Ladderback Jacquard

Date: Saturday, 1st August
Time: 10 am to 1 pm (3 hrs)
Location: Sunspun Makers Loft

MAKING BEAUTIFUL LONG FLOAT COLOURWORK

Create beautiful stranded colourwork, not just from the right side but also the wrong side with this game changing float management skill. Ladderback jacquard will help you manage floats by keeping them short to avoid any snagging, while also opening up the possibility of knitting patterns which require longer gaps between colours. In the workshop we will explore 2 ways of using ladderback jacquard; the first by adding a ladderback stitch while knitting stranded colourwork and the second by creating the ladderback stitch after you've finished knitting colourwork.

SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate knitter; students should be comfortable to knit with two colours doing simple stranded colourwork / Fair Isle knitting in the round.

HOMEWORK
Students will be given instructions to have their swatch cast-on to continue knitting in the workshop.