Fair Isle Knitting: Festive Scarf Project

Fair Isle Knitting originated on Fair Isle near the Shetland Islands, a place that needs warm jumpers! It is a method of knitting with several strands of yarn at the same time to create intricate patterning. Many of the traditional motifs of Fair Isle work are instantly recognizable and continue to be popular in fashionable knit wear.

The method of Fair Isle knitting (also known as “stranded colour work”) is very rewarding when used in clothing and soft furnishing projects. In this workshop we will be creating a design for a pocket scarf. You will finish it a home but we will cover all the necessary techniques.

This workshop gives you an introduction to the techniques used. You will learn how to hold two coloured yarns at once, how to introduce new colours to the work, how to hid the ends of colours you have finished using and how to strand threads along the back of work so that they do not become loose and catch or pull.

You should already be able to do basic knitting to attend this workshop