How To Knit: Stranded Colourwork

Learn how to master stranded colourwork (fairisle), a knitting technique that lets you use more than one colour at a time. Often combined with a chart, this is an intermediate level technique.

Learn how to master stranded colourwork (fairisle), a knitting technique that lets you use more than one colour at a time. Often combined with a chart, this is an intermediate level technique.

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Learn how to master stranded colourwork (fairisle), a knitting technique that lets you use more than one colour at a time. Often combined with a chart, this is an intermediate level technique.

See the step by step guide here
Level: Intermediate
Craft: Knitting
Type: Technique

Step by Step

How To Knit: Stranded Colourwork - Step 1

Step 1

Charts are a great way to view complex stitch patterns.

How To Knit: Stranded Colourwork - Step 2

Step 2

Work your first colour in correspondance to the stitch chart, until you reach your next colour.

How To Knit: Stranded Colourwork - Step 3

Step 3

To change colours, insert your needle and slip your new colour onto your needle and continue your knit stitch as normal.

How To Knit: Stranded Colourwork - Step 4

Step 4

Every few stitches, take the colour that you are not using and wrap it over the yarn that you are using. This creates a neat finish.

How To Knit: Stranded Colourwork - Step 5

Step 5

Because you twisted your yarn throughout, it is carried through neatly across your row.

How To Knit: Stranded Colourwork - Step 6

Step 6

Continue following your chart and twisting the colours you are not using over the yarn that you are using every couple of stitches to achieve a neat stranded colourwork.