Description

Sock Knitting – one-day workshop

Knitwear designer and tutor Nicki Merrall will teach you to make top-down socks with a heel flap. This workshop is suitable for you if you have never knitted socks or if you want to improve your sock-knitting skills.

In this sock knitting workshop for beginners, Nicki will introduce the standard methods of sock construction. Nicki will demonstrate different ways to knit a project with a small circumference in the round. You can try each method and then choose the one you like the best. You will learn the techniques required to knit a sock from the top down with a heel flap. During the workshop, you will knit either one small-sized sock and then start a second small-sized sock or an adult-sized sock.

Workshop content:

• Looking at different methods for constructing socks.
• Measuring feet for hand-knit socks.
• Trying methods suitable for knitting projects with a small circumference in the round.
• Knitting a heel flap and turning a heel.
• Picking up stitches for the gusset and decreasing the gusset.
• Decreasing stitches for the toe.
• Grafting stitches together to finish the toe.

You will knit a small-sized sock, and then you can choose from starting a second small sock or an adult-sized sock.

Level:

You can cast on, knit, purl, work in stocking stitch and rib, and decrease stitches.

Further information

Price includes:

• Tuition.
• 6-ply yarn for a pair of small socks.
• Patterns for small and adult-sized socks.
• Refreshments all day, a light vegetarian lunch and home-baked cake in the afternoon.

If you wish to start an adult-sized socks you will need to purchase some 4-ply sock yarn. After booking, Nicki will email you information about suitable yarns.

Please bring:

• Notebook and pen.
• 3.25 mm knitting needles of your preferred type for working projects with a small circumference in the round for the smaller socks.
• 2.5 mm knitting needles of your preferred type for working projects with a small circumference in the round for adult-sized socks.
• 100 g of 4-ply sock yarn for the adult-sized socks.
• Lockable stitch markers.
• Yarn scissors.
• A yarn needle.

Lockable stitch markers, knitting needles and yarn will be available to purchase.

Venue:

The Being Knitterly Studio is in a beautiful Edwardian house in Loughborough, Leicestershire.

After booking, Nicki will email you details and directions, as well as ask about your previous experience.