You’ve mastered casting on and knitting and purling. It’s time to explore where you can take patterning with colour.

Stranded colourwork also known fairisle knitting, is the knitted art of creating repeating motifs in different colours – with a rich heritage of traditional designs from Scotland, Scandinavia, Japan and Peru, that continue to fuel exciting new work in modern knitwear collections.

This class will guide you through the fundamentals of stranded colourwork.
You will learn how to:

• join in new colours
• weave in ends as you knit
• switch from colour to colour
• catch floats
• manage yarn tension
• factor colour dominance into your work

We will also discuss ways to approach combining colours in bigger projects.

During the class you will knit a colourwork swatch which you can use as a coaster.

Yarn and needles will be available.