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this week we're going to learn to make thecowl that i'm wearing right now, it's called color my cowl. and if you saw the video thati released last week, last week i released a free blank coloring page where you couldfill in your own colors for the cowl that you want to knit. this is a good introductionto fair isle knitting if you've never done fair isle before. if you have, i think you'llfind that it's not a very difficult fair isle to pattern, to work. all the yarn amountsfor what you'll need, suggestions for yarns to use, and the download link to the freepattern, i'm trying to think of everything that's there. it's all on my website, if youclick the little "i" in the upper right-hand corner. you can also get the coloring pageif you haven't colored your own yet, where
it'll help you experiment with different colorsand decide what you want to do. i have some samples here of different colors that i wantto show you just how different this pattern looks in different colors. this video is sponsored by knitters pridebecause i am using their platina, their nova platina 16 inch circular needles, and thisis from an interchangeable set. and this is my own personal set and you'll see that thereare some needles missing from my personal set because i am using them all in samplesfor this video. these are really the ideal needles for this. sixteen inch circulars areunique in that the needles are shorter to accommodate the shorter cord. and when you'reworking fair isle or any time you're working
something where you could have tension issueslike cables, or fair isle, or any kind of stranded work, not using double pointed needles,not using magic loop, but a smaller circular needle is the way to go if you want to avoidtension issues, if you want to minimize the chances of tension issues. so these are reallythe perfect needle. there are links to where you can find theseneedles close to wherever you are. i'll give that in the video description field belowand also on my website. and in the next segment, i'm going to give you a close up of how theseneedles work, because you have all the different needle sizes and you just attach the cordas needed and it all goes into your awesome little knitters pride case, which they alwaysgive us for the interchangeable sets. okay,
so, in the next segment, we're going to talkabout the cast on and getting started with fair isle. i'm going to show you some samplesof how this pattern looks. be sure to get your free copy of the pattern and your freecoloring page, and we'll get started in the next segment. i have so much to show you, i have so muchpiled around me right now. if you did not get your coloring page yet, the artist whodesigned this, her name is paula pertile, and i will give you a link to her etsy storein the video description field and on my my website. she has an etsy store called drawingsof knitting, and she has a bunch of knitting designs that you can buy the individual pages,download them, and print them, and color them
as many times as you want. and i'll be givingyou a close up of this, but i will give you a link to the color my cowl coloring pagevideo and you can watch that and i show samples of a bunch of different coloring pages myfriends did. and when you finish your coloring page, be sure to take a picture of it, #colormycowl,we can all take a look at what everyone else is doing, or get ideas for different thingsbased on what other people are doing because i know that there are some really creativepeople out there who are going to take my simple fair isle design and go nuts with itand i can't wait to see how it looks, because i have kind of a one way of thinking abouthow to do this and i know other people don't have that.
anyway, i want to give you first up, a closeup of these nova platina 16 inch circular needles and how they work, and then we'llget into the fair isle part of this, so let's go ahead and take a look. these are the needlesthat i'm about to start using. you can see the platinas are chrome plated, they're veryshiny. the size in the u.s. size and the millimeter size are etched into the side here, they havea long taper and a nice sharp point. and the question that i get a lot from people is,"is it a really sharp point?" because some needles have really, really sharp point, differentbrands. and no, it is not as sharp as like the sharpest needles like other brands offer.it's not so sharp that you're going to risk splitting stitches, which i think is great.
