Thank you! Everyone always starts with their second color already incorporated. You're the first tutorial I've watched that shows you how to initially incorporate the second color!
Ah yes, this is exactly what I needed to see! As a visual learner, this helps a ton! You’re a life saver. _And yes, I’m working on the Harry Styles cardigan..._
me too! im making mine in different shades of blue and also white and black instead of the "traditional" colours though for increased wearability (because im a scandi and we usually wear only black to reflect the amount of sunlight we are getting in he winter months, which are usually 9 out of 12 months depending on where you live), and also with oak buttons instead of black ones. i absolutely cant wait for my yarn to arrive im so excitedddddd😬😬
Seeing these comments made me so happy. I had to go look up the sweater. For that you might need some Intarsia techniques (just from looking at the picture quickly) but there are also some stranded parts. Good luck and have so much fun, everyone!
OMG, I've never seen anyone purl the same way I do and I'm so happy there's someone else out there that does :) This was the best and clearest method of knitting colorwork for a complete noob to stranded knitting!
I've watched many beginner fair isle tutorials, and none have been as clear and easy to follow as this one. I find most tutorials dont provide enough visual example for me to knit a swatch, which is what I need. This one finally demonstrates how to do it, thank you!
Great! Hallelujah you showed us exactly how to add the contrast colored yarn! Great job. I've been knitting for 50 years and never have done colorwork. Go figure. Thankyou!
I have been following Rebecca and her dyeing videos for many years. Who knew she did how to knit videos? Well, she is just as good as she is in the dyeing videos. Wow. Thanks for this ChemKnits! I have done color work for years too, but I always learn something new. ~Marie [I am partially deaf and always have to crank up the sound for most other presenters. Your voice is crystal clear to me and that is a relief.]
Marie, I'm so glad that this was helpful! Some of the older knitting tutorials are a bit cringeworthy now. Fun fact: I started TH-cam because I filmed some tutorials for my SIL and it was the easiest way to show her how to do a few things. I also filmed some videos for my crochet club to help them remember how to do something I mentioned at a meeting. :D Turns out some other people found them useful! :D I hope to someday be able to afford better captions for the videos versus the automatic ones that TH-cam provides to increase accessibility.
I just started doing colorwork and it is a pleasure to see someone knit the way I do. So far I am only knitting winter caps with colorwork on round knitting needles so I am only purling. I am not into the throwing method of knitting. I never saw anyone knit by the throwing method until I came to the U.S.
Thankyou! Thankyou! Finally someone who does colorwork with their left hand. I would have never thought to hold both strands in my left hand. This is perfect for me.
I can't believe I've never heard of stranding before! I've been carrying all my colors across the pattern via twisting, and maintaining the stitches and tension that way is such a pain! Next knitting project I do (which my not be for a while, I'm more into crochet personally), I'm using this method. Thank you for demonstrating this!
It is my pleasure! If the float will be over 4 stitches or so i will twist them so there isn't a super long float, but for 2-3 stitches I don't bother. :D
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Thank you! It's been helping a lot so far! Although I have to ask, since your demonstration was with acrylic (I think?), I'm wondering if you have tips on working with materials like cotton or anything else that has less elasticity to begin with, because my strands are giving an awful lot of slack and I feel like I'm not doing this right.
Thank you for an excellent video on colorwork... I was having an issue carrying my alternate color and your video helped me to understand the proper technique to use!
Starting my first colorwork project and your video was exactly what I was looking for! And the ideal alternative to an expensive private lesson :) Thank you!
Oh my god this is so simple and easy to follow. I've been trying to find good tutorials and this saved my life 😭 thank you for ensuring me an A+ in textiles Also your tips on the tension helped me a lot!!
Thank you I've been trying to find someone to explain this color change and float issue for long sections for ever. Now hopefully I can keep from cutting and weaving in a ton of ends.
Thank you. That was very helpful, especially showing the floats on the back side and how to twist the long floats which other tutorials I looked at omitted.
