Registration Closed. Looking to write a book? Get your work published in a magazine or on a website? Get a job in the knitting industry? Melanie Falick will give you the inside scoop on communicating with editors and potential employers, writing killer proposals, creating a marketing platform for yourself, and setting yourself up for success overall.
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Registration Closed. Knitting lace is not actually difficult, but it doesn’t hurt to learn some useful tools for reading charts, keeping track of your stitch count, knowing which row comes next, and repairing minor lace errors. We’ll also discuss, but hope we never need, making major repairs to lace knitting.
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Registration Closed. If you have passion, you’re ALREADY an intermediate knitter! In this class we’ll tackle a potpourri of knitting tips, tricks, hints and lots of fun stuff! We’ll do some bobbles, some i-cord, some cabling and along the way learn tricks for starting new yarn, casting on, binding off, and other fun stuff.
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Registration Closed. Tired of teaching the same knitting classes to your knitting group, your local store, or wherever? Let me guide you through the process of creating a professional syllabus and individual lesson plans that are focused, innovative, and inspiring.
Think outside the box for class ideas and you will be guided through classroom management skills that will help you be efficient and on top of your game.
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Registration Closed. Colorful edging are easy ways to transform basic stockinette stitch projects into something fabulous with little time and effort. Prolific author and knitwear designer Kristin Nicholas' latest book Color by Kristin uses many different fun and inventive edge treatments to decorate many different kinds of projects. You'll learn several different colorful stitches to make fringed, sculpted, ribbed, loopy and sturdy edging on hats, mittens, pullovers, and cardigans. Kristin will give you many hints for professional finishing of edges. She will stretch your knitting skills so that you can become a more creative knitter. Basics: Not Required - All skill levels
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Registration Closed. Come join Susan B. Anderson for a toy knitting workshop from her newest book, Spud & Chloë at the Farm. Class attendees should bring their copy of the book to work on the "Mice" pattern during the class. There will be Spud & Chloë giveaways and gifts for students attending the class! Susan will be sharing essential toy-knitting tips and tricks, and holding small group demonstrations including:
Registration Closed. Lori Beitler and Susan Pestrichello will take the class through the trials, tribulations and excitement of developing Stitchuary.com, a new website that gives knitters year-round access to fresh-from-the-farm fibers. Through their own experiences, they will help would-be entrepreneurs to develop a better understanding of many of the unforeseen hurdles that await them as they attempt to start up their own companies. In addition, nationally recognized knitting designer Sunday Holm, who has published patterns and articles for several knitting sites and is one of Stitchuary.com’s featured designers, will guide participants through specific techniques and nuances in working with artisanal breed yarns. The project will include a designer pattern for which one limited-edition skein of Stitchuary.com yarn is used.
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Registration Closed. This seminar helps to explain the mysteries of yarn substitution. We’ll start with gauge, then cover the various weights of yarn (fingering to super bulky), discuss the relationship of weight to yardage and plies, and look at fiber and yarn characteristics that affect substitution (e.g. drape, elasticity, weight, halo). We will also consider color choice (including multicolored/variegated, ragg, multi-plied and other kinds of yarn) and walk through how to estimate yarn quantities. We’ll finish by walking through some real-life examples by selecting potential substitute yarns for real patterns from the pages of Vogue Knitting.
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