Colourwork Video Tutorials

All our tutorials related to knitting stranded colourwork, all in one handy place!

Choosing shades for a big colourwork project can be daunting. In this video, Felicity (Felix) Ford shares her system for finding colourwork inspiration in the world around us:

When knitting colourwork, the way you hold your two yarns will affect which colour appears more dominant. This video covers options for holding your yarns in a consistent way to achieve a uniform finish:

Colourwork knitting can produce lots of ends! If you’re using a sticky, 100% wool like Jamieson & Smith 2ply Jumper Weight though, you can splice your ends as you, eliminating the need to weave them in:

You can also knit in your ends as you go, as Jen demonstrates in this video:

The secret to even stranded colourwork is all in the floats—the long strands of yarn you find on the wrong side of your colouwork knitting. In these video tutorials, Jen shows you how to catch in floats for even stranded colourwork. The first demonstrates holding one yarn in each hand:

And this one shows how it’s done with both yarns in the right hand:

Steeking is often used in colourwork knitting to create armholes, neck openings, or to otherwise transform a circularly knit item into a flat piece of knitted fabric (like a cardigan). Learn how to prepare and cut a steek in this video:

Other useful tutorials

The two-colour alternating cast on is great way to get set up to knit corrugated rib, a feature of many traditional stranded colourwork designs:

Though this video focuses on using stitch markers to keep track of lace repeats, it’s an equally handy tip for knitting colourwork: