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How I Knit Stranded Colorwork - Continental Knitting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ย. 2021
- In this video, I show how I knit stranded colorwork continental knitting style while holding both colors in one hand. This method is a surprisingly easy and relatively quick way to knit with two colors as a continental knitter. I hope you find it helpful to see how I knit!
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Demonstration Starts: O:51
How I hold 2 colors: 2:00
How I knit with 2 colors: 2:50
How to avoid puckering: 3:34
How I trap floats: 6:06
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You popped up on my feed and you knit like I do! I do use the little clover plastic thingy to separate the yarns on my left index finger but watching you catch floats is how I figured it out! So happy and will watch your other tutorials! 😊
Caleb- As someone terrified of stranded color work, I must say that was a great video! Very, very helpful and informative. I've been wanting to try some of the simpler patterns that are out there and your calm presentation may be just what I needed to give it a try! : )
I'm so glad to see a method for Stranded Colorwork for Continental knitters. I'm doing a colorwork Christmas stocking and I'm rubbish at English knitting. A shame, as I'm a total Anglophile. English knitting doesn't come naturally to me at all. This was a useful video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I find this pattern the hardest, one stitch among several others. Your stitches are so consistent.
This is super helpful! I'm a left-handed continental style knitter trying to learn colorwork, and this helped me sort out how to do it in a way that will work for me! Thank you!
Hi Caleb,
I really enjoyed this video, and not just because your technique for continental stranded knitting matches mine almost exactly...lol I've been doing double knitting for quite a while now and the continental approach makes double knitting almost effortless and just as speedy as my regular knitting. (One of the perennial complaints I hear about double knitting is how slow it is.) I don't want to ignite a "comments war" about continental vs english but for me, when I see throwers trying to manage getting both strands to the front and then the back and then the front, back etc. which is the core of double knitting, it's almost painful to see how much unnecessary work they're putting themselves through. Even people that hold a strand in each hand are still jumping through hoops to complete the double knitting technique.
A helpful hint I used when I was first starting to double knit made the learning process a lot easier. I took a new kitchen sponge, and left it out to dry. Then I cut a small rectangle out of the sponge and cleared out a circle in the middle. I used this "ring" on my index finger to keep the two strands separate as I knitted. I called it my "training wheel" because I only needed it for a few weeks while my fingers "learned" how to keep the strands separate. Once the muscle memory was in place, I took off the ring and I haven't looked back since.
Thanks again for a wonderful show-and-tell. I hope everyone who sees it will make the effort to learn this approach. The benefits in enjoyment, speed and lessened finger fatigue make it too good to pass up.
Thks. I thought I was the only person in the world the carried both colors in 1 hand. I hadn't considered dominant though. I will pay more attention now.
there is a knitting notion called a Norwegian Thimble....it's a coil that can be worn like a ring on the index finger of the left hand...you thread the 2 yarns into the loops on the ring and it keeps your fingers from cramping up...i love my Norwegian Thimble....got it on Amazon for under 10 bucks...it's a great notion to have...there's also Portuguese knitting pins as well....you clip 2 or more pins to your shirt....you thread the yarn around the back of your kneck then through the pins....you can knit either Continental (left hand) or English (Right hand) that way....both the Norwegian Thimble and Portuguese Pins are good ways to prevent cramping.....
I have a plastic one that I tried in the past and I wasn't a fan. So I learned to just hold the yarn without one. But I should try the kind you are talking about to see if I like it better. I like being able to knit without an extra notion, in this case, but I'm also open to anything that makes it easier :-) Thank you!
