Steeking Demonstration
Brenda H. demonstrating steking Fiber Fest Riverton, WY September 2016 Saturday was a day filled with demonstrations, fiber, and friends. I had a lot of fun, and I learned something, too. One demonstration that I enjoyed was steeking in the round. Brenda had prepared a stack of samples for the attendees to try their hand at the technique. Thanks, Brenda for knitting all those samples. Brenda shows how she knits sweaters in the round and later steeks to add a button band or zipper. Brenda presented this demonstration at a previous Guild meeting, but I had another task after the meeting and missed it. I was thrilled to hear she was doing it again at the Fiber Fest. Brenda explained there are at least three ways to steek: using a sewing machine, crocheting over a row of stitches or hand sewing (backstitching on the stitches). We tried the crochet and hand-stitching during her presentation. Note the two by two rib on the samples. We stitched on the...