Dates: Saturday, January 10th and 17th from 1-2:30 PM
Instructor: Tamara Oechslin
Join Tamara to learn colorwork! This versatile and fun stranded technique involves knitting with two colors (or more) across the same row or round to create a pattern.
You will learn how to carry multiple strands of yarn, manage your tension, and float the non-working yarn behind your knitting. We will also discuss how to read charted patterns for colorwork.
You have two choices of patterns to work on during this class: a coffee cup sleeve or a hat.
You will likely be able to complete the sleeve over the course of the class. If you have knit a basic hat before, you are welcome to start a winter themed colorwork hat instead of the coffee cup sleeve! While you likely won’t finish the hat during class time, we will make sure that you feel confident and ready to continue on your own. If you have not knit a hat before, please choose the cup sleeve!
Week 1:
How to do stranded knitting with two hands, managing your tension and floats, chart reading
Week 2:
(if making a coffee cup sleeve) final touches, steeking your project and adding a button band
(if making hat) continuing guided work on your hat, making sure that you feel prepared to continue and finish, additional information on colorwork
Prerequisites:
Prior experience knitting is required. Please feel confident casting on and off with your method of choice, knitting, and purling before taking this class!
Materials:
For coffee cup
~100 yards of 2 colors of DK/worsted yarn (good contrast between two colors of same weight, a flexible wool is preferred)
Appropriate needles for your yarn (US size 5-8; DPNs ok)
For hat
Woolstok Worsted bundle of your choice
Free winter hat pattern (available at Knit B’ham- see class photos for a picture of the hat)
US 7 16” and US 8 16” circular needles, US 8 DPNS for decreases.
(photo by Interweave)
Dates: Saturday, January 10th and 17th from 1-2:30 PM
Instructor: Tamara Oechslin
Join Tamara to learn colorwork! This versatile and fun stranded technique involves knitting with two colors (or more) across the same row or round to create a pattern.
You will learn how to carry multiple strands of yarn, manage your tension, and float the non-working yarn behind your knitting. We will also discuss how to read charted patterns for colorwork.
You have two choices of patterns to work on during this class: a coffee cup sleeve or a hat.
You will likely be able to complete the sleeve over the course of the class. If you have knit a basic hat before, you are welcome to start a winter themed colorwork hat instead of the coffee cup sleeve! While you likely won’t finish the hat during class time, we will make sure that you feel confident and ready to continue on your own. If you have not knit a hat before, please choose the cup sleeve!
Week 1:
How to do stranded knitting with two hands, managing your tension and floats, chart reading
Week 2:
(if making a coffee cup sleeve) final touches, steeking your project and adding a button band
(if making hat) continuing guided work on your hat, making sure that you feel prepared to continue and finish, additional information on colorwork
Prerequisites:
Prior experience knitting is required. Please feel confident casting on and off with your method of choice, knitting, and purling before taking this class!
Materials:
For coffee cup
~100 yards of 2 colors of DK/worsted yarn (good contrast between two colors of same weight, a flexible wool is preferred)
Appropriate needles for your yarn (US size 5-8; DPNs ok)
For hat
Woolstok Worsted bundle of your choice
Free winter hat pattern (available at Knit B’ham- see class photos for a picture of the hat)
US 7 16” and US 8 16” circular needles, US 8 DPNS for decreases.
(photo by Interweave)
