Dates: Saturday, June 6th and June 13th from 1-2:30 PM
Instructor: Tamara Oechslin
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!
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. In this class, you will learn colorwork techniques through a patterned coffee cup sleeve.
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, dip your toes into steeking (cutting a piece of knitting done in the round to lay flat), and making a buttonband. You will likely be able to complete the sleeve over the course of the class.
*please note that other colorwork projects are welcome in this class if discussed with Tamara prior
Week 1:
How to do stranded knitting with two hands, managing your tension and floats, chart reading
Week 2:
Final touches, steeking your project and adding a button band
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)
(photo by Interweave)
Dates: Saturday, June 6th and June 13th from 1-2:30 PM
Instructor: Tamara Oechslin
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!
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. In this class, you will learn colorwork techniques through a patterned coffee cup sleeve.
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, dip your toes into steeking (cutting a piece of knitting done in the round to lay flat), and making a buttonband. You will likely be able to complete the sleeve over the course of the class.
*please note that other colorwork projects are welcome in this class if discussed with Tamara prior
Week 1:
How to do stranded knitting with two hands, managing your tension and floats, chart reading
Week 2:
Final touches, steeking your project and adding a button band
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)
(photo by Interweave)
