Introduction to Knitting With Beads with Florence Spurling, Saturday 16th November 2024, 10am-1pm

Knit With Me is very honoured to have the wonderful Florence Spurling offer her Introduction to Knitting with Beads course here at Knit With Me. This course will explore the most popular methods of incorporating this form of embellishment to your knits. Key techniques demonstrated in this class include adding beads through stockinette, reverse stockinette, garter stitch, slip stitch and using a crochet hook. Adding beads through surface embroidery will also be discussed, and we will explore different stitch patterns in which beads can be integrated. Participants will be shown a variety of beaded fabrics and work through key methods resulting in a knitted sampler.

Materials to bring with you:

• Fingering/sock weight yarn or DK weight yarn + corresponding needles
• Size 6/0 beads if using DK weight yarn, Size 8/0 beads if using Fringering/sock weight yarn. These can be purchased in store on the day of the course if needed.

Prerequisites

Comfortable with basic knitting stitches, but no prior beading knowledge is required. 

There will be no homework to complete before attending and Florence will have handouts for you to take home with you. 

Important information - The workshop takes place upstairs which is accessed via a spiral staircase. We need a minimum number of bookings for this course to go ahead. If we do not meet the minimum we will offer you an alternative date or a refund. FInally due to the smal number of places available please let us know as soon as possible if you can no longer attend as we can only offer a refund if we are able to fill your space. The earlier you let us know themore chance there is of us being able to find someone to take your spot.

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.