Last year I was getting bored of single rows of colour in my knitting. I wanted to “shake things up” so I decided to do some colour-working. I realize this makes me a wild
woman who you may be shy of associating with, but check out a few of the results.
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I started with this simple hat. |
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Then I got a little bolder with a more complicated pattern. |
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Olympic fever hit our house – here is a patriotic Canada hat I whipped up!! |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hat (each turtle is represented around the hat) |
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Captain America Knit Sweater for my then 5 year old son (he loved it!!) |
I liked it so much that I tried a Hello Kitty crochet graphgan with a lot more colour working than 2 colours!

Interested in trying colour-working yourself? Check out Craftsy’s blog post on getting started.
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[…] Last week I wrote about how I was interested in getting more creative with my knitting so I started to work with more than one colour of yarn. You can read about it here. […]