how to knit with colors! stranded colorwork tutorial | Made in the Moment

[@bobagirl8468]

I was so glad that you made this video it helped me so much. I just learned how to knit so this was very helpful. Thanks a million!!!!

[@madeinthemoment]

I'm so glad it helped! I hope you enjoy making this :)

[@mountainmate276]

Your voice is amazing and your teaching is even better! Because of you, I have been able to learn how to use different colors while knitting! Thank you so much!

[@comfort_home_20]

FINALLY A GOOD TUTORIAL i was going crazy but you help me a lot ❤

[@rylout1786]

this seems surprising simple, i can’t wait to try it!! if it goes well then i can make my own charts and i’ll have limitless power 😂😂😂

[@ScissortailMom]

This duck sweater is amazing!

[@RealisticSquash]

Thank you. A few years ago I made a checkered hat and the floats were insane. I have a few cool patterns I bought with words but gave up after making a ton of mistakes. I think I'll try a few squares first before I tackle a hat with words.

[@hanhvuong8898]

What a beautiful duck ! I love your video.🇻🇳

[@emiknits02]

ive been using your balaclava pattern for me and my bf's balaclavas that ive knitted recently, and then i saw you on instagram and saw your duck shirt! my bf loves birds so i bought the pattern to knit it for him, and bought the dino shirt pattern to knit for me! your patterns are very well written and understandable, and i also really like the lookbook you provide!:) im gonna do this cherry intarsia before i do the shirts bc i need to practice!:) thank you, i hope you make more knitting patterns!:)

[@amandabarnett6286]

Changing colours you trap the new yarns between the stitch prior to the colour change stitch 😊 and then wrap twist the colours as you go . This makes a really easy weave method 😊. If you do it this way, you will not have the holes( no knots then needed) and you will not have loops across the back ( I learnt from watching my mom and could do this when I was 5 years old and onwards i was a real knit obsessed kid back in the day and used to make Disney intarsia by the time I was 7 and 8 years old. I hope you did not mind me commenting the above . I Just want to help :)

[@igorkedamono]

thanks for the video!! im a beginner knitter whos starting to get into the more complicated stuff about knitting and this video was a super clear and understandable introduction to colorful patterns 🥰🥰

[@dango_rat]

that was really helpful! i started my first project yesterday and was confused about the texture, but after hearing you say purl on the wrong side it makes sense why it wasn't looking right - was knitting on both sides. it's so exciting to learn!

[@celiammmsam]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO !! i'm at my 4th attempt at the front panel of a jumper (hopefully my last) and this is a life saver!

[@cocovcoco]

Omgggggg i have been wondering how tf to do color work without everything splitting apart tysm 😭🩵🩵🩵🩵

[@zooty2069]

Making this to give to my cousin for her apartment thanks so much for the tutorial it’s very helpful 🫶

[@juanitagaiff5170]

Love your sweater great work you should do an eagle thanks for the pattern.

[@maddee4543]

i bought a vintage knitting pattern for intarsia dinosaur sweaters and im so confused by the lack of info on the pattern. this video is very helpful it's just hard to read those vintage patterns

[@rhosara]

Great tutorial, thank you! I would love also to see how the back side (wrong side)looks, if you make any edits.

[@karlijnscorner]

Love your new hair so much!! And the graph is absolutely adorable will be making something with it once I get through my wip pile for sure!!

[@madeinthemoment]

aw thank you !!! And yes ! This would look so cute on a tank top or something like that !!!

[@Plant-Kat]

Incredibly helpful, thank you so much!

[@bsfb3ar]

Hi I love, love love love the cherry with white black ground the cherries just jump right out it amazing. How how Daisy it must be very difficult to knit daisy in Intarsia since there are so many petals and so closed together, Thanks for the tutorial. Great teacher clear and simple to follow.

[@MTKKNITS]

This was perfectly explained ❤❤❤😊

[@christinewalsh7262]

You are just excellent

[@chrysanthemum.4481]

question, at 5:00 you put another red instead of using the one already attached to the white. why?

[@mariean7148]

For the second cherry 🍒

[@mandarinoluv]

I was wondering the same thing! Why not just use the existing red strand from the first cherry?

