Colorwork knitting

Courtney Flynn on Instagram: "This is my favorite way to catch long floats. 🤩 I shared this method with you guys in my book, The Art of Knitting Hats, and the full tutorial for this technique on my YouTube channel has become my most popular video there—thank you! 😘 (Links to my book and my YouTube channel in bio.) So I thought l’d share a quick version with you here, too. 🤗 What’s your favorite way to catch long floats when you’re knitting stranded colorwork? • Pattern ➰: Spark Beanie…

Here's a fun selection of colorful and fun knitted cowls designed by Mary Hunt of Hunt Hand Knits. Click on the image to go to the corresponding pattern on Etsy. See more knit patterns from Wendy Jane Paterson. * This post contains affiliate links.

Time to tackle another common knitting fearCOLORWORKSpecificallystranded colorworkI love love love love colorworkAnd yesit can be intimidatingbut with practice it becomes second natureAnd it's so much funThe key to good colorwork is the tension of your strands or floats (the yarn that runs on

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Fair Isle knitting is a simple technique in which you switch between two colors per row to make fun, detailed designs in your knitting projects.

With the Fair Isle Advent MKALendar you'll create a stocking cap or a cowl in 25 days... or take the emergency exit to turn the cap into a head-hugging beanie. All sorts of fingering-weight leftovers, scraps, half-a skeins, unicorn tails, or advent calendar minis are ideal.

Do you struggle with tight floats in stranded colorwork knitting? In this blog post I demonstrate an easy trick to keeping your floats loose: knitting colorwork inside out. And no, that doesn't mean having to purl in colorwork! Read the post to understand how needle tip position affects circular knitting, the difference between working right side out and inside out, and how working in the round inside out can help with tight floats. #knitting #knit #stranded #colorwork #tutorial…