Laura Nelkin

Knit This: Mastering Lace Shawls

Laura Nelkin

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Lace knitting guru Laura Nelkin introduces you to the techniques that will allow you to master this class's two shawl projects.
Learn the fundamentals of yarn selection and working with gauge as you gear up to start your first shawl.
Learn the essential techniques of lace knitting, from slipping stitches to different forms of increases and decreases.
Get started on Skywalker, a complex pattern for a semicircular lace shawl.
As your progress towards Yoda status continues, you'll learn to place a lifeline and a new increase, the Star stitch.
Learn the Planet and Plasma stitches, as well as additional tips for checking your work and fixing mistakes.
You will learn an edging technique called Nova, a Russian join and how to knit your edging together.
Laura shows you how to block your Skywalker shawl.
Start the triangular Clarus shawl and learn to read two charts together as you knit the foundation row and first section.
Laura will guide you through the rest of Clarus, teaching you how to place markers and a lifeline in this pattern.
In this lesson, you will move through the transition row and border knitting to the grand finale: binding off and blocking your Clarus lace shawl.
Around the neck or over the shoulders, these shawls dress up any outfit!
 
 
12 Lessons
5  hrs 44  mins

Description

With her years of experience in textile and apparel design, Laura brings a unique understanding of lace knitwear designs to this class. She will not only teach you how to knit triangular and semicircular lace shawls, but will also demonstrate how to fix your knitting mistakes. An active knitwear designer, blogger, and workshop leader, Laura is the ideal guide for every stage of your lace knitting adventure, from learning to choose yarn and knit borders and edges, to reading multiple charts at once. With the included knitted lace shawl patterns, Skywalker and Clarus, you will learn many forms of increases and decreases. Laura will also share her tips and secrets for everything from placing lifelines and markers in your work to the best ways to wear your newly knitted lace shawls.

Laura Nelkin

Laura Nelkin lives in upstate New York, where the sunny season is short, leaving plenty of time for knitting indoors. Though she has a degree in apparel design, she took to knitting years ago and hasn't looked back. Today, she finds herself fascinated with beads and lace. Laura teaches all over the country, runs mystery knit-alongs and has her own line of knitting kits and self-published patterns. You can find them online, as well as in her book, "Knockout Knits."

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