sense to carry the white across it. Then I’d knit white until I came to a green stitch; attach green and knit a stitch; attach a second white bobbin; knit to the blue, attach blue and knit a stitch; pick up white and continue to the next green stitch and attach a second green bobbin. And so on to the end of the row, where your last two stitches will be green. You will have 4 white bobbins, 5 green bobbins, and 4 blue bobbins in work.