Great tutorial, it was very helpful! I was wondering though, if you’re ending the pattern on a RS row and you go to repeat it, so you start it over on WS row, what do you do?
Great tutorial! I have a question, when i dont need the second color anymore what do i do with it? Do i just cut it and make a knot or something like that?
You can cut it and weave in the loose end - this is often what I choose to do myself. The fabric can be bulkier with two colors than with one, so sometimes people may prefer to continue to carry the yarn (even if it is not showing on the front) to have a similar feel to the fabric. But personally I'd cut and weave in the ends.
I have been searching for hours now, yours was the first video i understood how to do this flair isle knitting. Thank you 💕This is an awesome tutorial 😍please won’t you make us more stranded colour work knitting (would love to make a star snowflake) teach us more please
Hi Danah, I'm not 100% sure I understand your question. Floats cannot unravel unless you unravel the knit stitches since they're all twisted together. If your tension is too loose, then you could end up with a sagging float, so this is one reason why if you have a long float (5+ stitches) it helps to twist the carried yarn around the working yarn. This anchors it into place and prevents a long piece of yarn just sitting there. I hope this helps!
Sometimes I'll twist them and cary them up the side of the work if there are only a couple of rows between color changes. Otherwise I might clip and weave them in.
Thank you! As a visual learner and dyslexic you are clearer than most! Quick question, I'm knitting a baby hat (newborn), how would I decrease after about 4"/24rows (pattern I'm following is * K2tog row, purl next row*.) to the top of the hat maintaining the chequered pattern?
Depending on where the deceases are located, I would end up making a few triangles in the hat - so if it is K2tog across then acording to the pattern I would K2tog in c1, then K2tog in c2, etc. If you're supposed to K2tog across the whole row, then I might just transition to a solid color for the top of the hat after that.) It is a little easier to try to keep up with the colorwork pattern if you are doing K4, K2tog or something like that. I hope this makes some sense.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials thank you for the very quick reply. Yes what you say does make sense to me. I'm a new knitter thanks to covid so I'll take your advice and might go a solid colour. Thank you x
Thanks for the tutorial! Super helpful. Now if I have an entire row of either main color or contrast color, it makes more sense to carry the yarn up the “seam” rather than carrying through the whole round, right?
Absolutely. If I can avoid floats then I skip them entirely. However, there are times when you may decided to carry the yarn around the plain row if it might shift the fabric. But generally, I will carry the yarn up the seam.
if your pattern calls for many colors, would you add them all at the same time when the first color is called for, or add them in as they are called for? For example if the pattern starts with two mc stitches and then calls for four c1 stitches-would you add the color 1 strand and then wait for the time when the pattern calls for c2, r would you just hold all your contrasting colors at the same time?
I really appreciate this as I prefer to knit continental. But you don't mention color dominance or how you hold the colors in relation to one another. Is that not an issue?
It depends on the type of colorwork how I hold the yarn. With something with quick changes of colors, I will often hold both strands over my finger and then "pick" the color I want for the stitch. If i have to deal with floats, I still hold them together but make sure to adjust the tension and twist them around eachother every few stitches. I don't really treat the Main color any differently from the contrasting color. I hope this helps a bit!
Thank you so much for this video!! I finally feel confident enough to try two colours, I’ve never been able to visualize it before. One question: would there be any downside to twisting the colours every stitch, other than it taking longer to complete the project? My perfectionist brain hates the look of floats.. I know they’re on the wrong side but still 😂 would twisting the strands every stitch affect the tension or overall project?
I've never tried twisting in between every stitch, so I honestly don't know how it would do. It could make the tension a bit tighter, but you could try it out on a swatch and see if you like how it looks!
Thank you for the demonstration. It was very interesting. I like the way the yarn is wrapped on the purl side. I have never held two colors of yarn at one time and you make it look so easy. I have tried to learn how to knit in the continental style and get so confused especially with the purl stitch. You make it look so easy I'm thinking I could do it. Do you have a video teaching the continental stitch?
