Service Description

Learn Fair Isle Technique to expand your knitting skills to the very broad category of beautiful traditional Fair Isle Knitting ! Fair Isle knitting is a classic Colorwork method that traditionally uses just 2 Colors on any given row. When working Fair Isle, always cross one color over and the other color under to produce Colorwork that is neat and even. In this class, you will be working on a hat design that is worked flat using DK weight yarn in 2 color-block colors( here, red and orange OR, light grey and burgundy) with small amounts of 2 Fair Isle chart colors (either burgundy and white OR medium grey and yellow). You can also use 4 colors in a DK weight yarn of your choice. HOMEWORK: Begin the hat with the lower Rib and 8 rows of Stockinette Stitch, ready to begin the Fair Isle Chart. Instructions FAIR ISLE HAT MATERIALS DK weight or light worsted in 4 different solid colorways, One pair each sizes 3 and 6(3.25 and 4mm) needles OR SIZE TO OBTAIN GAUGE , and Eight stitch markers MEASUREMENTS •Head Circumference 21"/53cm •Length 8 3/4"/22 cm GAUGE 23 sts and 28 rows to 4"/10cm over stst using larger needles. TAKE TIME TO CHECK GAUGE. HAT Beg at the lower edge with smaller needles and Color A, cast on 125 sts. ROW 1(RS) K1, *p1, k1; rep from * to end. ROW 2(WS) P1, *k1, p1; rep from * to end. Rep these 2 rows for k1, p1 ribbing for 11 rows more. NEXT ROW( WS) Work in Rib and inc 8 sts evenly spaced across--133 sts. Change to larger needles and beg with a RS(knit) row, work even in St st for 8 rows. At this point, the hat has been knit up to the (9-row) Fair Isle Chart which we will work on in this class.