Fresh Fair Isle with Mary Jane Mucklestone
Join Mary Jane Mucklestone at Skein Sisters as we explore colour and pattern with her fabulous signature class! If you love fair isle knitting, this is the class for you.
This class is now sold out. If you'd like to be placed on our waiting list, please send us an email here.
Liven up your Fair Isle knitting; spend the day exploring colour and pattern with Mary Jane's signature class! This course introduces the basics of color theory and how to use its principles to guide your colour choices.
Learn about the use of colour over the years in traditional Fair Isle knitting and move beyond, developing your own colour schemes. Analyse how different colour combinations can completely change a motif's appearance. Learn what makes traditional Fair Isle knitting different from other world traditions, and how traditional methods make the work efficient.
Explore variations of holding the yarn, understand the concept of “yarn dominance”, and feel confident choosing and adapting pattern motifs. Knitting a simple stranded wristlet or fingerless glove will illustrate these new concepts.
A full day allows students to knit a substantial piece, learning as much from their classmate's work as from their own.
When: Friday 7 June 2024, 10am-5pm - 6 hours in person taught in two 3-hour sessions. There will be a one-hour break for lunch.
We will also be having a fun social night with Mary Jane after the class. Save the date! More info to come next year.
Class Level: Intermediate
Technique requirements: Experience knitting stranded colourwork and knitting a small diameter piece in the round.
Supplies to bring:
- 6 to 12 colours (more colours = more fun!) of fingering weight yarn with a mixture of darks and lights. Non-superwash wool is preferred; Shetland wool is ideal. 25-90m (27-98yds) of each colour yarn, bring all your odd bits;
- 3.25mm DPNs (double pointed needles) or your preferred needles for working small diameter pieces in the round;
- tapestry needle;
- scissors;
- stitch markers.
- Graph paper and coloured pencils, if desired.
- We will be putting together yarn kits in early 2024 and will email you when they're available.
Homework: With any colour fingering-weight yarn you like, CO 48 sts. Place marker, join without twisting for working in the round. Work k1, p1 rib for 1" (2.5 cm).
About Mary Jane: Mary Jane Mucklestone is a knitwear designer, teacher, and author of six knitting books specialising in stranded colourwork. Her volumes, 200 Fair Isle Motifs and 150 Scandinavian Motifs, sit on thousands of knitter's bookshelves worldwide. Endlessly inspired by traditional knitting, she likes to apply vintage ideas to modern knitwear.
Her latest book, Grand Shetland Adventure Knits (order your copy now), co-authored with her friend, designer Gudrun Johnston, takes the knitter on a trip to Shetland. Shot on location in stunning scenery, it includes patterns for the knits to wear or knit while visiting Shetland or wherever your adventures take you!
Mary Jane loves to teach and is thrilled to have the opportunity to visit Australia. She specialises in lively informative classes where history, craft, fashion, and location meet. With lots of personal attention, she aims to give students the courage to try something new.
Terms and conditions
- Full payment is required prior to the start of the class to confirm your spot.
- Minimum numbers - This class requires a minimum of eight people in order to go ahead and, depending on the class, a maximum of up to 10. If your class or workshop does not have the minimum number of students, the class will be postponed and you will be notified within three days of the class date if it has been cancelled or changed. We cannot be held liable for travel or any other costs in the event of a cancellation.
- If your class is postponed or cancelled you can use the amount paid to transfer to another event/activity, use as a store credit, or be issued a full refund.
Cancelling a class
- Up to 7 days before the class - you are able to cancel, postpone or swap a class up to 7 days prior to the class date and can receive a full refund.
- 7 days-24 hours before the class - we are able to offer a credit but we cannot guarantee a full refund unless another booking fills your spot.
- Less than 24 hours before the class - no credit or refund available.
Please see our general Classes & Workshops page for our FAQ.
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