What is a Golden Ticket?

The simplest way to buy a place on The KNITSONIK System Course is to sign up for it on Teachable, and pay through the gateway there. However, you can also buy a Golden Ticket for the course: 

• if you want to gift a course place and have something shiny arrive in the post for your recipient.
• if you prefer to pay by PayPal (which is not activated in the KNITSONIK School payment gateway).
• want to shop KNITSONIK all in one place.
• want something shiny in the post especially for you.

How does the Golden Ticket work?

Your Golden Ticket will be posted to you in the mail by itself or as part of a larger order. On the back of the ticket, there'll be a unique coupon code that removes 100% of the course price in Teachable. You'll still need to go through the process of "buying" the course in Teachable, as this enrols you in the school as a student. However, you'll pay nothing there, because you've already paid for the course here. Once your Golden Ticket arrives in the mail, simply scan the unique coupon code using your smartphone (it's a QR code).

This will take you to the course with 100% of the cost removed. Once you click the big red ENROL FOR FREE button, you'll be enrolled and can proceed straight to the course. 

When you buy a Golden Ticket you will receive one golden ticket in a golden envelope with a golden seal. Like the Golden Ticket that granted access to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, this will take you to a world of joy and creativity: The KNITSONIK School - art school for makers.

What is The KNITSONIK System?

The KNITSONIK System is my flagship KNITSONIK course in which I show you how to translate everyday inspirations into stranded colourwork. Using videos and helpful lecture notes, and taking you through a real-time example, The KNITSONIK System brings to life the enabling process documented in my popular KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook. 

Although you can enjoy the course at whatever pace suits you, The KNITSONIK System has been designed to run across a six to eight week time-frame. This allows plenty of time for watching the videos and working on a magnificent swatch, building your confidence for stranded colourwork design. The rich curriculum takes you through the following curriculum: 

• Choosing an inspiration source
• Picking a representative palette
• Creating your first chart
• Casting on your swatch in the round (with a steek)
• Knitting an exploratory swatch, in which you investigate different creative ways of using stranded colourwork to speak to your inspiration source
• Cutting your steek
• Finishing and blocking your work

After these steps, three pattern templates are offered in the course notes from which you can make apply your own motifs and pattern ideas to a hat, mitts or legwarmers.

Enrolment provides access to 13 high-quality, carefully edited videos totalling over six hours of content; full support in the comment threads under tasks and via the Agony Aunt feature; and downloadable worksheets and templates to accompany each course task. At the end of the course, after completing all the tasks, you will receive a certificate of completion. You will have access to this enriching content for as long as you like. 

Read more about the course here.

To read about one participants' experience of The KNITSONIK System, see this blog post.