How to knit colorwork

This tutorial shows you how to knit colorwork. It is an in-depth tutorial perfect for anyone who has no experience knitting colorwork and would like to learn how. This tutorial covers the following areas: - How to read a colorwork chart - How to easily keep track of where you are in the chart - How to hold your yarn for knitting with two colors - Joining a new color - Color dominance - What a float is and how to manage their tension - Increase rows and why a chart might have “no stitch” sections - How to work a m1L increase All of the techniques are demonstrated using my Blizzard sweater. This sweater has been designed specifically for knitters who want to knit a colorwork yoke sweater, but have no colorwork experience. There are a number of features that make Blizzard perfect for a colorwork beginner including: - Repeats are kept short and easily memorized - Increases are worked in the main color rounds so you don’t have to remember increases and colorwo