Knitting Daily Workshop Introduction to Fair Isle: The Ivy League Vest with Eunny Jang

• Introduction to Fair Isle knitting, which touches on the history of the style and regional variations
• Gettiing started explains that Fair Isle is worked with two colors per round and shows how to cast on with two colors
• Advanced principles: more on corrugated ribbing, different ways to hold the yarns, color planning and dealing with yarn joins
• Knitting in the round, including how to work shaping in a pattern area and what a steek is and why it's used
• The body in detail: how to read a chart, keeping up with pattern increases and decreases, more on steeks and using duplicate stitch to fix mistakes in Fair Isle patterning
• Cutting the steek, why it works and how to pick up stitches to finish the neck and arm holes

'Watching the video is almost as good as having a knowledgeable knitter right in your house with you, looking over your shoulder as you work. This DVD is sure to be a help to knitters who want to make the leap into intricate Fair Isle designs and don't know how to begin.'--About.com Guide to Knitting

There are lots of helpful tips in here–the one for casting on with two colors is practically worth the price of the video–and it takes a lot of the “scare” out of colorwork and steeks. There’s so much information in here, in fact, I need to watch it again. Off hand, I can’t think of a fair isle topic that she did not touch on. It really is a great introduction.'--KnittingScholar.com