Workshops in English

One of the great joys of knitting is coming up with your own ideas, playing with color, and seeing your ideas come to life, not to mention showing it off to the world. One of the best ways to do that is to design a motif for a sweater yoke. Designing colorwork for a sweater yoke, however, is not that straight forward. Your design needs to take into account shaping the yoke while keeping the motif balanced and seamless.

In this course, we will review the basic structure of a seamless yoke sweater knitted top down and teach best practices on how to create seamless yoke shaping for any size garment, in any type of yarn. Participants will be provided with the tools and necessary calculations to knit a wedge-shaped swatch during the course with their own color motif, which can then be used as a template to complete their own custom-designed sweater in their own time.

When: Sunday, the 9th of June; 9 - 12 AM
Teacher: Marta Schluneger
What to bring: Enough yarn to create a wedge swatch in your desired size, scrap yarn is a perfect choice. We recommend bringing yarn suitable for 4mm - 6mm needles (rendering a gauge of 18-24 stitches per 10cm) to ensure there is enough time to complete your swatch, for example Sandnes Garn Double Sunday, Léttlópi, or Isager Jensen are all great choices, but feel free to bring whatever works for you. Needles in your desired size. Grid paper.
Skills needed: General knitting skills, ability to cast on, knit and purl, increase stitches, comfortable knitting stranded colorwork.
Language: English