u/oh_god_its_raining

Apologies if someone else thought of this first, I haven't seen it on YouTube.

Lately I've been doing a ton of two color swatches. Most go nowhere but last night I decided to play around with the knit stitch and the reverse stitch, and this is what I came up with.

The basic principle is you do your color changes on a 2 - 1 sequence instead of a 1 - 1 sequence. So two color A, then color B, and so on. In my swatch I did half with Color A as the 2 color, then Color B as the 2 color. I only used two skeins of yarn the whole time, but it's variegated so the end result has more than two colors.

Note: This means the yarn you carry up the side will be a little longer than usual. It didn't give me any problems but when I make a blanket with this I will probably add a border to cover all the longer yarns crawling up the side.

The pattern:

One row reverse stitch. Two rows knit stitch,

Color A - one row reverse stitch. Don't change color on the backward pass.

Color A - one row knit stitch.

Change to Color B on the backward pass.

One row knit stitch (This will actually create a knit stitch in Color A).

Change to Color A on the backward pass. One row reverse stitch

(This will create a reverse stitch in Color A with Color B accents)

Another way of looking at at - After the reverse stitch, keep the same color for the first row of knit stitch, then change colors on the backward pass and do another row of knit stitch.

I am curious to hear your thoughts on this one. I've provided pictures in two different orientations, since the finished result can have either horizontal or vertical ribbing. (it is stitched horizontally tho)

I've shown the front and the back, as I also think it (might?) be reversible? My roommate says he thinks the back is the front so you tell me....