Catching Floats - For Fair Isle or Stranded Knitting
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- A set of brief tutorial videos showing how to carry floats and catch longer floats across the back of your stranded (or Fair Isle) knitting. This helps keep your yarns from tangling and twisting, while still allowing you to catch floats as needed along the back of your knitted work.
I’ve been watching a million videos on catching floats, and this is the only one that explained both scenarios that had me feeling so confused. Thank you so much for this!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for explaining this so clearly.
So happy to have found you, as I knit the same way with my left hand, & your video is really great! Thank you so much 🧶🌸 Happy stranding😍
You're very welcome! Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you so much for the tutorial!! your video explains the best i've looked into so far..
Glad it was helpful!
Beautiful pattern. Well explained.
Thank you for creating this tutorial. It was SO helpful
Glad it was helpful!
@@FiberFlossandFiction Yes! I love this hat. Do you sell the pattern?
@@michelecochrane1307 It's actually a sweater - the Soldotna Crop, which is by Caitlin Hunter, and available in her Ravelry store (possibly other places online but I know she has it available there.)
Thank you for this very clear explanation!
Glad you found it helpful!
You explain everything so well. 😃
Thank you! Hope you enjoyed it. :)
Great tutorial! Thanks, this is just what I needed and it was very clear and helpful.
You’re welcome - glad it was of help!
tres claire votre explicawion cher mme.merci beaucoup🤩😘
This video is so good! It’s way better than the technique I had been using😆
Glad it was helpful :)
Thank you for tutorial....👍❤️
You're welcome! :)
That the best tutorial I have come across for this technique, that you so much. do you have any videos of how to knit fair isle flat, dealing with the edges?
Glad you found it helpful! I don't... because honestly, I find it fussy enough that I hardly ever work it flat. Is there a particular project or something you're working on that you're struggling with that I could maybe do a quick tutorial to help with?
@@FiberFlossandFiction Hi Anne, thanks so much for your reply. I am knitting the Marie Wallin Gift box 3 Ottilie shrug. It is knitted in 3 pieces, flat. I am ok knitting FI in the round but am having issues with the edges being messy. Both colours are changed every 4 rows. I have been unable to obtain a neat edge for picking up stitches for the band. I totally regret trying flat FI but need to try resolve it. Jacquie
@@jacqusprat I am not personally familiar with the pattern, but I wonder what would happen if you did a row of single crochet along the edges in the MC before picking up for the band? I don’t know if that would firm the edge up too much but it would certainly clean the edge up a bit for you and also give you a solid stitch to pick up into, if that makes sense?
Lovely explanation of a difficult topic.
I would like to see the work more centered on the video frame so as not to miss any nuances in your hand control.
Great tutorial, Anne. Thanks. Patty
Welcome! More to come! I'm trying to use my in-house self-seclusion for the good. :)
Mi sono iscritta subito.. Sto imparando ora a fare il top Dow a ferri circolari stupendo lavoro🎉 ma se si potessero avere dei sottotitoli in Italiano sarei molto grada❤
Thank you for the great tutorial! Do you tension your left hand yarn between your second and third finger or wrap it around your pinky? Thank you!
I tension my left hand strand between my second and third fingers.
Fiber, Floss and Fiction Podcast Thank you so much!!
You might not see this comment because this video is from four years ago, but I love that hat pattern. If you happen to know where I can find it, please do thank you.
Thanks! It’s actually a sweater yoke - the Soldotna Crop by Caitlin Hunter but you could probably configure the numbers for a hat. The pattern repeat isn’t very long.
This is very helpful, thank you very much!!!
But how can it be done when holding both yarns in your right hand?
This particular technique doesn't work well holding the yarns in either just your right or your left. There are other videos out there (not mine) that talk about ways to catch your floats. This is just my preferred method :)
thanks for this tutorial. Do you use the same technique when knitting socks or do you make more catching floats?
Assuming you are using fingering weight yarn, on socks (or gloves/mittens) I normally only go 2-3 stitches before catching floats. It helps keep fingers and toes from catching. Larger gauge yarns you might find every stitch even works well.
@@FiberFlossandFiction thanks
Great thank you very much
Great tutorial! May i know what type of yarn you using?
Hello and thank you! This is Wooly Wonka Fibers Nimue DK (50/50 SW merino and silk). I knit the Soldotna top from it, shown in the video.
Love that pattern. Is it on raverly?
Yes, it’s the Soldotna sweater by Caitlin Hunter.
How bout if i had more thn 2 color.... how i pickup it?
You would hold the extra color(s) in the hand that you're using for first contrast color. It requires a little more manipulation to make those stitches with different CCs, but you'd manage the floats exactly the same.
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I am beginnen in these Technik, UA-cam sample is not too difficult I mean...
Where can I find this pattern please?
It’s Caitlin Hunter’s Soldotna Crop. Available on Ravelry or possibly her website (but Google can tell you if it is there or not).
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