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You Can Check out the Details in Our Brochure Here What’s Included? Lodging at the UMass Hotel and Conference Center All of your meals from the Thursday Night Welcome Dinner through Sunday Brunch with Keynote Speaker, Norah Gaughan Late-night knitting get-togethers with snacks, desserts, and cocktails, plenty of time to meet up with friends or make new knitting buddies, and lots of yarn to see, feel, and buy! Two days of classes on Friday and Saturday with some of the most talented knitting instructors WEBS Fall Knitting Retreat September 23rd - September 26th, 2021 Transportation to WEBS for an exclusive After-Hours Shopping Spree with WEBS Knitting Retreat is a weekend of Steve and Kathy Elkins on Saturday evening. fiber, friends, food and foliage! We’ll be Plenty of fun surprises throughout the retreat! welcoming knitters to the beautiful Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts for a weekend of classes, late-night knitting, after-hours shopping sprees, and more. If you’ve been waiting to make a pilgrimage to America’s biggest yarn store, now’s the time to make your move! Instructors Hotel UMass We have some of the most Enjoy cozy comfort and deluxe talented instructors sharing their accommodations at Hotel expertise this weekend! UMass, our home base for the weekend. Fabulous, fresh Alasdair Post-Quinn meals and snacks, nooks for Carson Demers knitting and a ‘late-night Shopping, Sponsors, and Swag Nina Machlin Dayton lounge’ with desserts, drinks, On Saturday night, you’ll enjoy a shopping Laura Bryant and a chance to knit and talk spree! You’ll have 2 super-special shopping Amy Snell knitting with those who Sherpas: Steve and Kathy Elkins of WEBS! (Team Teaching) Shaina Bilow & understand your fiber passion. The icing on the cake is that whatever you Keith Leonard buy, you will get FREE SHIPPING! And in case you can’t make a decision on Saturday evening, the store will be open to shoppers on Sunday, and again, FREE SHIPPING! Our sponsors will make your weekend as unique and luxurious as possible starting with giveaways and sumptuous swag bags. They will also be on hand Saturday night at WEBS with trunk shows, reps and designers ready to show you their most popular yarns and garments. Alasdair Post-Quinn Teacher Bios Alasdair is a computer technician in the Boston area that spends much of his spare time as a Keith Leonard knitwear designer. He is among those on the forefront of innovation in double-knitting. Keith gained a love for knitting at the age of eleven His books, entitled Extreme Double- when he joined a lunchtime knitting program at Knitting and Double or Nothing, document school in his hometown of Haworth, New Jersey. snapshots of his repertoire of esoteric After working at four major knitting stores in double-knitting techniques (as well as being Upstate New York, New Jersey, and New York City, guides for beginning double-knitters), but he is he realized there was no specialized service for continuing to develop techniques and apply them knitwear finishing. He took the initiative to start his to new designs. In addition to designing patterns, own business, called Knits All Done, a service for he also teaches workshops for all levels of double- knitters to outsource their knitted items for knitting experience. professional finishing. Keith’s expertise in finishing and knitting then led to requests from yarn shops and knitting guilds to teach his techniques. He now travels the country teaching classes while also selling his own custom Zen Yarn Garden, Three Irish Girls, Malabrigo and Koigu yarns and colors. He is also the American distributor for Soulwool, a hand-dyed Merino yarn from Israel. Laura Bryant Laura Bryant is a fine artist who founded Prism Arts in 1984, specializing in hand-dyed yarns and unique designs. She received a BFA from the University of Michigan concentrating in color and textiles in 1978. She has authored six books on knitting, writes and designs extensively for magazines such as Vogue Knitting, and can be seen Shaina Bilow on Knitting Daily as a frequent guest (now in re- Shaina is a passionate knitting instructor and runs only). She is well known for her energetic knitwear designer from Northern New Jersey. Her teaching of color and design and teaches regularly design aesthetic is modern and bold with a nod to at national and regional retreats, both classic knitwear with a feminine edge. Her patterns in-person and virtually. can be found in knitting magazines, as yarn company exclusives, and in her self-published collection. In a class with Shaina, you can expect a patient instructor, inspiring projects, simplification of tricky techniques, and happy knitting. Visit www.ShainaBilow.com to learn more about Shaina and follow her @Shaina.Bilow on Instagram. Teacher Bios Carson Demers Carson is a physical therapist, and the author and Nina Machlin Dayton publisher