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Knitting - Your first Sock
Delicious on the feet, and great as gifts. Sock knitting is where it is at. After spending a few hours with Ophelie learning the ins and outs, you will have them totally sorted.
Teacher: Ophelie Lechat
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Description: This class will walk you through the full sock making process: working the cuff, leg, heel flap, heel gusset, foot and toe. This will be done by knitting a half-size sock (the resulting sock will fit a child).
Students will start by casting on for their sock (and learning how to knit in the round if you haven’t yet). While everyone is working on the cuff and leg, we will cover sock anatomy, yarn choice, needle choice, and decorative options.
We’ll then work the heel flap and turn the heel before knitting the gusset, the foot and the toe, finishing with either a Kitchener toe.
Materials: Students will need approximately 100g of 10ply yarn and a set of four 4.5mm double-pointed needles.
Takeaway: Students will leave with the skills needed to follow a sock pattern, and with a finished (or nearly finished!) half-size sock.
Level: Advanced Beginner/Intermediate. Students need to be able to knit, purl, and decrease confidently. Skills such as picking up stitches and working on DPNs will be taught during the class.
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.