How to knit Fair Isle for beginners [+tips and tricks for neat results]

A step-by-step tutorial on fair isle knitting for beginners with many tips and tricks for advanced knitters. Read the full tutorial on my blog: https://nimble-needles.com/tutorials/...

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Fair Isle knitting or stranded knitting, is an ingenious colorwork technique that allows you to knit with two or more colors to create stunning patterns. It's a super simple technique that boils down to dragging the unused yarn along on the wrong side, creating so-called floats. Traditionally, you only knit it with 2 colors per row and never bridge more than 4-5 stitches.
In this tutorial, I am not only going to show you how to knit fair isle the continental way, I will also show you how to knit with a knitting thimble. I will show you all the different ways to catch floats when using a knitting thimble the continental way, how to knit it in the round and how to knit Fair Isle flat.
There's also a section on the best yarn, how to read colorwork charts, and a section on advanced patterns like Fair Isle with three colors or knitting ribbing. A special focus is on tensioning methods because that's where most knitters have the biggest problems.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Fair Isle knitting
1:00 How to knit Fair Isle - The Basics
3:13 How to use a knitting thimble to knit Fair Isle
4:50 Managing floats
7:48 How to catch a float in Fair Isle knitting (continental)
10:53 Knitting Fair Isle in the round
14:18 How to knit Fair Isle flat
19:05 Part II: Fair Isle knitting tips & tricks
19:48 The best way to tension your yarn in stranded knitting
26:38 Yarn Dominance & Why it matters
29:59 Corrugated Ribbings
33:59 How to knit Fair Isle with three colors
38:07 The best yarn for Fair Isle knitting
40:56 How to read colorwork charts
44:37 Last tips

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