Hands On
Machine Knitting Workshop
May 6, 2017 - 10am - 2pm - Musquodoboit Regional Library
Bring
along an easy to carry knitting machine (no ribber required), A brown bag lunch
(or there is a bakery and convenience store next door for sandwiches and
drinks), and the yarn required for the project you choose.
Choice of
two projects, each one can be completed in the time allotted (3 1/2 hrs). Both
patterns will be given out at the workshop
Project
#1 – Windmill
Bag - Skill Level - Beginner Plus - a knitted or felted bag done in four
sections (seam as you go) with an i-cord handle (skills learned - cast on, cast
off, seam as you go, i-cord, and attached i-cord)
Materials
needed -
approximately 60 grams in four colours or 120 grams of two coloured yarn if
knitting on the bulky. Possibly 50 grams if using a finer yarn and not felting.
Approximately 30 grams for the handles. If you plan to felt the bag then you will need to use pure, untreated (not super wash) wool.
Project
#2 - Dragon
Tail scarf - Skill Level - Beginner - a knitted scarf with
"slots" to hold the tail and keep it in place (skills learned - cast
on, cast off, decrease, hold, partial knitting).
Materials needed - approximately 100 grams of a soft yarn (eg 2 balls of Patons Classic or 1 Caron Cake).
Today's workshop may not have been error free but I know that I learned a few things.
ReplyDeleteI just transferred the scarf to my Brother 270 to finish it and learned this: On the LK140 I found that tension 5 worked well for the Caron Cake. I expected the tension to be much tighter on the Brother bulky but I found that tension 3 seems to be the tension for the scarf. It may vary for your machines as they do knit at different tensions (I learned that the hard way) but it may give you a place to start.
Nancy will be posting some photos from our Knit-In so I will leave it to her to fill in the blanks.