Lapwing Collar Video Class Kit

Name: Lapwing Collar Video Class Kit
SKU: 7213
Availability: InStock

Lapwing Hybrid Collar hand knitting design from Glamourie by Alice Starmore

Lapwing Collar patterncard knitwear design by Alice Starmore in pure wool Hebridean 2 Ply hand knitting yarn

Description

One Size fits all.

The Lapwing Collar Video Class Kit includes online access to 1 hour and 46 mins of video tutorials, a colour-printed patterncard with full instructions, and all the Alice Starmore Hebridean 2 Ply yarn required to make the Lapwing Collar in your chosen colours. In the video classes Alice takes you through the making of a Lapwing Collar, with comprehensive demonstrations of each step along the way. These tutorials are suitable for all abilities from beginner onwards.

It is shown here in three colour variations. The first has a Main Colour of Bogbean and Contrast 1 of Machair for the top layer of feathers and the neckband. The longer centre front and back feathers use Calluna as Contrast 2; Lapwing as Contrast 3; Strabhann as Contrast 4; and Corncrake as Contrast 5. The second, pale variation, has a Main Colour of Kittiwake and Contrast 1 of Pebble Beach, Contrast 2 of Conrcrake, Contrast 3 of Spindrift, Contrast 4 of Solan Goose and Contrast 5 of Driftwood. The third dark variation uses Kelpie for both the main and first contrast, with Storm Petrel for Contrast 2, Erica for Contrast 3, Limpet for Contrast 4 and Shearwater for Contrast 5. You can order the Lapwing Collar in a choice of our available Hebridean 2 Ply colours.

Click here for a digital shadecard of all Hebridean 2 Ply colours.

The Lapwing Collar is available as a Standard or Beginner Kit. The Beginner Kit contains 2 extra 25g skeins of Hebridean 2 Ply, one in Main Colour and one in Contrast 1. These will be used for making additional swatches and practice pieces. The instructions for these extra pieces are given in the online video tutorials.

Once your Lapwing Collar kit has been dispatched you will recieve an email with a username and password for our steek dot scot video tutorial website. You can use your personal login information to access the detailed Video Classes showing every part of the making and finishing of a Lapwing Collar. If you are buying this as a gift please get in touch with us beforehand as classes are linked directly to your order details.

£65.00 – £72.80

Kit Type

Main Colour

Contrast 1

Contrast 2

Contrast 3

Contrast 4

Contrast 5

Clear

Lapwing Collar Prospectus

International Delivery Information

International Shipping

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Orders up to £150 to a single address – Total Shipping £10

Orders up to £175 to a single address – Total Shipping £15

Orders up to £250 to a single address – Total Shipping £20

Orders up to £350 to a single address – Total Shipping £30

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Orders over £651 to a single address – Total Shipping £70

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Orders over £951 to a single address – Total Shipping £100

This scale reflects the fact that larger orders will go in separate boxes.

Please ensure that you check our DELIVERY INFORMATION page for full details.

UK Delivery Information

UK Delivery

Orders up to £100 to a single address – Total Shipping £5

Orders up to £150 to a single address – Total Shipping £7

Orders up to £250 to a single address – Total Shipping £10

Orders up to £350 to a single address – Total Shipping £15

Orders up to £450 to a single address – Total Shipping £20

Orders up to £550 to a single address – Total Shipping £25

Orders up to £650 to a single address – Total Shipping £30

This scale reflects the fact that larger orders will weigh more and will go in separate boxes. All of our UK parcels are sent by Royal Mail 1^st Class. Shipping times within the UK are 2-3 days on average.

Please contact us if you wish to make an order over the value of £650.

Please ensure that you check our DELIVERY INFORMATION page for full details.

Purchase Information

Our pattern-inclusive kits are made up in skeins of varying weight, according to the amounts required for each project. Every project on our website has been knitted here at Virtual Yarns, so we know precisely how much yarn is required to make them. Each kit contains that amount plus an extra 8 per-cent more yarn. This is enough yarn to knit a swatch and the project, PROVIDED THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOLLOWED FOR THE SIZE ORDERED. The extra 8 per-cent allows reasonable leeway for knitter error. Kits are made up by hand to order, and each yarn amount is carefully weighed.

The online portion of our Video classes and courses is accessed via our steek.scot website. You will need a computer and an internet connection to access the content. In the event of any or all of our Video Classes being discontinued we will continue to offer the online content for a year from date of purchase.

