Price per Lesson:

• Option A - $14.99 - if you would like to purchase lessons and send in your swatches for evaluation

• Option B - $9.99 - if you would like to purchase the lesson only

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Knitting Lessons 

• Welcome and Swatch Guidelines -

 

• Tools of the Trade  - 
  • Skills needed:  Desire to buy all kinds of knitting related products
  • This lesson will teach you about
    • Yarn types and fibers
    • Yarn weight
    • Reading yarn labels
    • Knitting needles
    • Other knitting tools

 

• Getting Started with Knit and Purl - Option A - - Option B -
  • Skills needed: Patience
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Make a slip knot
    • Cast on
    • Hold and tension your yarn
    • Make a knit stitch
    • Create garter stitch
    • Make a purl stitch
    • Create stockinette stitch
    • Bind off
    • Measure Gauge
    • Determine a knit stitch from a purl stitch

 

• Advanced Beginner Skills - Option A - - Option B -
  • Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on, knit stitch, purl stitch, binding off
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Weave in ends
    • Join a new yarn
    • Work stripes
    • Learn abbreviations
    • Read patterns
    • Reach charts
    • Learn the difference between a project pattern and a stitch pattern
    • Keep your place in a pattern

 

• Shaping with Increasing and Decreasing - Option A - - Option B -
  • Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on, knit, purl, binding off, reading patterns, weaving in ends
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Work common increases
    • Work common decreases
    • Mirror increases and decreases
    • Perform double decreases

 

• Stitch Anatomy and Common Mistakes -
  • Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on, knit, purl, binding off, reading patterns, weaving in ends
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Recognize your stitches and read your knitting
    • Learn the right side vs. wrong side of your work and why it matters
    • Undoing small and larger portions of your knitting
    • How to fix a dropped stitch
    • Correcting a mistake several rows back without unraveling
    • Changing a knit stitch to a purl stitch and vice versa

 

• Working in the Round
  • Skills needed: Slip knot, casting on, knit, purl, binding off, reading patterns, increases and decreases, weaving in ends, ribbing, choosing an appropriate cast on method
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Learn rules and modifications for working in the round
    • Work with circular needles
    • Work with double point needles
    • Work magic loop
    • Avoiding common problems in circular knitting
    • Adapting patterns for circular knitting

 

• More Advanced Beginner Skills (COMING SOON!)
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Work in the round
    • Work ribbing
    • Increase and decrease in ribbing
    • Work short rows
    • Pick up stitches
    • Twisted stitches

 

• More Cast On and Cast Off Methods (COMING SOON!)
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Cast on using several methods
    • Cast off using several methods

 

• Perfect Finishing (COMING SOON!)
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Weave in ends
    • Seam
    • Graft (kitchener stitch)
    • Block your finished project

 

• Learning Cables (COMING SOON!)
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Figure out how cables work
    • Learn the intricacies of how cables turn and make patterns
    • Design your own cable motif
    • Incorporate cable stitches into existing patterns

 

• Creating Lace (COMING SOON!)
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Learn the intricacies creating lace
    • Use a lifeline
    • Design your own lace patterns
    • Incorporate lace into existing patterns
    • Finish lace beautifully

 

• Working in Color (COMING SOON!)
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Work in intarsia
    • Work modular knitting patterns
    • Work entralac

 

• Learn to Knit Socks from the Cuff Down (COMING SOON!)
  • This lesson will teach you how to
    • Learn the parts of a sock
    • Figure out sock sizing and proper dimensions
    • Knit a sock using double point needles, magic loop and two circulars
    • Make a heel flap
    • Pick up stitches
    • Turn a heel
    • Perform all necessary gusset and toe decreases
    • Graft a toe