How you start and end a project is an important decision. Explore various cast-ons and bind-offs for lace, rib, and more. Take a look at cast-ons and bind-offs that pair beautifully together, including an amazing faux tubular cast-on and bind-off that looks great with no fuss. Follow along as Patty fixes some issues and debunks some myths. Let’s start and end with a bang!

Prerequisite:

Must know the long tail cast on (in slingshot position), how to knit, purl,
and have a familiarity with the anatomy of your stitches.
 

Skill level:
Intermediate

Supplies to Bring:

• You will receive 🧶 one skein of MDK Atlas yarn in the color Skyline to use during class. Please bring small amount of contrasting color yarn. Please wind your yarn into ball ahead of time.

• US 6-8 (4-5 mm) Needles

 

Homework:
None

Learn the professional tricks of the trade that can make your projects look more polished
and your knitting life more enjoyable. Patty digs deeper into her bag of tricks to present a
whole new batch of sanity saving knitting tips. From cast on to bind off and everything in
between, learn simple tricks to make your knitting better, like how to avoid the dip you
get at the start of a bind off, or the hole under a make one. Learn how to make the
knitting decisions that can add polish to your work, like choosing the right way to join a
new ball or weave in those ends. Even learn simple fixes to avoid tragedy like how to fix a
dropped stitch in your cast on, or what to do when you find a bad bit of yarn in your
work, or a mistake in your stitch pattern after you’ve bound off! Be prepared to add a few
more of favorites from Patty’s new bag of tricks.

Prerequisite:

Must know the long tail cast on (in slingshot position), how to knit, purl

Please review and practice: http://bit.ly/longtailslingshot

 

Supplies to Bring:

 

• You will receive one skein of MDK Atlas Yarn to use during class. Please wind your yarn into ball ahead of time.

• Please bring a small amount of contrasting color yarn in same weight.

• A small bit of thin crochet cotton or sock yarn.

• Sharp scissors, tapestry needle, empty needle appropriate for yarn (for casting on and
working your swatch in class), needle appropriate for swatch, crochet hook appropriate
to yarn.

 

Homework:
None

Have you ever fallen in love with a stunning skein of art yarn but just didn’t know what to knit with it? Or maybe you have a stash of beautiful single skeins waiting for the perfect project? Then, let me introduce you to Artistic Cowlettes.  Cowlettes are mini shawls that are worked in the round.  They are worn like a cowl, but use shawl shaping to create drape and an ergonomic shape.  So unlike shawls, cowlettes are one size fits all, making them the perfect gift.  But, they are also the perfect canvas to create a truly unique accessory.

 

Inspired by my latest book, Knitting Cowlettes, this class will teach you how to knit the cowlette of your dreams—no swatching required! Think of it as painting with yarn!

 

In this class, you’ll learn:

How to cast on your cowlette.

How to choose the cowlette shape and increase style that fits your needs.

How to implement different stitch motifs.

 

Supplies to Bring:

You will receive 🧶 Camellia Fiber Co. CFC Vintage socks kit including 1 Skein of Yak Fingering in Moonflower, 1 Skein of Mohair Lace & Digital Pattern to use during this class. Please wind your yarn into ball ahead of time.

16” & 24” circular needle in a size that corresponds with your yarn.  (Use the yarn ballband as a guide)

4 Stitch Markers: you will receive Patty Lyons' Official Workbook Knitmoji Stitch Marker Set to use during this class

Snips

Tapestry Needle

Homework:
None

Learn to install a zipper into any of your knits! In this class, we will use my three-step method to install a zipper, then go over different techniques to finish the zipper so that there is a professional clean edge. We will also learn how to make your knits zipper friendly. I will provide our practice zippers.

 

Technique Requirements:
knit/purl, cast on/bind off, working in the round, have knit a few accessories, basic finishing techniques

 

Homework:
None

 

Supplies to Bring:
Supplies are optional to account for all learning styles. If you wish to knit along with us in class, you will need:
You will receive 🧶 Camellia Fiber Co. 1 Skein of CFC Superwash Merino Worsted to use during this class. Please wind your yarn into ball ahead of time.
• Snips
• Sewing needle & thread

At the Drawing Table with Franklin Habit
Spend a blissful hour in the workroom with a Vogue Knitting veteran, illustrator Franklin Habit
(author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons and I Dream of Yarn: A Knit and Crochet
Coloring Book). Starting with prompts from the audience, Franklin will create a new, yarn-
themed artwork right before your eyes. And you can draw along with him, if you like! Have to
hand some blank paper and pencils, pretty much any sort will do. After the session, you’ll be
able to download Franklin’s drawing.