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Workshop descriptions:
Crayon Box Jacket
Beyond Basic Buttons…And Other Excuses
for Playing With Yarn
Bridging the Gap: Knit Weaving
Deliberate Drops:The Many Benefits of Those Oops! Dropped Stitches
Finishing with Flair
Knitting Infirmary
Madly Plaid Vest
Stashology 201
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Fine Print:
Costs include fee and travel expenses plus any material or pattern fees. A two-day minimum is preferred. Fees and references will be provided upon request. Great fun and ideas guaranteed.
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Crayon Box Jacket
6 hours – Intermediate Level – Material Fee: Pattern
Learn how to knit a one-of-a-kind designer jacket in an endless combination of colors, fibers and textures. The ability to decrease and pickup stitches and a sense of adventure are the only requirements. The entire body is knit a square at a time but without any seams. The class includes sizing, choosing colors, the dos and don’ts of combining textures and fibers, style options, finishing tricks, care and more.
Beyond Basic Buttons…and Other Excuses for Playing with Yarn
2-3 hours – All Levels
Material Fee: $3.00 for supplies
Can’t find the perfect buttons? Great! Come play with yarn and discover there are many different types of buttons and closures you can create yourself for that perfect finishing touch. Covered, woven, balled, fringed, finger-cording knots and swirls—explore them all plus half a dozen unexpected closure options. You’ll even learn to rethink how and when to use basic buttons. Bring your sense of adventure.
Homework: One or two 4” x 4” swatches in the yarn of our choice.
Bridging the Gap: Knit Weaving
3 hours – All Levels
Material Fee: $3.00 for supplies
Description: Explore combining basic knitting and dropped stitches with the wonderful fibers and textures of novelty yarns, ribbons and more to create fabulous – and easy – wearable art and home décor. Adapt an existing pattern or create without – you are the designer!
Deliberate Drops: The Benefits of Those Oops! Dropped Stitches
3 hours – Intermediate Level
Description: Dropped stitches can be a wonderful asset, not a liability, in your knitting. This class will explore how to incorporate dropped stitches in traditional designs and how to rewrite patterns accordingly. We will also explore combining a wide mix of fibers, textures, novelty yarns and colors with dropped stitches to create fabulous artwear projects that will excite beginner and experienced knitters alike.
Finishing With Flair
3 hours – All Levels
Description: Even the most exquisite knitting can’t compensate for poor finishing. Learn the professional tricks of invisible seams, perfect buttonholes, stabilizing necklines so a garment doesn’t “grow” and “shortening” sleeves for that perfect “handmade”, not “homemade” finish. Hate picking up stitches to get the right number? You’ll learn how to stop counting and start enjoying the perfect number of stitches every time. It’s never to late to learn something new!
Knitting Infirmary
3 or 6 hours – Intermediate level
We all have one…the dream sweater that turned into a dud.
Bring your garment that’s too big/small/short/long, short of yarn or suffering from some other malady to the “Knitting Infirmary”. We’ll conduct ‘Grand Rounds’ together to assess the problem and determine treatment options. In addition to learning some quick and easy remedies we’ll practice techniques for some life-saving operations – from surgery (steeks) to suturing (knit weaving) – you can master to give your garments new life.
Madly Plaid Vest
6 hours – Intermediate Level
Description: The colorful Noro yarns that stripe offer a wonderful opportunity – and challenge – to make the most of the striping and try your hand at several fun techniques at the same time. We will create bear-size vests in class (won’t they be well dressed) with a crochet cast on, shaped points, and plaid without carrying colors, while knitting the whole vest in a tube to the shoulders. We’ll finish with a never-fail, no-machine steek for neck and armholes and I-cord bind-off for the edges. A great learning experience – and great results!
On the Edge and Over the Top: Edges and Extras that Make the Difference
3 hours – All Levels
Description: Bring out the full potential and “personality” of your garment with the right choice of edges and closures beyond basic ribbing. Learn minimalist and rolled edges, I-cord bind-off, finger cording, design-your-own buttons, frogs and more anything-but-ordinary ideas to make your garment unique.
Stashology 201
3 hours – All Levels
Description: Stashers Unite! An “adequate supply of yarn” is nothing to be ashamed of – it’s a true art and science. You already understand “archiving” (Stash 101), now explore “retrieving”, “feeding” and “creating” from your wonderful treasure trove. Learn to release your own creative powers to combine fibers, textures, colors, and weights to create many different types of “stash fabric.” Explore how to use your stash fabric to turn the ordinary into extraordinary. Recommended for stashers of all quantity levels.
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