Shaped Intarsia Video Download

Description

If you’ve ever been annoyed with jagged color changes in traditional intarsia knitting, there is a solution. In Shaped Intarsia, knitwear designer and instructor Daniela Nii shares techniques that allow you to create smooth lines and curves, which are otherwise rarely seen in knitting. It’s possible to highlight color transitions as decorative design elements or create a more subtle effect by diffusing the stitch in your work. The possibilities are endless for incorporating both organic and geometric shapes into your knitting. It’s really as simple as working a k2tog and lifting one strand of yarn over the other.

In Shaped Intarsia, you will learn how to: 

• Compare and contrast stranded knitting with intarsia
• Make a butterfly to contain your yarn
• Change colors vertically, to the right, and to the left
• Use decreases and increases to eliminate jagged color transitions and hide them in your knitted fabric
• Use special increases and decreases for a decorative effect
• Finish your pieces with tips and tricks for closing holes and weaving in the ends
• And more!

The Shaped Intarsia Tunic and Grace’s Bag patterns featured in this video are available in the Knitting Daily Shop.

Perfect your intarsia, order Shaped Intarsia today!