Knitting the bobble stitch with two colors - step by step tutorial

A step by step tutorial on the bobble stitch with two colors
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Materials I am using:
Schachenmayr Catania Grande: http://bit.ly/354ESkw
Knitter's Pride Dreamz size 4.00mm: https://amzn.to/2MxO3DK

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Instructions:
Knitting the bobble stitch with two colors is a very fun way to upgrade the basic technique and turn it into something that says “how did you do that”. Here’s my tutorial for the standard method: https://nimble-needles.com/stitches/h...

Now if you follow the standard instructions for the bobble stitch but use a second color for the actual bobble, you will always end up dragging the stitch one row below into your bobble and it’s not going to be all that pretty.
So, here’s how to fix that.

First of all, join in the new color one stitch before the one you want to place the bobble by putting the tail in between the stitch and the working yarn and knit one stitch. Then, switch to the second color and twist the background color around twice. This will create a really secure join.

And now, knit one stitch into the stitch one row below. And then, once you knit that stitch, slip it back to the left needle. And maybe pull on the tails in case things loosened up a bit.

And from here, it’s the normal bobble stitch technique. So, knit a kfbf – knit front back front into that stitch. Then turn around purl, turn around knit, and turn around and purl one row of three stitches. And then, finish with a k3tog centered. Once you finished the actual bobble stitch, pick up your background color cross it, and continue knitting.

If you bridge more than 4 stitches before you start the next bobble, you will have to create floats. And of course, you need to take care that those floats don’t end up too tight. So, spread out those stitches on your right needle. And then, when you come to the spot you want to place your next bobble, it starts all over again. So, knit into the stitch one row below, slip it back to the left needle, kfbf, and then knit across 3 rows in stockinette stitch. So purl, turn around, knit, turn around, purl, and turn around and k3tog centered.

Once you knit your last bobble in a row, you can simply cut away that color leaving a tail of 6-8 inches. And then, when you start the next row you want to place bobbles, you need to weave in another color. This can be the same color or a different one – whatever you prefer – except of course you are knitting in the round. Then you could easily continue knitting with the same color because the end will be in the right position.

Weaving in the tails once you finished your project actually remarkably easy. Thread the tail on a tapestry needle and then, go through one of the stitches on the backside of the bobble, and simply tie a knot. Normally I don’t like knots because they can unravel under stress and they are just so visible. But in this case, we can hide it underneath the bobble. And then, go in one more time, tie another knot. And then simply push the needle through the bobble and pull it out on the other side try to split the stitches you go. And then you can simply cut the tail.
Obviously, you can also weave with any other method if you’d rather want to do it your way.

So, the trick for knitting the multi-color bobble stitch really boils down to knitting into the stitch one row below and hiding the tails underneath the bobbles. And once you understood that, you can, of course, knit bigger bobbles as well by increasing to 4 or 5 stitches, etc.

Feel free to comment in case you got any questions on how to do the bobble stitch with two colors.

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