Ladderback Jacquard for Stranded Knitting with Amy Snell

Ladderback Jacquard for Stranded Knitting with Amy Snell

Easy, seamless, and beautiful, the ladderback jacquard technique will improve the tension of your stranded knitting while allowing you to span much larger areas between stitches. This knitting method adds stretch to the floats while preventing the alternate color from peeking through, and can be applied to nearly any stranded knitting project. Once you add this technique to your knitting toolbox, you may never want to go back to any other method of carrying floats. 

Whether you're interested in tweaking patterns or developing your own colorwork designs, incorporating this technique means you can work without limits on the space between alternating motifs.

In class we'll learn several different options for setting up and resolving ladders and explore best practices for placement and charting, so you can envision how to bring this technique into your real-life knitting applications. 

Skill Level - Advanced:  Students should already be comfortable working stranded knitting and should know how to increase, decrease, and work at a small circumference in the round.

Supplies: Smooth, worsted weight yarn in two contrasting colors and your choice of needles in a compatible size (US #7-9) suitable for working a very small-circumference project in the round  (dpns, magic loop, or two circulars).

Homework: With the lighter yarn, cast on 40 stitches and join to work in the round. With the same color, knit 3 rounds of stockinette stitch.