Knitting stripes using Fibonacci Sequence for striping

Silverlea

Knitting gurus please help explain the Fibonacci Sequence for making a pullover or cardigan from multiple balls of different color yarn.

I have read up on the method but getting bogged down with too much detail on Fibonacci and not enough striping ideas.  I know you work with numbers and you add the last two numbers together to get the amount of rows of one color. i.e. 3+5=8.  8 Rows of green.

Then what?  Choose random numbers to add up to come up with next stripe?  This sounds very random??  Do you start with fat stripes at the bottom and work your way to thinner stripes and how do you figure that out making different size garments?

Fool proof methods needed :-)

Silverlea

Ok, so not a lot of gurus that can help with Fibonacci Sequence.  That's a real pity because it is really worth knowing.  It can be used in knitting, crochet, quilting and all sorts of projects.
@admin - not sure if this is allowed but I have scoured the web and come up with interesting info from different sites and put this .pdf together myself.  Can I upload it and into which section?

Marisa88

I Silverlea, the Fibacci numbers start with 1 as first and 1 as second, you add those and get 2, next, you add 2 to 1, which gives you 3.
So you get the next number by adding the 2 before, so the series goes:
1 + 1 = 2
1 + 2 = 3
2 + 3 = 5
3 + 5 = 8
5 + 8 = 13 and so on... Add the last 2 numbers together to get the next number

Marisa88

the numbers are just numbers, you can refer them to anything you like, like rows or cm's

with 2 colours you can start the sequence together, like 1 row colour A, 1 row colour B, then 2 A, 2B, then 3A, 3B and so on

if you want more complex, you can have colour A going up, colour B going down, like
1A, 13B;
1A, 8B;
2A, 5B;
3A, 3B;
5A, 2B;
8A, 1B;
13A, 1B;
(total of 66 rows)

But for that you need some calculation, as you need the total amount of rows and the total of the Fibonacci numbers, but it looks striking

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2022-5-21 15:09
the numbers are just numbers, you can refer them to anything you like, like rows or cm's

with 2 col ...

Thank you  for your fantastic reply ♥

I messed around last night and figured it could refer to rows or inches/cm.  I think, for me, doing it as row counts would be easier. i.e. A-1 row, B-13 rows etc.

I think it's an awesome way to zoosh up a plain sweater, cardigan, scarf or blanket  using stripes to make it pop.  What is so handy is that it can be used in crochet too not to mention a great stash buster.

I just wish there where more visual examples around of the sequences used.  I know the sequences are kind of endless and you can use any amount of colors and of course you can knit stocking stitch for 13 rows and then knit 4 rows garter stitch etc.

I am definitely sold on Fibonacci and I hope more peeps in this forum would jump on board and post in the Diary section explaining the sequence used.

Silverlea

My example of sequence on a plain sweater:

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2022-5-21 16:52
My example of sequence on a plain sweater:

that looks just great