For further information, please check our PURCHASE INFORMATION page.

Washing Instructions

Please note that all of our yarns are supplied washed and therefore do not require to be washed or fulled after knitting, unless you have an accident. Generally speaking, your garments should not require cleaning/washing any more than a coat would.

All of our designs are made with 100% pure new wool yarns and should be washed either by hand with pure soap in hand hot-water, or in a front loading washing machine which has a specific wool programme using a small amount of non-biological detergent. We do not recommend the use of any fabric softeners or any additives that will remain in the fabric after rinsing.

If hand washing, dissolve a small amount of pure soap flakes – or if using a pure soap bar, grate the required amount – into hand-hot water. Ensure that the soap has thoroughly dissolved before immersing the piece. Use a gentle squeezing motion to wash; do not cause any friction by rubbing or scrubbing as this will cause the fibres to felt. Gently squeeze out the excess soapy water and rinse well in warm water. It is important to remove as much excess water as quickly as possible as the longer moisture is left in wool yarn, the more likely it is to shrink or felt.

The best method for removing water is to spin in a washing machine, but if you prefer to remove the water by hand then gently squeeze the piece to remove the main water load and then lay the piece flat on towels and roll up, squeezing out as much water as possible into the towels. You will have to use several towels and repeat the process to remove as much moisture as you can.

Alternatively, spin to remove the excess water. If using a top loading machine it is important to place the piece in a suitable pillowcase (white cotton is best) so that it does not wrap around the spindle and become distorted. For both top-loading machines and front-loading machines, it is vitally important to remove from the spinner as soon as it has stopped: otherwise the piece can become permanently creased.

In all cases, dry flat on towels away from direct heat/sunlight, and smooth gently into shape. You can place small towels – or even better, cut and finish old towelling into the garment shapes, such as sleeves etc – and place inside the garment so that the two layers are separate. This will greatly help speed up drying process.

For straight, dropped-shoulder pullover styles, a woolly board is an excellent method of drying as the garment is placed on the board and dried to size allowing air to circulate inside. The board can also be used for cardigans in this style so long as you tack the front bands closed using a strong cotton thread, which you then carefully remove once the garment has dried. Glove boards can also be used for gloves which will allow them to dry in perfect shape.

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Story

I designed the Lapwing collar with elements from the Lapwing, Raven and Damsefly designs in Glamourie. It is one of a group of collars that Jade and I created to demonstrate the dramatic design potential of the instructions provided in the book. You can find these collars all featured in the Flights of Fancy page of our Glamourie Techniques & Experiments section. We received a fantastic response to our collar experiments, including many requests from knitters who wanted step-by-step instructions for making the Lapwing collar, and so in response I did exactly that and launched the patterncard kit.

Since then many non-knitters contacted us to tell us how much they admired and wanted a collar, but felt that such an exotic and complex design was way beyond their skill level. So I have added a complete Video Class to this project, showing every step involved in making a Lapwing Collar, and to these knitters I offer the following words of encouragement ... a complex appearance does not always make a design difficult to knit.

The Lapwing Collar is a classic case of this truth. All you need is a real desire to make it and the willingness to take the time to learn – and enjoy! – the creative process of making something beautiful with your own two hands. If you have this motivation then the Lapwing Collar is within your grasp, even if you have never knitted a single stitch in your life. This collar is in fact an ideal project for everyone, from outright beginner to expert. Yes, it is composed of many component feathers – but a feather can be made in less than an hour and some take only a matter of minutes. This means that a novice can quite literally learn to knit by making some feathers. If you make an error then it will just be an error in a very small piece and you can practise until you can make all the feathers perfectly.

Once you learn how to cast on, knit, purl and cast off, you will find that all knitting is a matter of manipulating these very basic stitches in different ways. You will learn a great deal from making the Lapwing Collar and by the time you have made the first layer of long feathers you will be a long-feather expert. You will grow in confidence and then progress through to a whole variety of construction and pattern, including working stranded colour-knitting.

I will be with you all of the way and all of the time it takes you to make your collar. Jade has filmed me making one from start to finish and we have arranged the video clips so that you can easily find your place throughout your progress.

My aim is to ensure that you have a visual demonstration of every step along the way. If you are highly experienced then you will find this class helpful in understanding the detail of the collar’s construction and you will hone your skills as the project progresses. If this is the first time you have ever tried knitting, then you will be an expert by the time you have finished.

Alice