Join Shetland-born knitwear designer Gudrun Johnston for a focused steeking technique workshop! 

During this workshop, we will examine the various methods for steeking your knitting. Working from a swatch, we will primarily focus on the crocheted reinforcement method, but other methods will also be discussed and demonstrated. If you’re brave enough, you can even try the Shetland method of no reinforcement! We will also cover picking up stitches from the cut edge and tidying up the frayed stitches. Gudrun will share examples of steeks on some of her finished garment designs. 

This workshop is part of a two-day Shetland-focused series of workshops with Designer Gudrun Johnston and Simply Shetland / Spindrift. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to view an amazing trunk show of designs from Simply Shetland during these events.

Skills needed:

Some experience with stranded knitting is necessary for this class as the homework will be a stranded swatch, preferably in Shetland (or an equally woolly) yarn.

Materials:

• Colorwork swatch homework
• scissors for cutting
• tapestry needle
• crochet hook in one size smaller than needle used for knitting swatch
• smooth fingering weight yarn (just a few yards)
• 16 inch knitting needle in one size smaller than used for swatch
• 25 yards extra yarn for working the picked up edging (same or different color to swatch)