MONDAY, MARCH 24
2:30 - 5:30 pm
Easy, seamless, and beautiful, the ladderback jacquard technique will improve the tension of your stranded knitting while allowing you to span much larger areas between stitches. This knitting method adds stretch to your floats while preventing the alternate color from peeking through, and can be applied to nearly any stranded knitting project.Once you add this technique to your knitting toolbox, you may never want to go back to any other method of carrying floats.Whether you're interested in tweaking patterns or developing your own colorwork designs, incorporating this technique means you can work without limits on the space between alternating motifs.In class we'll learn several different options for setting up and resolving ladders and explore best practices for placement and charting, so you can envision how to bring this technique into your real-life knitting applications.Advanced: Students should already be comfortable working stranded knitting and should know how to increase, decrease, and work at a small circumference in the round.Homework: In advance of class, cast on 40 stitches and join to work in the round. With the same color, knit 3 rounds of stockinette stitch.Supplies: Smooth, worsted weight yarn in two contrasting colors and your choice of needles in a compatible size (US #7-9) suitable for working a small-circumference project in the round (dpns, magic loop, or two circulars).
Amy Snell is a knitting instructor and designer with an eye for the unusual or unusually captivating. She enjoys teaching techniques and stitch patterns that bring color, contrast, geometry, and texture into knitting in new or interesting ways.
Whether teaching locally in the San Francisco Bay area, virtually, or in-person for knitting guilds and events nationwide, Amy loves to help other knitters explore new techniques and expand the way they think about their knitting. Her goal is to make complex concepts approachable for all knitters, while sharing tips that improve your process whether you’ve been knitting for several weeks or several decades.
Amy's work has appeared in numerous books and periodicals including Cast On, Interweave Knits, Knotions, I Love Knitting and numerous pattern collections. She frequently shares tips and tricks on her website, www.DeviousKnitter.com, and can be found as @DeviousKnitter on social media.