Knitting - Fixing and Finishing
The banes of knitting; fixing your mistakes and finishing techniques for a more professional look.
Teacher: Georgie Hallam
Description: This class is about turning home-made into hand-made; creating garments that you’re proud to admit, “yes, I knit that!” We will begin by looking at how to read your knitting, an essential skill for any knitter. This will lead us into fixing mistakes such as dropped stitches, twisted stitches, an errant stitch a few rows down. You will learn to focus on the area where there is a problem and drop back to that stitch to fix it, rather than having to rip back entire rows.
The second half of the class will look at a variety of simple tips and techniques that will improve the finished look of your knitting; tubular cast ons, matching your cast ons and your cast offs, neatening underarms, casting off neatly and sewing in ends properly, stopping garter button bands from rolling in, eliminating gaps in joined areas.
Materials: Students need to provide yarn and needles for playing with in class; 8ply/dk weight is probably the best. You will also need to pring 4mm straight needles as well as your preferred needles for knitting.
Level: Adventurous beginner - Intermediate
Workshop Length: Half Day
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.