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Knitting with multiple colors so your sweater can lie about how hard it was.
means A knitting technique that uses two or more yarn colors in the same piece to build patterns, pictures, or motifs directly into the fabric.
from A plain compound of 'color' and 'work,' in the same practical family as 'needlework' or 'patchwork' — craft terms that just name the material plus the labor. The word itself isn't ancient; it rose alongside named techniques like stranded knitting, Fair Isle, and intarsia, as knitters needed a general umbrella term covering all the ways you can knit with more than one color at once.
- origin
- Fair Isle sweaters from a tiny Scottish island
- technique
- stranding unused yarn loosely behind the work
- risk
- strand too tight, sweater turns into a tourniquet
- flex
- one row can use seven bobbins at once