these are some of my go-to, all-purpose needles,and the long taper makes it easy to work more complicated stitches and the sharp point too.but they're not so sharp that they can only be used for lace. to work these, you takethe little key and you take the cord, and let me start from here, you take the needlesize that you need and then just attach it to the cord. and this key gives you somethingto hang on to, so you can hand-tighten it the rest of the way. and then when you'refinished, you just unscrew it like i did and put it back in its case. and you always knowyou have the needle size you need. you always know it's there when you're buying yarn. andthis one, one, two, three, four, five, six, there are seven different sizes, and i'llgive you details about where to find these
and the different sizes, everything else inthe video description field and on my website. these are great needles. i don't ever recommendanything that i don't actually use myself, so you can trust me on this. well i want to show you some things firstthat's very fun. here is the coloring page, blank, and here is the coloring page for thecowl that i was wearing in the first segment. and what i want to show you is how this translatesfrom coloring page to knitting pattern. to yeah, knitting pattern. so you can see here,it does look just the same. so when you're designing yours, you can besure it really is going to look like what you've colored. and i'm actually going touse this as my pattern as we move forward
today. so this one is my pastel-colored one,i'm going to actually set it down here. here is another one that i worked up in three colorswith a dark background. this is the background color plus light blue, plus white. you can see this looks really different. itchanges personality so much when you change the colors. here's another that i did in kindof sock monkey colors. three colors, red, gray and white. and i'm covering up part ofthis with my hand, because i was still designing the pattern when i knit this one, and thisis not part of the pattern. i changed things up. this is all part of the pattern that iended up going with. and then this last one here is black, gray and white, it's actuallyupside down, black, gray and white. totally
different look from the pastel-colored oneand even the blue one. i love it. okay, the first thing we're going to get startedwith is a provisional cast on. and we're going to put the provisional cast on right on theneedle, which is something that...i have tutorials showing it both ways and i think people reallyprefer it this way, so this is how i'm going to do it. start by tying a knot in the yarn.that's just to mark the slipknot end. we're going to make a slipknot and take a crochethook, and all the materials you need of course are listed out on my website. you want tochain a few stitches just to get you going. and now we're going to do a provisional caston right onto the needle. and the point of the provisional cast on is it's a cast onthat can be removed later to reveal live stitches,
and we're going to want that. so, i want tohold everything like this with the yarn under the knitting needle, reach over the knittingneedle with the crochet hook and grab the yarn and pull it through. that's one stitchcast on. take the working yarn and pull it behind the needle, the crochet hook over theknitting needle, grab the yarn and pull it through. that's two. pull the working yarnbehind the needle. this is what you're going to do. i believe the cast on number is 84. the alternative to doing it this way is topick up stitches from the spine of the crochet chain. and like i said, i have a lot of tutorialswhere we do it that way, but i find that people prefer this one to picking up stitches. anyway,when you get the total number, which i believe
is 84, you will then just chain a few, breakthe yarn and pull the end through the last loop. now obviously, that's not 84, but ido happen to have cast on finished here and remember, i have a knot in one end, becausethat marks the slipknot end. and that's something i always do because when it comes to unzipping,you want to make sure you know which is which. i need a stitch marker. you know, i had astitch marker and now i'm wondering where it went. i don't see it in front of me. okay. so the first thing i want to do here to getstarted, this is not the real yarn that i'm going to be using for the first color. i actuallywant to use yarn in a different color from the background color that i'm using in myfair isle chart. you see how i've colored
this in in light blue, that's because my provisionalcast on is light blue, and then the next round i'm getting started with is the ivory color.so let me get this right here. knit the first round from the slipknot end. okay. so startingwith...that's a note that i wrote to myself to make sure i wouldn't mess this up. so i have the slipknot end here because there'sa knot. i'm going to start knitting these stitches with this yarn, with the main color,background color of yarn in my fair isle pattern. and the thing that's unique about this, iswe haven't joined in the round yet. that's why this is notable. i'm just going to knitaround all these stitched. i'm afraid you're going to have to be patient with me for amoment while i do this. i'll speed up.
