Knitting

Skill Stage 2

Course Overview

Accredited Beginner's Knitting Course

Get to grips with the basics of knitting with our Skill Stage 2 online Knitting course. Throughout this in-depth distance learning course, we’ll not only take you through the basics, you’ll also learn a variety of techniques allowing you to create pieces to a high standard while developing your individual style and creativity.

As a City & Guilds accredited course, each module focuses on developing your existing skills, whilst also introducing you to creative new techniques, which will carefully lead you through your course syllabus to a successful conclusion. Our accredited courses are recognised for their high standards of teaching and assessment.

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Course Features

4 Modules

Work your way through key tasks that contribute towards completion of your modules

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Beginner Skill level

You don't need to know how to knit! This will be covered, making it perfect for beginners

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 1 year to complete this course. Each modules takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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Course Details

As a City & Guilds accredited course, this knitting course has been designed to help develop individual creativity. Whether you’re looking to lean the basics or develop existing skills, this course will allow you to express yourself, experiment and really push the boundaries of your own creativity.

Course Modules

There are around 100-150 hours of course content split across 4 modules. Here’s what you’ll learn:

Casting on and off
Checking and controlling tension
Stocking stitch, garter and other knit and purl stitches
Develop more advanced skills like increasing and decreasing
Bobble stitch, lace stitch and cable stitch
Create your own sample folio containing traditional and contemporary techniques and knitting samples
Edging and finishing techniques to add a professional looking finishing to your pieces
Complete a final assessment piece. Choose from wither a 3D functional item, a panel/hanging/quilt or a wearable art item.

Delivery & Assessment

The course is supplied as a distance learning course where course materials and tutor assessments are delivered digitally and work is returned to your tutor via digital presentation.

Your coursework will be reviewed by your tutor and periodically by an Internal Quality Assessor, to ensure the appropriate quality standard is maintained. You will be provided with written feedback in a timely fashion (usually within 10 days) and, if needed, you will be able to re-submit altered work. You can contact your tutor at any time to request your work to date be reviewed and suggestions for future progress be made.

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Course Timescales

There is around 100-150 hours of course content/materials and it is usual for students to take between 6-8 weeks to complete each module. Students can take up to 1 year to complete the course, which allows students to work at their own pace. However, it is up to the individual student how quickly they wish to return work to their tutor for assessment.

A six-month contingency is available, if needed, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation, which would therefore extend the course life to 18 months (1.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

Our Skill Stage 2 accredited courses are aimed at beginners. If you’ve only ever made a few projects by following patterns or perhaps you’ve only just found an interest in your new hobby, then we’d recommend that you study a Skill Stage 2 course. Courses at this level have been carefully designed to not only teach new techniques, but also introduce students to conducting research into artists or designers, and eventually learn how to create their own designs.

If you have already undertaken a few of the craft basics in this area, but rarely read around your subject or have limited experience of attending courses or exhibitions then a Skills Stage 2 course is probably going to be your best bet.

A Skills Stage 2 course will introduce you to the pleasures of immersing yourself in your chosen craft. Not only does this help you to develop your own style but it’s also an important way of discovering new trends and exploring favourite artists.

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Student Reviews

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Knitting SS2

Susan Rorison

“My favourite parts of the 4 modules was learning new simple and complex stitches. I loved the variety of design challenges and completing my first designed wearable item. My tutor’s feedback was invaluable. It encouraged me to experiment and motivated me to keep on track with the modules.”

Knitting SS3

Patricia McCarthy

“When I enrolled on the course I thought I would just be knitting. I quickly realised that I was going to learn many different skills. Skills such as photography, the study of artists, the story of wool, dyeing, beading, and computer skills such as PowerPoint and design applications, to mention but a few.”

Knitting SS2

Laura Collinson

“For me, being pushed to create experimental samples was the most helpful part of the course. We’d have to use the new stitches I had researched and practised on the course.”

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