Description
?Join? master knitter Lily Chin as she teaches you how to eliminate sewing by joining your knits seamlessly!
In 2 hours of instruction, Lily Chin gives you a fresh set of tools for a more enjoyable knitting experience. Learn several innovative techniques as she demonstrates how to join pieces in a variety of gauges, stitch patterns, and textures.
In this workshop, you’ll learn:
- How to add new knitting to any side of a completed piece, invisibly!
- How and why to use different methods to join fabric.
- How to create graphic, easy colorwork without bobbins or intarsia.
- How to build garments piece by piece, seamlessly!
- How to knit entire afghans without sewing them together.
With this video, you can put away your sewing needle, pick up your knitting needles, and get back to what you enjoy most: knitting.
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Lesson Breakdown:
- Getting Started & Joining Pieces on the Right
- Joining to the Top of A Piece
- Joining on the Left
- Using Joiner Strips
- Turning Loops
- Applied I-cord
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Techniques Covered: Casting on, several decrease methods for joining
Skill Level: Intermediate and Up.
Materials Needed: Circular and/or double-point needles, sizes 7 or 8; worsted-weight yarn in 3 different colors; scissors; tapestry needle for weaving in ends
This Online Workshop Includes:
Discussion Board & Gallery: The discussion board is a great way to interact with other users in the course. It?s an open forum for you to ask questions, share your thoughts, express your inspirations, and share images of your work.
Optional Quizzes: Short optional quizzes to test your knowledge as you progress through the lessons.
Resources: This course comes with convenient printable and downloadable PDF files, located in the Resources tab in the left-hand menu.
Run time: ~ 126 min.
About the Instructor:
Lily Chin has designed knitwear for magazines and yarn companies for nearly 30 years, and she has worked with designers Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, Diane von Furstenberg, and Isaac Mizrahi. Lily’s books and videos from Interweave include The Crocheter’s Toolbox, Power Cables, Mosaic Crochet, and 2-Color Tunisian Crochet-in-the-Round. The Knitter’s Tool Box is also available as an on demand streaming workshop.
Lily is among the fastest crocheters in the world, a title she won in October 2004 at the world championships in London. She has lived in New York City nearly all her life and has been involved in some aspect of the fashion industry since age 13. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and was educated at Queens College, City University of New York.
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