so i want to get around all these stitchesso i can actually show you how to use your coloring page as a pattern, because it doescontain everything we need to knit the fair isle design. and i know somebody's going toask about the way that i knit. it's called "flicking". and i'll give you a link hereto my video on flicking. it's a way of holding the yarn in your right hand without lettinggo of the right hand needle when you wrap the stitch. i'm just making conversation rightnow while you wait for me to get through this round. because the next round, we're goingto...a lot of things happen in the next round. we're going to join in the round and startworking fair isle. and it's a good idea to keep a row counter. should always know exactlywhere you are in the fair isle pattern, because
it's only knit stitches, but you want to knowwhere the different colors come in. okay. now i'm ready to join in the round.i want to make sure that nothing is twisted. all of my knots are on the inside of the work.i'm going to place a marker and jump over here to my fair isle chart. so the numbersare over here on the right-hand side. that was row one that i just did. round two isknit two cream color, knit one pink. so i'm going to go ahead and join in the roundby knitting two cream color. can you get that out of the way? and i can pull on some thingsto tighten them up. and the next thing i want to do is to knit the pink color. i want toshow you how to do this. i'm going to put my needle in, this is howi'm going to attach a new color. i'm going
to put my needle in like i'm ready to knitthe next stitch, grab the new color and leaving about a 6 inch tail, fold it over, and flopit over the back needle, and pull that through. so my pattern as i read across, is pink, ivory,ivory, pink, ivory, ivory, pink, ivory, ivory all the way around. so pink, ivory, ivory,pink, ivory, ivory. there's so many things i'm going to show you here in a minute, justbear with me. i want to just get this going a little bit, so you can see how the patterngoes. okay. and the first thing i want to show you ishow i'm keeping both strands of yarn going at once. and what i like to do is have thetwo strands kind of sticking out like this, put two fingers between the two colors andthen when i need a pink one, i just pull my
first finger forward and i have pink, andthen when i need an ivory one, i pull my first finger back and i have ivory. so, forward,pink, back, ivory, forward, pink. i'll show you that again slowly. the yarn's like this,coming off out of the work. i put my two first fingers in there like this. now i have different ways that i do it. thisis how i'm doing it on this pattern, because they're short floats. so i need to make apink stitch, so i'm going to pull my first finger forward and look at that, i have thepink yarn. okay, now i need the ivory yarn, pull my first finger back, and i have theivory yarn. forward, pink yarn, back, ivory yarn. okay. now, that is the first thing thati want to show you.
the next one is how we're going to keep goodtension, because we're not alternating every other stitch, we have two ivory stitches anda pink, and this float on the back of the work, we want to make sure to keep that niceand loose, because if it's tight, it's going to cram these two ivory stitches togetherand the tension won't look right. so i'm ready to work a pink stitch. i put my needle in,i'm going to slide all the stitches on the right needle kind of far apart to make ita longer distance for this pink yarn to travel to wrap the needle. and when i did that, igave it a nice, long, loose float. and i specifically designed this pattern with really short floats,so that it's not difficult to...you don't have to do any wrapping in the back of thework or anything.
so i'm ready to work a pink stitch, slidethe stitches on the right-hand needle, so there's space between them, and then wrapthe stitch. and you don't really have to stretch the stitches apart when you're only skippingone stitch, but because we're skipping two here, i want to make sure there's good tension.i'm going to cover all the basics of fair isle right here in this row, because the lastthing i want to say to you, is i want to talk about fair isle dominant colors. i didn'tbelieve in this until i worked on a project where i didn't pay attention to the dominantcolor and it became really obvious. because my background color is this ivory color, i'mgoing to make this the non-dominant color. and because this is the contrasting color,i want this to be the dominant color.
so to make that happen, i'm just always goingto make sure the pink yarn or whatever color is not ivory, is on top and the ivory yarnis on bottom, so that every time i go to work an ivory stitch, it will always be pulledfrom underneath the contrasting color. and every time i go to work the contrasting color,it's always over the ivory yarn. you see that? ivory yarn under, pink yarn over. okay, iwant to talk about...whoops, i just messed up the pattern. i want to talk a little bitabout different ways of holding the yarn, because i don't always hold fair isle projectsthis way, but it's a way i definitely like to hold this one. if you are comfortable with holding a yarnin each hand, that's another good way to go.
