Equilateral Knitting - Triangle Hat
| Instructor: Lucy Neatby | Class Capacity: 25 | |||
| Class Level: Experienced beginners upwards |
Description ~ Equilateral Knitting - Triangle Hat
Learn to knit equal sided triangles and how to modify the size of the triangles. We will take a close look at knitting-up stitches and right and left-slanting decreases and the various methods of making them. From this base we’ll add further triangular units into a preplanned strip for a hat. Folding and assembly of the strip, with a revision of the necessary finishing techniques (Mattress stitch and setting stitches to rows). We’ll look at designing with triangular units and thinking in three dimensions, variations of patterns, stripes and textures. Creating hexagons and planning patchwork style projects. Triangles are ideal portable knitting!
Tips & Tricks for knitting on needles with two points
| Instructor: Lucy Neatby | Class Capacity: 25 | |||
| Class Level: Experienced beginners upwards |
Description ~ Tips & Tricks for knitting on needles with two points
If you have never tried knitting with dpns or circular needles, have experienced difficulties or would simply like to try some new ideas, this is your chance. Dpns are ideal for socks, mittens and other small portable projects. Discover how to cast on without twists, slip stitches at high speed, keep track of your stitches and work without ladders at the corners. Look at the many types of needles available and how they would suit your knitting style. Learn I cord and other uses of dpns. Practice using one long, two or multiple circular needles in addition to or instead of rigid dpns. The advantages of working flat fabrics on dpns.
Cool Socks
| Instructor: Lucy Neatby | Class Capacity: 25 | |||
| Class Level: Intermediate/Advanced |
Description ~ Cool Socks
An advanced sock workshop for happy sock knitters who wish to refine or spice up their socks. Casting on and the essential properties of sock tops, including variations of Long Tail and Channel Island cast-on (a beautiful edge for a 1 x 1 rib). Heels; Garter Stitch Short Row and Turkish and how to determine their placement and adjust them for better fit. The revolutionary use of a Toe Chimney for easy grafting (Kitchener stitch) with no anxiety or loose stitches! Use of running yarn markers to help you stay in control. Provisional Crochet Cast-On the easy way and knitting upwards for long-leg socks and three methods to avoid tight bound-off edges for toe-up socks.
Short Row Wizardry
| Instructor: Lucy Neatby | Class Capacity: 25 | |||
| Class Level: Intermediate |
Description ~ Short Row Wizardry
A practical look at short rows and their many applications to better tailor your knitting. Try unwrapped, wrapped, yarnover and Japanese short rows and compare their merits. Short rows in Garter stitch and making a mitered corner. Planning to improve fit and finish by planning your own shapings for bulgy bits. Conversion of door-step shoulder directions to short rows.
Garter stitch short rows to create the ultimate practical, comfortable, generic sock heel. Students will try ruffled edges, short-rows in the round and shape a sleeve head. Knit a circular disc by working only straight rows. Play with free style short rows, flat and three dimensional.
Fringes, Folderols & Furbelows
| Instructor: Lucy Neatby | Class Capacity: 25 | |||
| Class Level: Intermediate |
Description ~ Fringes, Folderols & Furbelows
A mixed bag of interesting techniques, to add exciting beginning and finishing touches to your knitting! Fringes; how to make them, with or without beads, unraveled, attached and hooked from a continuous yarn. We will work a micro shawl fringed with its own yarn tails. Tubular I-cord and twisted fringes. The essentials of applied edgings. How to create a South American-style Puntas edging topped with stranded Garter stitch patterns, applied intarsia triangles and stripes. And for a final flourish a Latvian twisted edging (a cool spin on a Garter stitch edge).