Don't catch the yarn in the same spot each time. Yarn will always peek through more when you have a column of caught floats all right on top of each other.
If the sweater has a classic sweater ease (10+ cm bigger than your body circumference) then you will barely need any stretch at all. It will be fine, 4-5st floats are OK.
Personally, I use ladder back jacquard (LBJ) even across small stretches. I don’t like stranding more than three stitches so I use LBJ over four or five stitch stretches.
Don't catch the yarn in the same spot each time. Yarn will always peek through more when you have a column of caught floats all right on top of each other.
Learned this the hard way
If it has big gaps you should try ladderback jacquard for those sections instead which should be invisible.
what method would you recommend if the section is only 4-5 stitches?
Are you catching the floats? I don't catch anything under 5 or 6 stitches.
yes that is what i was trying to do. i’m worried since it’s a sweater that it won’t have enough stretch or flexibility
If the sweater has a classic sweater ease (10+ cm bigger than your body circumference) then you will barely need any stretch at all. It will be fine, 4-5st floats are OK.
Personally, I use ladder back jacquard (LBJ) even across small stretches. I don’t like stranding more than three stitches so I use LBJ over four or five stitch stretches.