A method of stranded colorwork knitting originating from the Shetland Islands. True Fair Isle uses only two colors per row, with the unused yarn carried across the back of the work as floats. The term is widely used to describe any stranded knitting with horizontal geometric or floral bands.
Heard on the job
Keep your tension loose on those floats across the back, or the Fair Isle yoke will pucker.
Also heard as
- stranded colorwork