Improve Your Knitting: Designer Tips & Tricks

Start learning designer knitting techniques and get the professional results you’ve been wishing for by joining lifelong knitter Anne Hanson. With a background in knitwear design, she’ll help you take control of your knitting from cast-on to bind-off. Begin by discovering new ways to read a knitting pattern, check gauge and troubleshoot tricky fibers. Once you have the fundamentals down, you’ll take ultimate control of your fiber with smart yarn substitutions and winding the perfect yarn cake. Love starting a project? Anne will share her tips for better cast-ons and bind-offs before teaching you the handy Grandma’s cast-on. Move on to more designer tricks for shaping with increases and decreases, creating cables without a cable needle and troubleshooting as you go. Wrap up class with Anne’s favorite finishing tips, and her textured and lace blocking techniques for beautiful knits that keep their structure.