of, Knitting Comfortably: The Ergonomics of Handknitting. His passion Nina Machlin Dayton has been knitting and and experience in fiber arts combine with his designing, and teaching knitting and design, for over expertise in physical therapy and ergonomics to 45 years. Her first professional knitting job was back create a unique skill set that he eagerly shares with in the 1980’s when she did hand knitting for the fiber community He has taught throughout the couturier designer Joan Vass, and she has never US and internationally and is a frequent contributor looked back. She is a season 6 Knit Star and leads to several fiber and craft related publications. Visit the team that created and runs the annual Indie him online at www.ergoiknit.com. Design Gift-A-Long on Ravelry. A native New Yorker, she now lives in the beautiful Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts, with her family and cats, in an old Victorian house stuffed to the rafters with books, yarn, and all things vintage knitting, crochet, dressmaking, and millinery. You can learn more about Nina’s designs at: https://www.ravelry.com/ designers/nina-machlin-dayton or follow her on Instragram @ninamachlindayton Amy Snell Amy Snell is an instructor and designer with an eye for the unusual or unusually captivating. Her aesthetic focuses on color, contrast, and texture. She loves to explore unusual stitch patterns and clever construction in ways that are challenging but accessible. Her goal is to make complex Keynote Speaker concepts accessible and approachable for all knitters, while sharing tips that simplify and improve your process, whether you’ve been Norah Gaughan! knitting for several months or several decades! You can find her designs at Morehouse Norah will preview the Winter issue Farm, Lovecrafts, Ravelry and her website. of Vogue Knitting including behind the scenes stories, bring fall and winter samples to try on and talk about the upcoming issues planned for 2022. Classes Alasdair Post-Quinn Keith Leonard and Shaina Bilow (Team Teaching) Introduction to Double-knitting: In this workshop, Cast On and Bind Off with Shaina and Keith : Shaina you'll learn my 2-color cast-on for double-knitting, get Carson Demers comfortable with the techniques involved, then move and Keith will guide you through a collection of useful into colorwork. At the end of the workshop, you Swatchbuckling (all-day): Let’s bring improved cast on and bind of techniques. You will cast on with should have a motif swatch and be confident that you ergonomics to life in your knitting technique. We’ll Keith, knit a few rows, and bind off with Shaina. You can tackle a larger standard double-knitting pattern. swatch to improve your posture, comfort, and will learn when and why to use certain techniques efficiency. We’ll examine yarn tensioning techniques, over others, plus great tips for the cast ons and bind Two-Pattern Double-knitting: In this workshop and all phases of stitch creation first with simple then offs you are already familiar with. you’ll learn how to build, follow, and knit a two- more challenging swatches and stitches. We’ll also pattern double-knit chart so that you can make letters Increase and Decrease with Shaina and Keith: look at ways to add movement to knitting to avoid readable on either side – or even make two Learn the ins and outs of decreasing and increasing in stiffness and injuries caused by disuse. Class is completely different patterns. You’ll gain a deeper one wildly fun class with two fantastic instructors. appropriate for students who are comfortable with understanding of the structure of double-knit fabric Learn how to mirror decreases, work alternate basic knit purl stitches. Swatches of basic cable and and learn the possibilities (and limitations) of two- increases when your pattern calls for one you don’t lace patterns are also made in class. Stitch patterns pattern double-knitting, along with a very clean like, and get expert tips on reading shaping are provided in both charted and written formats. double-knit selvedge and a bind-off that mirrors the instructions in your patterns cast-on. Knitting Happily Ever After – Ergonomics for Sweater Seaming with the Finishing Masters: Join Knitters (all-day): Ever know a knitter who hasn’t Double-knitting Off The Grid: In this workshop, Shaina and Keith on a Sweater Seaming adventure! said, “Just one more row”? Me neither! I’ll bet they’ve you’ll learn a whole host of double-knit increases and Hundreds of sweaters have passed through the hands also complained of aches and pains while knitting. In decreases – you can use them for shaping later, but I of your instructors. Together, we will cover the three this class, you’ll learn how knitting effects the “fabric prefer to use them to make colorwork that almost types of seams you will encounter in every finishing that makes the fabric”- your body.
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