Informasjon

Lørdag 28. september kl. 10:15-13:15

• Kursbilletter gir inngang til kurset, samt foredrag, garnmarked og strikkesalong samme dag.
• Kjøpte billetter refunderes normalt kun ved avlysning av hele festivalen eller ved avlysning av enkeltkurs.

In
this class we will cover the basic left and right cables and their easy
variations. We will also learn how to read basic charts and how to
measure gauge over the cabled pattern. As our main project will start
knitting socks with a simple cable pattern on the front.

About the teacher:

Sari
Nordlund is a professional knitwear designer from Finland. Her work has
been published in many of the prestigious knitting magazines, such as
Laine magazine, Pom Pom
Quarterly and Amirisu. Sari has also worked
as a freelance designer for leading yarn companies, including Woolfolk
and Brooklyn Tweed. Sari’s book “Softly - Timeless knits” came out in
October 2023 and it has been an instant bestseller.

Sari’s
designing work is inspired by Scandinavian minimalism and Nordic nature.
She loves to create timeless classics and brings her love for
contemporary Scandinavian design into her knitting patterns. Sari loves
knitting cables and all kinds of textured stitches using rustic natural
fibers in neutral colors, but doesn’t shy away from color work or lace
either. Her most popular knitting patterns are the Laulu shawl, the Poet
sweater, the Kuutar pullover and the Seleste pullover.

Materials needed:

• small
  skeins of yarn for swatching. The yarns should be preferably DK or
  worsted weight, for example merino or other smooth fibers with good
  stitch definition in light, unicolor colorway so you can easily see your
  stitches

•  needles suitable for the
  yarn, for example 3 mm or 3.5 mm needles. I suggest using 40 cm cables,
  but you can choose DPNs or longer cables, such as you are comfortable
  making swatches with

• a cable needle or an extra DPN in the same size or slightly smaller

• 300m of dk weight sock yarn and 3 mm needles (DPNs or cable suitable for Magic Loop) for the sock project
  

Homework

Prepare
the cuff for the socks using DK weight sock yarn and 3 mm needles. Cast
on 56 sts and work k2, p2 ribbing in the round for 6.5 cm.

Required knowledge: basic knit and purl stitches, understanding the right and wrong side of knitting, knitting flat and in the round

Please note: the class will be given in English.