Today is the first day of our Colorwork Knitting Weekend event.
And I have asked each one of the 4,000+ people who registered so far to share what they hope to get out of the event.
There are definitely some common themes, like:
- How to manage floats in stranded colorwork
- Getting better at advanced techniques like brioche and intarsia
- Learning how to make gauge swatches using colorwork
- Improving tension when knitting fair isle
- Gaining confidence in attempting to knit colorwork
But I thought I’d highlight some of the community responses we’ve received over the past couple weeks.
We’ll be covering most if not all of these topics over the course of the next 3 days!
Let’s dive in…
Today we’ll be focusing A LOT on how to use different kinds of yarn when knitting colorwork.
We’ll also dive into the 10 levels of colorwork, and what makes on technique more challenging than another.
Tension is a BIG topic and we’ll be spending most of the day on Friday talking about how to improve it.
PLUS we’ll also talk about yarn dominance and management.
Designing charts can be a big topic, but we are going to touch on it during Day 2 of the event.
We’ll help you decode how to read colorwork charts, and discuss some tools for making your own simple charts.
Another topic we’ll cover on Friday is different strategies for managing your floats.
There are quite a few ways to approach this and we’ll compare and contrast all of them.
That is a great topic, and something we’ll talk about during our Decoding Colorwork Charts session on Day 2.
It’s easier than you might think!
These are some of the most difficult types of colorwork.
But on Day 3 I’m going to show you why the are easier than you might think!
Conclusion
There were hundreds of responses and this was just a small sample of the comments we’ve received.