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This simple chart shows you how to make the sample in this tutorial. Changing back to the first color.

Knitting Help My Favorite Fair Isle Techniques Youtube

The charts show just how many stitches to do in each colour.

Fair isle knitting how to. Fair isle is one of my favorite things to knit and after lotsa years of knitting and tweaking these are my faves. Fair isle is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. You have essentially lifted the left hand color over the right.

The woven stitch can be every other stitch or every third stitch. To work the fair isle colourwork pattern all you do is knit a few stitches in one colour then switch to another colour and knit a few stitches in that. The hat pattern i use for demonstration is my learn to knit fair isle pattern.

Fair isle knitting tutorial fair isle swatch pattern. Following the sample chart work two more stitches. Starting a fair isle knitting swatch.

Alternate a normal stitch with a woven stitch. To begin simply cast on as you normally would. Proceed to knit your stitch with the right color as normal.

Put your needle into the stitch and under the yarn on the left hand. This series of three videos are made to accompany the fair isle cap pattern available available for purchase and download here. It might sound silly but when you are working with more than one colour at a time try keeping the balls of yarn separated with one ball sitting on your right and one on your left.

Tips for fair isle knitting make sure your floats aren t carried too tightly across the wrong side of the work or the fabric will pucker. 6 ways to keep your fair isle looking fabulous 1. An easy trick is to spread out the stitches on the right needle every time you change colors.

If you are confused about how to read a knitting chart we have a full tutorial here.