Emily Ocker's Circular cast on

This week my intermediate knitters class was a challenging one for my students! They were learning how to do Emily Ocker's circular cast on. If you haven't tried it yet - It's a fantastic cast on for starting any of those in the round patterns that start from the center out or top down like hats or circular shawls but it can be quite tricky until you get the hang of it!

I knew the cast on and learning how to do increases in the round would be difficult for everyone to get to grips with so I designed a small stash busting pattern for a center out circular coaster. It's only 12 rounds long - so just long enough to learn the techniques and get some instant gratification from finishing a quick project! 

Click here to download the FREE pattern from Ravelry and give it a go! 

P.S. If you fancy trying a top down simple adult hat that uses this cast on instead - I have FREE hat pattern here on Ravelry too :)

Download my latest FREE knitting patterns

Have you spotted my other new free knitting patterns on ravelry yet? For the last few weeks I have been teaching an intermediate knitting class at the Firefly Makery here in Bridgetown. The techniques we're covering are:- Knitting with 2 colours to make stripes, slip stitch & fair-isle patterns. Knitting in the round by magic loop going bottom up straight and also from the center radiating out & lastly knitting cables, twisted stitches & a few other bits n bobs along the way.

 

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/striped-knit-and-purl-coaster

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/stripe-and-slip-stitch-coaster

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jogless-stripe-and-fair-isle-wrist-warmer

For everyone to learn these new techniques I've been designing small projects that can be completed in just an hour or 2 & give plenty of instant satisfaction on finishing something new. Above you'll see 3 of the free patterns i've added to ravelry for download so far and over the next few weeks I will be adding some more!

Free pdf pattern - my stitch sampler neck warmer

Just popping on to let you all know I've just uploaded the pdf of the pattern I designed for my beginner knitters class onto www.ravelry.com (click here to download it from ravelry)

I decided to make it a FREE pattern so you can all enjoy making them & It uses just one ball of Baby's first super bulky cotton/acrylic so it knits up fast!

Even though it's supposed to be spring here in Nova Scotia we still have plenty of snow so a neck warmer is still needed for a while yet unfortunately.. So have fun knitting & send some of your warm spring weather our way if you have it!