Jamie Lomax's Doodle series of patterns are a fun way to dip your toes in color work (stranded knitting). You pick a single sided cowl or a infinity loop knit in the round. The pattern comes with a bunch of little mini charts, most are worked two colors at a time, and you pick which ones you want to use and which order. Her website https://www.pacificknitco.com/ and she's on ravelry https://www.ravelry.com/designers/jamie-lomax
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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I've seen those patterns on Ravelry but I thought they were way too over my head. Thanks for letting me know they're acually newbie-friendly. I think I'm gonna try the Basic Doodle cowl first :)
@kurobita do you want stranded colourwork in general or actual fair isle? If the first, you could start with mittens or a hat, like https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/starkin (you could start with just 2 colours)
I have to be honest and confess I honestly have no idea of the terminology, let's say anything but Intarsia lol
@kurobita fair isle is a subset/implementation of stranded colourwork, so you can safely go with the latter and knit your heart out :)
thank you! and thanks for the pattern recomendation, those look so cute/cozy!
@kurobita wearing a pair right now! They're super warm because you effectively have two layers of yarn.
oh, pro tip: get wool that's a bit rustic, like Shetland or Norwegian or whatever is sticky/grippy around where you live. SO MUCH easier than, like, superwash merino if you're starting with colourwork.
@kurobita if you want to do fair isle, you could look at the Shetland Wool Week hats, theyβre super fun! Hazel Tindall designed a couple of them and she has many more patterns for small projects.
I'm also keen to learn colourwork so I've been boning up. Top tip so far: don't use full balls of the additional colours. Instead, wind a goodly length on to a bobbin. https://fullywoolly.co.uk/products/clover-knitting-bobbin-set-332 This makes it easier to control the yarn.
Also, there's a technique of holding the main yarn in one hand and the colour in the other. Knit one using English method (throwing) and other using Continental. https://youtu.be/JOYBE11s640?feature=shared
The big caveat here is that I haven't actually done any of this! I have the yarn to make a fair isle hat, but my one attempt was a terrible failure, because I had done zero research. Once I've finished my current project I'm going to have another go. Keep us posted on how you get on...
@kurobita I did my first stranded colorwork on a cowl pattern: "Selbu Cowl" by Inge Skeie (on Ravelry.) Not for new knitters but not that difficult either. Two purple colors of Rauma Finull, rustic fingering weight. I think a colorwork cowl would be easier to do first than mittens or a sweater. // For sweater yoke colorwork patterns I often hear knitting YouTubers recommend going up one needle size on the colorwork than the rest of the body. Good luck.