Design and knit your own colourwork hat.

Teacher: Julia Billings

Description: Designed to give knitters an introduction to the thrills of stranded colorwork, this day-long class combines a bit of theory and lots of hands-on. It should give you the confidence to not only start knitting colourwork but also to create your own patterns.

After a peek into the traditions of colourwork knitting, we’ll spend the morning covering the basics of colour theory and charts and creating a “story” that you’ll use as a basis for a hat design. You’ll learn how to put together your own colourways and motifs and then chart out your own beanie/ tam pattern, incorporating shaping into your motifs.

We’ll then get to work with needles and yarn in the afternoon, bringing your pattern to life and learning the tricks to knitting with two colours at once- carrying the unused yarn neatly at the back, working in the round, colour dominance and more.

Participants should be comfortable with casting on, knit and purl stitches and increasing and decreasing prior to this class. Some experience knitting in the round would be great but is not essential.

Materials:  There will either be a small materials fee for yarn of $15 or participants would bring the materials themselves. Materials list will be provided.

Level: Intermediate

Workshop Length: Full day