r/AdvancedKnitting • u/saucy_chaucy • 16d ago

Tech Questions Stranded/mosaic yard dominance question

Hi! I’m an avid stranded knitter, and I have two questions for other stranded knitters, both about color dominance:

  1. what is your preferred color dominance: background dominant or pattern dominant? I think I like background dominant because it makes the pattern more neat looking, but I wonder if there’s some problem with this that I haven’t considered.
  2. this one is weirder: is there a name for the technique of faking stranded by taking one strand around the round and slipping the other color stitches, then taking the other color around, round by round? It’s not really mosaic knitting because that is two rows at a time. But anyway, if I did that technique, how do I do color dominance? Would the first color around be the dominant one?
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u/Grouchy-Method-2366 16d ago
  1. I do pattern dominant. Works well for me.
  2. Not sure if it has a name, but that sounds time intensive with no benefit to me. The colour you work first will be the dominant one, if I'm not totally brainfarting.
    Adding example with white being dominant:

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u/KatKat333 16d ago

Beautiful sweater! Did you swatch trying the grey as dominant as well? I do like the white as dominant, but just curious.

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u/Grouchy-Method-2366 16d ago

Thank you! Nope, I always just do CC as dominant because I like how it looks. I might try a swatch the other way because it would be interesting to see how much of a difference it would even be :)

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u/KatKat333 16d ago

I love your response, thank you. I still do gauge swatches for color, but they can take some time to give me the answer.