Garter Intarsia

On our drive up to Dallas this weekend (a 4 hour drive with 2 kids) I knit quite a bit. I'm plugging away on that patternless log cabin blanket. I've got 3 skeins of scratchy Red Heart acrylic that I'm randomly alternating to form the blanket. I don't want it to look like a traditional log cabin though, so I'm adding a little intarsia here and there to mix things up. BUT - I had never knit intarsia before and got my instructions off knittinghelp.com wherein the instructions are given on stockinette stitch, not garter. I proceeded to knit in garter and do the intarsia switch for stockinette and ended up with a messy join. I left it though, because sometimes you need a mistake in your FO to keep yourself grounded. Plus, I had already bound it off and am too lazy to frog something already "finished."

Needless to say, I was thinking there had to be a better way to do what I wanted to do and sure enough there is! I'm now happy with the results of my garter intarsia thanks to this tutorial.

If I get around to taking pictures, I'll edit this to add them in...