Colourwork Follow Along - Lesson 8

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LESSON EIGHT

Next level motifs are just around the corner

Trapping Floats

So you've mastered your tension and chart reading has "clicked" - what's next in the world of colourwork for you? Well, a step up from the starter projects featured in this Follow Along is to begin working on motifs with longer transitions between your main colour and contrast colour strands. In these instances you'll need to know how to trap or catch long floats at the back of the work, so we take you step by step through the process in this lesson. Before you know it you'll be breezing through new and interesting motifs. With this technique under your belt, the colourwork world will be your oyster!

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Novice knitter does colourwork

I am a brand new self thought knitter. This course has helped me not only grasp concepts of colourwork but also understand basics of knitting aswell. The project is great fun and im having fun knitting along 😄

Fantastic Colourwork KnitALong Course

Understandable step-by-step videos, options in pattern and yarn, so many bonus tips and resources too. My stretchy cowl turned out great and now I feel so much more confident about starting more complicated colorwork projects. I highly recommend it!

Fantastic course.

This course has been such good fun and has revolutionised my colourwork. The continental technique was new to me but explained so clearly. Holding the yarns in different hands makes it so simple to maintain tension and I will be using this method of knitting colourwork from now on. Lisa makes everything seem so simple that you wonder why you had problems before. The cowl is lovely and rewarding to knit. It usually takes me a while to finish my projects but I whizzed through this. The section on catching floats has also saved me hours of untangling yarns! I will revisit the lessons in this course over and over. It has made me so much more confident with colourwork and eager to get working on more projects. I could not recommend more highly.

I can do colour work!

Really enjoyed following the tutorials. I decided I would spend the time to master the Continental style knitting technique and it was worth it…my colour work cowl knitted up beautifully and I found keeping the floating contrast colour strands under the main colour easy and the project knitted up beautifully tensioned with lovely floating strands that just sit on the inside surface.
I’m just about to block it…but couldn’t wait to share how pleased I am!

My First Colourwork

The follow along videos have SO much GREAT information. Absolutely worth the time and money. Lisa goes above and beyond in sharing helpful tips. It’s great for beginners and experienced knitters. I will be hanging on to this link for further help. Than you, This Is Knit. You do beautiful work. I want to travel to Dublin and hang out in your shop as a holiday

I’ve knitted a sweater before, but I will use the first sweater follow along for my next sweater.
Always looking for the next project. :)