Knitting - Stranded Colourwork
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
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.