Materials:
- knitting basket basics
- pencil & paper
- calculator
- Please bring along a garment (one you already own) that you either love or hate the fit of the sleeve. It doesn’t need to be hand-knit and can be in woven fabric
Homework: none.
Rootcamp Bootcamp
Materials:
- 2 - 3 balls of different coloured medium weight yarn
- This can be double knitting weight to worsted weight yarn
- yarn appropriate needles
- for double knitting weight 4mm needles
- for worsted weight yarn 4.5mm - 5mm needles
- pencil
- squared paper (optional).
Homework: none.
Top Down Seamless
Materials:
- 4mm-5mm, 16”-24” circular needle
- 4mm-5mm double pointed needles or a needle for magic loop
- approximately 50grams of a light coloured worsted weight yarn
- Cascade 220, Malabrigo Rios or something similar
- stitch markers
Homework: none
Custom Mitts
Materials:
- Your homework swatch
- The needles you knit your swatch on
- Also bring needles that are one size smaller and one size larger.
Homework: Swatch
- Find a yarn you’d like to make mittens with
- You will need 200m-400m
- less for thicker yarn and smaller hands
- more for larger hands and finer wool
- You will be working with needles 2 sizes smaller than the ball band recommends. If the ball band says 4.5mm then use 3.75mm. If the ball band says 6mm then use 5mm.
- Cast on 26 stitches and work 3” (8cm) in the round. You will be knitting every row so your swatch will be in stocking stitch.
- You can do your swatch on double pointed needles or do magic loop on circular needles
- Bind off the swatch
- Handwash the swatch
Size & Fit
Materials: none
Homework: Please bring patterns you’ll like to make so we can talk about them.
- Variety of knitting needles and crochet hooks
- Extra yarn for class - just in case
- Sewing Needle
- Scissors
- Pen
- Paper
- Tape Measure
- Stitch Markers
- Stitch Holders
- Calculator
- Scrap Yarn
- Reading Glasses
- Credit card
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