Ladderback Jacquard for Stranded Knitting with Amy Snell

About Ladderback Jacquard for Stranded Knitting with Amy Snell

Easy, seamless, and beautiful, the ladderback jacquard technique will improve the tension of your stranded knitting while allowing you to span much larger areas between stitches. This knitting method adds stretch to the floats while preventing the alternate color from peeking through, and can be applied to nearly any stranded knitting project. Once you add this technique to your knitting toolbox, you may never want to go back to any other method of carrying floats.
Whether you're interested in tweaking patterns or developing your own colorwork designs, incorporating this technique means you can work without limits on the space between alternating motifs.
In class we'll learn several different options for setting up and resolving ladders and explore best practices for placement and charting, so you can envision how to bring this technique into your real-life knitting applications.

Materials, Equipment, and Supplies the Student Must Bring to Class

Smooth, worsted weight yarn in two contrasting colors and your choice of needles in a compatible size (US #7-9) suitable for working a very small-circumference project in the round (dpns, magic loop, or two circulars).

Materials Fee (to be paid directly to the instructor)

$5 - includes full-color handout

Pre-class Homework

None