Design Your Own Colorwork Hat with Tressa Weidenaar (Saturday, June 3)
This workshop will guide students through their first knitted hat design. Students will learn about selecting color, inspiration for creating a design, and how to make a chart to create their own hat. Students will review techniques for knitting with two colors. They should also have time to cast on their hats and begin knitting the designs they created.
Students should bring a main color yarn and small amounts of other yarn colors in the same weight. They should bring needles appropriate for the yarn weight they choose and any “notions” they would normally use for knitting a hat, such as scissors, stitch markers, tape measure, and tapestry needle. If they would like, students can work up a swatch of their main color ahead of time and come to the workshop with their gauge measurements to help expedite the design process.
Date & Time
Saturday, June 3rd from 9 am to 12 pm
Skill Level
Intermediate. Students should have some skill in knitting in the round including casting on, knitting, purling, and binding off.
Material Fee
None. If desired, students will have the opportunity to purchase a main color for their hat design directly through the instructor on the day of the workshop. Yarn will be available in fingering, DK or worsted weight.
About the Instructor
Tressa Weidenaar is a Navajo knitwear designer, weaver, and maker of anything she finds interesting. She lives in Gallup, New Mexico with her husband and two children. When she's not knitting she enjoys being outdoors exploring the high desert canyons and mesas of the southwest. She has had designs published in Taproot Magazine, Making GIFTS and PomPom Quarterly. She can be found on Instagram @tsinbikee and Ravelry as Tsinbikeeknits.
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
Questions? Email us at flagwool.workshops@gmail.com.