Not really, brioche involves knitting into stitches on the row below to create a different type of pattern. I'm sure that you could do some stranding in combination with brioche, but the fabric in this example is a stockinette versus the more lofty ribbed fabric you'd get with brioche.
Thank you so much for your video! This helped me tremendously with my first fair isle project! How much slack do you typically recommend for the floating strand? I was disappointed to find that many of my floating strands were too tight when I went to try the hat on, so I had to spend a couple hours cutting out and weaving in the ones that I could haha. I would like to avoid this again in the future! I twisted the floating strand every 6th stitch with some slack, but not enough. All the strands that were too tight were on the one color rows. Thanks again!
I'm so glad this video was helpful! I typically try to wrap my float every 5 stitches or so, making sure I vary where I do the wraps so you don't see them from the RS. I try to keep my floats SUPER loose so there is still stretch to the hat. It helps to pull the fabric open a bit if you need to to help the float relax. (Especially if you're making something with negative ease that will stretch. If you're knitting something with positive ease then it doesn't matter as much.) I hope this helps!
Sure! Fair isle knitting involves stranded colorwork, but not all stranded colorwork is technically Fair Isle. This technique would apply to any Fair Isle patterns, but that refers to a specific type of design. (There are a few other regional colorwork terms, but I'm not super versed in all of them.)
Here are all of the geneie collection of patterns: www.chemknits.com/2017/02/the-geneie-collection-of-dna-beanie-hats.html If you cannot access a PDF please send a request so I can make sure the link is public again. (google autoprivated all drive links at one point and that really messed up my wesbite!)
Did you look under the video? Click where it says *more* the expand the caption. Her website is listed there. Maybe she has that pattern in her website? Or if she's on Ravelry...good luck 👍
Thank you soooo much!!! You've taken the scary out of stranded knitting... I'm going to do this today!!! Is it more difficult to knit in the round? Would love to make a hat.
The way you hold the yarn might need to be modified a bit, but many of the other parts should be the same. Make sure you wrap the yarn every few stiches to avoid long floats etc.
Thank you for this example.of stranded knitting. I just watched a show on YT about people with sleep problems. A lady said she has been caught by her son stranded knitting in her sleep. She recently learned this, I as an experienced knitter thought how is that possible? I can't do stranded knitting. I had to look this up.
Thanks for the video, I’m just starting a fair isle cardigan Orkney by Marie Wallin in Rowan Felted Tweed wool, it’s hard but technique you use will make it easier
Unfortunately, with colorwork there are going to be floats. Some options are to do a tube type scarf (so all of the wrong sides are in the middle) or you could stitch a backing fabric onto it maybe.
Marco Daub Are you working flat or in the round? I don't have any videos on stripes right now. If you are switching colors ever 1 row (in the round) or two rows (flat or in the round) you can leave both yarns attached and make sure you're a little loose with the first stitch of a color change. If you are doing thicker stripes you might need to cut the yarn in between. If you give me some more specifics I can try to help explain more. Good luck!
That's very kind of you! I haven't started the project yet, but the plan is to work in the round, and do only two or three rows of the contrasting colour every 10 or so rows of the main colour.
Ah. In this case, I would leave your main color of yarn attached, and then join the contrasting color for the 2-3 rounds. I would cut the yarn after those rounds, and loosely pull the main color up so you can continue knitting. It should be loose enough to not pull the fabric tight AND tight enough so you won't get a super loose gap stitch. Alternatively, you could cut the yarn each time you change colors and then knot the yarn and weave in loose ends at the end. Good luck!
Started off okay but her camera focus and continental knitting totally confused me. Did not really explain the start of the rows ... Not for me. Will try another tutorial.
The yarn used in this demonstration is Wool of the Andes Worsted Weight Yarn (100% wool) shrsl.com/lovq (KnitPicks Affiliate Link)
Thank you! Everyone always starts with their second color already incorporated. You're the first tutorial I've watched that shows you how to initially incorporate the second color!
