Knitting week 1

I was excited to learn the new techniques that came with knitting. We were taught this week the techniques of casting on, open loop casting off, colour changing and changing tension. I learnt how to thread up on the machine and although it looked incredible fiddly it was actually quite simple to do. When creating my samples for changing tension I found that when the dial is on a looser tension it was much easier to pull the carriage across, you could feel the change in tension while knitting. I experimented with tension hanging and while the weights were on the sample although it looked nice it was quite flat however once I cast off the tighter tension parts curled and the looser tensions didn't as much and so an interesting surface occurred.