Advanced Knitting Workshop: Intro to Stranded Colorwork

Saturday August 29th from 10:30am to 1:30pm

Advanced Level Class*

Age 14+ (minors must accompany an adult)

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In this workshop, you’ll get an introduction to stranded colorwork knitting techniques by knitting a pine tree-pattern coffee cozy. Julia will provide the pattern and guide everyone through the basics of the skill, including how to manage more than one strand of yarn at a time, catching “floats,” and color dominance.

The goal is to make the skill feel approachable!

Materials you’ll need:

• Two skeins of DK-weight yarn in contrasting colors. This is also a good small project for using partial skeins in your stash.

• One set each of size 2.5 and size 5 needles for preferred method of small circumference knitting, such as 9-inch circular needles, double-pointed needles or circular needles for the magic loop technique

• Other basic notions including tapestry needles and stitch markers  

Prerequisites:

*This is an advanced class — Designed for students with a good grasp on basic knitting techniques, but suitable for those who have never done colorwork knitting before. The skills students should already be comfortable with include:

• Casting on and off

• Knit and purl stitches, and working both knits and purls in the same row

• Knitting in the round

About the instructor:

Julia Cardi is a knitter and crocheter based in Detroit. Her love for knitting began as a solitary hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic (the scarf of dubious quality she made from a kit as a nine-year-old notwithstanding), but what hooked her is the community fiber arts naturally creates, and the respite it provides from her day job.