Simple knit colorwork

200 Fair Isle Motifs BLAD - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. 200 Fair Isle motifs offers simple solutions to the seemingly complex technique of stranded colorwork. From simple single-row patterns to complex allover motifs, you'll find colorways that will thrill and inspire your knitting. Organized by row count and stitch count, 200 Fair Isle motifs makes it easy to find the perfect motif for your projects.

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

Do you struggle with tight floats in three-color colorwork? Two-pass knitting is an easy way to knit multi-color stranded colorwork so that you're only working with two yarns at a time. In order to do this, you need to work the same round in two passes, alternating which stitches are knit and which ones are slipped. In this tutorial I demonstrate how to use this clever trick that makes knitting three-color colorwork a breeze!

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What happens when only a few stitches are worked per row, with the intermediary stitches merely slipped from the left needle to the right needle?

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.

I Wooly Love it - Knit Bracelets “Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”