Week 1 - socialist fist and template

Week 1 and we’re starting with the socialist fist.

Each of the Kindness Cardi panels will require 36 stitches and 48 rows.

This will work up into a square when slightly stretched. I’ve got a fancy blocking board for this but you don’t need one. More about that in future months!!

When reading the patterns, these are just colourwork patterns. You’ll need to know how to cast on, knit, purl, change colours and cast off. YouTube is a beautiful thing, there are plenty of tutorials on how to do all of those there.

When reading the patterns, you start at the bottom. All knitted rows are read from right to left, the purl rows are read from left to right. So you snake up the pattern as you go.

Feel free to work the panel in whatever colours you like, and you can do it twice if you reverse the colour choice to your feature colour is then the background colour and visa versa.

As promised, here is the template if you’d like to try designing yourself.