What is it?
Carrying 2 colors across a row at one time.
The pattern may have multiple colors, but only 2 are used within a single row.
Common Tip - Catch your Floats
As you carry the multiple colors of yarn, the unused yarn end up floating behind the main pattern.
This yarn that’s carried behind the stitches of a row are called the Floats.
Floats can be any number of stitches long, but you can image that if a float gets to be more than 5 stitches
long it could snag in the finished project or mess with the tension of the stiches around it.
To fix this we catch our float; picking up a float in the back of the stitch to hold it and keep it in place -
this keeps the tension so that the floating yarn isn’t too tight or too loose.
It’s also recommended not to catch floats in the same spot in every row - staggering your caught floats eases
tension so one column of stitches doesn’t pull towards the inside of the project.
Notice how long they are compared to the stitches in the very top rows of the swatch.