Tackle the scary steek and open a whole new world of possibilities with your knitting! Together we will explore two different styles of steek edges, from the fun of a knotted fringe steek, great for a shawl, and the all-around great reinforcement method with crochet. We will finish off with the perfect and super neat steek sandwich band that makes a great finishing touch hiding your steek on a cardigan.
Skill Level
This class is for intermediate knitters. Students should be comfortable to knit and purl in the round, should be comfortable knitting stranded colourwork / Fair Isle, cast-on, and bind-off.
Class Length
3 hours in person
Materials
- 2 sets of US 8 / 5mm needles for knitting small circumference (DPNs or circular needles for magic loop)
- Stitch markers
- Sharp scissors
- 3-5 mm crochet hook
- Worsted weight yarn (preferably non- superwash —think yarn you would use for colourwork) in 3 contrasting colours in the following approx. amounts:
- MC (main colour used in homework swatch) 20g
- CC1 (contrast colour 1 used in homework swatch) 20g
- CC2 (contrast colour 2 used for crochet and steek sandwich band) 10g
Homework
Students will be given instructions to complete a knitted swatch ready to steek. Swatch should take approximately one hour to knit.