On Saturday, October 28, 2006, Knitters Kove hosted a two hour class on Zig Zag Bags. By controlling the tension of the yarn knitting in the round, one can get variegated yarn stitches to stack resulting in a "zig zag" pattern. This is done by discovering the repeat pattern of a variegated yarn, using a crochet provisional cast on, place enough stitches on the needle to return to the beginning color of the dye pattern, and continuing around tightening tension to move to the left and loosening tension to move the colors to the right.
Experimenting with this technique, thickness of yarn, needle size and number of stitches can result in some gorgeous patterns.
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