Swatching for Fair lsle

About Swatching for Fair lsle

Swatching is key to a successful knitting project. Planning and practice are critical to knitting with confidence. Learn just how magical swatching can be! Fair Isle knitting projects can be daunting unless you tackle them one bit at a time. In this class we examine colors in a new way and deal with the gauge issue in an easily digestible manner. Although simple to knit, there are many facets to Fair Isle knitting that will be addressed in this class. Topics covered include: how large a swatch should be, uses for a swatch, what a swatch tells us, interplay of color, working with color values, how to test colors without reknitting the entire swatch, adjusting stitch and row counts, and knowing when to stop swatching and start knitting.

Supplies, Equipment & Materials Needed for Class

Everyone should bring: US 3/3.25 mm needles for swatching, colored pencils (erasable is nice), scissors, note taking materials.
If not purchasing the class kit you will need the following:
Jamieson & Smith or Spindrift Shetland jumper weight (fingering weight) yarn as follows: one background color, two accent colors, three shades of one color that contrast with the background color, and, optional, a second set of three colors that would replace or be used in addition to the background color; ruler, two T-pins, locking stitch markers.

Materials Kit

$45 plus shipping
Kit is optional - kit may be ordered at https://heritagespinning.com - includes half balls of 8 different colors plus 5 yards of two accent colors, two t-pins, stitch markers, ruler.
Materials kits must be ordered by January 10 in order to receive them by January 24.

Pre-class Homework

Print out provided PDF - https://www.lessonface.com/sites/default/files/sheridan_fi_swatching.pdf