I have been knitting for 50+ years and in fact, work and teach knitting classes at my local yarn store. I must say your video is one of the best knitting instruction videos I have seen online. Having been a mathematics teacher for more than 40 years, I tend to be a tough judge of how-to videos. I am happy to tell you that I truly learned a number of important facts about stranded knitting that I never knew! THANK YOU! :-)

@PaperTiger

3 жыл бұрын

High praise, thank you! I do intend to make more videos, but as I'm in the middle of a PhD I'm finding free time thin on the ground at the moment. Comments like this one are very motivating though, so thank you!

The color dominance just blew my mind🤯

Wow! Thank you! The section on trapping floats, where you turned the work, that blew my mind!

Oh goodness, so full of important information. LOVED THIS VIDEO!

Excellent video! You do an awesome job! Clear, lots of visuals, thorough. Keep up the good work! Thank you!

You have made a fantastic video!! The swatches showed in an outstanding way what you were describing. Bravo.

This is the best and most helpful video on colourwork I have watched! Thanks so much!!

I learn so much watching your videos. I love the techniques you share and the information about yarn selection. Really appreciate your clear, articulate instructions.

You have answered many of the questions I have on stranded knitting. I look forward to your future videos. Thank you. I love yor work.

There is a lot of priceless information in this video! Any perfectionist will love it, I'm sure. Thank you sooooo much! You're amazing!

What an outstanding video! I saved it. I have never done colorwork and I’m an English style thrower (I literally hold the yarn btwn my thumb and index finger) so learning to manage two colors will be a gigantic challenge. Thank you for all of the swatch examples!!!!! That was superb. Also thank you for holding them to the camera for a long enough time to get in focus and you didn’t wiggle them around in front of the lense. You are an excellent teacher! I clicked the sub button. I’m looking forward to seeing more from you. 😃

Brilliant vid! This has cleared up heaps of my confusion about stranded colour work. Thank you ☺️

So helpful - thank you so much for taking the time to do this - it is such a useful video.

OMG, THANK YOU so much for this video!!! I've just started learning color work - so I can make the Alaska hat and I've been doing so much research as a continental knitter about how hold my yarn and how to trap floats. Your demo here and through your blog post is PERFECT. I just didn't see the float capturing explained anywhere so clearly. I'm a visual learner, so the video is super helpful and I am now ready to practice this technique on my swatch! Also wanted to say I'm super excited about your collaboration with the Crimson Stitchery! I didn't realize you were the other half of her collaboration until I saw your video after subscribing. Thank you again for your thoughtful approach to teaching and for sharing your color work expertise!!

This is my first video of yours I've watched. I want to say, you are a wonderful teacher. You explain in detail and have such a wonderful demeanor. I'm a fan who will be watching all your videos.

Thank you so much for such a clearly explained and clearly illustrated (with your swatches) video.

Fantastic educational video! I’m so appreciative of your talent and ability to articulate the complexities of color work in such easy to follow lessons. Showing the variety of dominance in the many samples is genius, you are a remarkable teacher. Many thanks!

WOW! That was an amazing overview of stranded color work. Thanks so much for taking the time to film this video. So informative!

You were so generous to put the time stamps for every question. thank you so much.

Thank you, this was enlightening me. I've become a little obsessed with colourwork!! I'm just about to start my first colourwork sweater so this was invaluable to me.

Thank you for this excellent video. You explained color dominance so clearly!

This was so awesome! Thank you so very much for this clear, concise instruction! It was very helpful and very reassuring!

Such a good visual representation of colour dominance. Now it all makes sense. Thank you.

I caught this one night when I couldn’t sleep and I loved it. You were very easy to listen to, very informative and once again I find that I missed too much time by not learning to knit when I was younger. I first saw someone’s hat with the Latvian braid and the information about it lead me to your sight. I had never seen the Latvian braid but I loved it and after watching your tutorial I think I may be able to do it since you made it look very easy. Thank you for that. 👍🏻

This Video is just stunning, thank you so much for sharing your experience!

This was SUCH a full and helpful video! Thank you so much for your tips! I’m so intrigued about color dominance....!

This was so helpful and I feel a lot better about attempting color work now😀. Thank you!

Thank you so much for your clear explanation and video showing the various ways to hold the yarn. well done!!

This was also my first time in watching you along with the one on Norwegian yarns which i loved also. I agree with the other comments that you are an excellent teacher not all people can teach n you are great.

This is fantastic!! Thank you, I have learned sooo much!!!

Wow, amazingly informative episode! Thank you so much for this. Best from Berlin!

