Join Margaret to learn about I-cord and it’s many uses in this 2 hour virtual class on Saturday, 12 October from 1–3 pm ET.
Description: I-cord makes great strings and ties, but it’s also fantastic for decorative bind-offs, edgings, and cast ons. It’s the easiest way to make small tubes for toys, mitten thumbs and glove fingers. Workshop begins with the basics and includes how to avoid loose stitches, finishing techniques, and multi-color I-cord.
Supplies: A ball of smooth, light-colored worsted weight yarn. A small amount of worsted weight yarn in a contrasting color. A pair of regular knitting needles and a pair of double pointed needles in the size appropriate for the yarn (about US #7 or 8). Yarn needle. Scissors
Homework: Cast on 15 stitches. Work in stockinette for 15 rows. Leave swatch on needle. Do not bind off. Cut yarn leaving a 6” tail.
Skill Level: Adventurous beginner (must be able to cast on, knit, purl, decrease and bind off).
Maximum Number of Students: 20
Platform: Zoom. Class combines lecture (with samples and/or photos, possibly in a PowerPoint), demonstration using a second overhead camera, and discussion.
Length: 2 hours
Cost: $25 Members / $30 Non-members
Registration deadline is 11 October 2024 at 10 pm ET.
Margaret Radcliffe is the author of the bestselling Knitting Answer Book, The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques, Circular Knitting Workshop, and The Knowledgeable Knitter. Margaret has taught knitting since 1991 and began publishing her designs in a line of knitting patterns under the name Maggie’s Rags in 1997.
Margaret’s books explore knitting techniques at a depth well beyond what’s usually presented, in a way that makes both the techniques and their appropriate uses clear to readers. As a designer, her specialty is rewarding garments that look complicated but rely on the simplest knitting techniques. As a teacher, Margaret enthusiastically teaches everything from beginning knitting to garment design, and is acclaimed for her ability to help all knitters to develop their independence and creativity.
Margaret’s many teaching venues for knitting and dyeing have included the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF), Knitters’ Day Out, Houston Fiber Fest, the Madrona Fiberarts Winter Retreat, the Schooner J&E Riggin out of Rockland, Maine, online fiber challenges for The Livestock Conservancy, plus numerous shops and fiber guilds across the U.S. and into Canada.
Like many knitters and spinners, Margaret has had a long and varied career. She has degrees in Medieval Studies and English Literature, has been an internal auditor, computer programmer, business executive, research administrator, dancer, and editor. Her current fiber arts interests include preparing, spinning, and designing handknits using heritage breeds and participation in The Livestock Conservancy’s Shave ’Em to Save ’Em program.