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Skill Stage 4
Course Overview

Advanced Distance learning Knitting course

Advance your Knitting skills and techniques with our Skill Stage 4 Knitting course. This course has been designed specifically for more experienced knitters who are ready to expand on the techniques they have previously learnt to discover their own unique artistic voice and expression.

Throughout your course you’ll be supported by our expert tutors who will aim to assist your personal development.  You will focus on conducting your own personal research, develop your skills, explore new ideas and ultimately form a collection of work at a professional level.

As a City and Guilds accredited course, this course is nationally recognised for its high standards of teaching, learning and assessment.

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Course Features

12 Modules

Work your way through 12 Knitting modules each designed to teach new skills and provide a better understanding of your subject.

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Advanced Skill level

For knitters with a lot of experience and ideally has completed our Skill Stage 3 knitting course.

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 2 years to complete this course. Each module takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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Course Details

This course consists of 12 modules which focus on getting students to develop their own style and designs, while giving students valuable professional practice. As a City and Guilds accredited course, this is a comprehensive online knitting course. Not only will you teach essential techniques, you’ll also enhance your own creativity and design skills.

Course Modules

There are around 410 hours of course content and materials split across 12 modules. Here’s what you’ll learn:

  • Self chosen design project: Students chose their own design projects
  • History of yarn production: Research, sampling and self made yarns
  • Research designers and makers
  • Sculptural techniques
  • Exploration of non traditional yarn usage
  • Explore different methods: Felting, mixed media, animal fibres
  • Advanced techniques: Giant needles, peg looms, dying techniques, study of silk fibres
  • Researching knitting from different geographical locations
  • Applique and finishing samples
  • Professional practice
  • Creation of own design and final assessment pieces

Delivery & Assessment

The course is supplied as a distance learning course where course materials and tutor assessments are delivered digitally and work is returned to your tutor via digital presentation.

Your coursework will be reviewed by your tutor and periodically by an Internal Quality Assessor, to ensure the appropriate quality standard is maintained. You will be provided with written feedback in a timely fashion (usually within 10 days) and, if needed, you will be able to re-submit altered work. You can contact your tutor at any time to request your work to date be reviewed and suggestions for future progress be made.

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Course Timescales

There is around 410 hours of course content/materials and it is usual for students to take between 6-8 weeks to complete each module. Students can take up to 2 years to complete, however it is up to the individual student how quickly they wish to return work to their tutor for assessment.

A six-month contingency is available, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation,  extending the course life to 30 months (2.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

This City and Guilds accredited knitting course is an advanced study programme aimed at knitters who want to enhance their skills and commercialise their work. 

Ideally students will have a lot of demonstrable knitting experience or must have previously completed our Skill Stage 3 course. At this level students will be able to continue developing personal research and technical skills to form a unique collection of work at a professional level. 

Courses at this level provide students with an opportunity to develop their own individual style, experiment with ideas and develop their technical skills to form a collection of work at a professional level.

If you haven’t previously completed a Level 3 or Skill Stage 3 course then please do check with us first before enrolling onto this course.

Courses at this level again include a Professional Practise module making them great for craft business owners. Whether you teach classes, run a craft store or sell your own products you’ll be taught valuable business and marketing skills including working to client briefs, establishing costing models and how to promote your business and services.

Our skill Stage 4 courses are also great for those with a business ambition. Our course includes an entire module called professional practise, which is aimed at getting you business ready. We teach valuable industry skills to really give you that professional, competitive edge.

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Graduate Story by Jan Lidgley, intermediate knitting course

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Jan Lidgley

“The course gave me the opportunity to try out some new skills which I would not have touched otherwise, such as dyeing yarn and cotton material, making clay and fabric buttons, creating tassels, and intricate knitting such as lace knitting with very fine lace yarn. Exposure to so many different techniques opened my eyes to the potential to incorporate some of them in my own projects.”
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A graduate story by knitting student Helen eWackers

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Helene Wackers

“I would highly recommend studying with the School of Stitched Textiles. If you are anything like me, with gazillion interests, a million started projects and no real sense of where to begin, this course will offer you structure and framework, without limiting your artistic desires.”
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Graduate Story from Claire Hannibal, Knitting Skill Stage 3

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Claire Hannibal

“My confidence in ‘just having a go’ has dramatically increased. I have learned such a range of skills – for example, hand dyeing, designing my own patterns, costing knitting commissions and specific tools to start my own business – all from being willing to have a go. Not everything worked out first time, however the course has taught me that patience and humility are as important as the needles and the yarn!”
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Studetn Feedback from Patricia McCarthy

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Patricia McCarthy

“When I enrolled on the course I thought I would just be knitting. I quickly realised that I was going to learn many different skills. Skills such as photography, the study of artists, the story of wool, dyeing, beading, and computer skills such as PowerPoint and design applications, to mention but a few.”
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If you wish to study with us you will need to enrol on enrolment day. 

We only open enrolment to new students every 3-4 months and only those that have previously ‘registered their interest’ will be invited to enrol. 

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