Description
Spend your evening winding down while building up a simple and colorful little log cabin square. There’ll be a tiny bit of color theory, a simple tutorial on picking up stitches, nice little chunks of easy knitting, and zero purling.
You’ll complete a small coaster-sized sample in this 2-hour class, but the sky’s the limit for how much bigger you want to go or how many squares you want to make!
Techniques to be covered
- Color selection for a log cabin square
- Casting on for garter stitch
- Counting rows in garter stitch
- Binding off for garter stitch
- Picking up stitches along stitches
- Picking up stitches along rows
- Weaving in ends in garter stitch
- Optional: binding off with a crochet hook
- Optional: blocking
Note
- All knitting class sessions will take place online via Zoom at the appointed times only, and will not be recorded.
- A Zoom link will be emailed to each student 24 hours prior to each upcoming class session.
- The online instruction will consist of two windows: one with Sarah’s smiling face, and one with on-camera close-ups for demonstration purposes. Each student’s smiling face will also be viewable in a window.
- Each student will be responsible for using Zoom (super easy by clicking on a link) on an electronic device that is large enough for the instructor window and demonstration window to be clearly viewed.
- No refunds.
Skill level
- Do you know how to knit? Then this class is for you!
- Are you tired at the end of the day? Then this class is for you!
- Do you love color? Quick gratification? Making something useful? Then this class is for you!
Materials needed
- Yarn:
- a few yards each of lots of different colors of yarn
- use your stash, find some mini-skeins, or sample a few of your favorite yarns
- as many different yarns as you want, approximately all the same weight(ish)
- hold yarns alone or together – you just want to end up with a fairly consistent fabric
- Colors:
- one RED red if you have it (just a couple of yards)
- at least two cool colors (green, green-blue, blue, blue-violet)
- at least two warm colors (red-violet, other reds, orange, yellow, brown)
- I like to use yarns that are solid or not quite solid – a little variegation is fine, but not too much or the pattern gets too busy)
- a few yards each of lots of different colors of yarn
- Needles:
- a size or two smaller than you would normally use for the chosen yarn weight (use whatever needles you’ve got that are close enough)
- optional: a needle a size or two larger (for binding off)
- Notions:
- safety pin
- scissors
- yarn needle (for weaving in ends)
- optional: T-pins (for blocking)
- optional: very skinny dpns or blocking wires (for blocking)
- optional: something to pin log cabin square onto (for blocking)
- optional: crochet hook in same size as or slightly larger than selected needle size (see chart) (for binding off)
Homework
- None!