Your First Day Knitting
I asked some of my crafty friends to gather everything they wished they’d been taught by someone in person when they first started knitting, and this is what we came up with:
- Long-tail & knitted cast ons
- Knit stitch & Purl stitch (there's a left handed option too!)
- Cast off
- Joining new yarn
- Mattress stitch (seaming)
- Weaving in ends
These are the foundations of knitting! And will get you on your way in this fun, in person, workshop.
Supplies:
- 100g double knit (8ply) wool (included $38 value)
- 4mm needles (provided/available to purchase or bring your own)
- yarn needle (included $1 value)
- scissors (provided/available to purchase or bring your own)
- measuring tape (provided/available to purchase or bring your own)
- a method to take notes if you like (you provide)
- date: Wednesday, 17 January
- time: 5:45 to 7:45pm
- location: Prosper Yarn 54 Ponsonby Road
We try our best to make our photos as accurate as possible but every screen displays colour slightly differently, so we cannot guarantee complete accuracy. Hand-dyed yarns vary from one skein to the next so there will always be some variation between the photo and each individual skein.
We highly recommend getting enough yarn for your project. To encourage this, you can exchange extra skeins if they are in their original condition, thus ensuring your project will have consistency. We dye in small, project sized batches, and don’t have dye lots.
Part of the hand dyed allure is each skein's individuality, even within a batch dyed at the same time. This gives final objects depth and nuance.
With this in mind we recommend alternating skeins (every other row in flat knitting and every row in circular knitting) on larger projects creating a more cohesive blend.
