How to Change Colors with a Spit Splice
I love knitting with lots of colors, and I love stripes. I recently finished making this very colorful striped pullover. The first time I wore…
“Colorwork is one of the most exciting, challenging, and fun techniques in knitting.” —Kathleen Cubley, Exploring Color Knitting: 7 FREE Patterns using Intarsia, Stranded Knitting, and Fair Isle Knitting Technique
Colorwork is often one of the first techniques that draws people to knitting, with the ability to create pictures, panels, stripes, and patterns in two or more colors. Explore the many different articles we’ve gathered on the topic of knitting colorwork to learn the essential colorwork techniques: stranded, mosaic (a.k.a. slip-stitch colorwork), and intarisa.
We’ll recommend patterns for beginner colorwork projects, colorwork gifts, and colorwork socks. We’ll also tackle more advanced colorwork techniques like steeking, color dominance, and jog-less colorwork in the round. Want a deeper dive into the world of colorwork? Kyle Kunnecke has a series of courses on stranded knitting. Kyle teaches all the basics, including sections on color theory and color dominance. You’ll also love his Modern Colorwork Cowl course!
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I love knitting with lots of colors, and I love stripes. I recently finished making this very colorful striped pullover. The first time I wore…
Stranded colorwork is a knitting technique that uses different strands of colored yarn on the same round to create simple to highly complex geometric or…
Popular designer and colorwork expert Lisa K. Ross has spent the last 10 years honing her craft. Along the way, she has used a variety…
When you want to cut your knitting (to turn a pullover into a cardigan, or to create armholes in a tube of stranded knitting), you…
I love knitting stranded colorwork, and I love the 2023 Pantone Color of the Year, Viva Magenta. But magenta is a very assertive color. Can…
Intarsia or “picture knitting” is a colorwork technique used to create basic geometric shapes or complicated pictures in knitting. It opens up a whole world…
Stranded colorwork is one of my absolute favorite knitting techniques. Fair Isle sweater patterns, Icelandic pullovers, circular-yoke tops — I love them all. I enjoy…
Double knitting has long been considered one of the higher peaks of advanced knitting — and why not? Even to experienced knitters, it seems like…
If you’re a knitter looking to add some color to your needles but don’t have a lot of experience with colorwork, slip-stitch and stranded knitting…
Interested in knitting classic stranded colorwork sweaters? Or creating a hat with cute colorwork motifs? Stranded knitting is a great basic technique to have in…
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