Stranded, Multi-Color or Fair Isle Knitting Portuguese Style
October 10, 2009 | 
Author Wow! I just experimented with doing two-color, fair isle knitting with the Portuguese style and it works great! Easier than I thought. I’ve seen Andrea Wong’s sock video where she demonstrates fair isle knitting on socks, but she does the second color English style, which I don’t like and it would just slow me down. If you are good at English then that might work, but you know me…
I tried it with my Portuguese knitting pendant that I invented, but with two hooks, and it worked great. No slowdown, just as fast as if I were doing just the one strand Portuguese style, and I found it was as easy to do right side and wrong side. I had seen another video on fair isle for socks using two knitting pins, but I think it was also socks and was done wrong side only…? I was afraid the yarn would tangle or something because i was turning the work but it took care of itself and I had no problems.
Now I need a fair isle project. I think I’ll go for a vest of some sort.
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Tags: Andrea Wong, fair isle, knitting pendant, Portuguese Knitting, two-color, two-strand knitting
2 Responses to “Stranded, Multi-Color or Fair Isle Knitting Portuguese Style”
Hi ya! Did you ever get that video done you talked about making for the portuguese fair isle knitting with 2 hooks ? I’d love to watch it. I’m just now new to practicing portuguese knitting and I love to do two socks at a time on my circular needles so I’m trying to figure this all out. Thanks!
Hi and thanks for the comment. No I didn’t do a video on fair isle and probably won’t for a while. Sorry! But I will tell you that if you are going to try fair isle socks two at a time you are asking for quite a tangle! Managing two colors for each of two socks, turning everything in the right directions and keeping track. Your going to feel like you are in a spider web. There is a video or two for fair isle Portuguese knitting on youtube, and Andrea Wong’s first sock video covers fair isle Portuguese knitting also. To do it one sock at a time with two color and using hooks it’s pretty much the same. I wish you good fortunes with your projects.