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Ever wanted to make a plain rib cuff more exciting? Well this is the workshop for you!Facilitated by the wonderful Aleks Byrd, in this workshop you will learn to blend ribbing with entrelac for a faux entrelac cuff or hem! Cleverly combining decreases, increases and colour changes, you'll create a slanting faux rib entrelac pattern that is ridiculously easy to knit but looks super impressive. We will work slants to the left and right in the round as well as stacking both slanting directions for working flat or a small section in the round.
New to entrelac? Entrelac is a great knitting technique that creates a textured, woven-looking fabric. It's made up of small squares or rectangles that appear to interlock. Kind of like a basketweave pattern. It looks super impressive, but the finished product looks harder than it is! Especially with Aleks' guidance!
SKILL LEVEL
This class would be great for an intermediate knitter. This class is for you if you're comfortable knitting and purling on a small circumference needles (like when knitting socks and mitten) and know how to cast-on and bind-off.
WHAT TO BRING
Please bring along the below items to this class:
- US 5 / 3.75mm needles for knitting small circumference (Double pointed needles or circular needles for magic loop or small circumference circular needles)
- Stitch markers
- Scissors
- 8ply (DK weight) yarn in 2 contrasting colours. Please bring 20g of each colour
ABOUT ALEKS BYRD
Aleks Byrd is a knitwear designer with roots in Estonia, Canada, and the USA. Aleks’ passion is creating modern patterns with a connection to the past using little-known traditional techniques for unique wearable designs that are fun and rewarding to knit for all levels of knitters. Her portfolio of designs includes individual patterns as well as those published in The Knitter magazine and Laine Magazine. Her latest book Traditions Revisited – Modern Estonian Knits brings together her designs and teaching as an introduction to Estonian knitting, both traditional and traditional-inspired.
Aleks teaches workshops to demystify the deceptively easy techniques used in her patterns all over the world in the UK, Europe, Canada, the United States and Australia. Most notably with sold out workshops at Vogue Knitting Live in New York.
Aleks especially loves sharing traditional knitting techniques from Estonia with knitters around the world to expand their view on what knitting can be. She works with yarn shops and knitting event organizers to bring engaging workshops to your knitting community.
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16 Smith Street., North Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania
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