Thank you!! Your a great teacher! Can’t wait to get started doing this. ❤️

Hello! Thank you so very very much for this candid and easy to understand video on colour work! I can't tell you how much I appreciate listening to you and I am going to listen again to this video to make sure I got everything you said. I have been so confused about colour dominance and whether or not it is an actual thing because other knitters who I greatly admire say that there is no such thing at all. But you have proven with your swatches that it is real and it does make sense and even if it is a slight difference it is still there. I have been knitting for about 30 years, although only the last ten seriously. My passion is colour work and I really want to do more. I am a "flicker" with my right hand, I don't like the term "thrower" because my hand never leaves the needle, :) but I am teaching myself how to use both left and right hands and I am getting it the more I practice. I used to just pick each yarn up and then drop it and pick up the other colour the same way you did but I do want to be as fast at colour work as I am at regular knitting, and with practice I will. Thank you so much for your video! You have answered some questions I had and I feel better about yarn dominance now to be sure. I will look forward to more of your videos! 🌹

Great job! You helped me feel like I might be able to get the hang of this color work thing after all. Thanks so much

Great video. The explanations are clear and easy to follow and so useful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you so much for sharing information about stranded colorwork. I plan to embark on a colorwork project and your Q&A was very helpful to get me started.

So helpful and so clearly put - love your podcasts! Thanks so much for presenting so much fantastic information! xox

Thanks for such a comprehensive overview. You very kindly reached out to me on a Ravelry discussion board a few years ago in response to my question of how to carry two yarns using the continental style which completely changed my stranded knitting for the better. I'm really enjoying your videos!

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, so cool to hear that! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

I'm very glad to have found this episode (clearly you're giving the community something we're craving). I know that many of my CommuKnitty members are spot on when they've said how helpful, interesting and educational this content is, so my comment will second that and add how ARTICULATE and approachable you've made this very complex, varied topic. I'm a lover of words, and I specifically noted how much I connected to the words you use to explain these lovely concepts. Your language to explain is not high minded or confusing, but it's also not coarse or 'lazy' (if that makes sense). This is a reference video of the highest quality. Thank you +Paper Tiger!

Thanks for the good encouragement. I have been doing colour work for years without thinking too much about it but have listened closely to what you and a few others have been saying and find that my colour work has definitely improved. I'm doing a fingering project right now that terrified me to think of until I actually got going. Now, it's great fun. Thanks again.

Thank you for the explanation and tips. I'm about to start my first sweater with my first cables and my first color work in a charted only format (another first). The swatch is challenging but I'm excited to learn so many new things. Thanks! 🤗

Definitely a helpful vidéo! I'm about to start my first stranded color pullover and this was very insightful and helpful in regards to technique. Thanks!

I'm so happy to have discovered your videos. This is the BEST discussion of stranded work that I have discovered. I've played a bit with it here and there in my 40 some years knitting and still feel like a klutz. Just recently I tried knitting 2 mittens at a time on 2 circular needles and using 2 colors. So I had 4 yarn sources (pulling from the center and the outside of each of 2 cakes) to keep sorted. I enjoy a challenge but Yikey! What a tangle...! The yarns became tangled AND super twisted because of the physics of pulling the yarn from the cakes. So I cut them all free (weaving ends be damned) and hand wound 2 balls of each color. Then I used a paper punch and cut 4 evenly spaced holes just under the top of a plastic gallon-sized plastic container. Then I placed the balls in the vessel and fed the yarn from each ball through a hole. Joined the yarn to my work and the rest of my knitting of the mittens was stress free.

Dear Diana Walla, you’re an awesome teacher! Please do more Videos on this topic, I learned so much! Thank you

This was SO helpful!! Thank you so much, Dianna!

Omg!!! I LOVED this video!!! Do informative, so helpful! Thank you!

Thanks for sharing such detailed tutorials and swatches. It was very interesting.

Wow, so much information in this video, I've booked it for reference. It's made me want to do some colour work day. Thank you for sharing!!

This is the first time I have watched a video of yours. I think you must have a background in adult education. Your explanation of the colour work process is exemplary. I'm impressed. I'll be watching more.

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

Funny you should say that because I do, in fact, have a degree in teaching ESL! Though I've primarily taught university students. But I'm very grateful for your kind words and I'm glad I seemed to have explained things well!

@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing. I am only 6 minutes in and I feel like I’ve learned an hour’s worth. Thank you and please keep these tutorials coming. I will be raving about them on my next episode. ❤️

@MegaKimwade

4 жыл бұрын

I just wrote a comment, then went to view other comments and I feel as though you and I wrote the same things. Lol. It was like deja Vu.

