Blending Hand Dyed Yarns in the Round or Helix Knitting
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2018
- How do you blend hand dyed yarns in the round? In this video I compare the pros and cons of twisting the yarns vs not twisting the yarns at the beginning of the round. This is also called Helix knitting or helical knitting.
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*Pattern: "It Takes a Guild Cardigan KAL Tutorial" by Suzanne Bryan
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Time stamps:
0:16- How to blend two skeins of yarn, into a project worked in the round?
0:29-Why is this blending necessary?
0:54-How is this resolved?
1:05-Video suggestion -Knitting with Hand Dyed Yarns
1:25-Two ways to shift colors.
1:36- Method 1: Twisting the yarns when there is a color change.
2:20- Why there may be smaller stitches?
3:24- How it looks on the wrong side?
4:15- Method 2: How to do the knit the last stitch of the first color and then continue knitting with the second color?
5:25-TIP -How to place the two yarns at the color change?
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brilliant, as always. i saw this video and instantly started searching through my queue to find a striped pattern to cast on.
Very cool. Happy knitting.
Thanks Suzanne. 👏
I should have watched this a couple weeks ago. I have all the cross problems going on, but it's too far gone to go back now. It's a learning experience & I'm going to love it when it's done.
I'm sure that it will be lovely, Janice! All the best! ❤️
Brilliant video, Suzanne, as always! This demonstration is - for me - one of the MOST brillant solution! tumbs up!
Thank you Fatima de Haan! Happy knitting.
As always I learn such useful tips every time I watch your videos. Thanks!
Thanks so much, Martha, I really appreciate that! ❤️
Nice! My very first sweater used tonal wool and I was doing the twist method along one side and I can definitely see how it's less elastic and even a tiny bit shorter along that side. Thanks for this tutorial!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this tutorial. It was very helpful!
You're very welcome! 🧶
Thank you so much for this! I was trying to knit my first sweater and I did about 15 inches hated it and tore it out at least 6 times and then gave up. I'm so glad that I found your video because I really want to knit that sweater. I'm going to find my yarn and cast it on right now.
That is wonderful! Happy knitting Kathy Goodman.
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Thank you, Suzanne!
You are so welcome, Cathy! 😊
Thank you so much for this! Much easier than having to slip three stitches
Great! Happy knitting.
Once again many thanks for sorting out my dilemma 🤗 There was quite a bit of colour difference between a couple of my hand dyed skeins and I was beside myself. All sorted now and once again thank you for your explanations of "why🤔" Please take care during these challenging times. Rita
Rita, you’re welcome! And thank you for watching and for your very kind words!!
This was exactly what I needed right now! Thank you so much;
I'm so glad! ❤️
Great demonstration as always! 😊 I can’t thank you enough for sharing your expertise and making our knitting lives easier. I was about to start my first sweater knitted with hand dyed yarn, and wasn’t sure whether to cross the yarns when I changed skeins or not… now I don’t understand why some people cross them 🤔. Big hug from Barcelona ❤️
You are so very welcome, Yolanda! I really appreciate your feedback, thank you and hugs right back! ❤️
SO helpful!
Thank you! Happy knitting.
Excellent video. I used Method 2 in a project with wool I’ve had in my stash for close to 35 years. All balls were the same colour but I’d purchased different dye lots. Long story.
Perfect! Happy knitting.
Awesome thanks this is so helpful
Glad to hear it helped, Janell!
Thank you for a great tutorial. I like that you showed the RS and RS of the fabric. I just began a sweater that is knitted entirely with the WS out so you turn it inside out at the end. This jogless join will not show on the WS, which will looks nicer and lay nicely.
Happy Knitting.
Thank you!
You're very welcome!
I love helical knitting!
Me too. Happy knitting.
This is Linda Davis. I loved this video!!!
Thank you so much, Linda!!
That is a beautiful simple way! I've seen helical knitting technics in which you have to slip the last three stitches...that is a not so easy way of doing this, so thank you!
Thank you. This is super simple and very effective. Happy knitting
Susan youre the best! You have made my knit life better : ) Thank you for taking the time to share your knit knowledge so clearly. I was wondering if you would happen to know about brioche helical knitting? I started a top down, one-color, brioche, knit in the round sweater with hand-painted yarn and I would love to blend the yarns with a helix technique but not sure if its even possible (considering brioche is a two row pattern) Thanks for your help and creativity!