I'm so glad this was helpful!
Ah yes, this is exactly what I needed to see! As a visual learner, this helps a ton! You’re a life saver.
_And yes, I’m working on the Harry Styles cardigan..._
Glad it was helpful! And I love the Harry Styles crew in the comments section.
Nice pfp :)
I’m here to do my Harry Styles sweater
me too! im making mine in different shades of blue and also white and black instead of the "traditional" colours though for increased wearability (because im a scandi and we usually wear only black to reflect the amount of sunlight we are getting in he winter months, which are usually 9 out of 12 months depending on where you live), and also with oak buttons instead of black ones. i absolutely cant wait for my yarn to arrive im so excitedddddd😬😬
sameeeee 😂💚💚💚
@@byggrynsgroet omg that sounds great! you should share how it ends up. we have looooong way to go hahahaha
Seeing these comments made me so happy. I had to go look up the sweater. For that you might need some Intarsia techniques (just from looking at the picture quickly) but there are also some stranded parts. Good luck and have so much fun, everyone!
Oh no. You too? There's gonna be enough Harry Styles' sweaters by the this winter, people are gonna think there's a fashion trend.
PERFECT TUTORIAL!!!!! i was watching so many that didnt teach how to incorporate the yarn & didnt show how to do the wrong side!! thank you!
I'm so glad this was helpful!
Thank you for demystifying color work. I’m still new to knitting and I was fairly convinced it was wizardry.
I'm glad I could help!
OMG, I've never seen anyone purl the same way I do and I'm so happy there's someone else out there that does :) This was the best and clearest method of knitting colorwork for a complete noob to stranded knitting!
Thanks so much 😊 I'm so glad this was helpful!
I thought the same thing!! I knit continental but purl like that! I thought I was doing it wrong but it feels beat this way.
I've watched many beginner fair isle tutorials, and none have been as clear and easy to follow as this one. I find most tutorials dont provide enough visual example for me to knit a swatch, which is what I need. This one finally demonstrates how to do it, thank you!
I'm so glad I could help!!
Great! Hallelujah you showed us exactly how to add the contrast colored yarn! Great job. I've been knitting for 50 years and never have done colorwork. Go figure. Thankyou!
You are so welcome!
Thank you for this great tutorial! Now I can finally finish my Harry Styles cardigan :)
You’re welcome 😊 I'm so glad I could help!
that’s what i’m here for!
I have been following Rebecca and her dyeing videos for many years. Who knew she did how to knit videos? Well, she is just as good as she is in the dyeing videos. Wow. Thanks for this ChemKnits! I have done color work for years too, but I always learn something new. ~Marie [I am partially deaf and always have to crank up the sound for most other presenters. Your voice is crystal clear to me and that is a relief.]
Marie, I'm so glad that this was helpful! Some of the older knitting tutorials are a bit cringeworthy now. Fun fact: I started TH-cam because I filmed some tutorials for my SIL and it was the easiest way to show her how to do a few things. I also filmed some videos for my crochet club to help them remember how to do something I mentioned at a meeting. :D Turns out some other people found them useful! :D
I hope to someday be able to afford better captions for the videos versus the automatic ones that TH-cam provides to increase accessibility.
Amazingly easy, I was intimidated by this and now you’ve made it so easy.
Thank you
You're very welcome! I'm so glad I could help.
I just started doing colorwork and it is a pleasure to see someone knit the way I do. So far I am only knitting winter caps with colorwork on round knitting needles so I am only purling. I am not into the throwing method of knitting. I never saw anyone knit by the throwing method until I came to the U.S.
I'm so glad this was helpful!
Thankyou! Thankyou! Finally someone who does colorwork with their left hand. I would have never thought to hold both strands in my left hand. This is perfect for me.
I'm so glad that I could help!
