Knitting with Colour - mastering colour blocking and stranded knitting
About this Event
🧶 Ready to bring your knitting to life with colour?
If you already know how to knit and purl, this workshop is the perfect next step. Learn how to add bold blocks, beautiful designs, and traditional motifs using stranded colourwork techniques from around the world — including:
Fair Isle (Shetland)
Bohus (Sweden)
Setesdal & Selbu (Norway)
Lopapeysa (Iceland)
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What You’ll Learn:
- How to change colours seamlessly across rows
- How to read colourwork charts and patterns
- How to create your own unique colour designs
- Hands-on help to get started on your own design (or ours) for stranded colour fingerless gloves — the perfect small project to practise your skills!
This workshop is a fantastic way to use leftover yarn from past projects and explore colour in a fun, relaxed environment.
Walk away inspired, equipped, and ready to colour your knitting world!
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Keep Learning with The ReDress Hub
Love knitting? We also offer workshops on reading patterns, repairing knits, mastering new stitch types, and modifying existing garments.
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Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is suitable for confident beginners or intermediate knitters (of any age over 16) who can independently cast on, cast off and do a knit, purl and stocking stitch, confidently.
If you don't know how to do these stitches we recommend taking our workshop first.
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What do I bring?
A pair of knitting needles size between 3.75-4mm (metal, timber or plastic is suitable), and at least 2-4 contrasting colours in DK 8ply wool. Please choose wool over acrylic yarns for this technique if possible.
The ReDress Hub has odd balls of wool you can also use, but otherwise, we recommend doing a charity shop crawl for your materials as you will almost certainly find what you need without buying them new.
Special Group bookings:
Workshops at The ReDress Hub are even better shared! They’re perfect for friends, family, or colleagues looking to do something creative together.
Bring a group of 4 or more, and you’ll receive:
✨ A group discount
✨ A few special treats to enjoy together
✨ A date and time to suit you and your friends
Get in touch with us directly for group booking details—we’d love to host you.
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Special tickets:
Companion ticket
If you require a carer or support while attending your workshop, we have a special Companion Ticket for those with a Companion card. Please enter the code ReDressCompanion (all one word) to reveal this special ticket when booking your tickets.
ReGift Program
Through a Community Grant with the City of Launceston, we are pleased to offer subsidised spaces to this workshop for people on full-time pensions, unemployment benefits, hold a health care card or similar.
Interested? Please contact us directly (see below) and we'll explain how you can benefit from this program.
Coffee and Cake while you Make
Why not make this an even more enjoyable occasion and enjoy a barista coffee (or a selection of lattes and cold drinks) and a delicious cake kebab, (specially designed to eat cake without the mess while you make) by the incredible cake makers at Cake O'Clock!
Order yours with your ticket by selecting your choice from the Add-Ons section when you book.
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Where do I go?
We're excited to be able to run our workshop face-to-face in our new beautifully designed hub space.
The ReDress Hub is located at:
Shop 6&7, Quadrant Plaza, 94 York St, Launceston, Tasmania.
You can find us in Dell Lane just behind Toyworld :)
Super handy access to parking in the Care CarPark next door, with great cafes close by to fuel you up for all your workshop needs.
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What if I don't feel well?
If you have been or could have been exposed to COVID19 through travel or a close contact, please consider your attendance and or wearing a mask at the event.
If you have any symptoms and don't feel well please don't attend your workshop and get in touch with us for more details.
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More information or questions...?
For further information about The ReDress Hub please check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ReDressHub
Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, our best contact is [email protected] or reach out via our social media.
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We hope to see you at The ReDress Hub soon!
Kirsty's winning design in 1986 for a jumper for Lady Di using block colour.
Kirsty Mate is a professional designer, educator and artist with a passion for sustainability and design as well as for knitting.
Her passion for knitting started when she was a young girl learning the skill wrapped within the arms of her mother as she helped her wind the wool around the needle and off to create a stitch. Kirsty has not only knitted many, many garments but in 1986 she won a national knitting design competition to design a jumper for Lady Di, providing her with her first journey to Europe. In more recent years, she has explored how different materials such as licorice and plastic can be transformed through the art of knitting and how knitting can be a social activity in public places.
As well, with over 30 years of experience in sustainable design, you could say she is a pioneer. Her career in design has crossed many disciplines including architecture, interior design, textiles design, exhibition design, and performance art; has taken her around the world and into a successful career in academia as well as industry. She is widely published and has exhibited her work in both design and art.
With these two passions, she is excited to be able to teach knitting to beginners and how this skill can advance us towards a slow and circular approach to clothing.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 11.90 to AUD 96.61
