Demystifying Lace Knitting: the basics

By Lonna Cunningham

In this course you will learn the basics of lace knittting:
• how to make a yarn over (yo)
• how to decrease with knit two together (k2tog)
• how to decrease with slip, slip, knit (ssk)
• how to handle your finished lace to bring out the beauty of the stitches (blocking)

You'll also make a sample swatch to practice your stitches, then you'll be coached through knitting a simple lace shawl, called A Dash of Colour, the pattern for which is included.

You'll have the opportunty to set up your project on Ravelry so that you can track your progress and share your work with other knitters, if you wish. This is, of course, entirely optional.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Apple Jack Creek Books
• Release date: Jun 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9780987862648

Lonna Cunningham

Lonna Cunningham is a fibre artist, writer, and small holder who lives in rural Alberta with her family, some chickens, dogs, cats, sheep, and a cow or two. Her former career in Information Technology came to an abrupt end with the onset of Delayed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in early 2011: you can read about her journey through trauma in her first book, Just Keep Knitting: a journey of healing through forgiveness, faith, and fibre. Lonna is also the author of The Rookie’s Field Guide to Supported Spinning, a how-to book for people who would like to be able to make pretty string with nothing more than a handful of fibre, a weighted stick, and a dish. Fibre artists will probably know Lonna as Frazzlehead, from Ravelry – and if you are a fibre artist who has not yet found ravelry.com, you need to check it out! There’s a wealth of information and a lot of interesting people hanging out there, Lonna included. Look her up – she’d love to hear from you.

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Demystifying Lace Knitting: the basics

a guided introduction by Frazzlehead

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ISBN 978-0-9878626-4-8

Copyright 2011 by Lonna Cunningham

All rights reserved.

Published electronically by

Apple Jack Creek Books

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What does this course cover?

In this course you will learn the basics of lace knitting:

how to make a yarn over (yo)

how to decrease with knit two together (k2tog)

how to decrease with slip, slip, knit (ssk)

how to handle your finished lace to bring out the beauty of the stitches (blocking)

You'll also make a sample swatch to practice your stitches, then you'll be coached through knitting a simple lace shawl, called A Dash of Colour, the pattern for which is included in the price of this course.

You'll have the opportunity to set up your project on Ravelry so that you can track your progress and share your work with other knitters, if you wish. This is, of course, entirely optional.

What materials do I need?

You'll need to have the following items ready to hand:

300 metres of yarn for the shawl, and about 50 metres of yarn for the swatch

needles to suit the yarn (about 1-2 mm larger than the size called for on the ball band): you can swatch on straight needles but you will want a circular needle with a cable at least 40 cm long for the shawl

a box of pins (t-pins are nice, but not necessary, any non-rusting straight pins will work)

a digital camera is not necessary, but it's nice to