Ooops! Correcting Mistakes and Learning to "Read" Your Knitting with Harry Wells
Date: Saturday November 11, 2023
Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 - pm Central Time
Instructor: Harry Wells
Cost: $45
Description This class is specifically designed for less experienced knitters and is all about knitting literacy, being able to “read your knitting”. You will leave class a more competent, informed knitter.
Ever look at your knitting and say, "What happened THERE?", or picked up your knitting project and wondered "Where am I in the pattern?"-how many decreases or increases have I worked?, what row was I on? And why did this end up too big/too small?? Ever panic as a dropped stitch ran down your knitting, not knowing what to do? Take this class! Divided into two sections, "Knowing Where You Are" and "Identifying and Correcting Mistakes", this class teaches how to "read" your knitting--to recognize what you are looking at, where you are, what to do next, whether that be correcting a problem or moving ahead!
Prerequisite Skill Level: Beginner. Participants must be proficient at casting on with the basic long tail cast-on without assistance, and be able to knit and purl
Materials: Worsted weight wool or wool blend yarn in light or medium color, Size 7 straight or 16” circular needles, stitch markers, locking stitch markers or knitter’s pins, Knitter’s Repair hook or a crochet hook (size F or G is best), Ruler, tape measure, or Knit Chek (recommended gauge ruler), tapestry needle and scissors, perle cotton or fingering weight waste yarn
Homework: Two swatches using worsted weight yarn in light or medium color and size 7 needle: CO 20 sts for each swatch. Work each swatch for four inches. Make one stockinette swatch (Knit a row, purl a row, repeat both rows.) and one garter stitch swatch (Knit every row.) Bind off and block the swatches