Build Your Knitting Skills with the Rebecca Page Knitting Summit

There are lots of ways to learn about knitting and build your skills these days. We can watch videos, read books and blogs and learn from people we know. If you want to learn a lot in a short period of time, a summit is a great way to do that.

I’m one of the teachers for the upcoming Knitting Summit from Rebecca Page, and it looks like it will be a great opportunity to boost your knitting skills quickly.

There are 23 different classes, covering all sorts of topics including colorwork (stranded, mosaic, intarsia), lace knitting, sock knitting, natural dyeing and so much more.

My class is all about knitting fingerless gloves.

I have really small hands (and wrists the same size as my 13-year-old’s) so other people’s patterns for mitts don’t usually fit me well. And my hands are cold pretty much all the time so I have knit myself a lot of fingerless gloves through the years.

This course covers three different methods for making fingerless gloves: working them flat and seaming them, leaving a hole for the thumb; working in the round but working a portion flat to make a hole for the thumb; and working in the round and knitting a thumb gusset so the thumb is covered a little bit, too.

We’ll cover how and where to measure your hand, how to knit and measure a gauge swatch and just a tiny bit of math to ensure your mitts fit you (or anyone else you want to knit them for).

The knitting summit takes place Jan. 23-27 and is totally free to attend. You’ll get an email each morning that gives you access to that day’s classes, which you then have 24 hours to watch.

If you need more time you can also grab a VIP pass, which gives you unlimited playback, plus access to courses no one else gets.

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One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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