Mini Workshops (60 – 90 min) Blocking: How To Block Your Cabling Without a Cable Needle Garment Perfectly! Class Length: 60 or 90 min session Class Max: 20 Class Length: 60 or 90 min session Required Skills: Must know how to knit and purl. Class Max: 20 - 60 Required Skills: None Who says you need a cable needle to cable! Ditch the needle and see how fast your cabling can be. It’s Why spend all that time knitting a garment, only to stop especially great for Continental knitters who find their short of making it look great! Blocking is an essential own yarn getting in the way of their cable needle. See part of finishing your garment off perfectly. Blocking how easy this technique can be and how FUN cabling evens out your stitches, sets your size, and in some cases can be! can even mask your mistakes. In this workshop we will go over the three main methods of blocking (wet, steam Materials: Any smooth worsted weight yarn. Light and spray) and learn how to use all the tools such as colors are best and needle approprate to yarn. blocking boards and wires. We’ll also discuss blocking Homework: unusual shapes, special stitch patterns, as well as learn a CO 18 stitches bit about different fiber properties. Come on, don’t stop - Row 1 & 3 K4, p2, k6, p2, k4. short of the perfect finish! - Row 2 & 4 : knit the knits, purl the purls NOTE: The 90 minute version includes axis cable. Skill Students will learn: 3 blocking methods, blocking all shapes Materials: None Chart Your Course! NOTE: Can be done with samples in a smaller group, or Class Length: 60 or 90 min session as a power point to a larger group Class Max: 25 Required Skills: Should have experience with pattern Build a Better Buttonhole reading. Class Length: 60 or 90 min session A picture is worth a thousand words, and it takes up less Class Max: 20 space! Sometimes you just want to work off a chart, but Required Skills: Must know how to knit and purl & the pattern doesn’t always provide one. A chart is know simple increases and decreases. particularly helpful when you have to shape a garment in lace or cables. Learn how to write out your own charts There are so many buttonholes out there, why stick to by hand. We will go over the symbols for lace and the pattern! We’ll explore eyelet buttonholes, one and cables. two row buttonholes, and we’ll go over some nifty tricks to get rid of those nasty gaps that make a typical Skill Students will learn: Basic chart writing skills buttonhole look lopsided. Learn how the perfect Materials: graph paper and pencil buttonhole can add polish to your garment. Homework: None NOTE: The 90 minute version has a section on Skill Students will learn: multiple buttonholes decreasing in pattern Materials: Worsted weight yarn and appropriate needles. Homework: CO 12 stitches, work the first 5 stitches is seed stitch and the last 7 stitches in stockinette. Work for 4 rows, and leave on needle with yarn attached NOTE: The 90 minute version includes vertical buttonhole. Combination & Eastern Knitting Decoding the Chart! Class Length: 90 min session Class Length: 60 or 90 min session Class Max: 25 Class Max: 40 Required Skills: Should have experience with pattern If you’ve ever been told you knit “wrong”, or been asked reading. “what are you doing”, take heart . there are no wrong ways to knit as long as we control our stitches. Eastern No need to skip knitting a pattern just because it has a knitters work through the back loop to knit and to purl. chart. Learn how to love these amazing knitters helpers. A combination knitter works through the back loop to We will unlock the secrets of Lace, Cable, and Fair Isle knit, and the front loop to purl. Both styles have their charts, as well as discover the differences between flat pros and cons, and in both styles, simple adjustments and in the round charts. You’ll be a confident chart must be made to follow Western patterns, like how to reader in no time. knit in the round, and understand left and right slanting Skill Students will learn: Basic chart reading skills increases and decreases, and how to work twisted Materials: pencil and paper for note taking pattern stitches. If you are a Western knitter, then learn Homework: None the amazing advantages to these two unique knitting NOTE: The 90 minute version has mosaic chart reading methods and how and when you would combine them with your own. Intro to Portuguese Knitting Skill Students will learn how to understand the Class Length: 90 minutes combination and eastern knitting methods. Class Max: 20 Materials: Any worsted or chunky