Easy Way to Knit Fair Isle and Other Stranded Colourwork in the Round and Flat

The biggest advantage of making our own handknits is the freedom to choose different colours and combine them in unique combinations. There are ways to blend colours together, to make motifs and various stripes, colour blocking and entrelac. 

But probably the most loved way to mix colours is stranded knitting, especially Fair Isle. This technique is considered to be more advanced because there are quite a few rules we need to follow to make a nice looking colourful fabric:

1. Manage a few strands of yarn at the same time in the same row or round.

2. Remember to always pick one strand from underneath the other, and maintain that order throughout the row or round.

3. Keep the floats at the back of the work long enough to ensure the fabric is not jammed.

Pretty complicated, right? Well, not if you use a little helpful technique I am going to explain in this article 🙂

The general idea is simple – we don’t carry two or more strands in one row. Instead, we work the same row or round with each colour separately. That means, that if we use two colours in one row, we’ll work the row in colour A, then return to the beginning of the row and work that same row with colour B.

Here’s how we can do it step by step.

Make your knits colourful 🙂

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The full step-by-step photo tutorial about this method, is a part of the Knitting Collection #1. Once you order your copy of this collection, you will instantly receive a “big PDF” (190 pages!) with this and 22 other tutorials included in the collection.

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