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Embroider Your Knits
Teacher: Karen Lucas
Cost: $52
When: Sunday, December 6, 10:30am–12:30pm
Description: Make something beautiful and truly personal! This class will teach you to embellish your hand-knits with beautiful embroidery. Inspired by the book Embroidery on Knits, by Judit Gummlich, Karen will guide you through gathering your supplies, setting up your pattern on your knitted swatch (see below), and working simple embroidery stitches to make your designs come to life! You don’t need to own Gummlich’s book, but if you do have a copy, please bring it along.
Prerequisites: Students should have basic knitting skills (casting on, knitting, purling, binding off) in order to complete the homework (below).
Homework: You’ll need to knit a swatch that measures at least 9” square. With worsted weight wool and size US7 needle, cast on 50 (or more) sts. Work 4 rows in garter stitch (knit every row). Then work in stockinette as follows: RS rows: knit all sts; WS rows: K3, purl to last 3 sts, K3. Repeat until your piece measures 9”. Then work 4 rows in garter stitch, and bind off knitwise. Wash and block.
Min/max number of participants: 5/8
Materials to bring along:
- 1 skein worsted weight wool, purchased from Spun (we suggest Cascade 220 Superwash)
- Size US7 needle, any style, to make your swatch
- Your knitted swatch (see homework above)
- Wash-Away Embroidery Stabilizer (1 yard)
- 5” or 6” screw-type embroidery hoop
- Small sharp scissors
- Pencil
- Scraps of fingering-weight wool yarn in assorted colors to embroider with, at least 3 yds per color. This can be leftover scraps from your stash, or you can purchase mini-skeins (Emma’s Practically Perfect Smalls are, well, practically perfect for this). Instructor will also have scraps to share.
- Optional: a copy of Embroidery on Knits by Judit Gummlich
- Instructor will provide embroidery needles for you to keep
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