if you are a thrower who's more comfortablewith just dropping the yarn each time and picking up the color you need, that is a fineway to go, i've knit projects myself that way. if you're a continental knitter, whowants to hold both yarns in this hand and just pull forward with whichever one you need,just be careful to leave the dominant color on top and the other color below it. really,anyway you can get that stitch wrapped, this is a good project for practicing on differentways of working fair isle and to find what's good for you. you can see with all those samplesi knit, i am definitely in a swing for how to work this pattern. okay, so that's how to work fair isle. that'sthe basic techniques of fair isle for any
fair isle project you're working on. so wheni get back to the stitch marker, i will have finished round two. and round three is actuallyexactly the same as round two, the way that i have it colored here, ivory, ivory, pink,ivory, ivory, pink. and then round four is ivory, pink, ivory, pink, ivory, ivory, ivory,pink, ivory, pink, ivory, ivory, ivory. you can get a little tune going in your head,so you can remember how it goes, but really you're going to be able to look back on yourwork and see...once you work through it a couple of times, you'll be able to see wherethe next stitch should be as you're working through it. so i can tell you as you're working through,you're just going to carry the colors up the
back of the work and i can show you what imean by that. every now and then, you're going to want to break the yarn because there'sgoing to be a big gap where you're not going to use that color. you can just break theyarn, but you can see here how i have the colors carried through some of it, like thisyellow here. i'm going to have an ivory and pink row and then an ivory and yellow. i'mnot going to break the pink yarn, i'm just going to carry it in the back of the work. but when i finish with this last yellow roundhere, i'm going to break that yarn because i'm not using yellow again. all the way tohere. that's too far to carry the yarn, there's just no need to. and because this cowl isturned inside out, you don't even have to
weave in these ends. i didn't weave in theends in any of the ones that i knit. i just let them hang out on the inside of the cowlbecause no one's ever going to see them. you just have to be sure not to tell anyone. ijust told you a big secret. anyway, once you knit the entire length ofthe cowl, the pattern gives you directions for how long to make it or you can make itas long or short as you like as long as it'll fit over your head. the next thing we're goingto do is to unzip the provisional cast on and do the kitchener stitch to attach thetwo ends together. once you've finished knitting your cowl as long as the pattern tells youto do or as long as you'd like, it's time to seam the two ends together. and i wantto mention that you don't have to make this
into a cowl. if you want to make this intoa scarf, you can just seam the ends or use kitchener stitch on the two ends separatelyand not actually join them into a cowl. i was thinking that this fair isle design isactually really masculine-looking and it would make a good men's scarf. if i just wantedto...i'd have to make it longer than this, but it'd make a good men's scarf if i justwanted to just seam the ends together. and the kitchener stitch technique is the sameeither way you do it. so i'm going to show you how to work the kitchenerstitch if you want to join this in the round to make a cowl. let's get right to it. okay,this is our goal. this is the last row that i worked, and is still on the needles, i wantto leave it on the needles. i'm just one stitch
shy of the stitch marker, so i'm going toknit one more stitch and take out my stitch marker. now it's ready to go. and my goalis to get all of the stitches from the provisional cast on end onto 3d pins [sp]. you can use double pointed needles or a circularneedle. what i wanted to do was show you on double pointed needles because i figure thatmost people aren't going to have 16 inch circular needles, two sets in the same size, so i thoughti give you the option of using double pointed needles. and double pointed needles are perfectlyfine to use. we'll get back to this in a minute, because for now, we're going to use this blackand white piece, and i'm going to show you how to unzip the provisional cast on. if you'vedone this in the past for toe-up socks and
