Stranded colourwork
How Stranded colourwork is worked, what it is called in US and UK patterns, and where it is used.
- Abbreviation
- stranded / Fair Isle
- UK name
- Fair Isle
- Rows per repeat (rows)
- 1 rows
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Family
- colourwork
- How it works
- Knit with two colours in a round, carrying the unused colour loosely behind. Floats longer than about five stitches are caught. The technique behind charted colourwork hats.
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