Learn the Ladderback Jacquard Technique

Discover a new way to manage the floats of your colourwork knitting which can transform the way you work repeating patterns – and how you feel about tackling them!

Ladderback Jacquard is a specialised knitting technique that manages long floats in stranded colorwork by transforming them into secure, vertical “ladders” of stitches on the reverse side. Unlike trapping or catching floats, this method creates a web on the wrong side of your fabric which prevents snagging, maintains elastic tension, and keeps long floats from showing through on the front. This makes Ladderback Jacquard an ideal technique for knitting wide colour blocks like big fish or giant blooms, where there are more than 5 stitches and the floats would otherwise be too long.

In this 3 hour class, knitting analyst and techniques expert, Wendy Peterson (aka Yarnsub.com), will teach you how to master the Ladderback Jaquard Technique. You will learn how to:

analyse colourwork charts to understand when Ladderback Jacquard is appropriate.
identify where to place your ladder stitches in your charted pattern
create, continue and finish ladder stitches

During the class you will work on Wendy’s Tulip wrist warmer pattern. You will have the option to cast off a completed wrist warmer at the end of the class or continue knitting it into a fingerless mitten with an extended colourwork motif.

Skills Required

You must be comfortable knitting small circumferences in the round
You should have some experience of knitting stranded colourwork

Materials required

You will need 3 contrasting shades of DK yarn. We recommend something reasonably sticky like WYS Bluefaced Leicester, WYS Pure or Sheepsoft by Laxtons. Please bring 4mm needles suitable for knitting small circumferences in the round, or whichever size you usually use for DK weight wool.

10:00am to 1:00pm

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17th May 2026

£75

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20th September 2026

£75

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Cancellation Policy

When booking your ticket, please make sure you are able attend on the date selected. In general, our classes are non-refundable. Exceptions to this rule will be wholly dependent on whether we can re-sell your ticket to someone on a waiting list, in which case a 90% refund or date change will be considered. For this reason we urge you to contact us at the earliest opportunity if you wish to cancel your booking. Please email us for more details.

In the event that we need to cancel a class, we will provide as much notice as possible and offer either a full refund or an alternative booking date.

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