I think I'll try this, because I throw and the yarn abraded my skin and causes the skin to go horrible. I might even just add tape to my finger to do the same thing (medical tape, the kind meant for skin)
@@Stettafire since you are a thrower (right handed) i suggest Portuguese knitting pins...clipping the pins to your shirt really does save your fingers from going calloused like that...also the Portuguese Knitting pins as well as the Norwegian Thimble both give you so much better tension control....you let the notion tension for you...thus the prevention of cramping....i used to do color work like Caleb showed....it can be done....but i have a low threshold for pain...so i searched for better ways of doing color work and i saw someone demonstrating the Norwegian thimble on youtube...gave it a try....no cramping and my tension control sky rocketed....so i have never looked back
Last week I found norwegian thimble my size as the usual was small for me as man. Found in the Danish shop Flying Tigre. Have to try it
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I always enjoy listening to your channel
Thank you so much for being here!
Many thanks for nice video Caleb.
Great!!! Easy to understand. Thank you
I've been wanting to try stranded color work, but I haven't found my nerve yet. This video explained a lot of questions I had and it doesn't seem all that scary now. Thank you Caleb for your videos. They are making me a better knitter.
I'm so happy to hear that this was helpful for you! I hope you give it a try soon :-)
You helped me so much. Thank you. Most sincerely. Karen
Wow thank you . I really need it to see that
I'm so glad it was helpful to you!
Me too, thanks Caleb!
Appreciate that this specifically showed continental technique. Thanks!
Best video explaining color dominance, stranding continental style and catching floats!! Thank you!
Thank you Caleb. Your excitement for knitting shows in everything you do. Keep making more videos 😊
You are such a fabulous instructor. Thank you so much for sharing your process with us. Super clear and helpful instruction. 😊
Thank you Caleb. I haven’t tried stranded color work yet, but It is in my plan for 2022. I’m a continental knitter also, and your explanation was very clear. 😃
Caleb, I loved the video, and it answered every question and worry about stranded colorwork. I'm also a continental knitter, and will soon be taking a really deep dive into colorwork sweaters. I've been anxious about using both hands, and I like your method MUCH more. Excellent tutorial!
Brilliant! Thank you! I knit the same way and had figured out how to trap the dominant color but every time I need to trap the non dominant color I would drop the yarn and twist. I’m going to try this out next time I do colorwork!
Oh boy! This will make my stranded work so much easier!
I throw instead of pick. Also I'm a little more traditional, in that in traditional knitting there is no "colour dominance" and the goal is to get even tension no matter the colour. But each to their own.
However I do hold all colours in the same hand, but it's the same hand as the working hand, so opposite to yourself
Thanks for sharing :-)
@@DrowninginYarn It is nice to hear how different people do things :)
Thank you so so so much for this video!!! It was a real gamechanger although I already had knitted colorwork with different methods. With your way of doing it my tension is always right and it is way quicker than any other method. This is now my favorite way to knit color work! 🤩🤗
Your work is beautiful! I hope I can watch this until I can improve my work to look more like yours. I have been doing a similar float technique but I am twisting yarns and must fix my method.
OMG! This video was so helpful! A real game changer for me. No more twisted yarn. 😊
Glad it was helpful!
This is the 3rd video I've watched this evening trying to figure out how to do 2 color knitting without having to hold each yarn in one hand and this is the first one that I found that made sense with the tensioning. Thank you!
The few times I've knit fair isle i had the cc in the right hand even though I'm a continental knitter. It always felt so awkward and took such a long time! Especially whenever i had to trap the yarn. I've tried to knit both colors continental style at the same time but i haven't figured out how to do this properly so i will definitely try your techniques. Thank you so much for this video!
Ohhhhh… you made that look easy! And it’s definitely faster than what I been doing with continental & English!!! Thanks!!!
Bless you for this video. Am new to stranded colorwork. Have struggled mightily to teach myself English and various continental methods of holding yarns in left hand and just can't coordinate it no matter what I do. Have watched at least 4 hours of videos but yours if the clearest and best I've seen. I will look no longer. Thank you for this!!!
Thank u very much! You made it seem easy. And when I did it I was surprised at how easy it really was. You made me feel confident.
Thank you. I am dysfunctional with anything but continental. Very helpful.
Thank you for posting this! I just bought the yarn for Michael Harrigan's "Something Festive" and I think I'll try this technique. I haven't done anything stranded in forever and last time I did someone showed me using contrast color in my right hand and an elaborate wrapping technique that just left me feeling like my knitting was right even with extreme mindfulness. Thank you for posting!
OMG! Life-changing 🤩 I’ve been struggling with my first standard sweater, and the kid seems to be separating them with your middle finger. I can’t tell you how many videos I watched and this actually works for me. Thank you so much.❤
Oh wow, that's so simple -but it works and looks terrific. I'm going to give it a try - thank you so much Caleb.
You're so welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful :-)
Working on my first colorwork project and this video was very useful. I knit continental with both yarns on the left hand so it was good to understand how to trap to contrast color. Thank you.
Really helpful thank you, I’m retraining myself to knit continental after many years of English knitting., as it’s much less stress on neck and shoulders. This is helpful as I was getting in a mess with a colourwork project! ❤
Excellent
Very clear explaining for me to understand.
When I knit with a contrast colour, I knit with the dominant colour with right hand and the contrast colour in my left and weave (trap) the colours every two or three stitches as I go along. Love you vids.
Very helpful for this continental knitter who wants to try stranded color work in 2022.
You should definitely give it a try! It is not that difficult and you can make such beautiful projects :-)
Thank you so much! I knit my colorwork this way but never knew how to properly trap the yarn on the right. Super helpful.
Oh I’ve got to try this. I’m a Continental knitter beginning colorwork, and doing it with both hands and putting the contrast/foreground color in my left and main/background in my left for color dominance is so slow.
Thank you! I just finished my first colorwork yoked sweater ( 35 years in the making! - seriously intimidated my colorwork). I did a similar thing as a continental knitter, but putting your middle finger in between the colors could be a game-changer!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! My project was taking me FOREVER cause I was changing the color in my hand all the time, sometimes even for only 1 stitch!!
Love this tip to secure the floats! Did a colorwork hat that took way to long, I will definetly try this
You made this look SO easy! I have been so intimidated of colour work but this looks so doable :)
Thank you Caleb! I’m a continental knitter and I’ve just started trying stranded colorwork, and I haven’t figured out how to hold the yarns, so your video is very helpful! 🤗
Thanks from Pia in Sweden 🇸🇪
You are so welcome! I hope it helps you figure out what works best for you!
Great advice! I knit a stranded color work sweater that ended up puckering. I plan on making another one and your advice will definitely help.😍
I will totally try to make this sweater it looks super cute!
Thank you! Great video and so helpful for the project I’m working on.
Your videos are so relaxing to me. You have a great personality. I’m new to knitting and I use your favorite cast on for sweaters for my first two sweaters and they turned out great.
Thank you very much for sharing how you do it.
Next time I will knit with two colors I will try your way.
So far I have found it difficult and I have not had a good flow.
Thank you Caleb. Your videos are always so informative. You live for this art form is very evident. I did my first color work on a Halloween sock. I'm a flicker so I held my main color in my right hand and the contrast on the left. It worked.
Thank you so much, your instructions are very clear and precise. I will definitely try it.
Let me know how you like it :-)
Superb
Great explanation! I really have to test out stranded colourwork some time
This is really cool! We actually knit exactly the same way! I even tension my yarn the same way. Love your videos Caleb and I always enjoy seeing what you're up to or what you've been knitting.
Thank you for sharing this! I hold my yarns similar to you, but your way is definitely easier and I'm going to try next time I do colorwork!
This was really helpful, thank you!!
Thanks so much for this video! I'll try your method when I start my next project. :)
Thank you for making this less scary. I will definitely try this! At the moment I’m knitting mosaic (the pathway scarf by Toft) it colorwork but with slipstitches.
Ooops! I found it and signed up! Sounds like fun!
Thank you for sharing this, I’ve been wanting to try this and this helps! Also, I tried catching your main color when it rolled away, I was laughing so hard afterwards I had to rewind to watch it again! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for that!! I must try it! I’m a fairly new knitter and the colorwork I’ve done takes a lot of untangling yarn! 😬😆
Great explanation. Thank you!
