Learn how to create a beautifully textured wall hanging using knitweaving techniques from the weaving chapter of my book. In this one-hour workshop, you’ll come along with me as I design, knit, and finish a piece inspired by textured landscape photographs — exploring how to combine yarns, textures, and colours to create something unique.
When you join this class, you’ll get:
1-hour full-length workshop video — guiding you step by step through creating a textured wall hanging.
30 minute video showing swatches from the weaving chapter of my book "Texture & 3D Effects" — see examples and get inspiration for your own pieces.
12 minute alternate hem techniques video — learn both picot and scalloped edges to finish your work beautifully.
Written notes — summarising key techniques, tips, and ideas to refer back to as you create.
Practical guidance & inspiration — see my decision-making process in real time and learn how to experiment confidently on your own machine.
These materials give you everything you need to follow along, practice, and adapt the techniques for your own projects.
This workshop is perfect for anyone wanting to add texture and surface interest to their machine knitting, or to simply play with materials and use up yarn from your stash. Knitweaving is a wonderfully freeing technique — ideal for experimentation and discovering new combinations of yarn and stitch.
As we work, you’ll see the piece emerge in real time. I’ll talk you through how I make decisions about yarn, tension, and proportion, and share the small discoveries that happen along the way.
These techniques can be applied to any kind of machine knitting — whether you’re creating interior pieces like cushions and wall hangings, or adding texture and detail to garments and accessories. Once you’ve learned the principles, you can take them anywhere.
Taught in my friendly, down-to-earth style, this class gives you everything you need to create your own wall hanging, but it’s also a springboard for future projects — you might turn your sample into a cushion, panel, or piece of art.
You’ll finish the session with:
A completed wall hanging (or a beautifully textured knitted piece ready to turn into something else)
An understanding of how to use knitweaving on a knitting machine
Techniques for picot and scalloped hems
Confidence and inspiration to explore and experiment further on your own machine
Whether you’re new to knitweaving or looking to expand your creative process, this workshop is designed to inspire, guide, and remind you that play is at the heart of making.
Please note: This workshop assumes that students have completed a beginner machine knitting course, either with me or an alternative, as it builds on the basics of machine knitting.
Taught in my friendly, down-to-earth style, this class gives you everything you need to create your own wall hanging, but it’s also a springboard for future projects — you might turn your sample into a cushion, panel, or piece of art.
You’ll finish the session with:
A completed wall hanging (or a beautifully textured knitted piece ready to turn into something else)
An understanding of how to use knitweaving on a knitting machine
Techniques for picot and scalloped hems
Confidence to explore and experiment further on your own machine
Whether you’re new to knitweaving or looking to expand your creative process, this workshop is designed to inspire, guide, and remind you that play is at the heart of making.
Please note: This workshop assumes that students have completed a beginner machine knitting course, either with me or an alternative, as it builds on the basics of machine knitting.
Some more ideas for decorative hems that are really simple to achieve.
Scallop trim for Silver Reed users- you will need to use the hold function on the carriage which is different to the Brother carriage "H" button in the demo video.
For Silver Reed:
Set the Carriage: Setting both side levers to position "1" will enable the hold function, while position "2" or "N" (normal) will knit all needles.
Move Needles to Holding Position: Manually push the needles you want to hold all the way forward to the furthest position (often called the "E" or "Holding Position").
Knit the Working Needles: Pass the carriage across the needle bed. The needles in the holding position will be ignored, while the needles in the working position will knit. Knit the required number of tuck
Put the levers back to "II" to knit normal rows.
Most of the swatches from my book Texture & 3D Effects, with commentary and more ideas to expand them.
The workshop includes an 1 hour workshop knitting a wall hanging with weaving techniques, a 30 minute video talking through and showing most of the swatches from the weaving chapter in my book "Texture & 3D Effects" and a 12 minute video creating picot and scallop trim edges plus some basic written notes.
The 34 page notes include the following:
An introduction to the jumper and what you will need to knit it.
Instructions and practice for the rib stitches used, plating and transferring stitches from the ribber bed to the main bed.
Tension squares and how to measure English rib
An order of work
The pattern, shape and how to amend the jumper to the size you want.
The pattern and shape of the sleeves.
How to increase simply with the ribber.
Order of assembling which can be done with a linker, machine or by hand.
Finishing details
Trouble shooting & tips for avoiding problems.
This technique is extremely simple and a perfect project for a beginner, but does assume that the student understands the basics of machine knitting including casting on. If you are a complete beginner I suggest you take my Machine knitting for Beginners workshop to fill you in.
I knit and teach on a Brother KH890. Almost all of the techniques are transferable to most Brother machines, knitmaster & silver reed. Instructions and set ups for other brands of machines are slightly different, but often very similar. For the main part of the wall hanging, it does not matter which model knitting machine you use, there are no special buttons used on the carriage. The scallop trim uses the hold function on the carriage- instructions for doing this on the Silver Reed are provided with the lesson on Picot and Scallop trim.
Yes, you can use whatever yarns and colours you have to hand. It's a perfect project for using chunkier yarns, highly textured yarns, hand knitting yarns and odds and ends from your stash.
This little hanging would probably have taken me around 30-45 minutes to knit had I not been filming. It's a lovely little size to knit, but you can make the hanging as large or small as you like. Depending on which techniques you use, what yarns and how much of the backing fabric you want to cover, it'll take more or less time.
Yes, if you have a question please feel free to email me, I work part time whilst looking after my two young children so it may take a couple of days to get back to you. Thank you for your patience.
studio@amberhards.co.uk
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