Instructor: Nancy Cavender

Saturdays: March 30, April 13 and 27, 2024; 1:00-2:30 pm.

Learn the basics of stranded colorwork or refine your technique as you knit Gudrun Johnston’s "Shetland Solstice" hat. While designed for Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift, any fingering weight wool will work, and we have many delightful yarns to select from. This 5-color hat is knit in the round with no more than 2 colors in each row. This class will focus on how to knit with 2 colors at once. We will also discuss reading colorwork charts, joining colors, catching floats, and darning in ends. In class, we will practice the German twisted cast on and making pompoms.

Experience: Students should be comfortable casting on, knitting, purling, and working in the round.

Materials needed:

• "Shetland Solstice" pattern, by Gudrun Johnston, available on Ravelry
• For practice during first class: 2 colors of yarn and appropriate-sized needles for working with that yarn
• For project: Fingering weight wool in 5 colors; we recommend Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift or Kelbourne Woolens Camper - look for color ideas on our blog!
• Needles: 16" US 2.5 (3mm), 16" US 4 (3.5 mm), and double pointed US 4 (3.5mm); or size needed to get gauge
• Notions: stitch markers, needle for weaving in ends

Materials available for purchase at the shop.

Class Policy -

• Masks are required in the classroom and in the shop.
• Refunds for pre-paid class registrations can be made only if we are notified at least two weeks in advance of the beginning of class.
• Missed classes will not be made up unless the instructor was unable to teach or the shop was unexpectedly closed.
• Refunds for missed classes cannot be made.
• We require a minimum of three students for each class; in the event that signups do not meet that minimum level, the class will be cancelled and we'll issue refunds for class registrations.