Introduction to Knitting With Beads In Person with Florence Spurling, Saturday 4th May 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.

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. Toilers are in the basement which are again, you guessed it, accessed via a spiral staircase. We need a minimum of 10 bookings for this course to go ahead. If we do not meet the minimum we will offer you an alternative date or a refund.

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.