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Confident Knitting: Mosaic Knitting
Every month, the Arnall-Culliford Knitwear Confident Knitting series pairs a must-knit design with a video tutorial to expand your repertoire of skills.
This month Jen Arnall-Culliford is here with a tutorial on mosaic knitting, a technique that makes it possible to create beautiful, complex-looking colorwork without ever using more than one color in a row.
It’s no more difficult than stripes.
Mosaic knitting quickly becomes intuitive as you work each round, slipping and knitting (or purling) to work each color one at a time. It’s one of the best knitting tricks around.
Hover over the video progress bar at the bottom of the frame to see how Jen has neatly labeled each part of this lesson.
The Design of the Month?
Modern, classic Terrain Mitts (Ravelry link) by the multi-talented Marceline Smith.
How to Get in on Confident Knitting
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The cast on for these mitts, an earlier video, is something I will try in my next project that starts with 1×1 rib. It’s called alternating cable cast on. Check it out!
Oooh – I’m wondering if I can use this on socks!!
Yes, it works quite well on socks. @highcontrastknits on Instagram has some amazing and fun (mosaic) slip stitch patterns for socks.
My favorite mosaic I’ve done lately is the Pressed Flowers shawl somebody mentioned here this year. Easy, engaging, and a beautiful result!
I love mosaic/slip stitch knitting. One color per row/round makes me happy, just like brioche! I’m working on a slip stitch bed sock right now…worsted weight so it’s pretty quick.
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I watched Jen’s video several times and loved it. But the one part I could not understand is why was the purl step necessary for this pattern or was sge just demonstrating how one would do this?
Hi Lorelei! There is a section in this pattern where you need to work flat, back and forth, so you need to work WS rows in purl in this part of the pattern. I hope that helps! Jen