Stranded knitting tutorial

Ten tips that will help you improve your stranded knitting technique and make projects made in Fair Isle and other colour patterns better.

For this month’s Confident Knitting project, we’re focussed on floats! If you’ve ever knitted colourwork that’s turned out a bit lumpy and bumpy, or that looks a bit loose and sloppy, it was probably down to the floats being too tight, in the first instance, or too loose, in the second. Even floats

Attention pattern and color knitters: Keep yarn under control without losing your mind with this helpful guide to how to hold yarn for stranded colorwork!

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.

Explore the Knit Picks Learning Center and view our guide to fair isle / standard knitting.

Tips for Stranded Knitting This week on Ask Me Monday we chat stranded knitting like that called for in the Teas (from the Gaelic word meanting to heat or warmth) Snood from my book, The Knit Vibe. This beautiful accessory was... keep reading …

Great ideas on how to knit more evenly when using two or more colors. Learn from our tips to get the most out of this gorgeous knitting technique.

One of the questions I get most often from students or knitters working from my patterns is how to trap floats in stranded colorwork. I thought it would be a good idea to finally address this issue…

Traditional stranded knitting is composed of basic stockinette-stitch fabric worked with two colors per row, usually in bands of tiny geometric patterns.