I can't believe I've never heard of stranding before! I've been carrying all my colors across the pattern via twisting, and maintaining the stitches and tension that way is such a pain! Next knitting project I do (which my not be for a while, I'm more into crochet personally), I'm using this method. Thank you for demonstrating this!
It is my pleasure! If the float will be over 4 stitches or so i will twist them so there isn't a super long float, but for 2-3 stitches I don't bother. :D
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Thank you! It's been helping a lot so far!
Although I have to ask, since your demonstration was with acrylic (I think?), I'm wondering if you have tips on working with materials like cotton or anything else that has less elasticity to begin with, because my strands are giving an awful lot of slack and I feel like I'm not doing this right.
Best stranded tutorial I’ve found on the internet - thanks!
Thank you so much for this comment ! I'm so glad that it was helpful.
Thank you, yours is the best tutorial on stranded knitting i have viewed. You made something confusing very easy.
I'm so glad this was helpful!
This was wonderful. Your teaching was clear, precise and easy to understand. Thank you
I'm so glad that it was helpful! Thank you so much for this kind comment.
Thank you for a complete and thorough tutorial! Every other stranded knitting tutorial starts half way through the project which is pointless.
I'm so glad that this was helpful!
FINALLY, someone shows how to join the CC yarn! Thank you so much!
I'm so glad I could help!
This is the best explanation I have found, extremely useful for the Harry Styles Cardigan
I'm so glad it was helpful!
I have never seen anyone that purled the same way I do. This is fantastic! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Thank you for an excellent video on colorwork... I was having an issue carrying my alternate color and your video helped me to understand the proper technique to use!
You are so welcome!
Starting my first colorwork project and your video was exactly what I was looking for! And the ideal alternative to an expensive private lesson :) Thank you!
It is my pleasure, Denise! I'm so glad that this video was helpful.
Oh my god this is so simple and easy to follow. I've been trying to find good tutorials and this saved my life 😭 thank you for ensuring me an A+ in textiles
Also your tips on the tension helped me a lot!!
I'm so glad it helped!
Thank you I've been trying to find someone to explain this color change and float issue for long sections for ever. Now hopefully I can keep from cutting and weaving in a ton of ends.
I really hope this helped!
Your video was amazing! I am a beginner and your instructions were perfect!
Glad it was helpful!
I’m starting my first colorwork project very soon and this is SO helpful! Thank you SO much!!!
I'm so glad I could help!
This was very helpful as I was trying to figure out how to carry floats of different lengths. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! You're very welcome
Thank you. That was very helpful, especially showing the floats on the back side and how to twist the long floats which other tutorials I looked at omitted.
You're very welcome! I'm so glad it was helpful.
First time at your podcast and enjoyed your technique for color work and security of the float is very informative🧶thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad this was helpful!
Great tutorial, it was very helpful! I was wondering though, if you’re ending the pattern on a RS row and you go to repeat it, so you start it over on WS row, what do you do?
Great tutorial! I have a question, when i dont need the second color anymore what do i do with it? Do i just cut it and make a knot or something like that?
You can cut it and weave in the loose end - this is often what I choose to do myself. The fabric can be bulkier with two colors than with one, so sometimes people may prefer to continue to carry the yarn (even if it is not showing on the front) to have a similar feel to the fabric. But personally I'd cut and weave in the ends.
I have been searching for hours now, yours was the first video i understood how to do this flair isle knitting.
Thank you 💕This is an awesome tutorial 😍please won’t you make us more stranded colour work knitting (would love to make a star snowflake) teach us more please
My words exactly 😍👌
Thank you for this tutorial! How do you make sure the floats don't unravel??
Hi Danah, I'm not 100% sure I understand your question. Floats cannot unravel unless you unravel the knit stitches since they're all twisted together. If your tension is too loose, then you could end up with a sagging float, so this is one reason why if you have a long float (5+ stitches) it helps to twist the carried yarn around the working yarn. This anchors it into place and prevents a long piece of yarn just sitting there. I hope this helps!
