Level 2 Hand Knit Textiles 7716-15

This course is ideal for those who have done some knitting and are keen to extend their skills and explore different stitch techniques.

You will begin to integrate design ideas in your knitting, e.g. using colour and texture to enhance stitch patterns and simple decorative paint techniques to enhance your presentation.

Prepared in eight modules and consisting of two units:

Unit 1 - Design for Craft is common to all schemes at this level. It introduces you to design basics such as colour, texture, shape and style suitability, which you can incorporate into your craft.

Unit 2 - Craft. In this unit you will gain practical skills in the techniques, processes and materials involved in hand knitting and collate information on knitwear designers and current trends. You will sample the main stitch types along with the all-important finishing and making-up techniques. You will demonstrate these skills in the two assessment garments.

You will produce work for the following assessments:

• Core unit - simple art/design work to enhance your knitting.
• A folder of knitted samples and collected information.
• Ten specific knitted samples
• Two garments: a sweater and a cardigan, knitted from commercial patterns.

Each module is split into 'lessons', consisting of notes, photographs, instructions and exercises. The exercises ask you to sample different techniques / stitches and usually leave the choice of yarn up to you.