Knitting -- Argyle with small diamonds

The big annoyance with working Argyle is all those little bobbins you have to wind your yarn onto. They clatter, and you can't unwind too much yarn at once or they get tangled up, and you have to refill them every once in a while because you can't fit a whole skein of yarn onto one.

And when I wrote about Argyle before, I said you couldn't do it using Fair Isle floater control because it left dimples.

Well, that's true when you use big diamonds. But if you use little five-stitch diamonds, you can group them to look like big ones and do your lines at the same time as you knit the diamonds.

The problem here is that you are working with three colors most of the time. So the same thing applies as when you are doing Icelandic jumpers: you hold two yarns in one hand and the third in the other, and it's not easy to keep an even tension on the yarn. 

You also have to use bigger stitch counts because the fabric will have even less give than Fair Isle. 

You have to work loosely and slowly so that you remember to catch in your floaters. 

I finished the jumper and washed it, and it looked too narrow for me to get into. So I had an old kitchen chair with a back as broad as I am. I fitted the jumper over the back while it was still a little damp and left it there for several days. Not only did the dimples smooth out but when I took the jumper off, it stayed that width. 

Then the weather turned warm so I haven't tried it on yet.

I call this Girl's Best Friend (IYKYK) and with it I used up a mess of different blues that I bought when I was making my Myrdal jumper, along with a mess of neutrals.