Tutor: Rachel Lemon
Craft: Hand Knitting
Experience: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Summary: You don’t have to cast on or off in the same manner for every item you knit – how stretchy do you want your rib? Fancy knitting toe-up socks? We’ll cover ribs, crochet and casting-on in two directions at once. I’ll have samples so you can choose which to try.
Description
You don’t have to cast on or off in the same manner for every item you knit – how stretchy do you want your rib? Fancy knitting toe-up socks?
We’ll look at what factors to think about when selecting a cast on or cast off. There will be a choice of both cast-ons and cast-offs to try for ribs depending how stretchy you want them to be. Casting on in two directions at once is useful for toe-up socks or instead of a provisional cast-on, but if you do want a provisional cast-on we’ll look at a crochet cast-on.
About the tutor
Rachel learnt to knit in primary school and have never stopped. She loves colourwork, especially small gauge patterns from Estonia and Latvia, and is just as happy knitting plain things while sitting on trains staring out the window. She has a maximum 10 projects on the needles at any one time, the oldest of which is just celebrating its fourth birthday.
