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Amy Snell – Ladderback Jacquard

Thursday, February 5, 2026 @ 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Overview

Easy, seamless, and beautiful, the ladderback jacquard technique will improve the tension of your stranded knitting while allowing you to span much larger areas between stitches. This knitting method adds stretch to the floats while preventing the alternate color from peeking through and can be applied to nearly any stranded knitting project. Once you add this techique to your knitting toolbox, you may never want to go back to any other method of carrying floats.

Whether you’re interested in tweaking patterns or developing your own colorwork designs, incorporating this technique means you can work without limits on the space between alternating motifs.

 

Skills learned

In class we’ll learn several different options for setting up and resolving ladders and explore best practices for placement and charting, so you can envision how to bring this technique into your real-life knitting applications.

Level of Experience:

Advanced — Students should already be familiar with knitting stranded colorwork and should know how to increase, decrease, and work at a small circumference in the round.

Format

Lecture and hands-on learning

Workshop Fee

$35.00

Location

Encinitas Community Center, Room 118

Length of Class

3 hours

Supplies Needed

• 30 yards of smooth worsted weight in each of two contrasting, light colors
• Needles suitable for working with worsted yarn (typically US #7-9)
• A small-circumference project in the round (double points, magic loop, or two circulars)
• Scissors
• Crewel or tapestry needle

Items Included

Homework

• With the lighter yarn, cast on 40 stitches and join to work in the round. With the same color, knit 3 rounds of stockinette stitch.
• Print class handout (provided in advance) and bring to class. 

Number of Participants

25

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How to Register

Visit Members’ Market to register for this workshop.

Details

Thursday, February 5, 2026
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Venue

Encinitas Community Center
1140 Oakcrest Park Dr
Encinitas, CA 92024

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Organizer

Theresa Kotanchek, Denise Caballero and Karla Alvey