Intarsia

To learn how to knit intarsia , you can attend one of the Advanced Knitting Workshops - bookable here. You must have already completed the Knitting Machine Induction to attend.

Intarsia is a knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. Unlike other multicolour techniques (such as Fair Isle), there is only one "active" colour on any given stitch, and yarn is not carried across the back of the work; when a colour changes on a given row, the old yarn is left hanging. This creates pieces with no floats along the reverse side. This also means that each row can contain as man colours as you want (though is gets more fiddly and complicated the more you add)

Intarsia has no floats on the reverse side and can contain more than 2 colours per row

In order to knit intarsia, there are a couple of settings that need to be changed on the carriage, which can be seen below. These need to be changed at the correct time during knitting so follow the instructions below.

Knitting Intarsia