Knitted Colorwork Basics: Learn Mosaic, Intarsia & Fair Isle Techniques
Mary Beth Temple
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- In-depth Instruction; over 63 mins
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Session 1: Intro & Materials
1:33
Let’s take a look at the three different techniques we will dive into in more detail in later sessions.
Session 2: Mosaic Knitting
22:46
Mosaic knitting is a colorwork technique using only two colors of yarn, one color per row, that takes its distinctive look from carefully slipped stitches. Championed by knitting genius Barbara Walker in the late 1960s, there are literally hundreds of patterns you can try!
Session 3: Intarsia
20:18
For Intarsia knitting we have a different ball or bobbin of yarn for each section of a specific color. Even if the same color appears more than one time in a row, there are no floats – each iteration of a color begins its own strand of yarn.
Session 4: Stranded Knitting: Fair Isle
17:57
Stranded knitting is just what it sounds like – you will work with multiple strands of yarn across one row, carrying the unused color behind the stitches, to achieve your desired colorwork. Fair Isle knitting is a type of stranded knitting with its own set of standards. Once again it is all about the yarn management, this time a little different than the previous techniques.
Like many other techniques in knitting, colorwork isn’t scary once you know how! In this class we are doing to do an overview of three different colorwork techniques – Mosaic Knitting, Intarsia and Fair Isle or Stranded Knitting. Each technique has its own special tips and tricks to give you an enjoyable knitting experience with a beautiful outcome.
Mary Beth Temple
Mary Beth Temple is a long-time designer of knit, crochet and sewing patterns, and lover of any other type of craft that comes across her path! She can often be found crafting by the beach near her home in Wilmington, North Carolina, and makes no guarantees that there won’t be sand in her samples. With more than a dozen books to her name, Mary Beth is a prolific designer whose independent work can be found under her brand name Hooked for Life. You can check out her doings at HookedforLifePublishing.com/blog, and from there visit her various social media outlets.
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