[@TheRightFighters]

​@mandarinoluv It helps to save yarn really. When there's a gap between the same colour (i.e there's a white gap between the 2 red cherries) you don't want to constantly have the red yarn floating between the 2 cherries [behind the white]. Otherwise you'll have unused yarn just hanging there. You add in a second red so that you have designated reds for each cherry. This is how intarsia knitting works. You could have a pattern that has loads of colours so you can use multiple bobbins to manage each colour in different sections

[@TheRightFighters]

Also makes it look neater from the back! Some intarsia knit pieces are kinda reversible because the back looks similar to the front as you don't have any floating yarn

[@TheRightFighters]

Kinda waffling but to make it a proper intarsia knit you could use 3 different white yarns for the left right and middle so you wouldn't have to float the yarn. So yea managing 5 threads of yarn and have a really neat back 😅

[@wontawn.crochets]

isn't this fair isle with the floats? I thought that intarsia was different because it doesnt have floats.

[@Harishigoto]

Woah, this has helped me so much One question tho, why did you use two strands of red yarn? 🍒

[@meinalteregon]

"Whatever locks your floats, you know?"

[@djmj098]

Thank you so much

[@nahidsafavi2925]

Hi , nice to meet you . I love this design Do you have any pattern for 2 small balloons for baby sweater please . It should be something like this pattern. This is the first time I’m doing this. Appreciate it

[@TinieMx]

Isn't this more fair isle/stranded knitting, rather than intarsia? I'm trying to learn both techniques, and the first thing I read about fair isle is that you carry the strands along by creating "floats" as you do here..

[@yulana990]

Intarsia also uses floats when necessary, however the key difference is that with fair isle you carry the colours basically across the whole piece. It is often used for very intricate colour changing pieces. Intarsia instead has larger patches of a singular colour, so you designate the area its own ball of yarn. She did this here by using 2 separate balls of red yarn for the 2 sides of the cherry, though the piece was small enough to not do that and just use 1 ball. Both techniques do use floats at times, sometimes it is inevitable, but with Intarsia you do try to give each area its own ball of yarn because carrying the secondary colour throughout the piece would waste a lot of the yarn in most intarsia pieces. Whilst Fair isle pieces can switch every single stitch from colour, for rows on end, making it impossible to assign several balls of yarn to everything. And when you do intarsia, you do always have to lock the new when you switch, which is the exact same method used when floating. The difference is that with intarsia you usually only do this during the colour change, and maybe a 2-4 stitches further, whilst with Fair Isle you do it throughout the whole piece. The back side of Intarsia will always have a few floats, unless you are knitting just a straight line, but the back piece of fair isle will have basically the whole thing covered in floats

[@marabell4016]

Did they weave in the back or something?

[@sonjar1942]

Hi i no his is small but for an adult jumper doing animals rows of them do i have to keep breaking of the thread example if im doing ten bears on a adult size jumper its seems complicated to keep breaking of yarn when using two different colors thanks i hope you responf with advice

[@zzakrzewjaki]

3:35 - a nie lepiej przy każdej zmianie koloru zaczynać od nowej nitki, aby uniknąć brzydkiego ciągnięcia nitek po lewej stronie robótki?

[@JasmineWafers]

6:52 just needa put a time stamp here :))

[@kateharrison8489]

i can’t for the life of me understand why on the second row (after the blank white line) why you knit five white stitches, when looking at the pattern it would only make sense to me to do one based on the edge of the cherry? could you please explain?

[@newleaf777]

A border is added around the whole thing

[@oranjjetofu4054]

…what do you do with the yarn ends? Haha

[@arya.s.o.]

im going to be knitting a sweater and with the float method it just seems like most of my secondary color yarn will be wasted floating. What do you suggest I do instead?

[@yulana990]

Idk if you've already found a way, but you can also Duplicate Stitch :) Many people just knit a regular piece, then use the duplicate stitch method to make any design they want on top of your piece. You can also combine this with intarsia, by making the basic larger shapes using the intarsia method, and then duplicate stitching smaller details on top of it. In general there shouldn't be too much wasted yarn using intarsia, because with intarsia you usually don't float your yarn too far off. If you do, in intarsia that means you should just attach a separate yarn ball for the next area, because it should be as easy as possible. If you're familiar with crochet, you have Tapestry crochet where you carry the 2nd yarn colour with you through the whole piece, and intarsia crochet which like here you designate separate balls of yarn for each part, making sure not too much space is between areas. In knitting the method of carrying the other colour throughout the piece is called Fair Isle knitting and is useful for certain pieces with small details and many colour changes, but not for large pieces with huge chunks of 1 single colour I would recommend seeing if you can simplify your design into larger shapes, that you can use separate yarn balls for, and then going in with the duplicate stitch method afterwards for smaller details! When I design a graph I also try to make sure that each colour change has a max decrease of 3-4 stitches, so that floating doesnt become too big of an issue. Nimble Needles on youtube also has some great detailed videos on intarsia and duplicate stitching :)!

[@starrr3974]

hello 🧍