How to Knit: Color Dominance 101 | Brooklyn Tweed?

Knitting can be like painting with yarn, sometimes one color is bolder than the others.

Imagine you're coloring a picture with crayons. If you use red and yellow, and you color most of it red, the red will look stronger, or dominant. That’s what happens in knitting when one color takes over, we call that color dominance.

When you knit with two colors side by side, like a stripe pattern, sometimes one color seems to “win” and stand out more than the other. This is especially true if one color is used more often or in bigger pieces.

For example, imagine you're eating a pizza, if most of it is cheese and just a little pepperoni, the cheese feels like the main part. That’s how color dominance works in knitting: the main color is what catches your eye first.

If you want to make one color feel more powerful, use more of that yarn, or let it cover larger parts of your project, just like having a big slice of cheese on your pizza! Knitting can be like painting with yarn, sometimes one color is bolder than the others.

Imagine you're coloring a picture with crayons. If you use red and yellow, and you color most of it red, the red will look stronger, or dominant. That’s what happens in knitting when one color takes over, we call that color dominance.