Technique Series: Reading Your Knitting & Fixing Basic Mistakes
Because the sooner you spot it, the less knitting you have to undo.
One of the greatest tools you can have in your knitting bag isn’t another gadget. It’s being able to look at your knitting and understand what your stitches are telling you.
Did you accidentally knit a stitch that should have been purled? Make an unplanned yarn over? Knit two stitches together without realizing it? Somehow acquire an extra stitch that definitely wasn’t invited?
The trick is learning to recognize what happened, where it happened, and whether you can fix it without ripping everything back.
In this hands-on 2-hour Technique Series class, we’ll teach you how to read your knitting by recognizing the structure of your stitches and identifying some of the most common mistakes knitters make.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize knit and purl stitches in your work
- Spot an accidental yarn over
- Identify an accidental increase or decrease
- See when a stitch just doesn’t look right
- Understand what likely caused the mistake
- Make basic corrections without automatically tinking or frogging rows of perfectly good knitting
Instead of blindly following a pattern and hoping everything is behaving itself, you’ll start understanding what’s actually happening on your needles.
Because great knitting isn't magic. It's mastering the craft, one technique at a time.
Instructor: Caitlin Piette
Class Dates: Saturday, January 23rd, 12 - 2 pm
Class fee: $35
BRING TO CLASS: Using a smooth and light colored yarn that is DK or worsted weight, knit a swatch (in stockinette stitch) about 25 stitches wide for at least 3". Do not bind off, bring swatch on the needle. Other tools that will be useful for this class: a small crochet hook and a darning needle.
Level: Adventurous Beginner and beyond. Must know how to cast on, knit, and purl. Everyone can benefit from learning something new about the craft!
Technique Series: Reading Your Knitting & Fixing Basic Mistakes
Because the sooner you spot it, the less knitting you have to undo.
One of the greatest tools you can have in your knitting bag isn’t another gadget. It’s being able to look at your knitting and understand what your stitches are telling you.
Did you accidentally knit a stitch that should have been purled? Make an unplanned yarn over? Knit two stitches together without realizing it? Somehow acquire an extra stitch that definitely wasn’t invited?
The trick is learning to recognize what happened, where it happened, and whether you can fix it without ripping everything back.
In this hands-on 2-hour Technique Series class, we’ll teach you how to read your knitting by recognizing the structure of your stitches and identifying some of the most common mistakes knitters make.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize knit and purl stitches in your work
- Spot an accidental yarn over
- Identify an accidental increase or decrease
- See when a stitch just doesn’t look right
- Understand what likely caused the mistake
- Make basic corrections without automatically tinking or frogging rows of perfectly good knitting
Instead of blindly following a pattern and hoping everything is behaving itself, you’ll start understanding what’s actually happening on your needles.
Because great knitting isn't magic. It's mastering the craft, one technique at a time.
Instructor: Caitlin Piette
Class Dates: Saturday, January 23rd, 12 - 2 pm
Class fee: $35
BRING TO CLASS: Using a smooth and light colored yarn that is DK or worsted weight, knit a swatch (in stockinette stitch) about 25 stitches wide for at least 3". Do not bind off, bring swatch on the needle. Other tools that will be useful for this class: a small crochet hook and a darning needle.
Level: Adventurous Beginner and beyond. Must know how to cast on, knit, and purl. Everyone can benefit from learning something new about the craft!
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