I'm definitely going to try the inside out tip. I also have gone up a needle size for the colorwork portions of my sock. Since it only has a few parts of color work. It worked for the one section. But there is a bit more colorwork at the cuff that I did too tight and won't fit over my heel.
Yes, please do and keep me posted! This trick made a big difference for me when making socks and experiencing a similar problem. Also, be sure to spread the stitches on your right needle out a bit more than you usually would when knitting stockinette stitch, especially when you’re about to make a float and start knitting with the other color. That will make your floats a little longer than the width of the stitches and help with stretch and fit as well. ☺️
@VanessaSmithDesigns It worked and the sock fits over my heel now, but it did not block great. It looks okay, but I wish it looked better. I just had to make the floats so long to fit over my heel while not having it way too big on my calf. I will have to try again with an all over colorwork sock and maybe one with shorter floats overall and see if that helps.
My local yarn shop recommended knitting inside out but this video made it make sense. I just frogged my most recent attempt at a colorwork design and am feeling confident! Thank you!
What a jam packed, but short, video full of very good tips. I like to do colorwork and played with different ways to hold the two yarns and ended up doing as you do with one in the left and the other in the right. I had to learn to knit English style to do this, but found that it helped with my tension. I am always happy when a row or two is a solid color so I go "take a break" and just knit continental. Your inside out tip was also interesting and may consider this on my next project. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much, Evelyn--and you're very welcome! As a continental knitter, you could probably tell that style is not my strong suit, but being familiar with both styles in order to do this method is definitely worth it! Please come back and let me know what you thought of knitting colorwork inside out if you decide to try it! 😊
Thank you for this video. I am working on my first Nordic-style sweater, and I cannot get the tension right while knitting the colorwork on the sleeve. I also knit magic loop as in your tutorial, so these were especially helpful tips!
Hi is this easy to learn and get the hang of all these things you show us I mean you have to know your patterns inside out literally right thanks for sharing I'll experiment eventually I'm going to start a pair of toe up socks tomorrow with a contrasting heel and toe that's as advance as my colour work will be for now tho I'm excited to start them
Hi Rosemary! That's a great start to introducing more colors into your projects! I think knitting stranded colorwork with just two colors is pretty easy, but it will take some patience in the beginning while you're developing the muscle memory and getting comfortable with holding two yarns at the same time. If you're looking for a good first stranded colorwork project to try these techniques, I'd recommend a hat, such as my Novemberist or Kestra Hat patterns. ☺
@@VanessaSmithDesigns thanks for time to reply I have made a start on my socks it's going good excited with how it's going and thanks I might just try the hat pattern next I'll take a pic and show you my sock development where I can
Thanks, but what about when you have tried to correct for tightness and the stitches are extremely loose now, and the stitches that are alone (i.e. 1 contrasting stitch between another color) turn out twice the size of all the other stitches. How do you correct that without making it too tight?
Great question! Does it matter whether those single stitches are between large or small groups of stitches of the other color? And is one of the ways you have tried to correct for tightness spreading out those other color stitches before bringing up the contrasting stitch color?
@@VanessaSmithDesigns Yes, I am doing that now, as well as catching the floats every other stitch, which helps to keep them the right length without the strand migrating to the nearest stitch of that color and making it enormous. But I had to frog the colorwork for a second time. I had been looking for a way to adjust the strands so the extra length was collected at the back where I could remove it, or crochet it or something like that. But no one seemed to know a way to do that. It's coming out the right shape and plumpness now. It's slow but hopefully I'll speed up as I do more.
When you knit inside out, you're *not turning your work* and then knitting across the wrong side stitches, which would indeed create purl bumps on the right side. Rather, you're still working in the same direction as you were before, in the round from right to left, but with the right side of the sock on the inside of the tube underneath the needles. When knitting in the round normally, you knit from the front needle. But, with my sock turned inside out, you'll see beginning at 6:30 that I am knitting from the back needle, where my right side stitches are showing, and not the front needle where my wrong side stitches are showing. The next time you're knitting something in the round push it inside out as I showed in this video, and you'll immediately see what's happening! ☺ Hope this helps! Please feel free to let me know if I can answer any other questions!
There’s no difference between knitting it inside out or knitting it regular you’re still looking at the same thing when you’re knitting it it’s not like you’re looking at the floats when you’re knitting so there’s no point you’re still looking at the same thing
You may be very surprised if you gave it a try! In my personal experience, knitting a pair of colorwork socks inside out helped them to go on easier over my heels, while it was more of a struggle to put on a single sock knit using the same pattern and needle size but rightside out. This webpage shows great visuals to explain the science behind the technique: www.actechniques.co.uk/blog/2020/1/31/knitting-inside-out?format=amp ☺
You shold start teaching or explaining how to using the hook ,many people,know knintting ,bot don't k now how to do socks . Remenber do you are teaching,to beginers too.
Thanks for your comment, Javier! I'm not 100% sure what you mean by the hook--are you asking about knitting with a long circular needle to do socks? If not, please clarify what you are hoping to learn; I'd be happy to try and help!
