Intro to Intarsia

With intarsia, you join blocks of color together by twisting yarns at color changes. The trick is doing this without creating a tangled mess of yarn.

In this class, you will use intarsia techniques to knit a tote bag with Southwestern motifs:

This bag will give you the chance to practice different ways of managing the yarn and avoiding tangles. You'll learn to cast on and bind off in multiple colors, follow color charts, achieve smooth tension, and manage ends. And you will have a chance to add detail via duplicate stitch:

And to give your bag a clean finish, you'll line it with a canvas tote: