Cutting your knitting is a liberating experience. It really isn’t scary. It offers many benefits and opens up new construction and design possibilities. What exactly are steeks? While knitting a sample with center front and armhole steeks, we will discuss suitable yarns and how to plan for cutting. We will practice fully fashioned shapings, use of markers, and securing methods. We look at possibilities for disaster management, adapting armholes and necks for cutting, making mixed gauge fabrics fit, and sleeves worked at the same time. For our finale, we will make the first incision!

Technique Requirements: knit/purl, cast on/bind off, increase/decrease, working in the round, chart reading, easy colorwork

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• A pair of SHARP scissors!
• Darning needles - blunt and sharp
• A 3.5 to 4.5 mm (US 4 to 6) 50 cm (20 inch) or longer circular needle
• Yarn, preferably wool and wool blends, DK or sport (5 sts per inch) weight in at least 2 colours.
• Pencils, eraser, ruler, and or sticky notes
• Usual knitting paraphernalia, including a crochet hook