Combining Fair Isle and Intarsia: Scout Shawl with Florence Spurling - Saturday 15th February 2025, 10am-1pm

Knit With Me is honoured to have the wonderful Florence Spurling guide us in how to combine Faire-Isle and Intarsia techniques in the same project. 

In this colourwork focused class, students will explore the key techniques that are used within Florence's Scout Shawl pattern. The main differences between Fair Isle and intarsia will be explored, as well as advice on working with
multiple yarns at the same time, and how to achieve a professional looking finish when transitioning between the pattern blocks of the shawl. Students will follow a colourwork chart and put these methods to practice, resulting in a multi-
coloured and multi-technique swatch. Upon completion of this class, students will be able to tackle other projects that feature flat Fair Isle knitting and intarsia with confidence.

No experience in the intarsia method is needed, but
it is recommended to have some experience with Fair Isle knitting.

Materials to being with you on the day fo rhte workshop

- 2 colours of any weight yarn with appropriate needle size to practice the intarsia technique
- 5 colours of fingering weight yarn with appropriate needle size to work the colourwork chart (the Scout
pattern uses a US 4/3.5mm)

Important information - Please Read

The workshop takes place upstairs in the store which is accessed via a spiral staircase.

We need a minimum of 4 bookings for this course to go ahead. If we do not meet the minimum 4 days before the workshop you will be offered a new date or a refund.

Due to the small numbers of spaces please let us know as soon as possible if you can no longer attend as a refund can only be offered if we are able to fill your space.

About Florence 

Florence Spurling is a textile designer who specializes in knitted, crocheted and embellished fabrications. Originally from Oxfordshire, England, she trained in London where she received a Masters in Textile Design from The Royal College of Art. Florence is passionate about creating unique, tactile and desirable fabrics that display her love of detail and craftsmanship. She creates designs for the contemporary hand knitter that mix colour, texture and pattern in distinctive ways. When not designing under her own name, Florence works on fashion knitwear development for clients such as Anthropologie, Chloe, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors. Florence is the author of Designing Knitted Textiles: Machine Knitting for Fashion, Laurence King Publishing, 2021.