Name
Ladderback Jacquard for Stranded Knitting
Date & Time
Friday, August 1, 2025, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description

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. In this class we'll learn several different options for setting up and resolving ladders, explore best practices for placement and charting, and talk about edge cases like single-row ladders and working with three or more colors. Whether you're interested in tweaking patterns or developing your own colorwork designs, incorporating this technique means you can design without limits on the space between alternating motifs.

Track
Yarn Track
Prerequisites
Students should already be comfortable working stranded knitting and working at a small circumference in the round.
Supplies Students Must Bring

Smooth, worsted weight yarn in two contrasting colors and your choice of needles in a compatible size (US #7-9) suitable for working a small-circumference project in the round (double-pointed needles, magic loop on one long circular, or two circulars).

Skill Level
Advanced