2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

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  • PollyWollyDoodle
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    Oh well done Laura. Can I ask, did you use a pattern or an online tutorial? 
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  • MrsCD
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    Thanks, Laura!
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  • Cherryfudge
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    I’d welcome thoughts and wise words on the above from knitters please!

    The photo is the back of the intarsia on the baby blanket I’m just finishing. I’ve woven in a large number of ends but if I trim them flat with the fabric, they work loose and stick out (you can see I’ve given in to them so there are lots sticking out).

    Carried-across threads are just what they are, there are a lot more further across but fewer sticking-out ends.

    What should I do to make it a) as resilient and b) as neat as possible? Last option is to back it with white fleece but I’m afraid this would distort over time so I’d want to stabilise the blanket somehow if I can’t hide the yarn ends any other way.

    It’s acrylic so it probably won’t felt 🙁.

     Thanks in advance 😊
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  • Laura_Elsewhere
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    @Cherryfudge, I'm afraid this is one of the problems with non-hairy yarns, that they wriggle their way free ime, no matter what I try! 

    I usually leave them long, and just try to weave them as much as possible, and sometimes I unply them and weave one strand of yarn as two or three tails, iyswim. 

    You could back the whole thing with fleece and then sew lines of stitching round the intarsia bits making it kind of quilted? That would save the distortion possibility from happening... 
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