Registration Form

Name ______Address______City ______State _____Zip ______

Phone # ______Email ______Male  Female  Please list any food allergies or special needs ______Knitting Retreat Room mate/s ______September 27-29, 2013 ______Complete this portion, detach and mail with a check, made payable to Clara Masessa, for $170 ($180 if you Fellowship are doing the zip line) Fun Send to: Clara Masessa Kraemer PO Box 72 Nazareth, PA 18064

GPS Coordinates Latitude: (N) 41.23375 Longitude: (W) 75.30745

Cost: $170 (Includes all meals, classes) Things You Need to Know Location:

Class offerings Sleeping Arrangements Pocono Plateau Camp (Class size limited to 15 students)  Cabins are dormitory-style & Retreat Center Please number in order of pref-  Bunk beds (we are using bottom (www.poconoplateau.org) erence for each class period bunks only) PA-191 & Pocono Plateau Rd Saturday Morning What to bring Cresco, PA 18326 Hand Dying

 Sleeping bag or sheets & blankets Cables  Pillow Check-in Learn to Friday, September 27th  Wash cloth & towel Making Felted Balls 6:30 check-in  Learn Continental Soap & shampoo  Rain gear Free Time Leave:  Flashlight Sunday September 29th 2:00 p.m. Saturday Afternoon  Insect repellent Hand Dying

 Comfortable casual clothes There is time in the schedule for  Sturdy shoes (sandals must have back strap)  Relaxing A Bunch of Bind-Offs  Knitting needles in various sizes  Socializing Sampler Scarf  Warm outerwear (you are in the  Enjoying the camp facilities, in-

mountains where mornings & eve- cluding hiking and boating Learn to Spin on a Drop Spindle Free Time nings can get quite chilly)

Saturday evening will include some Optional After Class Activity show & tell, speed knitting and vari- here, Cut please send in this section with checkyour Zip Line ($10 extra payable with ous other fun activities and will be registration) followed by a campfire on the Dining Sunday Morning Hall deck overlooking the lake while Hand Dying feasting on s’mores. Any questions contact: Making Socks to Fit

Kraemer Shop Hat Tastic at 610-759-1294 Change is Good Intro to 2-Color Brioche Free time Class Descriptions FAIR ISLE LEARN TO SPIN ON A DROP SPINDLE Fair Isle is a technique used to add multicolored Learn to spin using a drop spindle. It is easy designs to knitting. Most fair isle uses two col- and fun. Purchase one of our drop spindles or ors per row of knitting. Practice knitting Ameri- HAND DYING bring your own. Roving will be provided. The can with right hand and continental with left technique is simple and easy to learn. You will be provided with 2 skeins of yarn and hand. Class will discuss how shaping is learn ways to create different effects as you add achieved with fair isle designs. Please bring a MAKING SOCKS TO FIT dye to your yarn. If time permits and you wish to size 6 16 inch length circular needle to Learn tips to help fit a sock to your needs. Bring dye more than your 2 skeins, you will need to class . Also bring Size 6 double points to double pointed needles in size 5-7 depending purchase any additional yarn. class. you will begin a fair isle hat (and maybe on how tight you usually knit. (2 circular needles finish it later in the weekend.) of same size also an option) CABLES Learn techniques needed to successfully add A BUNCH OF BIND-OFFS (Skill Level: Easy HAT TASTIC Basic knitting knowledge required) cables to your projects. Class will try simple and Learn to create a hat for yourself or someone Learn interesting, creative and playful ways to more advanced cables. Learn how to follow a else by taking measurement, doing a and Bind Off your Beautiful Knitting. Please bring a chart when knitting cables and tricks to take into creating your pattern. Bring a 16” circular nee- pair of knitting needles that you usually knit wor- account change in gauge caused by ca- dle in the size you normally use for worsted sted weight yarn with (Usually US sizes 7, 8 or bles. Please bring size 8 knitting needles & two weight yarn (usually a 7 or 6). If you wish to fin- 9, and a large needle). cable needles to class. ish your hat over the weekend, you will also

need double pointed needles of the same size LEARN TO CROCHET SAMPLER SCARF Here is your opportunity to learn how to crochet. We will be learning a collection of different stitch CHANGE IS GOOD It will prove very helpful to knitters since many patterns and incorporating them into a sampler Learn to CHANGE things in your favorite pattern patterns use crochet edgings or embellishments. scarf, (It is Not expected that you will finish this or bring a new pattern and your questions to this scarf over the weekeind). Please bring needles class. We will make the process of changing MAKING FELTED BALLS in the size you normally use for worsted weight things in your patterns easy. We will provide roving and the necessary tools to yarn (usually a 7 or 6) make a felted ball. You decide on the colors, INTRO TO 2-COLOR BRIOCHE(Skill Level: Ad- and what you want to use the ball for. A Christ- INTARSIA venturous Easy mas ornament (large) buttons (when you slice Intarsia is a method of knitting with multiple col- If you are eager and can suspend your knitting the ball) or small balls for jewelry. Just bring your ors that are NOT carried all the way across a knowledge for just a little bit, I can teach you the imagination. row like Fair Isle. We will be knitting in the magic of . We will learn how to

round, so bring a 16” circular needle in the size use 2 colors in a basic Brioche stitch to create a LEARN CONTINENTAL KNITTING you normally use for worsted weight yarn (most lovely reversible scarf. We will also learn how to Learn to knit by working the yarn with your left likely a 7 or 6). make increases and in Brioche to cre- hand. This type of knitting is typically faster and ate waves and endless stitch patterns in Bri- requires less movement with your hands. We oche. Please bring a pair of knitting needles a will learn different ways to handle the purl stitch size larger than what you usually knit worsted so that it is not twisted. Bring knitting needles weight yarn with (Usually US sizes 7 or 8 . you normally use for worsted weight yarn.