It can be a life-altering knitting experience to knit stranded colorwork and it may quickly become your favorite kind of knitting. Passionate colorwork knitter that I am, I want to enthusiastically encourage you to try it too. Learning to hold your yarn in your left hand and to “pick” your stitches can be more efficient as there is less hand movement while working continental and to “throw” your yarn with your right hand AT THE SAME TIME is one of the most satisfying techniques to master. Join me as we work on a hat or cowl pattern with some basic graphic motifs.

During this class students will knit a two-color stranded cowl while learning the following:

• How to hold our yarn in two hands and maintain even tension

• How to carry one strand while knitting with the other

• How and when to “lock” a strand to the wrong side of the fabric

• How to read a colorwork chart.