Let’s embark on a journey with our stitches. Who said we can only travel left or right? By embracing directional decreases and increases and working with traveling stitches without the need for a cable needle, we can create wonderful designs that add the perfect touch to our knits. These techniques can be mixed with other methods such as intarsia, stranded knitting, and even embroidery! Let’s explore how to do this.

In this class, we will learn the basic increases and decreases that allow us to manipulate the fabric on both the right and wrong sides. Understanding these increases and decreases is invaluable as they can be useful for shaping the fabric or for various other projects. Additionally, we will discover how to use traveling stitches to create captivating patterns on our fabric without the need for a cable needle.

Along with an extensive handout, I will provide the pattern for the Traveling Vest, an oversized unisex vest knitted with DK yarn, which has not yet been released. Sometimes, simplicity is the most beautiful of arts.

Technique Requirements: knit/purl, cast on/bind off, increase/decrease

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• Yarn: DK, worsted or bigger, of at least 4 different colors
• Needles: the correct size for the yarn
• Scissors
• Markers