Tutor: Steve Foreman
Craft: Hand knitting
Experience: Confident beginner
Description:
By the end of the workshop attendees will be able to knit simple published openwork (lace) patterns, either charted or written. You will knit a bookmark with the traditional Shetland “Field of flowers” motif.
Skills required
This workshop assumes that you can cast-on, knit, purl, knit two together and bind-off.
Preparation
Using the 4-ply yarn you will bring to the workshop, start your lace bookmark by loosely casting on 37 stitches and knitting four rows of garter stitch (knit each row) to form the side border of your bookmark.
You will need
- Approx 10g of 4-ply smooth, solid light colour
- 4mm knitting needles (straight or circular)
- Dental floss or thick sewing thread in a contrasting colour
- Scissors or snips (or the cutter on dental floss container)
- Darning needle
- Removable stitch markers (5) or bring thin yarn that you can use to make markers
- Pencil and rubber
- Paper (for making notes)
- 30 cm ruler or highlighter tape or magnetic board & rule
- Pins to block your bookmark (blocking pins or large non-rusting sewing pins)
- Horizontal surface to pin your bookmark to while blocking
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About the speaker/workshop leader
Steve started knitting in 2011 as a way of “turning off” from work. He quickly found that he preferred a challenge in his knitting, leading him to stranded work and lacy knitting. It didn’t take long to work out that lace work was easier to carry on his many business trips than stranded knitting. Adding his own motifs to baby blankets has taught him how much work must have gone into creating the motifs in the Shetland tradition, so he was happy to use a pattern for to knit a 1-ply Shetland lace shawl!
Ravelry: Teabreakknitter
Email: the@teabreakknitter.uk