Great video! the only thing i still want to know is what you do with that loose end where you started the new color?
Sometimes I'll twist them and cary them up the side of the work if there are only a couple of rows between color changes. Otherwise I might clip and weave them in.
Thank you! As a visual learner and dyslexic you are clearer than most!
Quick question, I'm knitting a baby hat (newborn), how would I decrease after about 4"/24rows (pattern I'm following is * K2tog row, purl next row*.) to the top of the hat maintaining the chequered pattern?
Depending on where the deceases are located, I would end up making a few triangles in the hat - so if it is K2tog across then acording to the pattern I would K2tog in c1, then K2tog in c2, etc. If you're supposed to K2tog across the whole row, then I might just transition to a solid color for the top of the hat after that.)
It is a little easier to try to keep up with the colorwork pattern if you are doing K4, K2tog or something like that. I hope this makes some sense.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials thank you for the very quick reply. Yes what you say does make sense to me. I'm a new knitter thanks to covid so I'll take your advice and might go a solid colour. Thank you x
@@musicismypassion23 my pleasure! I'm so glad I could help.
Thanks for the tutorial! Super helpful. Now if I have an entire row of either main color or contrast color, it makes more sense to carry the yarn up the “seam” rather than carrying through the whole round, right?
Absolutely. If I can avoid floats then I skip them entirely.
However, there are times when you may decided to carry the yarn around the plain row if it might shift the fabric. But generally, I will carry the yarn up the seam.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Awesome, thank you!
Fantastic tutorial thank you!! I was feeling intimidated to try colorwork but now I'm ready!!
Horray! I"m so glad that I could be helpful.
if your pattern calls for many colors, would you add them all at the same time when the first color is called for, or add them in as they are called for? For example if the pattern starts with two mc stitches and then calls for four c1 stitches-would you add the color 1 strand and then wait for the time when the pattern calls for c2, r would you just hold all your contrasting colors at the same time?
Brilliant, this was such an easy example of colour work to follow, thank you 😊
You’re welcome 😊
very well explained it!! Thank you so much for sharing
I'm glad I could help!
How do you keep the skeins of yarn that you are knitting from getting all twisted up together?:
They do get twisted together a bit over time, but sometimes I try to twist the floats in the other direction to help me needing to untwist manually.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Thanks. I guess from time to time, I should take a moment to unwind them.
This is a great video. I finally see what a float is. Thank you for this.
You're very welcome!
Very helpful video and easy to understand. I do have a question however. Do you HAVE to have “floats” in your project on the wrong side?
You could twist the yarn after every stitch, I suppose, to avoid floats. However, this would involve a lot of untwisting of the two balls of yarn.
I really appreciate this as I prefer to knit continental. But you don't mention color dominance or how you hold the colors in relation to one another. Is that not an issue?
It depends on the type of colorwork how I hold the yarn. With something with quick changes of colors, I will often hold both strands over my finger and then "pick" the color I want for the stitch. If i have to deal with floats, I still hold them together but make sure to adjust the tension and twist them around eachother every few stitches.
I don't really treat the Main color any differently from the contrasting color. I hope this helps a bit!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Yes, thanks!
May I ask you what type of cast on style you are using for this swatch?
I think I used a long tail cast on for the swatch, since this is the cast on technique I use the most.
Can you do a video kind of explaining the following: k1B, *k3A, sl1B repeat to end. This is the first row of color change
Thank you, serioulsly. All the others I found already had both colours stitched.
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you so much for this video!! I finally feel confident enough to try two colours, I’ve never been able to visualize it before. One question: would there be any downside to twisting the colours every stitch, other than it taking longer to complete the project? My perfectionist brain hates the look of floats.. I know they’re on the wrong side but still 😂 would twisting the strands every stitch affect the tension or overall project?
