Tutorial: Knitting Continental 2 colour Stranded Knitting
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2020
- Join me for a detailed dive into 2-colour stranded knitting, CONTINENTAL STYLE! (that is, holding BOTH yarns in the left hand)
I'm working on my Alexandria Cowl, by Shinysuperhero, and mastering the art of two coloured stranded knitting in the continental style. The aim is to retain speed and quality without driving myself bananas with a monster yarn spagetti.
I break down the technique that I learned, discussing some of the issues with 2 stranded colourwork as well as the experience I went through, with lots of neat little handy tips and guidance. Develop your technique with me as we practice ONE colour continental, then building up to TWO colour continental.
SPOILERS! If you want to skip ahead to the two colour business, its at the 9 MIN mark.
I'm doing these videos just for fun, and am not compensated or sponsored by any brands, shops or designers. All opinions are my own.
I hope you enjoy this video! Please let me know if you have questions or comments.
Find me on IG and Rav @111windmills.
This is exactly how I figured out for myself because I also didn't like using two different hands. This way is how I taught myself knitting one stranded in the beginning, so I didn't wanna change technique for 2 strands. Really good tutorial and instructions, made things much more clearer and easier now for me. I wasn't quite sure if how I did it was quite right and felt a bit wonky because everyone's doing it different and I just held the yarn like normal and struggled to always grab the right one from the right direction. Appreciate your video!
Great video! Thank you
Gracias a ti buen truco thanks
could you please low down the music? your voice is so soft and I can't understand very well what are u saying
So show how to lock with the kind of continental knitting your doing,? As I do it the exact same way but locking a st is a wee bit difficult. Btw your instruction is wonderful ty.
I have done Continental all my life and am starting into stranded right now. This is a game-changer for me, thank you so much!
Thanks Gina!! so glad it helped you!!
❤❤❤But 🤷♀️why the music in the background. I want to hear YOU. MERCI
Simply awesome!! Best tutorial I’ve seen, in countless hours of trawling this net AND a lot of knitting I’m not super happy with. So nice to hear an accent I’m fluent in too!🇦🇺
thanks so much! Really glad this helped you!! =)
Absolutely, love your instructions for color work. Love knitting color work and lacey sweaters. Selbu Mittens are my favorite projects so far. Love the earthy tones your using. It's like working with an artist's pallet of paint. No boundaries! 💜
thanks so much!! I love colourwork too, its a whole mood on its own!
This helped me understand the top & bottom colors, and suddenly stranded knitting is clicking for me!
I find it easier to tension my foreground color on my pinky & my background color on my ring finger. When I do both yarns around my pinky, they twist up and get frustrating for me.
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your techniques. I too am a continental knitter.
my pleasure! I hope you enjoyed it and found it useful =)
I really like your system, even though I'm not a continental knitter. But, could you please either turn the music down or off? It's hard to hear what you are saying. Thank you!
Two color continental starts from 9:30 !
Thanks. I fast forwarded.
Great video! Thanks. Love your humor! 😄
That looks so neat and well explained. I’ve just finished knitting my first stranded colorwork using both hands (continental for main color and English for contrasting color)
Turned out ok but I’ll definitely give your method a try on my next project. Thank you for sharing😊👍🏻
thanks so much! I sometimes still hold my colours in separate hands, depends on how I'm feeling, but since Im more used to holding them in the same hand, I find its a bit faster and more consistent. Its such a personal preference too!! happy knitting!
What a great technique! Thanks for sharing. I am always interested in learning new ways to knit.
Thank you! So happy to share and that you've found it useful! 👍
Love this so much! It was incredibly helpful bc I am a continental knitter and find it very difficult to hold yarn in my right hand. Thank you for sharing this
Very very helpful, thanks so much!!!!
So if you have 6 sts in a row of one color, you don't need to catch your float after 3?
Thanks so much!! Very helpful! Your work is beautiful 🤩
thanks Heather!! much appreciated!
Its not just pretty good, it is beautifully done
thankyou so much!!
Thanks! I was trying to figure out color dominance with one handed continental and two colors.
Great video! helped a lot. It's my first stranded work and it tuns out AWSOME, thanks to you!! Greetings from the high mountains of Switzerland, all the best for you
You just saved my sanity...Thank you so much for this video
My pleasure!!! So glad it's helping you 👍👍👍
I found this really helpful, thanks! Do you have a video on purling continental? So interesting to see how other people do things and improve our techniques😊
Thank you !!! This technique is fabulous !!!
very informative, excellent demonstration.
Very Helpful!!
What is that lovely stitch pattern? So pretty. And I like your color selection too. I will have to try your method - but while I do hold the yarn in my left hand, it is not continental. I do eastern uncrossed which always wraps the yarn the other way - back leg forward instead of front leg forward as for continental and English. So the strands may not separate quite so cleanly for me. Thank you for demonstrating this. It makes a lot of sense while not getting too bogged in detail.
Thanks so much! The pattern is the “Alexandria Cowl” by Shinysuperhero. She writes beautiful colour work and instaria patterns. She’s on Ravelry and Insta. I taught myself continental to learn to knit faster, I sometimes flip back and forth now. It’s always great to have a variety of techniques to use!!
Thanks for the tip for looping the non-dominate color around the back of your forefinger. I agree that the music is distracting.
This is my favorite video for continental colorwork. I still have such a hard time with my tension. My dominant color tension becomes loose on my finger while the background color remains taut. I'm not sure how to keep them both alright.
thank you for your video I'm trying to figure out the part about floats when you have like eight or nine stitches how are you carrying the other color with holding both strands together
I have an upcoming project that has this exact problem.. it might be a while before I get you the colour work section but keep an eye out and I'll do a video when I get there 👍
Much better, thanks
G’day, your voice sounds like an Aussie accent? 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 I am 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 Thank you just found your tutorial am going to try your technique and hoping you are still doing more videos easy to understand 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hi Carolyn! Yep, Aussie in Sydney. G’day!! Thanks for stopping by and I’m glad you liked my video! I have plans for more content soon... I just need time!! I hope the technique works for you!!
Great stuff :) Would you like to be CZcams friends? :]
How do you carry your floats across several stitches...like 6 or 8 stitches?
It's pretty straightforward actually.. but hard to explain without visuals. I'm working on some colour work knitting right now so I'll do a video and demo once I get up to a good part of the colour work section. It might take a few weeks to record, edit and publish though! Watch this space 💜💜
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Bring it on!! Yay!!
What yarn brand colors etc did you use
The jumper projec is a hedgehog fibres club colour and yarn from nerdgirl, who isn't dyeing anymore. The cowl project is spincycle in 2 colours and pirate purls yarn 👍🏼
Cannot here this video. Such a shame.
Music is distracting. Cannot hear you clearly. Do not need. : )
Hi Juanita thanks for your comment, I'm working on reducing my use of music in future videos. Really appreciate your feedback while I find my way!! 😁
@@EleventyOneWindmills No need for the music at all. It's reallllly distracting. :(
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Too wordy, get to the point!
Absolutely awful music in the background. Why?
Vorbărie multă și practică puțină +fond muzical enervant.
Very disappointed. Wasted 10 min, 35 seconds before you got to the subject of the video.
sorry you feel you wasted your time, if you read the description, I do point out that the technique with 2 colours starts at the 9 min mark. Feel free to skip ahead if you don't want to learn the grounding techniques for this. Good luck with your stranded colourwork.