Meet Romi Hill, Knitting Instructor With Craftsy

Romi Hill is the owner of Designs by Romi founded in 2005 after getting hooked on lace knitting. Things grew from there; and these days she's teaching and designing knitwear.

In Romi's class:
What You'll Learn

- Fundamental lace-knitting skills: How to read lace charts, cast on, use stitch markers and add lifelines
- The importance of swatching and blocking when knitting lace, and how to do them both correctly
- Tips for easily placing beads, and what to do when you forget one or want to remove one after the fact
- The clever bellybutton cast-on
- How to transition from working in the round to working flat as your shawl grows its "wings"
- How to bind off and create delicate decorative edges using crochet chains made on your knitting needles

What You'll Make

- Romi Hill's exquisite V-shaped lace shawl, "Fiori Autunnali"

What You'll Love

- Mastering the use of lace charts as you work on this shawl, adding a valuable skill to your knitting repertoire
- Learning the ingenious bellybutton cast-on and other inventive techniques
- Interacting with your instructor, lace knitwear designer Romi Hill, as well as your classmates
- Downloadable class materials that include full written and charted instructions for "Fiori Autunnali"
- Learning time-saving and project-saving tricks from an instructor who has seen it all!
- Anytime, anywhere access from any web-connected Internet device, allowing you to take the class on your schedule