STITCHES South 2011 Classes
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Thursday 10:00 am - 11:00 am
No skills required Opening Day Spotlight (without Luncheon): The New World of Knitting according to Anna Anna Zilboorg
Thursday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
No skills required Opening Day and Lunch Anna Zilboorg
In her daily knitting, Anna draws on colors, patters, textures, and techniques from around the globe--Turkish socks, Latvian mittens, Austrian traveling stitches, Aran cables.

Using an approach she calls 'making on the fly', Anna builds strips of texture, connects them as she goes, changes color and pattern at will, adds embroidery, until she's created a splendid sweater, blanket, or vest. Whether the stitches have traveled from Armenia or Bavaria, via English stitch dictionaries or Japanese charts, they come together on her needles.

After a morning of inspiration and information, join your teachers for a speed-dating, meet-the-teachers luncheon.
Thursday 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm     SOLD OUT
No skills required Opening Day Luncheon: Teachers á la Carte  
A speed-dating, meet-the-teachers luncheon.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
503-3 Easy Cast-on Cornucopia J C Briar
Dozens of cast-on techniques exist: 1-strand or 2-strand; loose and flowing or elastic and springy; invisible or decorative. Review your options in this class, try variations on old favorites, and discover entirely new options. Best of all, gain the familiarity you need to choose just the right cast-on for your next project.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW     SOLD OUT
514-3 Intermediate Short Row Savvy Laura Bryant
Short rows, the act of working a partial row and then turning, offer amazing possibilities to both shape knitting and for stunning graphic effects. You will learn the mechanics of the "wrap and turn" necessary to avoid holes that form when work is turned in the center of a row. We will explore short rows with contrasting colors for visual design elements; to create flounces and ruffles; to place fullness where desired, as in bust darts; and to accommodate a need for longer lengths, such as in backs that tend to hike up.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
749-3 Easy Embed and Embellish: Felt, Stone, and Bead Jewelry Sharon Costello
Create stunning cuff-style bracelets that combine the contrasting qualities of soft wool felt with the hard shine of glass, stone, and metal. Learn the art of traditional wet felt making (no knitting) and a range of techniques for surface embellishment. Create 'settings' for treasured objects without stitching or glue. Add 3-D effects, surface embellishment, and attractive closures. Materials fee: $10
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
310-3 Intermediate Where Do They Get Those Numbers? Edie Eckman
Take the mystery out of those pesky math calculations required when designing or altering a sweater! Draft a basic sweater and discuss calculating yarn amounts, V-neck shaping, rates of increase/decrease, stitch pattern placement, and re-engineering a pattern.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
218-3 Intermediate Skirts For Every Body Candace Eisner Strick
Most knit skirts use a turned-down waistband with elastic. This creates a bulk right where most people don't want it! With Candace's unique new method you can banish that bulk. Also learn all the necessary techniques to knit a custom-fit skirt and sample some fun and flirty design options—from ruffles, to inserts, to hankerchief hemlines.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
207-3 Intermediate The Edge of Color Margaret Fisher
Colorful edgings are easy ways to transform basic stockinette stitch projects into something fabulous with little time and effort. You'll learn several different colorful stitches to make sculpted, ribbed, loopy and sturdy edging on hats, mittens, pullovers, and cardigans. You'll also learn some closure ideas including looped button loops and how to sew in a separating zipper.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
220-6 Intermediate Lining à la Chanel Jean Frost
Coco Chanel developed a special way to line her beautiful jackets. You will learn these lining techniques step by step. You will leave the class with the skills needed to line jackets in this manner. A lined jacket is a masterpiece and a joy to wear. Learn how to assemble, sew in a lining, and finish a jacket in the same manner in which Chanel couture garments are made. Get hands-on experience in lining and finishing your jacket like a pro!
Note: For your planning purposes class begins on Friday afternoon and continues on Saturday morning
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW     SOLD OUT
313-3 Intermediate Japanese Short Rows Susanna Hansson
Short rows are an elegant way to shape your knitting and are the perfect way to finish off shoulders and build collars that lay flat. Japanese short rows are done without using the wrap-and-turn. Although they are a little tricky to learn, 'stair-step' shoulder bind-offs will be a distant memory once you master this technique. Complete your short rows with an elegant Japanese bind-off.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
515-3 Intermediate Bead Knitting Sampler Betsy Hershberg
Expand your horizons by joining the ranks of happy knitters who have learned how to enhance their knitting with beads of all kinds. As you learn nine different methods to include beads in stockinette fabric, you'll create a wonderful sampler that coordinates with written instructions to provide the perfect take-home reference guide. We'll use large beads and worsted-weight yarn, so no worries about eye strain or managing tiny beads. This is the class in which to begin your adventures in bead knitting!
Materials fee: $2 (assorted beads).
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
732-3 Easy Knitted Carpet Bags Rose Ann Hunter
Learn to use leftover fabrics and yarns to construct a unique handbag. Try your hand at knitting with fabric. Also knit Shaker confetti using wool yarn as a foundation and working in fabric strips to create a plush bag. Different types of handles will be covered, 2 knitted and 1 a sewn shirred technique. Materials Fee: $5
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
647-3 Easy Stripe It Rich Melissa Leapman
Want to play with color? In this hands-on workshop, explore several interesting multicolor stitch patterns that are based on simple stripes. Using just one color per row, you'll create tuck stitches, drop stitches, and more. The techniques are easy, but the results are dramatic!
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
530-3 Intermediate Left Can Be Right For You! Kellie Nuss
Learn the basics of controlling your yarn with your left hand. We'll start with Continental knitting and purling, then take a trip around the world to survey knitting styles and innovations that make purling (and knitting) with the yarn in the left hand more efficient. Students will learn and try Norwegian purl, Eastern Combined knitting, and Portuguese Knitting.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
327-3 Easy Suitable Seams Judy Pascale
Explore a variety of techniques to seam garments with emphasis on producing a smooth, nearly invisible transition. Learn to select the best seam for joining particular stitch patterns and determine the precise location to insert the seaming needle for optimum results. Create the illusion that your garments are made in one piece!
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
116-3 Easy Basic Intarsia Techniques Sarah Peasley
Intarsia knitting creates a single layer of multi-colored fabric, as in Christmas stockings with a jolly Santa motif or a vertically striped sweater. Learn a variety of tricks to keep your intarsia knitting on track and (mostly) tangle free, including preparing your materials, reading a chart, weaving in ends, and mastering duplicate stitch.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
752-3 Easy Designing Your Own Felted Bag Debbie Radtke
Come to class with an idea of the type of bag or purse you would like to knit and felt. We will discuss the planning and pitfalls that go into creating your own felted bag. Topics covered include shape, yarn choice, straps, and felting.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
410-3 Intermediate Beyond the Rectangle: Fun Shapes for Shawls and Wraps Sandi Rosner
Shawls and wraps are fun to knit and lovely to wear. Learn to break out of the rectangular box and create shawls that hug your shoulders in the form of half circles, V-shapes, triangles and more. Practice creating curves and corners and learn the simple, intuitive geometry that underlies all these shapes.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
588-3 Advanced Cast-Ons Estonian Style Merike Saarniit
Firm, elastic, decorative. Any one or all 3 characteristics can be found in a variety of unusual yet functional cast-on techniques often used in Estonian knitting. We'll explore 1-color and 2-color braids, fringed, picot-edged, double-yarned, and doubled-stitch cast-ons, Estonian 'magic' cast-on, and see where best to use them.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
331-3 Easy Design Your Dream Sweater Leslye Solomon
This easy-to-understand class on basic pattern writing enables you to pursue your design ideas. Learn how to make successful changes to existing patterns for exactly what you envision. Learn the secrets to understanding your gauge which is the sample fabric of your project. Learn to predict how your sweater will change after it is knit. Learn specific body points to measure and how much ease to add using advanced, gauge information. Understand the secrets to shaping armholes, how they start, how much to decrease, and how long to make them. See how easy it is to shape any kind of neck to either create your own design or change an existing pattern. Learn how to measure certain parts of your arm to be able to write a pattern for the sleeves for any length and an easy-to-design, beautifully shaped sleeve cap to fit in that armhole you chose. Let's turn you into a sweater designer.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
595-3 Easy Round Up! 4 Ways to Knit in the Round Beth Whiteside
Circle the wagons! Explore ways to knit round and round, from the standard circular and double-pointed needles to the revolutionary 2-circulars and Magic Loop methods. We'll practice each technique while working a neckwarmer; when class is over you can use your favorite method to work the matching fingerless mitts at home! We'll also touch on joining tips, converting directions from flat to circular and working stitch patterns in the round.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW     SOLD OUT
333-3 Easy Freeform Fun: Knitting and/or Crochet Myra Wood
Come spend a few hours immersed in pure creativity with Myra Wood. She'll take you on a fiber adventure into the wonderful world of freeform knitting (and crochet). You'll discover endless ways to combine various knitting and/or crochet stitches and techniques to create unique fabrics and art-to-wear items. Color, texture and design will all be explored during this inspirational process. All you need are very basic knitting and/or crochet skills. Come prepared to play!
Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW     SOLD OUT
357-3 Intermediate Knit to Fit Kathy Zimmerman
Not sure how to adapt that beautiful sweater pattern you love to fit your body? Kathy shares professional designer tips and her 'worksheet method' for getting a custom fit worthy of your time and effort! Now you can make it your own!
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
606-3 Easy Entrelac Basics Gwen Bortner
Have you always wanted to learn entrelac but thought it would be too hard? Whether a beginner or advanced knitter, this class is for you. During this class, each student will have the opportunity to knit a small project to gain hands-on experience in the entrelac technique. Participants will learn the seamless entrelac technique and basic entrelac construction. Hints and tips on the fine points of entrelac, a discussion of other project possibilities and an overview of knitting in both directions will also be included.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
504-3 Easy Charts Made Simple J C Briar
A chart takes the place of written instructions, telling you which stitches to work. But a good chart does so much more, showing you what the knitted fabric should look like. Learn to read charts, to make sense of their symbols, and to use them to keep your knitting on track and minimize mistakes.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
443-6 Intermediate Fair Isle Tams Beth Brown-Reinsel
This Fair Isle class is for knitters who would like to venture into two-color knitting but haven't had the chance. A small tam comprised of ribbing, a border pattern area, and the wheel area will be knitted on double points or a circular needle, in four colors, although never more than two in a round. Techniques included in the workshop are: knitting with a color in each hand, weaving yarns to reduce snagging, reading tam charts, knitting traditional peerie, border, and wheel patterns, and shaping and finishing of the tam. The class will end with a discussion of designing a tam.
Note: Must be proficient with double-pointed needles, two circulars or Magic Loop.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
102-6 Intermediate Color for Knitters Laura Bryant
Color brings life and excitement to our knitting, yet many feel uncertain about how to approach color. Although the human eye is capable of discerning over three million distinct colors, most of us have untrained eyes. Learn about color from an artist's perspective and begin a journey that will open your eyes. Color effects are presented in tangible visual terms that illustrate why colors work or don't work together. While a basic understanding of the color wheel is useful, this class will not present the usual wheel-based formulas. A new way of sorting color and seeing relationships becomes the basis for exploring color through several simple yet clever hands-on knitting techniques. Laura's favorite axiom: You don't get WOW by doing the expected!
Materials fee: $5 for yarns.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
202-3 Intermediate Joy of Finishing Christine Bylsma
Learn the joy of sleek shoulder lines, invisible seams, picking up the perfect number of stitches without counting, beautiful buttonholes, 'shortening' sleeves, taming sleeveless armholes, and other finishing touches. If it is worth knitting, it is worth finishing beautifully.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
308-6 Intermediate Custom Fitting Existing Patterns Lily Chin
Many patterns are available, but often you want to change the neckline, lengthen the sleeves, etc. Find out how to personalize the fit of a pattern for yourself or those you knit for. See how small alterations can make a garment hang better. Learn easy alternatives to drop shoulders. These simple refinements don't require extensive pattern re-writes but produce great results.
Note: This class does not cover extensive pattern sizing and fit alterations.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
359-6 Advanced How to Say it: Technical Writing for Knitters and Crocheters Edie Eckman
If you have a design you'd like to get published or to share, you need to be able to write it so others can understand it. Learn how to craft a well-written pattern and avoid common mistakes. Study ways to balance the needs of different audiences and skill levels. Explore the joys and pitfalls of describing a number of different sizes. Pick up tips for getting your designs accepted for publication. Go home with a pattern template you can use.
Note: This is NOT a pattern drafting (number crunching) class but a class in technical writing.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
541-3 Intermediate Tradition! Candace Eisner Strick
Tradition can be as precarious as a fiddler on the roof, but when you know a few traditional techniques and styles, you can make a plain sweater sing. Learn the Channel Island cast-on, Fair Isle corrugated rib, Latvian braids, Shetland Lace, and Norwegian lice.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
421-6 Intermediate 2-at-a-Time Socks on 2 Circulars Cuff-Down Antje Gillingham
Practice the anatomy of a sock in sections and get comfortable knitting socks two at a time on two circular needles from the cuff down. No more counting rows or experiencing the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome! And while we won't be able to finish a complete adult pair of socks in one day, we will have a lot of fun during this innovative workshop and by the time you get back to your hotel room, you will be ready to apply your class pattern and cast on your very own awesome pair of 2-at-a-time socks.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
404-6 Advanced Lapland Hand Garments Susanna Hansson
The mittens from Rovaniemi feature an unusual zig-zag-like pattern that appears only on the top of the mitten while the palm-side is plain?they are not for the faint of heart. Begin by practicing the technique with worsted weight yarn, learn a clever way of keeping track of many small balls of yarn, and how to keep them from getting tangled. Your class project is a pair of wristlets using the mitten pattern technique and it will have you using 11 small balls of pattern colors plus the main color.
Materials fee: $17
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
733-6 Easy Knitted Rugs Rose Ann Hunter
Take yourself back to the 1800s and learn to turn scraps of yarn and recycled fabric into folk art. Knitted rugs start small with strips, blocks, and wedges. Knit garter stitch shapes in both yarn and strips of fabric. See how easy it is to make coiled, corded, washboard, oval, heel print, starburst, and heart-shaped rugs. You'll be ready to knit your own heirloom. Materials fee: $5
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
598-3 Advanced Make It Another Gauge Barbara Kerr
How many times do you like a sweater but not in the gauge written? Swatches and simple calculations are the necessary components for refiguring gauge. In this class you will use patterns from a magazine and learn to refigure the gauge and rewrite the pattern.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
519-6 Easy Embraceable Lace Galina Khmeleva
If just the sight of lace-weight yarn causes you to break out in a rash, this introductory class is for you. Galina will unravel the myths and mysteries about knitting lace. Learn to create an individualized lace project.
Materials fee: $5 for class samples.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
314-6 Intermediate Complete from the Neck Down Barry Klein
Cast on and create a miniature sweater from the top down while learning about body style, measurements, the mathematics behind the knitting, and putting it all together. During class there will be time to play with yarns, stitch patterns and see how all of the pieces come together in one piece that requires “no” finishing at all. Relax, have fun and see it all come to life before your eyes and in your own two hands.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
319-3 Advanced Fully Fashioned and Fabulous Melissa Leapman
It's all in the details! Explore fun and easy ways to work garment shapings with style and finesse. Discover designer tricks that use full-fashion techniques for figure-flattering results.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
716-6 No skills required Nuno-Felted Scarf Judy Pascale
Use an ancient Japanese art form to create a featherweight, contemporary, Nuno-felted scarf that drapes beautifully. Coax fibers to easily penetrate a piece of silk, and the result is a highly-textured accessory scarf. You will also learn to accent this scarf using hand-dyed silk hankies.
Note: Must be able to stand for much of the class. Materials fee: $10 for rovings and $15 for a hand-dyed silk scarf.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
328-3 Intermediate A Well-Executed Sleeve Cap Sarah Peasley
Learn how to design an armhole to fit YOUR body, then pick up and knit a perfect set-in sleeve from the top down with no unsightly seams! Bonus: use short rows to shape your sweater shoulders neatly and avoid those nasty stairsteps!
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
718-3 Easy Needle Felting on Knits Debbie Radtke
This fun, hands-on class introduces you to needle felting as a way to embellish your felted purses, totes, slippers, or other projects as well as items you may never have considered for needle felting. No water, no heat. Just fiber, felting needle and lots of fun. Materials fee: $10 for felting needles, fleece, and foam.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
618-3 Advanced Fiendishly Difficult Stitches Merike Saarniit
Yes, these are stitches for the adventurous knitter! Explore unusual stitch manipulations that create exotic fabrics. We'll look at what can designate a stitch as 'difficult' and find ways to understand and create those stitches efficiently.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
511-3 Intermediate Turn Mistakes and Mishaps into Knowledge and Experience Leslye Solomon
Mistakes — we all have made them. Some are very obvious from the beginning; when your stitches accidentally fall off the needle, a single or multi-row dropped stitch in stockinette stitch, garter stitch or seed; a knit where you should have purled; a cable in the wrong direction, a lost yarn-over; and more. Through practice in this class, you will be able to fix a list of common mistakes possibly avoiding the need to start over or throw a garment away.
Some mistakes insidiously get noticed after the sweater is finished, because there was more information to be learned in that swatch you unraveled. Know the information which can help you avoid the problems of stretching or growing, and/or shrinking. Think of that sweater you once made and choose to not wear. This important class promises to arm you with the best information to prevent and fix a variety of mishaps and disappointing results that appear immediately or long after the garment is complete. Instead of consequences being your teacher, this problem-ending class will arm you with techniques to turn you into a confident, successful, target-oriented, and fearless knitter.
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW     SOLD OUT
352-3 Intermediate Creative Knitting: Crazy Quilt Style Myra Wood
Learn how to design and knit in different directions to make a unique fabric based on an overall template rather than a specific pattern. A basic template will be provided to make a pillow or purse but you'll learn how to make your own clothing templates as well. Learn to combine triangles, squares, and rectangles to fill your shape like a jigsaw puzzle or traditional crazy quilt. We'll discuss how to knit shapes to exact sizes, ways to join as you go, and finishing and embellishing to complete your wearable work of art. You'll never look at your knitting (or your stash) the same way again!
Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW     SOLD OUT
534-3 Intermediate Freesole Socks Anna Zilboorg
For avid sock knitters: this new construction makes possible stranded socks with plain soles and socks with different yarns on the soles, insteps and tops. But its greatest advantage comes later, when the sock has developed a hole. Any part of the sole or heel can be easily removed and reknit. The socks begin with a 2-part toe (pick-up shaping on chain technique), continue up the instep in pattern (2-handed-backwards technique), then work the sole, attaching as you go and shaping a gusset (strip-joining technique). Finally turn the heel, pattern it, join the front, and knit up the leg. All this, making a sock large enough to store quarters in in your car.
Note: Must be comfortable working with DPNs and 2-color stranded knitting.
Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
596-6 Advanced Create-A-Cable Kathy Zimmerman
Cables add textural interest and beautiful detail to the most basic knitwear styles, while engaging your mind in a uniquely creative way. Kathy shares 'trade secrets' for creating new cable combinations seen on the pages of Knitter's Magazine. Need to be able to read and be familiar with working from stitch charts, particularly cable patterns.
Friday 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
No skills required Free Entrelac Presentation Gwen Bortner
Enter the world of entrelac with the author of XRX's latest book, Entree to Entrelac. Gwen Bortner shares her passion, inspiration and intrigue with this often misunderstood technique. See project details larger than life up on the screen as Gwen explains the unique construction details of this surprisingly simple knitting technique. Be inspired by the many projects found between the covers whether large or small, simple or complex, traditional or innovative, there is something for everyone. Gwen takes a fresh look at entrelac, come see what all the excitement is all about.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
347-3 Intermediate Slick Set-in Sleeves J C Briar
Set-in sleeves give a sweater a crisp, tailored look. And for easy knitting, you just can't beat sleeves knit from the top down. Pick up stitches from the body, shape the sleeve cap with short rows, and avoid the bulk of a seam and the fuss of easing a sleeve cap into an armhole. Learn to adapt an existing pattern to this approach or to design according to your measurements.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm     SOLD OUT
203-3 Intermediate Eight Empowering Edges Christine Bylsma
Ribbing and garter stitch are usually reliable choices for edges, but not all edges are equal. Learn eight hard-working edges that empower you to create beautiful, professional details; provide the control needed and give the option of making your own design decisions.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW     SOLD OUT
750-3 Easy Farmyard Friends: Needle Felted Animals Sharon Costello
Learn the art of needle felting while creating a miniature sheep or goat. You'll create an armature and sculpt the 3-dimensional forms in wool. Once you've learned a few basic techniques (such as how to choose the appropriate fiber, what the different size needles are used for, how to get smooth, firm shapes out of wool) you can go on to create any kind of animal! Materials fee: $5
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
540-3 Easy Thumbing the Purl Candace Eisner Strick
Most knitters can master the knit stitch in continental knitting, but the purl stitch poses a greater challenge. Learn to use your thumb in this effective and quick method of purling continental.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
512-3 Intermediate Long and Short of Knit Alterations Margaret Fisher
You've finished your sweater, but the sleeves are too long or the body is too short. Learn how to fix these common fit problems after-the-fact. In this class, you will cut your knitting, and learn how to alter the length of a garment piece. Practice cutting and unraveling in the middle of a knitted piece, knitting down or up from there, and grafting stockinette stitch and garter stitch. Learn a number of strategies for achieving a good fit without re-knitting. And, in the end, learn how to avoid all of this by using a provisional cast on. Bring a sweater to class for discussion of lengthening or shortening strategies.
Note: Class focus is on lengthening and shortening sweaters knit from bottom-to-top (or top-down), not on width problems in sweaters knit from bottom-to-top.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
406-3 Advanced Betsy's Beaded Bag Betsy Hershberg
Expand your bead-knitting techniques while making a mini-version of this beautiful Byzantine Gold evening bag from Knitter's Magazine Summer 2007. We'll work a versatile, bead-knitted cast-on and bind-off you can also use to make straps, belts, and jewelry or embellish knitted projects of all kinds. You'll also learn an easy new technique for weaving beads into a project AFTER the knitting is complete. Get a fabulous, bead-knitted look without pre-stringing or stopping your knitting to place individual beads!
Materials fee: $20.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
517-3 Intermediate Professional Looking Cuffs Using the Magic Cast-on Barbara Kerr
Learn to knit professional looking cuffs and hems without crochet hooks or waste yarn. Class begins by learning Judy's Magic Cast-on and proceeds to knitting in the round to learn first hand what a beautifully-tensioned invisible cast can look like. Next we work a hemmed cuff, both plain and picot without waste yarn or sewing down bulky edges. Finally, create the professional and tidy tubular cast-on in 1 x 1 and 2 x 2 rib, again without waste yarn or a crochet hook. These memorizable techniques will be your new "go-to" skills for provisional starts and for sweater, hat, and mitten cuffs.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
604-3 Intermediate Celtic Cables Melissa Leapman
Learn how to use basic cabling techniques to create Celtic-inspired knots, panels, and motifs. These special designs include unusual circular elements rather than the typical vertical alignment of most cables. (Shhh don't tell anyone, but these gorgeous cables are much easier than they look!)
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
445-3 Intermediate Meets in the Middle Top Lorna Miser
Learn the techniques needed to knit this flattering, chevron top by beginning with two triangles then working until body size is attained. Work side gusset panels and sleeves are picked up and knit to finish the attractive garment. Learn about yarn gauge options, custom sizing and combining other yarns, all the while making a bear or doll size top in class.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
531-3 Easy Preventing and Fixing Mistakes Sarah Peasley
Become the boss of your knitting! Study the anatomy of a stitch, then apply what you've learned to correct a variety of common mistakes including twisted stitches, dropped stitches, split stitches, and holes. Learn to safely rip back a stitch, a row, or an acre of knitting without losing your cool.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
617-3 Advanced Challenging Stitches From Japanese Designs, Part 1 Gayle Roehm
Many knitters are intrigued by the interesting stitchwork found in Japanese hand-knitting designs. In this class, we’ll explore some charted stitches which will surely be new to the experienced knitter. How are these stitches challenging? The chart may be hard to interpret (with composite symbols or Japanese footnotes) or the execution of the stitch may be unusual. We’ll do a quick review of Japanese stitch symbology, then swatch four or five stitch patterns. Bring an adventuresome attitude!
Note: Students must be very comfortable knitting from charted stitch patterns. Some familiarity with Japanese stitch symbology is useful but not required.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm     SOLD OUT
580-3 Intermediate Fearless Fair Isle Sandi Rosner
Stranded Fair Isle style colorwork is a classic technique that belongs in every knitter's repertoire. Experiment with 1-handed and 2-handed methods to see which is more comfortable for you. Learn simple tricks for keeping your tension even. See why certain color combinations sing while others fall flat. You'll leave with the beginning of a hat, or a finished headband.
Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm     SOLD OUT
619-3 Advanced Exotic Estonian 'Patent' Stitches Merike Saarniit
Here's the fast and efficient Estonian method of creating those luscious brioche-stitch patterns that are so rich in texture. This technique is also used for unique cables and ribs that are sure to evoke "How'd you DO that?" comments. We'll swatch all-over patterns, 2-color patterns (where one color 'net' seems to float on a different color ground), and exotic-looking cables that don't require a cable needle.
Friday 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm     SOLD OUT
No skills required Fashion Show and Dinner Ticket  
This exciting runway show comes complete with fabulous door prizes!
Friday 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
No skills required Fashion Show (without Dinner)  
This exciting runway show comes complete with fabulous door prizes!
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW     SOLD OUT
360-3 Intermediate Simply Short Rows Gwen Bortner
This fun technique can be used in multiple ways to create flares, extra fabric, body style details, and in wonderful ways to make your knitting easier to assemble. We will talk about and then work on the different variations of short rows. This class will help you in ways you can't imagine—sweaters that feel and fit better and accessories that drape beautifully around the neck.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
607-3 Easy Lace Basics J C Briar
Yarn-overs matched with decreases: that's all lace is. An incredible variety of patterns stem from the way a handful of decrease stitches are placed in relation to their matching yarn-overs. Learn to work these decreases, to knit into a yarn-over, and to keep track of your lace knitting while working sample swatches. Pick up tips for choosing yarn and needles, handling mistakes, and blocking.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
434-6 Intermediate Color Twined Knitted Fingerless Mitts Beth Brown-Reinsel
Learn color techniques of tvaandsstickning, or twined knitting, a 400-year-old technique developed in Sweden. Knit one of a pair of fingerless mitts to gain knowledge and experience in the basics of twined knitting, while advancing to the 2-color techniques.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
103-6 Intermediate Intentional Patterning with Hand-Dyed Yarns Laura Bryant
Ever knit with hand-dyed yarn and noticed a particular pattern forming? Want to be able to do that reliably? This class is for you! We will cover the different styles of hand-dyeing, with examples of how they pattern. Learn how to read the color repeat in a hand-dyed yarn and then how to harness that repeat into reliable patterning, producing columns of color, flashes and argyles. We’ll examine how to turn those patterns into usable sized pieces for actual garments. Lots of hands-on swatching for 'repeatable' results!
Materials fee: $5.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
201-3 Intermediate Beyond Basic Buttons Christine Bylsma
Can't find the perfect buttons? Great! You can create many different types of buttons and closures. Covered, woven, balled, fringed, finger-cording knots, and swirls-explore them all plus half-a-dozen unexpected closure options. You will even learn to rethink how and when to use basic buttons.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
609-6 Intermediate Reversible Cables Lily Chin
Simple to execute, cables are almost always worked over stockinette stitch, producing a 'wrong' side that may show on scarves or blankets. Learn how cables work, which stitches, yarns and needles are ideal for reversible cables, and how to chart reversible cables so you can imagine the finished product.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
748-6 Easy Go Felt-a-fish: 3-D Felt-making Techniques Sharon Costello
This is a fun, 'everything goes' approach to surface design in felt. You will learn all about creating surface design in the 'wet felting' process while creating a one-of-a-kind, 3-dimensional fiber fish that can be used as a hanging art piece (no knitting required). We will combine wool, sheer fabrics, silks and synthetic fibers, designer yarns, wool locks, and beads to create fantasy fish full of texture and shine!
Materials fee: $15.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
706-3 No skills required Ergonomics for Knitters Carson Demers
'Just one more row' may be all it takes to cause a repetitive strain injury. Learn what causes those aches and pains in your hands, arms, and spine. More importantly, learn how to prevent them through risk-factor identification and techniques to reduce the risk.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
710-3 Easy Crochet for Knitters Edie Eckman
Learn basic crochet techniques for edgings and finishing details. Note: This is a basic how-to class for those with little or no crochet experience.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
539-3 Intermediate Art of Knitting Backwards Candace Eisner Strick
Learn to knit and purl backward and how to apply this technique to an applied edging. It is great not to have to turn your work at the end of those 6-stitch rows!
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
513-3 Easy Seven Things that can 'Make or Break' a Sweater® Margaret Fisher
Learn seven things that will make a big difference in the appearance of your sweaters. The smallest details can have a huge impact: increasing in ribbing, bumpy or smooth cast on edge, slanting decreases, invisible increases, perfect buttonholes, flat edgings, and blocking. In this class, you will learn about all of these things while you practice and receive lots of tips and hints. Since you are going to spend hours making a garment, you'll want to use these techniques to make even the simplest sweater look marvelous.
Note: This is an advanced beginner level class.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW     SOLD OUT
634-3 Advanced Amazing Couture Stitches Jean Frost
One of the unique things about couture clothing is the fabric. In this class we will work with some little-known knitted stitch patterns to produce amazing textures using ordinary yarns. By manipulating the stitches and combining yarns and colors, wonderful fabrics come to life. With these stitches, you can turn a simple garment into a masterpiece.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
420-6 Intermediate 2-at-a-Time Socks on 2 Circulars Toe-Up Antje Gillingham
Try a new take on knitting two socks at a time on two circular needles and work them from the toe up! Take the guess work out of how much yarn you'll need for your socks by trying them on as you go! No more counting rows or stitches and no more single socks in your drawer! Practice each section of the sock anatomy from toe to cuff during this workshop. We won't be able to knit a complete adult pair in one day but at the end of our time in class you'll be able to go back to your hotel room, cast on and start working on your very own spectacular pair of completely identical socks at the same time.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
627-6 Advanced Bohus Stickning Susanna Hansson
The story of Bohus is a story of couture knitting, sociology, women's history, social justice, and cultural legacy all in one. Learn more about the Bohus movement, its background and history. Discuss differences between this and other multi-color techniques and discover what it is that makes the Bohus patterns 'sing'. Participants will be able to examine in detail several vintage pieces from Susanna's collection. The class project is a pair of wristlets worked in a 50% merino/50% angora yarn from Sweden.
Note: You are expected to know how to knit in the round.
Materials fee: $25.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
555-6 Intermediate Design Your Own Bead-Knitted Jewelry Betsy Hershberg
Learn the techniques and receive the materials you need to design and complete your own bead-knitted bracelet or necklace. You'll explore combinations of beads and yarn, choose a bead placement design, and learn about bead stringing, chart reading, and finishing?including a new kind of graft that results in a seamless join for bead-knitted fabric. You'll create your own design, string beads, and knit it in class.
Materials fee: $15
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
315-6 Intermediate Perfect the Fit Barry Klein
When patterns are written, generic sizing does not allow the perfect fit. Learn to remove size labels and worry only about the finished size for your body. Explore swatching for gauge, changing needle sizes, and playing with pattern stitches. Work backwards from an existing pattern and forwards from a stitch gauge to create a design that will fit your actual body measurements.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW     SOLD OUT
637-3 Intermediate Two-Color Double Knitting Melissa Leapman
With this fascinating knitting technique, both sides of the knitting appear to be stockinette stitch. In just a few fun hours, learn how to knit and design these beautiful reversible fabrics.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
444-3 Easy Recycle and Repurpose Your Knitting Lorna Miser
Create new out of old! Get rid of guilt-inducing UFO's or sad felting accidents while also being GREEN. Use the previously knit items to make something new. Many small projects such as pillows, slippers, hats, mittens, coasters, cup cozies, and toys can be completed in class. Great gift ideas.
Material fee: $2.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
532-3 Intermediate Cut and Paste Sarah Peasley
Does the very thought of Kitchener Stitch make you queasy? Get over it! Practice grafting a variety of stitch patterns, then apply what you've learned to an elegant hem and a flawless seam. Discover ways to modify your knitting: Sleeves too long? Wish you'd started with garter stitch instead of ribbing? Hate the colors in that band of Fair Isle? Cut out the bad and graft in the good.
Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
533-6 Advanced Understanding Japanese Knitting Patterns Gayle Roehm
The creative and often unusual work of Japanese designers can open up another world of knitting for you. Even without a word of Japanese, an experienced knitter can work from a Japanese pattern, once familiar with the graphic format in which they’re presented. In the morning, we’ll learn how to “read” a schematic, and how to find basic information such as size, gauge, shaping, yarn requirements and needles. In the afternoon, we’ll focus on the stitch symbology used in pattern charts, which are standard among all Japanese publishers. We’ll also swatch a few stitch patterns of varying levels of difficulty. Bring any Japanese patterns that you may have questions about.
Note: You must be very comfortable knitting from charts.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
720-3 Easy Spinning for Knitting Merike Saarniit
Spin your own yarn and then develop unique 'gourmet yarns' in silk, alpaca, angora, and the most luscious wools. Learn tips and tricks to ensure gorgeous handspun yarns, perfect for your special projects. Great for both those who want to learn the art of spinning and those who want to develop their spinning skills.
Material fee: $10 for assorted fibers and drop spindles for use in class.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
538-3 Easy Switch to Continental Style Knitting Leslye Solomon
It doesn't matter how old you were when you learned to knit or if you are left or right handed, Leslye has a proven technique that will help you quickly and easily change your style to knit faster and more ergonomically and create a more even fabric. As a result of this easy-to-learn technique, students begin to fly through and love ribbing and seed stitch. Besides becoming more productive through speed, the quality of the knit fabric will improve and become more even. Enjoy renewed knitting confidence as you will find yourself attempting more complicated stitch projects.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
602-3 Easy Intro to Creative Knitted Lace Myra Wood
Learn a totally new approach to knitting lace creatively or discover lace knitting for the first time. You'll learn 'Lace Logic' and get a clear understanding of how lace patterning works to make your own patterns or incorporate charted lace on the fly. We'll work on a lovely lace scarf that uses lots of different lace techniques. Anyone who can yarn over and knit 2 together can do it — it is easier than you might think!
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW     SOLD OUT
534-3 Intermediate Freesole Socks Anna Zilboorg
For avid sock knitters: this new construction makes possible stranded socks with plain soles and socks with different yarns on the soles, insteps and tops. But its greatest advantage comes later, when the sock has developed a hole. Any part of the sole or heel can be easily removed and reknit. The socks begin with a 2-part toe (pick-up shaping on chain technique), continue up the instep in pattern (2-handed-backwards technique), then work the sole, attaching as you go and shaping a gusset (strip-joining technique). Finally turn the heel, pattern it, join the front, and knit up the leg. All this, making a sock large enough to store quarters in in your car.
Note: Must be comfortable working with DPNs and 2-color stranded knitting.
Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
649-3 Intermediate Slip-Stitch Savvy Kathy Zimmerman
Slip-stitch color patterns use only one color per row, making colorwork easy — ideal for both beginners and more experienced knitters. Kathy will discuss how-to's for working this technique, hints for choosing colors and yarns, as well as tips for interpreting instructions. The class project is a sampler of pattern stitches in which one basic stitch pattern is altered in 7 different ways.
Saturday 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
No skills required Free From the pages of Knitter's Magazine Rick Mondragon
Rick takes you into the pages and between the lines of Knitter's.? You'll gain insight on how it all comes together—stitch interest, color play and logical approaches to what appears on the page.

Spend an hour and find inspiration for a full season of knitting with Rick as your guide.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
633-6 Intermediate Entrelac: Beyond the Basics Gwen Bortner
If you understand the basics of entrelac, have completed a project or two and are ready to see what more the technique can offer, then this is the class for you. Learn an alternative method for starting entrelac that is completely invisible. Gain insights on creating a variety of shapes and forms with entrelac fabric. Explore techniques for creating integrated joins. All the while, gaining hands on experience and creating an oven mitt ready to be felted.
NOTE: Students must already be experienced in entrelac.
This 6 hour class meets 3 hours on Friday afternoon and 3 hours on Saturday morning with some homework between the two classes.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
516-3 Easy Hook Hocus Pocus J C Briar
Maybe you've used a crochet hook to bind off or to pick up a dropped stitch. But have you used one to join pieces together? To cast on provisionally? Or to stabilize an edge and provide a place from which to pick up stitches? Learn all of these techniques, plus embellishment, decorative edgings, and more.
Note: No crochet experience required.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
506-3 Intermediate Stashology 201 Christine Bylsma
You have 'archived' those countless balls of yarn that you could not pass up. Find new inspiration in what you already have, and use your stash to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary! Be prepared to be amazed.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
585-3 Advanced Double Dare Candace Eisner Strick
You'll do a double-take when you see what you can do with double knitting, double colors, and double hands! Learn how to create a 2-sided fabric with two colors using both hands. After you master stockinette stitch you will continue on, learning several different stitch patterns.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
342-3 Intermediate More Than One Way to Skin a Sweater Jolie A. Elder
This overview of sweater construction gives newer knitters the confidence to step up to sweaters while inspiring intermediate knitters to try tougher challenges. Construction methods featured include in-the-round yoke, saddle-shoulder gansey, modular, side-to-side, and miters. We'll discuss pros and cons of each as well as tips for success. Students will practice 'reading' knitted samples.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
117-3 No skills required In Loving Color Rebecca Ewing
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
206-3 Easy Superb Seams Margaret Fisher
Seaming is one of the most important finishing steps for a knit garment. In this class, you will master all the seaming techniques used to assemble a sweater, and understand how to make seams look flat and smooth. Learn how to sew invisible side seams on stockinette, reverse stockinette and ribbing. Find out how selvage stitches make seaming easy, even on the most complex pattern stitches. Practice joining shoulders and attaching sleeves. Discover how to make your garments look seamless.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
731-3 Intermediate Designing Heirloom Rugs Rose Ann Hunter
Learn to adapt historic rug-making techniques from 1790 to present day. Combine knitting with center shirring (a hand-sewn stitch on wool fabric) to create a pinwheel or grandmother's flower garden rug. Recycle and reuse old or unused clothes in a folk art rug. Materials Fee: $5
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
441-6 Advanced One of a Kind Barbara Kerr
Take the theory out of color and texture as you plan your own cuff-to-cuff cardigan. Learn to organize your colors, design and swatch a texture stripe pattern, apply your gauge to the schematic, and begin the first sleeve. This is both a fun project class and a hands-on intro to design. Must be comfortable reading stitch patterns, measuring gauge, and using simple calculations.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm     SOLD OUT
520-3 Intermediate Russian-Style Continental Knitting Galina Khmeleva
Learn this subtle Russian variation of the classic continental knitting method. It is fast—it is easy—and it is oh-so-forgiving on your wrists.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
446-3 No skills required Silver Linings Lorna Miser
Learn innovative techniques for knitting and lining purses and totes. No sewing machine or felting required. Learn to use fusible adhesives, ready-made canvas totes, quilting fabrics, and fabric glues to accomplish this. Examples of zipped, buttoned, snapped, tied, and flapped closures will be displayed. Also learn ways to make your own handles and all the tips for sturdy, stylish bags. You will complete a purse in class.
Material fee: $10.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
572-3 Intermediate Incredible Increases; Dramatic Decreases Judy Pascale
This class takes the mystery out of which decrease or increase to use by creating an answer-all sampler of numerous techniques. