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Entrelac In the Round with Holli Yeoh - (v) - April 6
$60.00
Description
Entrelac In The Round with Holli Yeoh
This class is VIRTUAL at The comfort of your own location. A zoom link will be emailed out prior to class.
Date(s): April 6
Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm Central Time
Instructor: Holli Yeoh
Description: Discover how to create a basket-weave effect with your knitting. In this project-based, introductory class, you’ll learn how to knit entrelac in the round while making a wrist warmer.
Entrelac is "a type of knitted fabric that looks like large-scale basketweave. It’s worked in small sections, each build on top of the next through picking up stitches and then joined to neighboring sections through decreases. It can be worked flat and in the round—curiously it’s actually a little easier to work in the round."—The Knitter’s Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kate Atherley (2018)
This workshop will introduce you to working entrelac in the round, including base triangles, right and left-leaning diamonds, and end triangles. Entrelac can be worked in a solid color for a wonderfully textured fabric, or with multiple colors for a simple, yet effective colorwork project.
Bonus: after class, you have the option to turn your wrist warmer into a mitten
Recommended skills:
- Comfortable knitting in the round
- Are familiar with different kinds of decreases (k2tog, ssk)
- You have picked up stitches along a knitted edge before (e.g. neckline edge, sock gussets, button bands).
Supplies:
- small amount of2-4colours worsted weight yarn in light to medium colors
- (if you want to make a full pair of mittens after the class with your workshop sample, you’ll need about100m of your main color)
- 3.25mm(US 3)circular needle,32” (80cm) long for workshop
- 4 mm (US 6)circular needle,32” (80cm) long for mittens to complete after workshop
- stitch markers
- basic knitter’s toolkit
Homework:
- With MC* and 3.25 mm (US 3) needle, cast on 34sts.
- Join to work in the round being careful not to twist sts and place marker for end of round.
- Knit 1 round.
- Purl 1 round.
- Repeat last 2 rounds once more.
- Break MC. Leave sts on needle.
* If you’re planning turning your cuff into mittens after class, MC is the main mitten color.