Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles
Circular Needles and Cables
A course by Carmen García de Mora , Textile Designer and Knitting Professor
Joined October 2018
Joined October 2018
About the video: Circular Needles and Cables
Overview
“Now that we have our threads, let's go for his better half, which are the needles and their accessories. For this course you will need 6 or 7 needles, an 80 cm cable and a 100 cm cable.”
In this video lesson Carmen García de Mora addresses the topic: Circular Needles and Cables, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles. Learn how to knit a circular, top-down garment and discover all that you can create without using seams.
Partial transcription of the video
“Circular needles and cables In this lesson, I will talk about the needles you need to knit. We have different thicknesses. Thinner needles are for thinner threads or tighter fabrics, and from there the size increases, in this case, 8, but you can find number 15 needles, even 20, for thicker threads. The numbering indicates their diameter in millimeters. For example, a 6.5 needle means that the needle is 6.5 millimeters in diameter. An 8 needle is 8 millimeter in diameter and so on. Then we also have needles of different lengths. These I have here are 12 centimeters long. These I have here a...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Accessory Design, Fiber Arts, Knitting, Textile Design
Carmen García de Mora
A course by Carmen García de Mora
After being awarded her degree in technical engineering for industrial design, Carmen García de Mora was left yearning for a life of knitting needles and yarn, a passion inherited from her grandmother. In that moment she decided to study a Master's in knitwear design and has dedicated herself to both this and teaching since 2005.
Up until 2020, she taught a class in industrial knitwear as part of a fashion design degree in Barcelona. She is also an industrial knitwear production consultant as well as a hand-knit garment and collection designer for adults and infants. As for more personal projects, she markets her new designs through Ravelry and shares them with her follows on Instagram.
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