AC: Fair Isle for All: Knitting Class
Details
For the Adventurous beginner: You need to know how to knit, purl, increase, decrease, and work in the round.
The Madison Park hat (available in Ann Weaver's Ravelry shop) is the class project. Students will learn stranded knitting if they've never knit with two colors in a round, or they will learn a new stranded knitting style: one color in each hand, two colors in the right hand, and/or two colors in the left hand!
In this workshop, we’ll use the Madison Park hat to practice Fair Isle knitting. This hat uses small, intuitive colorwork patterns that enable you to focus on your technique. There are no long floats, so you won’t need to worry about catching your yarn when working with two colors. By the time you finish the hat, you’ll be comfortable with your chosen method of Fair Isle knitting.
Required purchase: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/madison-park.
Minimum student age: 14
Materials needed:
Bring 16-inch US Size 4 and US Size 5 circular needles; stitch marker; row counter (optional but helpful); DK weight yarn: you'll need about 215 yards of DK weight total (sample uses 125 yards in A, the main color, and 30 yards each in B, C, and D. Alternatively, you can knit the hat using two colors); Madison Park pattern, available on Ravelry for $5.
NOTE: There is homework for this class!
Cast on and knit the ribbing of your hat. Work from the beginning of Instructions in the pattern to the Inc Rnd line. You'll be ready to start the colorwork portion for class.
Attendance Limit: minimum 8 or class will be canceled at the instructor's discretion
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