The SprangLady Subscription-2025- The Year of the Sprang Sweater
2025 The Year of the Sprang Sweater
(or shirt or vest)
You know how to make a sprang scarf or shawl. How would you go about making other articles of sprang clothing? How would a person make a sprang shirt or sweater?
Taking ideas from knitters, you might begin at the hem and work up to the neck, or you might begin at the neck and work towards the hem, or you might make several pieces and assemble them. That's the sort of thing we will do in The Year of the Sprang Sweater. We will explore diverse approaches to sprang shirts.
It is NOT expected that you make twelve adult-sized garments. What we hope to do is to show you the basics of the different approaches. Each month we will give instructions for a doll (or child) sized garment. We encourage you to go through the steps as there are a great number of shaping and finishing techniques. Indeed those shaping and finishing techniques in themselves make this year's subscription quite valuable. Should you find yourself captivated by a particular approach to a garment, and feel motivated to try an adult size garment, we will include explanations how to scale up the approach.
This subscription began early in COVID. My daughter noted that her friends could subscribe to monthly cross-stitch patterns or sock patterns or crochet patterns. She asked if perhaps there could be a monthly sprang pattern.
The subscription works like a magazine. You get a new pattern each month. You can also order "back issues" and get previous issues all at once.
While the 2021 subscription offered a peek into the variety of structures compatible with sprang, the 2022 subscription delved into sprang lace, and in 2023 we explored the possibilities with S&Z, in 2024 we looked at twining on a background of interlinking.
Here is a preview of this year's subscription, the Year of the Sweater.
Included in the subscription we will be available for a monthly sprang chat via Zoom, on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. There you can ask questions, and receive on-line support. You will also be able to meet others interested in sprang. The monthly Zoom chat will be arranged at different times of the day on a rotating cycle, to accommodate members in diverse time zones.
For those of you who missed signing up in January ... this is not a problem. Even if you sign up, in, say, June, you will begin with access to all the previous information, January through June's structures ... but you will have missed out on 5 months of Zoom meetings.
If you are comfortable with the basics of sprang, how to set up, how to work the basic stitches, how to read Carol's charts, and a finishing technique or two, then this subscription could be for you. Know that we will assume knowledge of
-flat warp sprang
-work at the top of the frame
(gives you mirror-image cloth at the bottom of the frame.)
-circular warp sprang
(warp set up going all the way around the outside of the frame)
-the interlinking stitch
(looks like the structure seen in chain-link fence)
-the interlacing stitch
(looks like woven cloth)
We will include brief written instructions on these and many related techniques as we get to them. You will find videos offering instructions on other shaping and finishing techniques. For those wanting more personalised help, we will be offering a classes on these techniques.