Easy Way to Hold Yarn for Stranded Knitting – English and Continental

There are several ways to work with two or more colours in the same row or round – we can hold all strands in one hand (with or without a yarn guide), hold one strand in our left hand and one strand in our right hand, or hold just the strand used to work the current stitch.

I tried all of these ways and discovered that the third option is the easiest one. When we hold one strand at-a-time in the hand that we normally use to hold the working yarn, there is no need to fiddle with several strands or re-learn the whole process of knitting by trying to use the hand that doesn’t hold the yarn when we work in a solid colour.

With practice, we can get really fast and efficient when we drop unused strands every time we change colour in our project. And, we can use this method when we normally hold the working yarn in the left or in the right hand. In this tutorial, I’ll show you both ways.

This method is the same for Fair Isle and other stranded colour patterns worked with two colours, and for the colour patterns worked in three and more colours.

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