Intermediate

Anna Maltz

Color, Tips & Techniques

The Kraai Mitts are a small project to get you started with Marlisle (a combination of marl and colorwork, aka Fair Isle), an unusual technique for creating decorative texture and color shifts with a particular focus on seamless knitting in the round. As an entry point into understanding this novel approach, you’ll cast on a Kraai Mitt, from Marlisle: A New Direction in Knitting, under Anna’s expert guidance. A speedy, engrossing little project inspired by old-fashioned leather driving gloves with arrows on the fronts that echo birds in flight or road markings. Knitted in the round, they use increases and decreases to create traveling stitches that mean there’s an interesting-shaped chart to follow. The thumb uses buttonhole construction in a way that will likely improve all your future buttonholes! Suitable for a range of skill levels, but perhaps most exciting for knitters who have experimented with stranded colorwork and intarsia and understand the limitations of these existing techniques. Skills covered: - an insight into the possibilities of Marlisle - following a Marlisle stitch pattern from a chart - transitioning between colors for Marlisle - long-tail cast-on - traveling sts - a variety of increases and decreases - neat buttonhole construction Technique requirements: Must have experience of colorwork and be confident knitting in the round.

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