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Course Overview

Intermediate Online Knitting Course

Enhance your Knitting skills with our Skill Stage 3 hand knitting online course. This is a unique distance learning course giving you the chance to develop existing skills and previous knowledge of this popular and highly creative art form.  

If you’re interested in developing your knitting skills and gaining valuable exposure to professional practice, such as creating a CV and presentation skills then this is the perfect course for you. 

As a comprehensive City & Guilds accredited programme this course is nationally recognised for its high standards of teaching, learning and assessment. 

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Course Features

12 Modules

Work your way through 12 Knitting modules each designed to teach new skills and provide a better understanding of your subject.

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Intermediate Skill level

For knitters with a little technical experience and study experience.

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 2 years to complete this course. Each module takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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Course Details

This course consists of 12 modules which focus on getting students to develop their own style and designs, while giving students valuable professional practice. As a City & Guilds accredited course, this is a comprehensive online knitting course. Not only will you teach essential techniques, you’ll also enhance your own creativity and design skills.

Course Modules

There are around 360 hours of course content and materials split across 12 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
  • Advanced techniques like knitting with round needles
  • Knitting on 4 needles
  • Stripes and colour combinations
  • Pockets, buttonholes, collars and how to join yarn
  • Create your own sample folio containing traditional and contemporary techniques and knitting samples
  • Creation of 2 sample folios containing traditional and contemporary pieces to a high standard
  • Edging and finishing techniques to add a professional looking finishing to your pieces
  • Create three a final assessment pieces. Choose from either 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 360 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 2 years to complete, 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, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation,  extending the course life to 30 months (2.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

This course is aimed at crafters with a bit more knitting experience.  If you’re regularly completing projects using commercial patterns or kits and you have a fair, though not extensive understanding of different stitch techniques, we’d categorise you as having more experience than a beginner.

If you’ve been interested in knitting for a while, attended a workshop or course and regularly read around your craft (magazines, books, articles) then you’re probably ready to take these more advanced courses. The reason we say this is because our Skill Stage three courses are in-depth courses that require you to research, read and study your subject. We will obviously support you with tasks but some students may find this difficult without previous knowledge and experience of more formal education.

Our skill Stage 3 courses are also great for those with a business ambition. Our course includes an entire module called professional practise, which is aimed at getting your business ready. We teach valuable industry skills to really give you that professional, competitive edge.

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Graduate Story by Diana Feroze

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Diana Feroze

“But the most important thing was the thinking and planning of projects. Instead of grabbing needles and zooming away, I have learnt to stop, think, research, revise and look at the project from many angles before even starting to buy the wool.”
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Lynn Hall with her beautiful knitted blanket designs

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Lynn Hall

“The course has helped me learn how to research, consider and plan the construction of patterns and many of the skills are transferable to other forms of design, textiles and craft. I would strongly recommend the courses offered by the SST whatever your level of expertise or area of interest. There is a lot of support from all of the tutors and also other students.”
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Graduate Story by Jan Lidgley, intermediate knitting course

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Jan Lidgley

“The course gave me the opportunity to try out some new skills which I would not have touched otherwise, such as dyeing yarn and cotton material, making clay and fabric buttons, creating tassels, and intricate knitting such as lace knitting with very fine lace yarn. Exposure to so many different techniques opened my eyes to the potential to incorporate some of them in my own projects.”
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A graduate story by knitting student Helen eWackers

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Helene Wackers

“I would highly recommend studying with the School of Stitched Textiles. If you are anything like me, with gazillion interests, a million started projects and no real sense of where to begin, this course will offer you structure and framework, without limiting your artistic desires.”
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Graduate Story from Claire Hannibal, Knitting Skill Stage 3

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Claire Hannibal

“My confidence in ‘just having a go’ has dramatically increased. I have learned such a range of skills – for example, hand dyeing, designing my own patterns, costing knitting commissions and specific tools to start my own business – all from being willing to have a go. Not everything worked out first time, however the course has taught me that patience and humility are as important as the needles and the yarn!”
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Studetn Feedback from Patricia McCarthy

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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.”
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