• Skill level: Confident Beginner/Intermediate
• Date: Thursday,  23 April, 6:30-9:00pm (1 session, 2.5 hours)
• Instructor: Mary Pat McDonald
• Cost: $30 + HST

This is a technique class, comprising 40+ of Mary Pat’s favourite methods, short-cuts and ingenious approaches, distilled after years of knitting and much instruction from experts.  Taken as a whole, this class is a short-cut to serious knitting expertise.

Techniques covered

You will learn about:

• Long-tail cast-on, both plain and ribbed
• How much yarn for a long-tail cast-on
• How to deal with casting on 100s of stitches at once
• M1L and M1R and how to tell what you’re doing without taxing your brain
• Blocking as you go
• Slipping edge stitches – how and when (and when not to)
• Easy modified bind-off from Lucy Neatby
• Cabling without a cable needle – when it works and when it doesn’t
• Judy Becker’s provisional cast-on
• The many joys of 3-needle bind-off, including Japanese 3NBO
• Favourite Things song
• Knitting back backwards
• Picking up stitches vs sewing seams
• Joins – braiding and spit-splice
• and more…..

Skill prerequisites

Students must be comfortable with basic knitting skills:

• knitting and purling
• increasing and decreasing
• casting on and binding off

Materials

Please bring the following with you to class:

• Yarn (any weight)
• Knitting needles (any style) in a size appropriate for your yarn

Homework

There is no homework for this class.