ROWAN CONNECT Autumn Term 2025
"Millett" - Sweater Fundamentals
with Kate Atherley

Join this five-session online Autumn Term Course to create your very own sweater, a beautiful unisex pullover designed by Martin Storey using Felted Tweed and Kidsilk Haze.
Whether this is your first time making a garment, or simply your first attempt at a seamed structure, "Millett" is an excellent project to begin with. This unisex design offers a wide range of sizes and can be customised in many ways to create your ideal style and fit: work broad or narrow stripes, add contrast-coloured edgings, or knit it all in a single colour; you can also adjust the body and sleeve lengths.
This five-session course will take you through the entire process, from choosing the right size and ensuring you’re using the correct needles, to reading and following the pattern, through to sewing up and finishing. If you’re nervous about making garments, this class is for you.
In each session, Kate will explain and demonstrate key parts of the pattern, provide guidance on the more challenging steps, and talk through customisation options, all with the aim of making the process easy and enjoyable, and helping you achieve exactly the result you want.
The class is structured as a knit-along, with plenty of time to work through the project. Kate will also share tips on how to get the most out of the sessions even if your knitting time is limited. All classes are recorded and available for a year, so there’s no pressure to keep up in real time.
Small classes with plenty of attention from your tutor will ensure that you make lots of progress each week. Classes are recorded so you can catch up on anything you missed and rewatch sections as many times as you like.
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Class Summary
Session 1
Choosing the size and determining if adjustments are required; a discussion of tension and needle size; casting on and getting started.
Session 2
Reading the pattern, working armhole shaping and starting neck shaping. On directional decreases.
Session 3
Finishing the necklines and shoulder, dealing with “reversing shapings”. Starting the sleeves, making adjustments in the length.
Session 4
Finishing the sleeves, working the shaped sleeve cap. The shoulder seams and neck edging, including picking up of stitches.
Session 5
Finishing: what “blocking” is and how to do it, seaming, including setting-in the sleeve. Darning in ends.
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Materials
Yarn for Millett. Note: We’ll cover how to choose the right size in the first class, so you may wish to wait until then before buying your yarn.
Please see yarn quantities for Millett here.
Needles – The pattern specifies 3.25mm & 4mm needles, but please also have needles in a variety of sizes on hand so you can experiment and get the correct tension.
Stitch markers – ring-style and removable
Tape measure and ruler
Scissors
Blunt-ended darning needle
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Dates and Times
Classes:
Wednesdays 7.00-9.00pm UK time
1st, 15th & 29th October
12th & 26th November
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Recordings
All classes are recorded and will be available to view on demand for 12 months.
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Price
£135
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