Welcome to our brand new classroom!
Classes
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, ...
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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.
- 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.
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Instructor: Anne Derby
Wednesdays: April 3, 17, and May 8; 5:45-7:45 pm.
Learn to knit socks with a simple free pattern, "Rye Light," by Tin Can Knits. "Rye Light" is knit from the cuff down on double pointed needles and features a simple rib, garter stitch ...
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Instructor: Anne Derby
Wednesdays: April 3, 17, and May 8; 5:45-7:45 pm.
Learn to knit socks with a simple free pattern, "Rye Light," by Tin Can Knits. "Rye Light" is knit from the cuff down on double pointed needles and features a simple rib, garter stitch and stockinette leg, and heel flap. In the first class, Anne will guide students through pattern reading, sock construction, and casting on; homework will be to knit through completion of the heel flap. The second class will cover the heel and gusset; completing the foot will be the homework. The final class will cover the decreases and kitchener stitch that close the toe.
Experience: Students should be comfortable knitting and purling; knitting in the round is helpful. Students should plan to complete homework (knitting) between classes.
Materials:
- "Rye Light," by Tin Can Knits - available as a free download from Ravelry
- Fingering weight sock yarn, 120-480 yards depending on what size you choose. The pattern has multiple sizes ranging from baby to large adult; reference the pattern for detailed yardage info.
- Double pointed needles in US size 1 (2.25mm) and 2 (2.75mm)
- Notions: one stitch marker, tapestry needle for kitchener stitching the toe.
- Masks are required in the classroom and in the shop.
- Refunds or store credits 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 or store credits for missed classes cannot be made.
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Instructor: Anne Derby
Wednesday evenings: March 6, 13, and 20, 2024, from 5:45 - 7:15 pm.
This is a class for anyone who wants to move beyond a flat piece of knitted fabric and who would like a warm hat that knits up quickly!
The "Fernhilll Hat" is ...
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Instructor: Anne Derby
Wednesday evenings: March 6, 13, and 20, 2024, from 5:45 - 7:15 pm.
This is a class for anyone who wants to move beyond a flat piece of knitted fabric and who would like a warm hat that knits up quickly!
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"Fernhilll Hat" is worked from the brim up, starting with a ribbed brim (we might modify the pattern to make it a twisted rib), followed by a texture stripe pattern; there should be yarn left to make a pom pom.
In this class, students will learn to knit in the round, read and knit from a chart, and use double pointed needles.
Experience: Students should be comfortable casting on, knitting, and purling.
Materials needed:
- 1 skein of Kelbourne Woolens Germantown Bulky (100% wool, 123 yards/100 gm)
- 16" US 8 (5 mm) circular needle
- 16" IS 10 (6 mm) circular needle
- a set of US 10 DPNs (double pointed needles)
- and other notions including a stitch marker, pom pom maker, and should you opt to do the crochet provisional cast on, some waste yarn and a crochet hook
Materials are available to purchase at the shop; we'll provide a print copy of the hat pattern!
- Masks are required in the classroom and in the shop.
- Refunds or store credits 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 or store credits for missed classes cannot be made.
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