Easy Non-wool socks
Handknit socks are a pleasure to make and wear if wool is in your fibre vocabulary. But what if you or the future sockwearer is allergic or sensitive to wool, or simply chooses not to wear it? Then what? Give up on the handknit and go to Tescos or Walmart? Heavens, no! Handknit socks are a pleasure that you need not deny yourself.
In this class, you'll learn Amy's super-easy toe-up sock recipe which she designed specifically to work with the characteristics of non-wool sock yarns. It features an easy gusset and a heel flap built with Amy's tweaked Japanese short-row technique, all 100% maths free. Knit one, and you might just want this to be your sock recipe for life. The pattern gives you lots of room to improvise, should you want to add texture, colourwork or lace to the foot and/or leg.
We'll also investigate a variety of non-wool sock yarns. Be prepared to share with your classmates a little of the sock yarn you bring with you so everyone gets a little hands-on time with a variety of different fibres.
Suggested sock yarns (please bring 200 - 400 yards), in no particular order:
Sock Candy, Blue Moon Fiber Arts
Wick, Knit One Crochet Too
Maizy, Panda Cotton and Panda Soy, Crystal Palace (all shortly to be available from Yarn Gathering)
Luscious, Kollage
Fixation, Cascade
Sockina Cotton, Schoeller & Stahl
Yarn Gathering's Summertime (available to purchase at Knit Camp)
Please also bring with you: assortment of sock needles (DPNs preferred), at least 20 removable stitch markers (e.g. Clover locking stitch markers or Schoolhouse Press coiless safety pins - both of which will be available to purchase at Knit Camp) and note-taking materials.
Homework: Please practice and be comfortable with Judy's Magic Cast on. Written instructions, with illustrations are available here and Cat Bordhi's You Tube video is available here
When: Wednesday, 9.30 - 12.30
Level: Intermediate plus
Class skills: Students must have knit at least two pairs of socks, experience of toe up socks is advantageous
Cost: £35
Class length: 3 hours
Minimum number of students: 5 Maximum number of students: 18