@morganleon159

3 жыл бұрын

You probably dont care at all but does someone know of a tool to get back into an instagram account? I stupidly lost the account password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me.

@alexanderyosef3129

3 жыл бұрын

@Morgan Leon Instablaster =)

Thank you for this great video. I immediately subscribed. You have a great on-camera presence, and I enjoyed watching you and learned so much! I'm looking forward to following you. Really, thanks!

Such a helpful and informative video. Thanks so much!

Fantastic video! I’m knitting stranded mittens all year and the more I do, the better they are getting. Learning is a process and it takes time. Thank you!!

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Are you taking part in any of the mitten KALs that are going on?

@treehousefiberarts2694

6 жыл бұрын

Paper Tiger I actually am hosting one on my channel - with Patricia from Knitography. Looking forward to more of your videos and patterns!

Diana! Great Video! thank you, THANK YOU! So much help/encouragement. I could watch your videos (I started with the Latvian braid) just see your hands working continental style--beautiful!

What a wonderfully helpful video! Thanks for sharing.

Great video! The portion on dominant colors was so clear... thanks! I'd love to see some colorwork tutorials, with videos of you knitting. I'm finally diving in after much fear and love to see how others do it. Thanks!

Very cool video! I came to check it out because Amy from Stranded Dyeworks mentioned it. Very useful information and I thought your explanations were very clear, especially with the visuals of you knitting.

Thaaaaaaaank you Dianna!!! This video is a fantastic source of tips and tricks! I learned so much! I had been struggling with catching my floats for one of my colors ( I knit colorwork in the same style you do) I kept twisting the stitches and it was such a mess ugh. So THANK YOU for clearing that up! -Tiffany

I'm so glad you answered that last question! The reason I'm watching this video is because I'm coming back to colourwork (again) and it's just not looking how I want it to. Maybe it's tension? Is there something I'm missing? Actually, I think I just need practice!! And it's so good to be reminded that this will get easier and better with practice. Just like ten years ago when I hated purling and considered just knitting garter stitch forever, turns out I just needed to practice.

Great tutorial especially regarding dominant colors that's an awesome thing to know thank you very much

You're such a knitting rebel! And I love it haha!!

Wonderful-you’re a good teacher.

Thank you for the video. Wonderfully done!

Thank you so much for your videos...I learn a lot of things!

Just thinking about colour work. Thanks for all of your insight and information.

Great video! Thanks so much for sharing your expertise!!

Wonderful video. You are incredibly clear and concise. I have been preparing myself to jump into stranded knitting. I have knit two hats with a stranded motif (same hat). The second came out wearable. If I had access to woolen spun wool yarns I might have plunged earlier. Thank you for your video.

This was a huge help, thank you!

I am ever so glad I found you!... I will officially start stalking you via all your socials 😂 color work has always scared me and I have steered away from it. But you made me feel like I can so do it. On may way to ralvery to get one if your beanie patterns to give color work a try. Thank you!!

Such a helpful video! Thank you so much!!

Great information about stranded knitting, I'm getting bolder!!

This is a really, really good and informative video. Just subscribed.

Amazing video!! My colorwork went from a 2 to a solid 6/10 just by knitting throughout watching ☺️

Awesome video you do such a great job with your explanation .

Thank you so much for this very helpful video! I just restarted colorwork knitting after tossing my last colorwork project aside in frustration. Your video just gave me courage to pick it up again.

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

I hope it goes better this time, and I'm glad I could bring some enthusiasm back!

Thank you for explaining about colour dominance. I knew how to hold the colours but didnt know why, and also thought colour dominance meant the base colour of the garment! 😀. I weave in my ends as I go a lá Philosophers Wool style or similar to catching floats. It saves loads of time for those of us who hate the fiddling after the item is completed.

Wow, what a great video! I just got bit by the colorwork bug last winter and there has been a lot of trial and error. You covered everything that has been tripping me up. I think I may even have enough nerve to take my Birkin out of "time out" so thank you!

Brilliant video! So informative!

I love the double point needle trick for carrying strands!

Thank you, this was very helpful.

thank you...answered a lot of questions I had been thinking about....

excellent tutorial - continental knitter so showed I was holding dominant color correctly in left hand. And trapping floats correctly. Thank you. Just finished the Alaska hat and am a bit disappointed - the black was great and then used a varigated pink for the sunrise/sunset. But the black shows through the pink in many places. Caught floats every few stitches - and maybe that is the problem. But thanks so much - have been checking out colorwork or stranded knitting for some time and found very little good description or showing of the dominant color or floats. Thanks again

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you having taken the time to make this video. I have literally been in tears trying to learn colorwork. The results have been nightmarish. You have given me the encouragement to try again ... not right now, but I will try again. Thank you so much.

