Read Your Knitting
with Rebecca Bowen
Being able to read your knitting is an important skill all knitters should develop. This will enable you to design your own knitting designs/patterns!
Discover and correct errors in your knitting. The first step is being able to tell a knit stitch from a purl stitch. Sometimes this is easy, but not always.
Discover and correct errors in printed patterns. Knitting patterns are difficult to proof-read, so errors can be expected now and then.
Make decisions about whether and how to change printed patterns to suit your body, your yarn, and your lifestyle.
Swatching is an important part of this process. If you change yarns, your swatch can help you decide if the drape, feel, and look of the yarn are appropriate for the pattern.
Gain confidence as a thinking knitter. Be free to solve your own problems in your own way, without having to run to your yarn shop at every little snag.
Skill/Experience Level
Advanced Beginner
Class Day and Time
Saturday – Half Day Morning
Material Fees
$0.00
Equipment and Supplies to be brought by Student
- smooth worsted weight yarn in two or three colors (Do Not bring valuable yarn as you will be cutting it up and sharing it with the other students.)
- knitting needles : approx. 5mm (US # 8) and 6mm (US # 10) (Exact size is not important, but one set needs to be near the “correct” size for your yarn and the other needs to be bigger. You can use straights or circulars, but we will be knitting flat.)
- Crochet hook: about a size F or G (Again, exact size is not important, but it should be a little smaller than what you would use if you were crocheting your yarn with it.)
- tapestry needle big enough for your yarn (This can be straight or bent tip, whichever you prefer.)
- hand towel (We will be pinning knitted swatches down to make them behave.)
- straight pins
- pen or pencil for taking notes
- red pen, colored marker (not a sharpie or anything that will bleed through paper), or crayon for coloring
- any knitting you have knitted that has problems
Meet the Instructor
Rebecca Bowen
I learned how to knit when I was 10 years old. I started teaching knitting when I was 12.
Knitting is a way of thinking as well as a method of making fabric. I like to teach concepts and skills rather than a specific project.
All of us have different ways of applying our skills to our projects.
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