things like that, it's exactly the same. iwant to start with the non-slipknot end. remember i tied a knot in the slipknot end. i wantto start with the scrap yarn in the non-slipknot end and pull that tail end through the loopjust backwards of the way that i fastened it off. and this yarn is waste yarn, so if you splitthe stitches like i did, no big deal. okay, so i've unzipped those three stitches thati did leading up to the actual cast on. and the first stitch is always wonky. the yarnactually runs through it. so i'm going to put my needle into that stitch and pull theyarn out of it. okay, now we get started with the real thing. i have some nice contrastgoing here. it's also really brightly lit
in here so i can see. the waste yarn is in white and my stitchesare in black, and my stitches are black "vs" like this. i want to put my needle under theright leg of each "v". so right below the waste yarn, under the right leg, under theright leg. i usually like to do several at a time before i start unzipping because it'sreally fun. and ta-da, stitches on my needle. it looks like i split one. don't panic, ifixed it. don't panic, i could have just fixed it when i came to it, but i wanted to fixit, i knew it would be okay. so again, i'm going to start with puttingmy needle under the right leg, and then i can just pull on this and unzip it. i havea little snag, and it pulled right out. so
i'm going to do that all the way around andthen once i have all of the stitches, i can just throw this waste yarn away, i don't needit anymore. it did its job. i'm just going to set this aside and go back to this piecewhere i already have it on double pointed needles. and this part's pretty fun, i thinkit's pretty fun. i know you can't see the entire length of this, but i have my firststitch here and if i follow it down, i have a matching gap between two needles here, soi know that this is my first stitch on this side and this is my first stitch on this side. so when i match them up, actually i want youguys to be able to see this, so i'm going to match them up like this. it is pretty clearat how they match up. and the way you want
to match them up, whoops, let me think fora minute. i want to match them up like this. i'm glad that happened because i would haveforgotten to mention this to you. you want the right side of the work to face you, andthe way that i had if before was the wrong side. that's why it didn't seem right. soi am matching it up so that the right side of the work is definitely out and facing me.i'm looking at that as i look at the live stitches. i'm going to kitchener stitch. okay, and i left kind of a long tail on thelast row that i knit. and if i run out i can always attach more yarn, it's no problem.kitchener stitch is pretty fun i think. and it's worked in groups of four stitches. youwant to line the two needles up like this,
this is the cast on to the bind off. the twoset of...sorry, i'm thinking and talking at the same time. excuse me. the two set of stitchesi want to do is on the front needle, i want to go in as if to purl, and on the back needle,i want to go in as if to knit, and just leave everything there. and now we're ready to start with the realkitchener stitch. so this is what it's like. on the front needle it's knit, take that stitchoff, purl, then we jump to the back needle, purl, slide that stitch off, knit. so in myhead i say, "knit, off, purl, purl, off, knit. knit, off, purl, purl, off, knit." this iswhat it looks like. i go in as if to knit, take that stitch off, and then go in as ifto purl, go in as if to purl, off, go in as
if to knit. that's the sequence. even though you had towatch my yarn get caught on everything on the way there, that's the sequence. knit,off, purl, purl, off, knit. and you give it a little tug. knit, off, purl, purl, off,knit. okay. now you can see, i have a nice seam going here. i can actually pull it quitehard and scrunch it up and then pull it back apart again. and the thing that is so awesomeabout kitchener stitch in an instance like this, is that everything is going to lineup beautifully and there is going to be no visible seam. it looks great. so you keep doing that all the way around.you can pull it really tight and then straighten
it back out. i like to do that a few timesas i go around. and then when you get to the last two stitches, you won't be able to knit,off, purl, purl, off, knit, you will just knit, off, purl, off. so front needle knitoff, purl, off and then just tighten it up and thread your end back into the cowl, pullit out another other side, cut it, let the ends...you don't have to weave any ends inis my point, you can just hide them on the inside of the cowl and no one will ever bethe wiser. i won't tell anybody. well there you have it. we've covered allof the basic fair isle techniques as well as techniques unique to this cowl since itis a cowl and it's joined in the round. i can't wait to see what you guys come up with,with different colors. be sure to post your
coloring page and even your cowl to instagramand facebook #colormycowl. good luck.
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