Colour Work

Colourwork knitting is easy to get started with, but mastering it will take time. From carrying 2 yarns at once, to keeping your yarn out of a tangle, to managing an even tension, and catching floats, resourceful knitters around the world have developed techniques to improve our methods. Choose from the classes below to learn more and develop your colourwork knitting skills.

Stranded colourwork knitting usually uses 2 colours in a row or round. As one colour is knit into the fabric, the other is carried or ‘stranded’ behind. It’s easier to manage and knit evenly, when you use a ‘sticky’ yarn. This relates to the velcro-ish property of wool, or its propensity to hold onto itself. We recommend yarns that are woollen spun and not treated with a superwash process, as they have a more fuzzy texture at the surface and will naturally adhere to each other, giving your colourwork a locked-in coherence. As colourwork knitting often requires small amounts of many colours, it’s also worth considering yarns which are available in small skeins of 50g or less to help minimise left-overs and costs.

Browse our bookshelves for more help and inspiration on colourwork knitting: