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Workshop descriptions:
(All workshops are 3 hours in length unless otherwise stated)
 


General Interest Workshops

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1. NO MORE UGLY SWEATERS! Color Workshop. (Alternate name: Explore Color
Harmony).
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2. EASY CROCHET EMBELLISHMENT AND EDGINGS
3. TOP TEN KNIT TIPS
4. FINE FINISHING
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5. CHANGING THE NUMBERS. Knitting math for knitters with math-phobia.
You'll adapt a basic sweater pattern to a different yarn weight and gauge.
6. SEAMLESS TOP-DOWN TOPS
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7. S.P.C.S. (SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO SWEATERS). Learn some
quick fixes and creative solutions to common knitting problems.
8. SLIM STASH REDUCTION PLAN . Change your stash from a source of guilty
pleasure into fabulous garments.
9. BEAUTIFUL BEGINNINGS, HAPPY ENDINGS. Knit a selection of treatments
that can take your garment out of the sweater chorus line into the
spotlight.
10. GETTIN' EDGY: SLIP STITCH EDGINGS AND TRIMS FOR COLOR KNITTING

Technique Based Workshops
11. COLLAR OBEDIENCE TRAINING. Learn how to make your collars sit,
stand, and roll over on your command.
12.. SHORT ROW SAVVY
13. JAPANESE SHORT ROW BUTTONHOLES
14. JAPANESE KNITTING TECHNIQUES - 6 hours
15 KNITTING IN THE SHADOWS. Shadow knitting is an easy color knitting
technique that gives impressive results.
16. JOY OF STEEKS
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17. HOOKED ON CROCHET. Learn why every knitter should have a crochet
hook in their knitting kit (even if you never intend to crochet!). May
be taught as 3 hours or full day (6 hours).

Project Based Workshops
18. SHAWL WE DANCE? You'll knit a mini-size butterfly-shape triangular
shawl in class (see photo of Swallowtail Shawl on my website).
19. HOLE-ISTIC LACE. Knit a bookmark and learn tips and tricks to make
lace knitting a "hole" lot more fun.
20. EYELET DIPSY-DOODLE SCARF. Knit an eye-catching scarf that meanders
its way around your neck in a dipsy-doodle U-turn path - full day (6 hours).

Modular Knitting Workshops
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21. HELLO DOMINO! AN INTRODUCTION TO MODULAR KNITTING. Knit mitered
squares, simple triangles and rectangles.
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22. PATCHWORK SHELLS
23. STRIP KNITTING
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24. ADVANCED MITERING. Learn how to knit complex mitered shapes,
equilateral triangles, rectangles, and 4-in-1 squares.
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25. DESTINATION: PURSE. Design and knit a mitered square purse - full
day (6 hours).

 

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