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Seven Super Skills Cowl Workshop Pattern Series

 

 

Introducing my new Cat Bordhi Workshop Pattern Series:
Each pattern will teach a collection of “knitter’s jewels.” These are techniques you will treasure and use again and again. Buy the pattern for $15 here. (You will be able to put it on your computer, iPad, Kindle, Nook, smartphone, etc, as well as print it out.)

 

The skills you will learn in this pattern are:
• The stretchy Crocodile Cast-On: page 2
• Determine tail length needed: page 2
• Digest and internalize a chart: page 3
• Perfect your SSK lines with Hungry Stitch: page 5
• Work pairs of crossed stitches: page 5
• Draw stitches and read your knitting: page 5
• Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off: page 8
• A smooth chain closure to a circular edge: page 8

 

The pattern includes 6 live video tutorial links so that I can “sit beside you” and demonstrate a technique just as I would in a real workshop.

 

About the cowl design: Last year I challenged myself to design a project incorporating seven of my favorite techniques using just 1 skein of Shibui Merino Alpaca held together with a strand of Shibui Silk Cloud. I taught the workshop to thirty yarn shop owners at the TNNA convention (The National Needlework Association) in Phoenix in January 2012. To my delight, not a single knitter in the room knew more than a few of the techniques, and many finished the cowl that day or the next. This encourages me to think that you too will be as happy as they were to learn these tricks and will also enjoy wearing the cowl. With these skills in your repertoire, you will be a more agile and confident knitter, make fewer mistakes, and will love the end results. By the way, it turns out there are eight skills included … I couldn’t stop.

 

See Finished Projects on Ravelry

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Mary Peirce Biagi

Ravelry: Annaguy1956

Yarn Used: HiKoo Sueno, 1 skein of mountain fog, 1 skein of bashful, 1 skein of plum and 1 skein of slated. Each skein is 255 yards. 2. Caron Simply Soft from my stash, unsure of quantities, used 10 colors.

Tips: 1. Followed original pattern except for 1. 2 decrease wedges and 2 decrease wedges; 2. the very end where I completed last wedge and cast off using 3 needle bindoff, didn't do the unique wrong side row. 2. I cast on 120 stitches, adding an extra 20 stitches because I wanted it longer and wider, adding an extra w&to to each wedge making it wider. At the end I completed the last wedge, then repeated row 1, then the unique WS row before 3 needle bind off. 6-1-3-1-6 wedges. For the description of the K-below I would add the word /through after the word into.