Learn to Knit Fair Isle - Part 2

This series of three videos are made to accompany the Fair Isle Cap pattern, available available for purchase and download here:
http://verypink.com/2011/01/13/learn-to-knit-fair-isle-baby-or-adult-cap/

This video shows you how to read and work the color chart, and how to keep good tension on your "floats" in fair isle knitting.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• fair isle
• colorwork
• stranded knitting
• snowflake
• Norwegian
• circular knitting
• addi
• addi turbos
• cascade 220
• chart
• color chart
• floats

[cathy47h]

I have tried doing Fair Isle on my own using books and gave up because of the confusion. You have been of great help. Just one question what do we do with the ends of the contrasting yarn? Your instructions great but like many others leave things in the air like this. Thank you for your help.

[verypinkknits]

@cathy47h Hi Cathy - you can weave in the contrasting yarn just like the main color yarn. Watch my video "Knitting Help - Weaving in Ends" (sorry, YouTube won't let me give you a direct link, but you can search for it on my channel page. This video will show you how to weave in ends that don't show through on the front of the work. :)

[faemprs]

I could not have begun my faire isle project without this video. You are a Godsend, thank you so much for such a clear video.

[verypinkknits]

@faemprs Awesome. :) I'm so glad my videos are helping you. Thank you for taking the time to write such a nice comment.

[leoraac]

Awesome video! I'm glad I have stumbled upon some of your tutorials while searching for help with free online patterns. But I think I'm going to buy a pattern just to support your work :-) Keep these great tutorials coming!

[mhorsesbiz]

PS: thank you! :-)

[mhorsesbiz]

I found it, thinks this is what I was looking for, running bunnies %-)

[Alvll3ER]

I have done a couple of fair isle hats such as this one and I always have an issue with my floats showing a bit when the hat is put on. Any advice?

[sor0bet]

This video was great, answered the exact question I had about how to work the floats so as to not make the work bunch up. Thanks!

[psykojinx]

Also, I don't know if lots of people know about this, but I noticed that stitch patterns look just like video game sprites. So if you're having trouble finding a knit pattern for a kid or someone who just really loves video games too, you can search on google for the name of the character you want with the word Sprites and you might find their tiny characters. Use a paint program to zoom in, add a grid (with the View dropdown) and there you have your pattern. Avoid .jpg tho. They're too fuzzy.