Winter Knitting Group/Class!

 In winter I really want to knit.  There is something comforting about sitting in a nice chair and peacefully knitting on some project or other. Especially if the chair is a rocking chair.   Because of this I offered to facilitate a knitting class at our local church in the Relief Society Room.  We will meet for 1 hour each Friday morning.  One hour is about all I can take when trying to learn something new.  It may be similar for others.

The "class" will be following along in Jacqueline Fee's The Sweater Workshop.  We will make the sampler. It is a really interesting piece of knitting where we learn many different skills needed to knit a sweater.

This is the sampler I knit in preparation.  The one I knit years ago has long since disappeared.  You can see that some of the things we will learn are:

Garter Stitch

Stockinette stitch

Multiple ribbings

Sweatshirt pocket

Belt

Stripes

Two-color knitting

Bind offs.

And other techniques

It was fun to make. I hope the sisters have fun learning and preparing to knit a sweater.  Knitting in the round is psychologically very satisfying as there are no seams at all.  None to speak of, anyway!