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Learn to Machine Knit your own cardigan #02 - The Gorple Cardigan
Introduction
Welcome - what you can expect from this workshop
The Gorple Cardigan
Choosing your yarns and colours
Types of machine, gauge & yarn
Choosing the yarn for your Gorple cardigan
Taking measurements & choosing your size
How to take & record measurements
Understanding the fit of your cardigan
Choosing the correct size
Tension squares
Why bother with a tension square?
Knitting & steaming your tension square (3:31)
Calculating your tension
Recalculating increases & decreases
Calculating SHALLOW increases/decreases
Calculating STEEP increases and decreases
Setting up your machine and preparing to knit
Preparing to knit
Knitting the pockets
Pockets (12:22)
Knitting the body - Back
Hem (12:22)
Body section (3:54)
Knitting the body - Front
IMPORTANT NOTE
Hem (12:22)
Attaching pockets (0:42)
Body section (3:54)
Second body piece - RHSAW
Knitting the sleeve & back yoke piece
Bottom cuff (12:22)
Bottom sleeve (3:20)
Back yoke piece (4:43)
Top sleeve (3:20)
Top cuff (14:48)
Knitting the placket
Full Needle Rib (FNR) placket (7:38)
WELL DONE!
Blocking your knitwear
The Art of Blocking
What tools do you need? CHECKLIST
How to Block your knits - STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
How to Block your knits - DEMONSTRATION VIDEO (1:56)
Blocking your Gorple cardigan
Finishing your cardigan - the professional finish
Final seams (4:16)
Attaching the placket to the body (4:16)
Sewing in ends and labels
Washing & pressing (1:11)
You've done it! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!
Taking it further - next steps
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Calculating STEEP increases and decreases
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