I've never tried twisting in between every stitch, so I honestly don't know how it would do. It could make the tension a bit tighter, but you could try it out on a swatch and see if you like how it looks!
I’m teaching myself to knit so thank you for this very easy tutorial.
You're very welcome! I"m so glad that I could help.
What about yarn dominence? I want my 'second' color to stand out a little?
Very helpful. Thank you. The way you purl is genius. I love it.
Glad it was helpful!
This was ex excellent! Super helpful ☺️
Thank you for showing this 💕
You're so welcome! I'm so glad I could help!
Thank you... I've finally found a video that explains all that I wanted to know :>
Glad I could help!
Thank you for the demonstration. It was very interesting. I like the way the yarn is wrapped on the purl side. I have never held two colors of yarn at one time and you make it look so easy. I have tried to learn how to knit in the continental style and get so confused especially with the purl stitch. You make it look so easy I'm thinking I could do it. Do you have a video teaching the continental stitch?
I don't have a specific video on knitting styles.
I was very intimated by colorwork until I tried it, and now it is one of my favorite techniques!
Great tutorial! Is there a difference between this and Brioche knitting?
Not really, brioche involves knitting into stitches on the row below to create a different type of pattern. I'm sure that you could do some stranding in combination with brioche, but the fabric in this example is a stockinette versus the more lofty ribbed fabric you'd get with brioche.
Thank you so much for your video! This helped me tremendously with my first fair isle project!
How much slack do you typically recommend for the floating strand? I was disappointed to find that many of my floating strands were too tight when I went to try the hat on, so I had to spend a couple hours cutting out and weaving in the ones that I could haha. I would like to avoid this again in the future! I twisted the floating strand every 6th stitch with some slack, but not enough. All the strands that were too tight were on the one color rows. Thanks again!
I'm so glad this video was helpful! I typically try to wrap my float every 5 stitches or so, making sure I vary where I do the wraps so you don't see them from the RS. I try to keep my floats SUPER loose so there is still stretch to the hat. It helps to pull the fabric open a bit if you need to to help the float relax. (Especially if you're making something with negative ease that will stretch. If you're knitting something with positive ease then it doesn't matter as much.) I hope this helps!
Your way is my fav so far. I'm going to practice! TY
I'm so glad it was helpful!
Is this the same as "fair isle" knitting, or is it different?
Sure! Fair isle knitting involves stranded colorwork, but not all stranded colorwork is technically Fair Isle. This technique would apply to any Fair Isle patterns, but that refers to a specific type of design. (There are a few other regional colorwork terms, but I'm not super versed in all of them.)
I know this video is old but please someone tell me where to get that beanie pattern! And if there’s a gene pattern scarf!! It would be so perfect
Here are all of the geneie collection of patterns: www.chemknits.com/2017/02/the-geneie-collection-of-dna-beanie-hats.html If you cannot access a PDF please send a request so I can make sure the link is public again. (google autoprivated all drive links at one point and that really messed up my wesbite!)
Did you look under the video? Click where it says *more* the expand the caption. Her website is listed there. Maybe she has that pattern in her website? Or if she's on Ravelry...good luck 👍
@ id looked on there and can’t seem to find it :(
Thank you for this great video, I am fine doing things in the round but this really broke down how to do it flat!
You're so welcome!
Thank you soooo much!!! You've taken the scary out of stranded knitting... I'm going to do this today!!! Is it more difficult to knit in the round? Would love to make a hat.
I find stranded knitting to be easier in the round! Good luck!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I was a success at stranded knitting!!! Thanks again!
Would this also work if I knit English style?
The way you hold the yarn might need to be modified a bit, but many of the other parts should be the same. Make sure you wrap the yarn every few stiches to avoid long floats etc.
Thank you for this example.of stranded knitting. I just watched a show on YT about people with sleep problems. A lady said she has been caught by her son stranded knitting in her sleep. She recently learned this, I as an experienced knitter thought how is that possible? I can't do stranded knitting. I had to look this up.
