Catching floats in stranded knitting

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For this month’s Confident Knitting project, we’re focussed on floats! If you’ve ever knitted colourwork that’s turned out a bit lumpy and bumpy, or that looks a bit loose and sloppy, it was probably down to the floats being too tight, in the first instance, or too loose, in the second. Even floats

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If you do Stranded Knitting, you’ll want to be able to catch long floats. Doing so helps to avoid the wearer’s fingers from getting caught in them. I love a technique that’s both practical and pretty. Don’t Avoid It! This is often a technique that people who do Stranded Knitting try to avoid by only …

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