Intarsia Excitement Dwindles

Remember how excited I was about starting the intarsia on the butter bear sweater. Well that excitement went away about two rows in to it. Intarsia is very frustrating and the more colors you have the harder it is. I think I am finally getting the hang of it. What a mess with all the strands of yarn hanging from the back. The one thing I learned is it is important to twist the yarns around each other when picking up a new color otherwise there will be a whole were the new color begins and the old one ends. I got much better at it as I went along. In addition, you need to read the chart correctly. I designed the chart of the bear myself and knowing what I know now, I might have made it a little easier. I think it helped me that I use to do cross-stitch. The part that makes my stomach turn is I have to do it again on the other arm. I told my husband that I might just have it on one arm and consider it like a patch. He said no you have to put it on the other arm also. What a stickler for the rules. I might consider using duplicate stitch for the second one. I think that when I do the Weasley sweater it will be easier to intarsia for the letter because there is only one color change. Here is my progress so far.




Here is the back.