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!

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

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.

Fair Isle knitting can be tricky on its own, but add in the management of the floats and it takes it to a new level for beginners. In this video tutorial I will teach you how to tuck your fair isle floats as you knit your stranded color work items. Not only will you learn […]

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.

Stranded colorwork is a technique where more than one color of yarn is used on a row (or round) of knitting. When working this type of colorwork, it’s possible to control the color dominance in the project. In this video, Michele Lee Bernstein demonstrates how yarn color dominance in stranded knitting works. To begin, Michele…

Learn why everyone talks about color dominance in stranded knitting and how you can easily add this to your knitting know-how.

Step-by-step tutorial about the easiest way to hold yarn for Fair Isle and other stranded colourwork. Continental and English knitting.