Catching floats in stranded knitting

If you do Stranded Knitting, you’ll want to be able to catch long floats. Doing so helps to avoid the wearer’s fingers from getting caught in them. I love a technique that’s both practical and pretty. Don’t Avoid It! This is often a technique that people who do Stranded Knitting try to avoid by only …

This post is specifically for catching floats while doing Fair Isle, or stranded colorwork knitting. Fair Isle knitting is when two colors are used to knit across one row. For this example, the Mai…

Back in 2007, when I first published a post about the how-to for color knitting, I promised to show a trick for invisible long floats (invisible stranding). I'm not sure why this has taken nearly a decade to bring the promised technique before you, but today (ta da!) I am keeping that promise. Herewith, the STUART method for taming long floats in color knitting. Have a look: on this finished sample, that's an 11-stitch stretch between the two purple color-patterns, and the floats run the…

How to catch floats in stranded colorwork knitting

No more loopy fair isle floats! In this free tutorial, learn how to lock your floats in every stitch for a smoother finish at the back of your work.

For symmetrical decreases, e.g. on a bottom up raglan sweater, you need to knit 2 together (k2tog) on one side of the marker and make a left-leaning...

How I Do Stranded Knitting Part 4- Catching Floats, Top Strand. In this video I am knitting in the round on circular needles.