Time To Stretch My Skills!

Sometimes, there's just not enough time (or yarn) for everything one wants/needs to make/create.  And, it didn't help that whenever laundry time came around, not having an extra hand towel to use was a pain (how are you to dry your hands after using the bathroom if all the hand towels are in the wash?!).  So, with the remaining Cascades Luna yarn I had (a bit of bright turquoise) from the hand towel I made back in October 2017, I picked up two (2) more skeins in a dark blue from Isle Knit and decided that it was time to make an extra hand towel as well as stretch my knitting skills to see if I could try knitting with two (2) colours at a time.

Now, it's not that I haven't ever knitted with more than one (1) colour before; I've done that quite a few times already although it was done in a much more simplistic way - with stripes or knitting a different colour/yarn on every other row.  What I wanted to stretch my skills with is actually knitting every other stitch in another colour.  So, I looked through all of my stitchonaries and found this: Textured Check pattern from Reversible Two-Color Knitting by Jane F. Neighbors.  It seemed perfect!  So here's what I did:

1. Cast on 51 sts 
2. Moss st for 5 rows 
3. K for 10 rows 
4. Textured Check pattern from Reversible Two-Color Knitting by Jane F. neighbors for 30 rows 
5. K for 30 rows 
6. Place sts on marker (side 1)
7. Cast on 51 sts (side 2)
8. Moss st for 5 rows 
9. K for 10 rows 
10. Textured Check pattern for 31.5 rows 
11. K for 28.5 rows 
12. Bind off using the Kitchener st and weave in ends

Total size: 62 cm x 24 cm (24.5" x 11")
Here's how it came out:

 Front

 Front Texture Stitch

 Back

Back Texture Stitch

Overall, it wasn't as difficult knitting with two (2) colours.  I can see why some people using yarn bobbins if more colours were used and why one would cut segments of yarns.   I can also see why using one would also use a yarn guide too.  While it wasn't very difficult to knit with the two (2) colours without a yarn guide, I wonder if my tension would have been more consistent (or possibly even looser) with a yarn guide. Hmmm ... 🤔 Something to think about ... 😉