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This course begins by focusing on the basics; introducing the foundational skills needed to get started and prepared for future knitting adventures. We will focus on fundamental techniques: casting on, knitting, purling, and binding off. Along the way, your instructor will share helpful tips on reading yarn labels, picking out yarn and needles for projects, the importance of gauge swatches, and how to read your gauge swatch. Students will practice by making a swatch. Once basic skills have been established, new techniques such as how to read a pattern, increasing, decreasing, knitting in the round and a variety of stitches will be explained as students knit a beginner-level accessory.
 
Weekly Class
Tuition: $230 + $20 Studio Fee 
6/5-7/31 no class 6/19 (8 sessions) Mondays 6-8 pm
CEUs: 1.6

Faculty:
Jennifer Brou is an artist, designer, and educator based in South Portland, Maine. Jennifer studied at the Glasgow School of Art and earned her BFA in Crafts, with a Minor in Photography, from Longwood University. She currently teaches in the Foundation Program and in Continuing Studies at Maine College of Art & Design. Jennifer has 13 years of experience as a designer and developer in the footwear industry and 17- years of knitting experience. She has been designing hand-knit garments and accessories for 7 years. Jennifer’s knitwear designs have been selected for inclusion in Woolfolk’s 2018 & 19 Wool Elements and 2022 Pre-Fall collections; Brooklyn Tweed’s Wool People 14 and Winter 2022 collections; Farmers Daughter Fibers’ Wisp collection; Making Stories Issue 5 & Issue 10; Making Magazine Issue 14; and Laine Magazine Issue 15. Alongside teaching and designing knitwear, Jennifer mends knits for Misha & Puff, works in her studio, and runs.


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Basics of Hand Knitting

Continuing Studies at Maine College of Art & Design

Basics of Hand Knitting

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