Developing your custom sweater concept
This post is part of our ‘How to Strange Brew’ series. This section is focused on pattern placement and overall concept.
colourwork
We LOVE colour! Colourwork knitting includes stranded knitting (also called Fair Isle knitting), slipped-stitch knitting, and other techniques such as blending yarns (marling), stripes, colour blocking and intarsia too! We have tutorials to help you pick a pleasing palette too.
Choosing yarn for your colourwork sweater
This post is part of our ‘How to Strange Brew’ series. This post is focused on choosing yarn for a colourwork sweater.
Marled Knitting: Holding Two (or more!) Yarns Together
Marling involves holding 2 yarns together at the same time. It is so much fun to experiment with different results!
Bibliography for Stranded Colourwork
A few of our favourite colourwork stitchionary resources.
FAIR ISLE Friday
During our Week of Colour we have explored 5 colour strategies and shared many more than 5 knits. We’ve had a blast playing with colour and sharing some of our findings with you!
TRICOLOUR Thursday
This post is part of our ‘week of hats’ series. Tricolour Thursday is all about adding in that tricky third!