Leader: Maureen Wheeler
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Intermediate
Summary: An opportunity to find out more about Bohus knitting techniques and design. Knit your own swatch and adapt colour work patterns.
Description
We will spend a short time looking at the history of Bohus knitting on the west coast of Sweden in the 1940s.
- Investigate techniques
- Create a swatch adapting stranded knitting patterns.
- Look at using the technique in different yarn weights.
Investigate adapting colour work patterns
About the leader
I am a member the Huddersfield branch of the Guild and have been part of the Collections Team since 2010. I assist with Trunk Shows, talks and workshops for branches and local groups.
After visiting Sweden I became particularly interested in Bohus knitting techniques and have adapted several patterns to knit in this style using a range of yarn weights.
Email: maureen.wheeler@dfhs.org.uk
Skills required
Experience of stranded knitting techniques.
Preparation
No preparation needed.
What to bring
Please bring:
- Paper and coloured pencils for designing patterns you might like to try to adapt.
- Suitable different (solid) coloured yarns
- Needles appropriate for stranded knitting with your chosen yarn
Additional material
Maureen will provide a handout about the history of Bohus knitting and a sample swatch pattern. She will show you swatches of Bohus knitting using different yarn weighs
