Level Up Your Knitting Skills with Ladderback Jacquard!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- How to work Ladderback Jacquard in hand knitting. This method is used often in machine knitting, but you can use it in hand knitting too! It helps to secure long floats on the wrong side without needing to "lock" your floats. It's not too hard to work, either!
Have you used this before? Let me know in the comments!!
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This is a 100% better technique than some of the other ladder back techniques I've seen! Thank you so much for sharing this!
You're so welcome!
At last, I am able to understand how to work with the Ladder Back Jacquard after watching four video tutorials. Thanks so much for a great tutorial!
Glad it helped!
I am new to ladderback. This is such a clear explanation. Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Thank you for your clear explanation. I was very successful and I appreciate your step by step teaching.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow I’m very impressed with this tutorial. Thank you. I only recently learned this technique and as soon as I saw how you do the backwards loop cast on , on the set up row, I had to comment. This is definitely something I will try!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this. I have been dreading learning this but I need it for a project. Very clear and simple instruction!
You're welcome! Don't dread it -- it isn't too complicated once you understand what's happening! Biggest issue I have when working it is remembering that those stitches aren't "real" stitches and need to be *not* worked in the stitch pattern accidentally, lol.
Hi Heather, great and new technique to me! It really solves the little locking bumps which can be very visible depending on the yarn and how they are executed. And compared to locking the ladderback jacquard seems also easy to do. Only thing I wonder is that it works well with geometric patterns but with more complicated jacquard, you have to set up ladderbacks all the time. I have to practice, get the feel of it because I will definitely use it! Thank you for sharing ❤️👍
You are so welcome! Yeah, complicated patterns require resolving ladderbacks and beginning ladderbacks frequently, which can start to get a little confusing! Some knitters use knit stitches with the ladderbacks, but I like using the purl stitch since it's helpful to spot which stitches are my ladderback stitches in the sea of stockinette stitches.
This is brilliant! Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Ditto @VergsB; thank you Heather for this tutorial. I had given up after other tutorials thinking I would never understand Ladderback Jacquard. (linked from Aimee's Directional Pullover Lookbook).
Glad it was helpful!
This is such a good technique for really long floats! Thank you for sharing
You are so welcome!
This is a great tutorial! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much for such a great video! One question…. What if you have a float that is initially going to be say 10 stitches long and therefore you would place your ladderback column in the middle. But then the float section gradually decreases by one stitch on each following round. So the floats are still quite long but the middle keeps shifting as you go from 10-9-8… stitches in the working color and the float gets gradually shorter, but still need to be managed. Do you just keep using the same ladder even though it will no longer be in the middle of the float? Sorry for the long question! I hope it makes sense! Thank you.
Yes, your question makes sense, and it's a good question! You could continue to use that ladder, and then add another ladder in a better spot, or end that ladder and introduce a different ladder in a better spot! I would probably do the second option, just so there aren't lots of ladders near each other.
@@HeatherStorta Thanks so much Heather! I am anxious to try it!
Quick question . (or will attempt to be brief ) Say you have established your columns but you reach a point where the pattern changes; is there any reason you can not catch the opposite color or is it best to end the established columns and create new
If the new color has floats where that same column would work, you could certainly keep using that column for as long as it's useful!
So at the top of a section of floats the ladder is anchored with a k2tog. Is there a way to similarly anchor the bottom of the ladder? Maybe pulling the initial backwards loop co through the head of an adjacent st below? I’m thinking of fingers passing under the ladder and snagging, especially if more than one ladder is needed in a section. Or maybe you opt for intarsia for that section instead….what would you recommend?
Hmm, good question!! I'm wondering if you work two backwards loop cast on stitches at the set up, then on the next round work the first one as the ladderback loop, but then move the yarns to the back and then work a k2tog with the next pattern st and that extra cast on stitch? I am just thinking out loud here, haven't tried it yet!
Your suggestion might work too!
I would say if the span is large enough to call for two ladderback columns, then it might be a good candidate for intarsia, yeah. (Or duplicate stitch!) Depends on the rest of the pattern though, I would think.
@@HeatherStorta I like the 2 backwards loop co idea. I’ll have to give that a swatching. Thanks for your thoughtful response.
It's been a month so you might've already found this out but maybe for someone else who comes across this: You can use other increase methods to create the initial ladder stitch, like a lifted increase or a M1L-PTBL. Those are the other two that I've seen and will better anchor the first stitch to your work to prevent your fingers slipping through. But I think the backwards loop is the least intrusive to you work since it's not pulling on any of your right side stitches.