This is a very timely video for me because I just started my first colorwork project! I've just been flicking for one color and continental knitting the other. Definitely interesting to see this approach though!
How is your project going? I have tried to hold one color in each hand and I had trouble with that approach myself. Do you like doing colorwork that way?
Thanks greetings from Ireland
Hi! Thanks for watching :-)
genius!
thank you
Hi Caleb! I think a knit a long sounds like so much fun! I cannot find the link you mentioned. I love this channel and look forward to your wisdom and insight! Thanks!
This video was really helpful. I’m hosting a KAL for a Sashiko Scarf on Ravelry starting in about a week (1/24) and although I’ve done some Fair Isle knitting in the past, my work is never as smooth as yours. Can’t wait to try your technique for holding both strands in my left hand - as I’ve been doing MC in left and CC in right, and always end up dropping the right yarn, so my tension is awful!
Since I just discovered you, I haven’t done a deep dive on your other videos, so I’m wondering if you have one for Purling Stranded Colorwork Continental? The Sashiko Scarf is knitted flat, so it’s gonna require knitting and purling on the Wrong Side (WS).
Thanks again for your easy to understand video!
Great explanation and camera work. Thank you. Any chance you could show how you purl continental? Struggling with that...
Very educational as usual. I personally have tried holding both the strands in my left hand while doing colorwork in continental style but it did not work for me. I couldn’t keep the yarn from traveling along my finger and everything turned into a shrinky mess. I figured to hold uhm I think contrasting dominant color on the left hand to knit it continental while holding the main color on my right to knit it in throwing style. It was just a pita bc continental is so easy and fast and there were such few stitches while the most of them I had to throw which I’m not really comfortable with.
But you got to do what you got to do right?
I think I might feel more into trying those rings sometimes.
The yarn you're using is so wooly and beautiful!! Whered you get it? I'm always looking out for wooly yarns for colorwork hats! Sadly I havent felt like i have the time for a colorwork sweater, because I have too many commissions. Hopefully after the holidays I'll be able to join the KAL!
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We are knitting twins. :-) Down to which fingers I wrap the yarn around. Did you start out crocheting as well? Thanks for the videos and have a great holiday!
Could you please go over how you pearl continental? I pick the yarn and pull it back from the front. It seems to give different positioning on the needle that only matters when ssk or decreasing some methods. Does that make sense?
Any suggestions on how to maintain the same tension on both strands holding it the exact way you show in the video? It all feels comfortable but eventually my dominant color strand becomes much looser then the other one.
what about purling? any video about that?
I ve just started - one row - but now I have the float on both sides?? I know that’s not right -help!
That was clear, but how do you knit the back of the knitting fabric? You didn't mention that...
I was knitting in the round. I haven’t ever knit colorwork flat. I would probably work it the same way.
@@DrowninginYarn Thanks 👍☺
Flat colour work is quiet difficult catching floats on purl site and for continental knitters a bit struggle
But what about purling!?! I can’t find a video on how to manage the purl side.
Am a girl and I can’t do as good as you and thank
I only knit continental, can´t do it the other ways
WILL YOU MARRY ME?! BUT YOU NEED TO COME TO ROMANIA!! ❤
Mu dep
I haven't attempted 2 color knitting yet. I'm a chicken.
my brain is not braining. it is like math for me
I'm a Continental knitter, but if I'm doing stranded colorwork I use one color in each hand.
I've tried that and I'm not very good at it. I think it would be helpful for those times when I need to hold three colors though. I know a lot of people like to hold one color in each hand, so I really want to see if I can learn how :-)
Love your teaching but PLEASE slow down when you are demonstrating the actual knitting. It is not always clear when watching on a screen. Thank you!
Hi! Thank you… please try to use the speed controls on TH-cam if the speed doesn’t work for you. Hopefully that helps :-)