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HOW TO CATCH FLOATS

Anyone who has been working Fair Isle for a while will know that it can be a bit tricky keeping your yarn floats neat across the back of the work, especially if the colours are drawn across a larger number of stitches. Luckily, with the help of what feels like a few ‘new’ stitches, this becomes much quicker and easier, with the added bonus of your balls of yarn staying tidy and not getting tangled up as you work across the rows. Note that to work the steps seen here, you will need to be working Fair Isle with one yarn continuously as the upper yarn, and one as.

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