I have a video on working 2 color brioche in the round. You could use the same technique of dropping one yarn and picking up the other at the round change - here is the video - ua-cam.com/video/oeZEOL0GOag/v-deo.html
Am I correct in assuming this only works when changing colors every row and not every 2+ rows? Suzanne you are amazing? I’m SO happy I found this channel and your Off the Cuff channel. You are an OUTSTANDING teacher! Thank you sooooo much!
Exactly. I have another video for knitting in the round with two row stripes - ua-cam.com/video/ed-yJliHS5k/v-deo.html
Dear Suzanne, what is te best way to do short rows in helical knitting or in 1 by 1 stripe round knitting? Thank you so much in advance . It seems I can't find any videos about that nowhere. Thank you so much for your teaching.
Thank you for this great video! Can you please explain the pros and cons of this technique versus the method in which three stitches are slipped when transitioning to the next row? Is one method better than the other? Are the results the same? Thank you!
I was just going to ask this same question!
Thanks again for another great video. I've just finished the yoke on my first colour work sweater and I'm using helical knitting now for alternating the skeins. However I've just noticed that there is some German short row shaping to finish the yoke. How do you do helical knitting for short rows ???
You can not change yarns during the short row section. It is just the nature of the beast.
Thank you for all your videos, they’re extremely helpful. I’m wondering if it’s possible to use helical knitting when the pattern includes texture, lace or cables?
Yes, it is possible, this will work with any stitch pattern.
Hi Suzanne,
Thank you for sharing this technique! I am in the process of knitting a top down raglan pullover in the round with hand dyed yarn that has a purl row every 6th row of the pattern repeat. Would this method work in this instance? Also can I start the alternate skein a few stitches away from the BOR marker? Thanks!!
Yes and yes, Marley, excellent question! You can start skien a few inches from the marker would be fine. ❤️
Thank you so much for your wonderful tutorials. I am about to start a pair of socks with two skeins of hand dyed yarn. I will need to alternate the skeins so that they will blend better. Would you suggest that I change skeins not at the beginning of the round but somewhere else in the knitting. I was concerned that this method might not work at the intersections of my knitting. Thank you!
It really doesn't matter where you change the skeins, just be consistent.
Knitting with Suzanne Bryan Thank you so much!!
Your videos are so very helpful. Can you please clarify….I am knitting a sweater in the round with hand dyed yarn, do you suggest alternating skeins every round?
Yes, Patty. Good luck! 😊
Thank you so much! I’m trying this technique as I am working a sweater with two different skeins of “no dye lot” yarn. The gauge is intentionally very loose so twisting the yarns showed and the stretchiness was off, like you showed in the video. I am very happy with the helix technique but I am going to run out of yarn 1 before I run out of yarn 2. Is there anything special I should do in the transition to to only yarn 2? (I started the helix in the armhole so the beginning is hidden but the end of yarn 1 is going to be mid-sleeve and -mid body. )
Great question. When working with two skiers at once, it is actually better to start the skeins staggered so that you don't run out of both at the same time. I actually work with the first yarn for ½ skein, then add in the second skein. Then when the first skein runs out, I start the third and so one.
@@SuzanneBryan Thank you, Suzanne! I sort of accidentally found the answer to my own problem when I forgot to pick up the other yarn in the helix and found there was absolutely no “jog!” It’s still nice to know to have it confirmed that it doesn’t require a special technique.
If we are working. Rib and want to alternate
Do I want to make the switch between two knit stitches vs after a purl stitch
I am working a 3 x 3 rib and it seems I am getting a hole.. I was doing the twist method but want to switch .
Did I need to start with the non twist originally or is the purl that’s causing the issue
You should be able to switch at any point. Do not twist the yarns. That is what causes the hole. Try it on a swatch.
My brain is misfiring...something serms missing. I did this method in error on my sides in knitting round sweater n it left little gaps between the first and last st because they never were connecting. Help my brain cause its not wrapping around this. Thanks
Try it again. Watch the video again, and try it again.
Is this the same as helix knitting?
Exactly. Works for hand dyed yarns as well as one row stripes in the round.
You should tell people this is Helix knitting
Thank you, I will add that to the description. Happy knitting.