Tutorial: Stranded Colourwork Basics

In this video for our Skill Builder Box yarn club, Elizabeth explains the basics of Stranded Colourwork Knitting, a technique that uses two or more yarn colours in the same row to create patterns or motifs, leaving strands or "floats" of yarn on the back of the work. Elizabeth shows three different methods for handling the yarn: the "pick-up-and-drop" method, the two-handed method, and a method of knitting with only one colour at a time (using slipped stitches). For more info about our Skill Builder Box yarn club: https://www.sweetpaprikadesigns.com/products/yarn-club-skill-builder-box 00:00 Intro 3:05 How to swatch in the round 6:41 How to read colourwork charts 9:21 The "pick-up-and-drop" method 12:30 The two-handed method 13:57 The one colour at a time method 16:39 How to catch floats (using two-handed method) 19:18: How to catch floats (using pick-up-and-drop method) 20:46 Blocking your swatch Skill Builder Box yarn club members: You can find the chart for the stranded knitting swatch in the PDF tutorial that accompanied your box. Music by: @japhysullivan2796​