Anytime you are involved in a creative or visual craft, having a good understanding of color relationships is a foundation that you will appreciate over and over again. Color is all around us. It has the ability to affect our …
Got a lovely fair isle sweater, but don’t feel like weaving in all those ends? Kerin shows you a clever way to quickly finish off your sweater by braiding your yarn ends!
This simple technique shows you how to easily handle colorwork patterns that use more than two colors within the same row, great for Icelandic and other Scandinavian motifs.
In this video, Kerin goes over the basics of preparing and cutting a steek! This is a useful technique that allows you to knit colorwork projects completely in the round, allowing you to avoid stranding across the wrong side …
Fair Isle Knitter Andrea Lum talks about the origins of fair isle knitting, as well as how and where the technique is often used.
When you’re reading a fair isle chart, things can get a bit tricky. Andrea Lum gives some tips on reading your chart effectively, and mentions tools that can help you along the way.
Fair Isle Knitter Andrea Lum talks about the concept of yarn dominance in fair isle knitting, and shows how to hold your yarns to knit colorwork effectively.
What does yarn progression mean in fair isle knitting? If you like a pattern but want to knit it in different colors, how do you know which ones to substitute? Fair Isle Knitter Andrea Lum gives you tips and tricks …
When the fair isle pattern you will be knitting is in the round, how do you swatch? Andrea takes you through the process of swatching in the round.
Carrying is one way of doing colorwork in crochet; it is also called tapestry crochet. In this method, another color is “carried” along the top of the previous row, with new stitches in the current color being worked over it. …