AMERICA’S YARN STORE

I’m teaching the following THREE classes. For registration details, click here.

Colorwork the Easy Way!: Mosaic Knitting

Slip-stitch patterns can boast amazing colorwork without the hassle of stranding or working with multiple colors in a row! Stunning results such as intricate mosaic designs, textural colorwork such as houndstooth, and more are in your future. Along with the basic mosaic knitting technique for garter and stockinette, learn to predict when combinations of variegated and solid color yarn work together and when they will not, and how charts are written and read differently for mosaic knitting. Practical tips about navigating the technique and advice regarding the best uses for mosaic knitting are included. Also covered are examples of adding slip stitch to basic garter and progressively adding one, two, and three colors to achieve stunning colorwork results with so little effort.

tWISTS ON tWISTS: Color, rEVERSIBLE, AND TEXTURED cables

One can spend a knitting lifetime exploring the various lovely twists and turns that make up regular cable combinations. Now add color, reversibility, and texture to that mix. One-color cable patterns against a different background color, different color cable strands meandering all over and among one another, striped cables, and bi-color rope cables are some of the combinations covered. You will be amazed at how the same cable pattern can produce very different visual experiences by changing which stitch columns receive color. And discover the fun of experimenting with color placement as you learn how to convert a cable chart into a color cable chart using graph paper and/or a charting program. Then learn two methods of making cabled fabric reversible. Many examples of cables—rope, lozenge, celtic braid, horn, and more—are covered, using step-by-step exercises to convert them from their regular form into reversible form.  What can and cannot be made reversible is discussed.   Finally, tips on effective ways of adding texture to cables will be covered.

I’ll put a hex on you! Hexagon Stitch and other Knit One Below Textures

Knitting in the stitch below (K1B) is a stitch that creates a wide variety of textural interest. We will learn and practice the K1B technique on a one-color Twisted Moss pattern practice on a two-color check pattern and other 1, 2, and 3 color textures, and then move on to the more complex hexagon stitch, practicing it flat and in the round on a cowl project. Also, a complex 2-needle cast-on will be taught appropriate for the hexagon stitch and any other expansive knitted fabric, along with appropriate bind-offs demonstrated.