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Mini Troi Vest at Vogue Knitting Live, NYC

  • Marriott Marquis Times Square 1535 Broadway New York, NY, 10036 United States (map)

Knit a cute mini troi vest and learn about this unique Estonian fisherman colourwork sweater from the island of Kihnu. You’ll learn lots of skills in this workshop from Kihnu vits knitted braids and the use of steeks for seamless in the round construction. We will even cut 3 mini steeks used for the armholes and neck with the help of crochet reinforcement. This is the perfect workshop if you’ve had the Saar vest or Troi sweater patterns are you knit list.

This is a workshop at Vogue Knitting Live, NYC, USA.

The workshop will be broken up into two sessions with a lunch break in between: 9am -12pm and then 2-5pm

  • Intermediate knitter; students should be comfortable to knit and purl in the round, should be comfortable knitting stranded colourwork / fair isle, cast-on, bind-off.

    • US 6 / 4 mm needles for knitting small circumference (Double pointed needles or circular needles for magic loop)

    • Tapestry / darning needle

    • Scissors

    • 3-4 mm crochet hook

    • DK yarn (preferably non-superwash - think yarn you would use for colourwork) in 3 contrasting colours in the following approx. amounts:

      • MC (main colour) 20g

      • CC1 (contrast colour 1) 20g

      • CC2 (contrast colour 2 used for steek reinforcement) 5g

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Ruhnu Estonian Braids at Vogue Knitting Live, NYC