FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

5:30PM - 7:30PM EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME

In this class students will learn a technique for working and creating negative spaces modular style without breaking off the yarn or working intarsia. They will learn how to translate the shape, calculate, and master knitting it in class while swatching one of the provided shapes. And later students can practice by making a Ten-Ten Wrap design (this pattern isn't part of the class).

Skills needed: students need to know how to knit, cast on, bind off, increase, decrease

Skills learned:

• Several types of stretchy cast on methods
• How to create negative spaces in knit fabric continuously
• How to balance the knit fabric while adding the negative spaces
• How to create various shapes of negative spaces
• How to make the right yarn and stitch pattern choice when working patterns with negative space

Materials

• 200 yds of worsted weight yarn in several colors. Bring preferably light and bright colors of the bouncy, smooth, non-fuzzy yarn for swatching
• US 4 (3.5 mm), US 5 (3.75 mm), US 6 (4 mm) needles