Re: Fair Isle question

Joyce Poon wrote:
> Hi all!
> In a moment of insanity last night, I started my first fair isle
> sweater and I am wondering what to do with the colours if I am not
> using them on a row.
> The sweater is a Philosopher's Wool kit with 9(!) different colours.  
> I've done a few of inches of the first sleeve and I carried all the
> strands of yarn up, which makes for an extremely bulky line going up
> the sleeve. I think I am going to frog what I have done so far and
> restart, but I just need some advice on how I should proceed.
>
> Should I weave the yarn in and out every time it is used or carry them
> up if they are used within a set number of rows?  for example, some
> colours are used for one row and then, 6 rows later, it is used again
> for only one row.  What to do?!
>
> TIA
> Joycelyn

Hi, Joyce, I find weaving in such a pain that I think I'd do something 
like move the ball of unused yarn in or out of the knitting at the 
beginning (or end, ha ha) of each round...sort of passing the yarn back 
and forth "across" the rows so as to weave them in but leave them 
attached.  That might not work for flat knitting, though.  If it's a 
color used in just one row and then one more row six rows later, though, 
I think I'd break it & weave in the ends.