JC17 Seamless Scarves with Built-In Fringes

with Gayle Roehm

A fringed border can be a nice finish or embellishment for a scarf or other garment, but cut yarn fringes tend to wear out quickly. This class will introduce you to three types of fringe that are actually knitted onto your scarf (or other garment) as you work. We’ll also use a method of seamless construction that allows you to add borders without breaking your yarn. Intermediate students should be able to increase, decrease, and pick up stitches from a knitted edge.

Participants bring: An assortment of smooth yarns (2 or 3 balls) and appropriate size needles with which you are comfortable using, at least 1 extra needle or crochet hook and note taking materials.

About the instructor: Gayle Roehm is a former management consultant who now devotes herself to knitting. She teaches nationally for knitting events, guilds and yarn shops. Her designs have been featured in Knitter’s, Interweave Knits, A Gathering of Lace, and other publications. She also sells her work at a fiber arts gallery. Gayle has traveled throughout the world, lived in Japan, speaks Japanese and has knitted with Japanese designs for many years. She published an article about Japanese patterns in Knitter’s magazine in 1997, she prepared the Japanese section for the book Knitting Languages, and she has translated patterns for Sunrise Fibers.