Get a taste of Estonian knitting making a wristlet showcasing four traditional techniques. This workshop is an introduction to Estonian knitting exploring knit fringe, knit braids, bobbles, and roosimine inlay knitting. We will travel across Estonia learning these different techniques that are much easier than they look. A great way to get to grips with many of the techniques covered in Aleks Byrd’s book Traditions Revisited – Modern Estonian Knits.

This is a in person workshop at Knit City Calgary in Calgary, AB, Canada

Booking opens May 10th

This workshop is split into two 3 hour sessions on January 26th, 2024. First session 10am - 1pm with 1 hour break and second session 2-5pm

• SKILL LEVEL

  Intermediate - Students should be comfortable knitting and purling in the round, working with more than one colour, reading charts.

• MATERIALS

  • US 6 / 4mm needles for knitting small circumference (Double pointed needles or 32” / 80 cm circular needles for magic loop)

  • Stitch markers

  • Scissors

  • Knit Fringe tool (available from Aleks Byrd) or flat stick or card approx 0.5” / 1.5 cm wide for wrapping fringe yarn loops

  • DK yarn in 3 contrasting colours in the following approx. amounts:

  - MC (main colour) 20g

  - CC1 (contrast colour 1 used for fringe) 10g

  - CC2 (contrast colour 2 used for fringe) 10g

  Make sure the yarn for CC1 and CC2  is easy to pull from both ends of the ball for working with two strands at a time

• HOMEWORK

  With MC and US 6 / 4mm needles, CO 40 sts, join in the rnd. PM for BOR.

  Rnd 1: K to end.

  Rnd 2: P to end.

  Repeat rnds 1-2 once more.

  ABBREVIATIONS

  BOR – beginning of round

  k – knit

  MC – main colour

  p – purl

  PM – place marker

  rnd(s) – round(s)

  st(s) – stitch(es)