![]() ![]() When there are gaps between sections of a pattern worked in the same colour the strands of un-worked yarn that travel across ![]() There is a lovely post here about the perils of ignoring yarn dominance!Ĭatching up the yarn at the back of the work: You can choose either way but the most important thing is to be consistent if you want your finished piece to look neat and even. The only difference is that in sample A the cream yarn is stranded below the red yarn and in sample B the red yarn is stranded below the cream.īecause of this difference I usually strand the accent colour below the main background colour (as in sample B above). It is generally accepted that the yarn stranded beneath will be theįor example, the two samples below are knitted in the same colours and to the same pattern. Work when it is not the colour being knitted with at the time. Mean which yarn is stranded over the top of the other at the back of the It is really important to be consistent with the order in which you use Knit a design with two colours you are constantly switching between If you knit continental style with a colour in either hand then check out this video or try a search on You Tube as there are lots of other good ones. It is worth pointing out that I knit English style, with both colours in my right hand, so my notes below are written for that way of working. Some tips I've learnt along the way to iron out some of the difficulties that are commonly experienced. ![]() Instead I'd like to write up notes on the way that I work stranded / Fair Isle and It is a little bit fiddly and takes a little patience and practice to get right but it is perfectlyĪchievable for anyone who can already knit and purl.ĭiagrams and videos out there on the internet and plenty of books published on the subject and I'm not intending to cover every conceivable aspect of Fair Isle. It seems that stranded knitting is generally thought to be quiteĭifficult. These extra posts will be categorised under 'knitting tips' and the first of these 'knitting tips' posts is about Fair Isle/stranded colourwork knitting. But there is a limit to what you can pack in to a pattern and so I thought I'd write up some extra notes here on the blog that can be referred to if needed. Instead I wanted them to include as much detail of the finishing process as possible because I think that is a hugely important part of making them. I didn't want the patterns to only cover the written knitting instructions with a few lines about assembling the toy almost as an afterthought. During writing up the first of my animal patterns it's been hard to know just how much detail to go into. ![]()
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