weight, non splitty yarn. Whatever needle works with your yarn Come add another knitting tool to your knitter’s tool Homework: (Optional) CO 20 stitches belt! Many folks know you can hold your yarn in your NOTE: There is a three hour full class that includes right hand (English) or your left hand (Continental), but increases & decreases & the Norwegian Purl. what about over your neck? Learn this ingenious way to knit known as Portuguese, Andean, Bosnian or Andean. Continental Knitting The yarn is held around your neck or over a knitting pin and everything is done with a tiny flick of the thumb. Class Length: 90 min session You’ll love the economy of movement and the perfectly Class Max: 20 even tension (no more lose sloppy purl!). Required Skills: Must know how to knit, purl, cast on, bind off. Skill Students will learn: The Portuguese knit, purl Materials: worsted weight or chunky yarn, needles Continental knitting is a wonderful way to knit efficiently appropriate to yarn. and with great economy of movement. Because the yarn Materials Fee: $8.00 for knitting pin and handout is held in your left hand, it is also more comfortable for Homework: Cast on 20 stitches many crocheters or left handers. We will cover the basics NOTE: The three hour full class includes increases, of the knit, purl, alternating between them, and decreases, and alternating between knits and purls. introduce you to basic increases and decreases. If you are a thrower, it’s also great to be able to work more than one style for techniques such as fair isle and Joining New Colors (or Yarn) Like a knitting in the tail of your yarn! Come add another knitting tool to your knitter’s tool belt! Pro Class Length: 60 - 90 min session Skill Students will learn Master the continental knit and Class Max: 25 purl.. Required Skills: Must know how to knit, purl, cast on, Materials: Any worsted or chunky weight, non splitty bind off yarn. Whatever needle works with your yarn Homework: (Optional) CO 20 stitches Everyone has to join a new ball of yarn eventually. Break NOTE: There is a three hour full class that includes out of the old “tie one on” method and explore the many increases & decreases. wonderful ways to join. We’ll explore when it’s best to join at the start of a row v.s. the middle, look at several fantastic tricks like the intarsia join for vertical striping, knitting in your tail as you go and the super cool felted join. Skill Students will learn: A variety of joining methods Materials: 2 colors of 100% non superwash wool, needles appropriate to yarn, scissors, darning needle Homework: CO 12 stitches, work in Stockinette for 4 rows ending with a WS row (ready to work a RS row) NOTE: 90 min version includes the Russian join Lace SOS – Fixing Mistakes without Perfect Body Measurements! Starting OVer Class Length: 60 - 90 min session Class Max: 12 - 24 Class Length: 60 – 90 min Required Skills: None. Class Max: 20 Required Skills: Must know K2tog, YO, SSK, M1, SK2P, Before your can knit your dream garment, you need to S2KP, KFB and follow them in a pattern without know what size to make. In order to know what size to supervision. Intermediate. make, you need to have your measurements! We will pair up and learn how to get proper measurements Have you ever tried fixing your lace and made a way taken. Everyone in class will leave with their filled out bigger mess? Learn how to “tink” or un-knit increases personalized measurement sheets! and decreases w/o losing a stitch. Fix common mistakes in lace such as a missing YO or a K2tog three rows down. Skill Students will learn How to take their You have the power to fix without frogging! measurments. Materials: Paper, pencil, tape measure, two straight Skill Students will learn Fix mistakes in lace needles, scrap yarn long enough to wrap around your Materials: Light colored worsted weight yarn or chunky waist yarn (14 – 16 stitches per 4”) NO NOVELTY OR Homework: None. TEXTURED YARN, needle appropriate to yarn, double NOTE: 90 min is recommended for groups over 12 pointed needle or Circular needles 16 or 24” appropreate to yarn, crochet hook H, I, J, or K or hook appropriate for your swatch, stitch holders Resize a Sweater with Gauge Homework: CO 24 stitches work in stockinette for 12 Class Length: 60 minutes rows Class Max: 20 - 60 Row 13 (RS) K1, YO, K2, SSK, K2, K2tog, K2, S2KP, K2, Required Skills Basic knowledge of gauge. SK2P, K1, M1, K1, KFB, K2 (21 st) Have you ever fallen in love with a pattern, but you want Row 14 (WS) Purl to use a different yarn, or you just can’t get the gauge.