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Almost to the finish line! Learn how to finish Granton by working the buttonband and seams.

Our tips for working stranded colourwork over small circumferences, on double pointed needles or magic loop.

Ready to join the shoulders on your Granton? Our photo tutorial will help you walk you through the steps for seaming the shoulders and picking up for the sleeves.

Our second Colourwork Club pattern, Bellfield, features a beautiful snowflake pattern on the crown, with decreases neatly incorporated. Here’s our step-by-step photo tutorial on working decreases in stranded colourwork. Learn how to k2tog, ssk, and CDD.

A step by step photo tutorial on working single and double cabled decreases without a cable needle, used for Granton and Wardie.

Struggling to manage multiple yarns while working stranded colourwork? Here are three methods to try!

Bleideag is easy and relaxing to knit, available in a wide size range, and would be perfect for your first colourwork sweater project! The larger needles and quick chunky gauge make short work of this classic wardrobe staple. Here are links to tutorials that will help you tackle Bleideag, every step of the way. 

An alternating cable cast on is a useful, stretchy cast on for ribbing that’s less fussy to work than a tubular cast on. It’s worked like a regular cable cast on, but instead of casting on each stitch knitwise stitches are alternately cast on knitwise and purlwise.

This tutorial includes both step by step photos and videos so you can use whichever suits you better.

We love Gansey patterning and decided to go into our archive and reknit two old favourites. These were originally made in Blend no.1 and have now been reknit in Neighborhood Fiber Company Capital Luxury Sport. The cowl is made in Hollins Market and the hat in Reservoir Hill.

The Wardie cardigan is worked in pieces from the bottom up.  When the front and back are complete they're joined at the shoulders and then the sleeves are worked from stitches picked up around the armhole.

If you're interested in knitting Wardie but aren't sure about the finishing here's how the shoulders and sleeve go together.

Welcome to the Inverleith KAL! Today we're providing a photo tutorial on the right and left lifted increases used in Inverleith.

Confused by which size of a sweater pattern to make? To get the best fit you'll want to know what size you are, and how to read the sizing information provided in your pattern.