Color Patterning With Hand-Dyed Yarns

Meet your instructor, dyer and designer Laura Bryant, and learn how different dyeing techniques can create different patterns in your knitting. For a first project, you'll be using dyed-around yarn to create color pooling in a cowl that is knit in the round. Laura walks you through finding the Magic Number that will dictate how many stitches to cast on to achieve a stacked color effect.

Get started with your cowl using a provisional cast-on and dyed-across yarn. You'll use your Magic Number and adjust it for the stitch pattern, then join to work in the round. Laura shows you how to manage your tension and make adjustments if your color pooling gets off track.

Once you've knitted the body of the cowl, Laura shows you two ways to bind off that will leave a nice, stretchy edge. Then learn how to retrieve the cast-on stitches from your waste yarn and bind them off in the same way so your edges match. Laura has a great trick for burying ends you might not have seen before, and she shares some design variations that are sure to inspire!