WOW! I have a sleep issues but I normally don't knit in my sleep. ;) Anyway, I'm so glad the video was useful!
Thanks for the video, I’m just starting a fair isle cardigan Orkney by Marie Wallin in Rowan Felted Tweed wool, it’s hard but technique you use will make it easier
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Do you have a pattern for a basic zigzag scarf, using 3 colours?
I don't have one off the top of my head, unfortunately.
Great tutorial , thanks . Gave me confidence to try out for 1st time 😊 👏
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Is there any way to not have the floats? I'm trying to make a scarf and I want to have the pattern show on both sides.
Unfortunately, with colorwork there are going to be floats. Some options are to do a tube type scarf (so all of the wrong sides are in the middle) or you could stitch a backing fabric onto it maybe.
Look up double-sided knitting.
This is an awesome video. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Thank you! This is VERY helpful.
finally I found the video I was looking for 100x thank you
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Wow gorgeous work ☮️❤️🧘🏻♀️
Thank you! 😊
Hello! I was wondering if you could possibly help me out on how to knit with two colours if you're alternating rows instead of stitches?
Marco Daub Are you working flat or in the round? I don't have any videos on stripes right now.
If you are switching colors ever 1 row (in the round) or two rows (flat or in the round) you can leave both yarns attached and make sure you're a little loose with the first stitch of a color change. If you are doing thicker stripes you might need to cut the yarn in between.
If you give me some more specifics I can try to help explain more. Good luck!
That's very kind of you! I haven't started the project yet, but the plan is to work in the round, and do only two or three rows of the contrasting colour every 10 or so rows of the main colour.
Ah. In this case, I would leave your main color of yarn attached, and then join the contrasting color for the 2-3 rounds. I would cut the yarn after those rounds, and loosely pull the main color up so you can continue knitting. It should be loose enough to not pull the fabric tight AND tight enough so you won't get a super loose gap stitch. Alternatively, you could cut the yarn each time you change colors and then knot the yarn and weave in loose ends at the end. Good luck!
ChemKnits Tutorials Okay, thank you!
Like this way of stranding thanks, looks simple and doable
Catherine Fox it is simple. I think colorwork looks more intimidating than it is to do. :)
This is extremely helpful, thank you!
I'm so glad that I could help! You're very welcome.
ChemKnits reminds me of Chemnitz,a city in Germany 😂
I was unaware of the city name for a few years when I startred out.
ChemKnits Tutorials its fine, i just thought it was kinda funny
Very well taught. Thank you!!
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Thank you, this is exactly what I needed!
Glad it was helpful!
Hi. Very clear explanations, phenomenal! Thumbs up!
Thank you so much! I'm very glad I could help out.
Thanks ! Finally!! I got it!!
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Very helpful, thank you!
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Wow very nice! Thank you for sharing.
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Great video!
Thanks!
slipping stitches to alternate colours seems easier.
For this type of simple pattern, it could be. For some more complicated color work patterns, it is a lot less work to do the stranded method.
Thank you!
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Thankyou for your tutorial!
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Thank you, that helps so much!
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Wow! Thank you so much! Im about to follow my first colorwork chart, this is so helpful. : )
Best of luck! I love colorwork, and found it to be a lot easier to do once I got started.
Wow! My eyes…lots of fuzzy shots on close ups.
I'm very sorry for that!
this doesnt work for me
Thanks!
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Great thanks.
I'm glad I could help!
Started off okay but her camera focus and continental knitting totally confused me. Did not really explain the start of the rows ... Not for me. Will try another tutorial.
Thank you now I’m not so intimidated by colorwork
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Nice friend I'm new subscribers and big like
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Omg thank u so much
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everyone is here for the harry styles cardigan and i’m just here for my totoro mittens 😂
I'm glad I can help no matter what the project is! (It is super fun hearing what everyone is working on!)
I’m about to start a face cloth in cotton, with blue background and white snowflakes. 😊
You purl like I do.
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