Description ~ Tips and Tricks

Learn all the little secrets to make knitting life easier and better from a knitting expert.  Take away small "fix-its" so you can find greater joy in your knitting and improve the details that will take your knitting to the next level.

Materials Needed ~ Tips and Tricks

• All Homework
• Extra dpn's, crochet hooks of various sizes, tapestry needles, extra circular needles, worsted wt. yarn of various light colors, a shank button, dental floss (4", waxed preferred).

Homework ~ Tips and Tricks

• With worsted/aran wt yarn and appropriate sized double-pointed or short (12 or 16") circular needles, cast on enough sts to go circs or minimal amount of sts on dpn’s (maybe 12).  Join, being careful not to twist.  Work in 1 x 1 rib circularly for about 1", begin to bind off leaving last 2 or 3 sts unbound, leave on needles to be completed in class.
• With worsted/aran wt yarn and appropriate sized needles, cast on about 8 sts, work for about 1" in any st, leave on needles to be completed in class.
• With worsted wt yarn and appropriate sized needles, make a swatch of about 3" x 3" in stockinette, end ready to work a knit row, do not bind off, leave stitches on stitch holder.
• Familiarize yourself with what is called the "long tail" cast-on.  That is, there are two ends of yarns utilized in this cast-on.
• Familiarize yourself with what is known as a "left-slanting" decrease or ssk.
• Get to know how to do a basic chain with the crochet hook.