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! I'm sure you have plenty of other lovely things to knit on until you feel like you're ready. One day, it'll feel right to give it another shot, and I wish you all the luck when you do! A rocky start with any technique can be overcome.

@sajehill

6 жыл бұрын

Paper Tiger Thank you again ☺

You would not believe how hard it is to find a video explaining that the dominant color is on the left and before. Thank you. I couldn't remember for the life of me

Everything I have learned has been from reference books and tons of practice. I still work on over time. I think every knitter does something different if you have the basic principles down its a matter of practice. I learn more everyday and sometimes knitting other designers patterns helps as well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Stranded Colorwork

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

I agree, I think knitting is very individual and over time we figure out what works best for us, and what doesn't (even if it works well for others!). I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

I just knitted my first piece of stranded color work, a sock (currently knitting the second one.) But it came out surprisingly well, it’s slightly tight-no puckering and it fits but I’ll probably loosen up my floats a tiny bit for this next sock. I just wanted to add to people afraid to start their first fair isle/intarsia/etc. that even if it doesn’t come out perfect it’s okay, start with something manageable like a simpler pattern. I modified a traditional snowflake pattern to make it less busy so I could manage it. Also I watched a bunch of videos and read about techniques before starting so I wouldn’t be trying to figure everything out on the fly.

I love your floats!!!

I really like the length of your videos - they’re not too long. I think for the type of video you’re doing (primarily informative) my preference is for the 30-45 minute time span. Sometimes I don’t watch the longer ones because I don’t have the time to invest at the moment. Love the information and tips.

Really enjoyed this one! 😀👌

Such an interesting video! My love of stranded colourwork has blossomed over the last few months and I'm so excited to knit ALL the things. (And it turns out everything I thought I knew about yarn dominance was wrong! Haha) ps. I love the introduction / title sequence!! Amazing :)

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

It's been so fun to watch your stranded colorwork love blossom! Mittens and hats and a sweater and all! I'm so happy you picked up on the fact that colorwork is easier on a larger circumference than anything that needs magic loop or DPNs and that you've talked about it on your podcast - I wish I would've mentioned that in this video, but perhaps I'll remember it for the next one. Hats are such great beginner colorwork projects!

Such a well made video!

I remember knitting a square at about 12 years of age and then didn’t pick it back up until 6-7 years ago which is a few decades later 😂… and decided my first project would be on dpns and my own colorwork pattern… ‘cos why re-learn to knit with 2 needles when 4/5 is so much more fun - I like a challenge! I also remember never knowing how to purl… and still didn’t until sleeping one night a few months later I dreamed something I hadn’t noticed on why I was failing - yarn behind = knit, yarn in front = purl! It was like a light went on (I was trying to purl with yarn still behind 😂)…..and then I discovered interchangeable circs… and continental knitting (I still can’t continental purl tho)….. and now I just love it all and love watching other people do it/teach it … though I tend to make/design my own stuff as I like gamer geek stuff and not clothinh… StitchSketch and KnitCompanion are my jam! BTW….Wow.. the work in your sampler for your opening title/thumbnail! I see you! 🫶

Thanks for the tips. I’m saving this video.

Very clear and helpful, thank you!

Wow! What a fantastic video. I’m just learning to do stranded knitting. I thought you had to capture, trap floats every 3-4 stitches, and that was creating a BIG mess! Thank you for your explanation of how to hold the yarn to keep them from getting tangled and that you don’t have to trap the floats as often. I did some color work last night and your way worked great!

@PaperTiger

6 жыл бұрын

For some people, trapping floats every 3-4 stitches works, but I definitely don't believe in any rules that start with "You HAVE TO do this..." Knitting is so personal and what works for each of us is different, you know? I'm so happy you found something helpful here and that mixing up how you were doing your colorwork gave you a result you're happier with!

Thank you for all this information. Im new and about to try soon. I did subscribe so I can learn more. Again thank you for all the tips.

Thank you, this was very helpful 🙏🏻

Great podcast. 👍🏿. Thank you. Was very helpful. The mitten story resonates with my experience. The Underwing Mitts by Erica Heusser are still on the needles😉

Thank you so very much! Really appreciate viewing.

I'm impressed with the wrong side of the mittens, regarding floats. Very nice.

I will be watching this again, and again,......