How to knit colorwork

This tutorial shows you how to knit colorwork. It is an in-depth tutorial perfect for anyone who has no experience knitting colorwork and would like to learn how.

This tutorial covers the following areas:

How to read a colorwork chart
How to easily keep track of where you are in the chart
How to hold your yarn for knitting with two colors
Joining a new color
Color dominance
What a float is and how to manage their tension
Increase rows and why a chart might have “no stitch” sections
How to work a m1L increase

All of the techniques are demonstrated using my Blizzard sweater. This sweater has been designed specifically for knitters who want to knit a colorwork yoke sweater, but have no colorwork experience. There are a number of features that make Blizzard perfect for a colorwork beginner including:

Repeats are kept short and easily memorized
Increases are worked in the main color rounds so you don’t have to remember increases and colorwork
Floats are kept short so their tension is more easily managed.

The pattern for Blizzard is available on both Ravelry and my website at the links below:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...

https://www.jessicamcdonalddesigns.co...

There is also a children’s version of this design called Skift. You can find that pattern on Ravelry and my website at the links below:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...

https://www.jessicamcdonalddesigns.co...

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