From the outside, one sees either green or cream, depending on what I knitted on the outside. Thus, one has the choice of "mostly green but with pretty things picked out in cream" or "mostly cream with pretty things picked out in green"--I ween you'd want the former.

From the inside, where I am making and you are wearing, two yarns duck in and out of each other in a pas à deux throughout the sweater, or at least throughout the bits that feature color work. One thread is knitted, the other is "carried" along the back: passing along without being knitted. If a carried thread is left wholly to its on devices for more than a few stitches, it will sag and snag, so it is necessary to either twist one yarn around the other or just knit the other color for even one stitch.

This latter gives you sweaters like the one on the cover of this book, which is on my to-buy list:


I already know a bit about cables (that is, when ropy bits stand up from the fabric and twine around each other like braided snakes), so you, O Guinea Pig, get strandwork for your research sweater--if I needed to research cable techniques, I'd get a bazillion skeins of just green instead. 8-)

This page (http://www.eunnyjang.com/knit/norwegian_jacket/) demonstrates both techniques alongside a lot of daunting prose and charts.

Bored yet? ;)

-- Lorrie