Customize Your Colorwork Knitting Part 1 - How to Choose Colors for Fair Isle and Colorwork Knitting

[@HundredAcreWool]

I hope this video gives you some helpful things to think about, and that you feel empowered to customize any color work knitting pattern - make it your own! Now that you know the basics of parings colors, go out there and feel confident choosing your yarns to achieve the exact look you are striving for!

[@orangeandyoghurt]

Quick tip for comparing color values without your phone: squint your eyes to a near shut. As only a little light comes through your eyes, your vision will focus on contrast, not color - just like you see your surroundings during the night. :-) Great video! I love your color combination, so excited what the finished sweater will look like!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Great tip! I'll try it! Thanks so much for watching :)

[@candyminton2524]

I know this will help others. I do this technique with my quilt fabrics all of the time. Now to use them as I begin colorwork

[@HundredAcreWool]

Lovely! Happy knitting :)

[@rozastern7655]

Can't wait for lessons two and three. Thanks

[@HundredAcreWool]

Me too!

[@karenbochinski]

Excellent video. I love doing colorwork and you were very helpful

[@lanastraea]

I was so excited to see this video, and you were very clear in your explanations. The color photo examples you showed were really helpful, too. I'm looking forward to the next couple of videos that get into the more technical aspects of planning out your colorwork. Thank you!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Wonderful! Thank you very much! I’m excited to create the next ones as well 😊

[@applepie297]

Thank you for your video and the examples. Highly appreciated. I would like to mention that high contrasts in colourwork are not for everyone. I am a soft autumn and low contrasts look sophisticated and elegant on me, whereas a high contrast sweater is so dominant that you only see the sweater, not the person. I often mix heathered colours of a similar value, which is painful to knit (whilst knitting you hardly see the difference) but looks absolutely gorgeous in the end.

[@HundredAcreWool]

Oh, absolutely! I often do low contrast looks for myself as well! I’ll have to try the heathered look!

[@elenah287]

Thank you, Bella! That’s was the best explanation of how to choose colors. I love your channel. 🥰

[@HundredAcreWool]

I’m so happy this helped! 😊

[@MerryweatherKnitting]

Bella you are such a natural teacher! Taking a photo and putting on a mono filter is so incredibly brilliant. I've always been so intimidated by choosing my own colours/combinations for fair isle but loved the way you explained everything. Can't wait to learn how to digitally mock up colorwork patterns too! 💗

[@HundredAcreWool]

Oh, thank you so much Gabriella! I so happy you found it helpful!

[@FourPinesKnitting]

Wow! Thank you so much! You are the first person who has ever explained color theory to me so that it made sense. I knew the trick about taking a greyscale picture. I understand contrast, but was never able to grasp color. This has helped so, so much.

[@HundredAcreWool]

I am so happy I can help! Thank you for watching!

[@noleeh6077]

This was very helpful and I look forward to the additional videos in this series. Thank you.

[@HundredAcreWool]

So glad it was helpful!

[@pyrme12]

Very well done! ❤️❤️❤️

[@barbmckinlay3400]

Wow, I struggle with values. This was such a help. Thank you!!!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Yay! So happy this helps 😊

[@karenclarke301]

Excellent! Thank you! (We are 'neighbors' kind of. Ventura County here. BIG power outage this week so I had to knit by flashlight. But--- I kept on knitting!)

[@HundredAcreWool]

Wow! More power to you!! Nothing can stop us from knitting 😄

[@verapaelman1820]

bravo !!! this is so interesting, useful, well explained !!! thank you so much !!!! looking forward to part two

[@HundredAcreWool]

I’m so glad you find it helpful!!

[@abbyring8805]

This was such a good video! Thank you. I had no idea that's what shade and value meant. Very informative, can't wait for the rest!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Awesome! So glad you find value in it :)

[@AndréeMinois]

Excellent demo, merci❤

[@andreasanford8814]

Good information! I saw Hazell Tindall showing how to separate light and dark colors and then matching up them based on value... like the lightest light color with the lightest dark color and so forth. It was helpful to me. I use the Black and white picture test too. It seems I often end up with a white or cream background on my fair isle hats and I like to do the watercolor effect with my pattern knitting. I would like to add more colors though so I am going to use this info.

[@HundredAcreWool]

Glad this is helpful! Thats also a really good method, and I really want to do more watercolor effect knitting as well!

[@JoDeeKenney]

This was very helpful! I'm a newbie!

[@vindeljay]

Brilliant, succinctly put.

[@HundredAcreWool]

How kind, thank you!

[@anu_T95]

Brilliant Bella. Thanks a lot!!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Thanks so much!!

[@nammyg7052]

A very interesting and informative podcast Thank you.

[@HundredAcreWool]

Thanks for watching!

[@Randi19196]

Thank you for this informative video!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Thanks for watching!

[@MikiCrespo]

Excellent video. Thanks so much for sharing 💗

[@HundredAcreWool]

Thank you! So happy you find value in it!

[@BerkeCreationsPodcast]

Thank you for making this video! I was pretty much waiting for it! Such great informations! I really want to try out your helpful tips for Kathrine of Aragon from the Tudor Roses!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Aww thanks Zsofia! I’m so excited to see!

[@elissamcgahren8473]

Very helpful, thanks 🙏

[@HundredAcreWool]

Tysm!

[@QueenBaha]

🌴☀️Brilliantly Educational….thank you☀️🌴

[@vickishaw374]

That was so helpful! Thanks 😘

[@HundredAcreWool]

So glad it helps!

[@irenas2594]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you :-)

[@HundredAcreWool]

Thank you 😊

[@davidlogsdon1891]

Your awesome! Thanks for the help

[@TheSabinewalkden]

Thank you so much for that Bella. It was extremely informative and I learnt something too! I discovered what value was. Here in the UK we might refer to it as shading, but I am not too sure about that.

[@HundredAcreWool]

So glad it is helpful!

[@suzannescott7724]

Thank you! That was helpful!!

[@HundredAcreWool]

So glad to hear!

[@robinmarks5638]

This is excellent!!!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Thanks so much! 😁

[@AustinOnStandby]

My #1 takeaway: contrast is key!

[@HundredAcreWool]

Exactly!

[@619to253]

I wish I had seen this BEFORE I started my colorwork sweater. I used a variegated yarn and the contrasting yarn is speckled with the same color S the variegated. My colorwork is coming out muddy. Thanks for the tip. Rachelle in Seattle

[@rozastern7655]

You are right, I did the same. Can't see the pattern well. Thinking of undoing my hard work. Lesson learned. Thanks to Bella.

[@HundredAcreWool]

Ah well you could always frog. Anyways, I’m glad to be of help!

[@sedthesed]

i wish yarns also had a info about their colour value , with a white to black chart for whom like online shopping

[@juliebeaudoin1372]

I was thinking to buy Drops yarn . I was wondering if anyone had some experience with it if so Wich one should I buy to do this project thank you

[@HundredAcreWool]

Awesome! I love drops alpaca for colorwork - they have a lot of great color choices! I can't speak to any of their other yarns because alpaca is the only one I have tried so far.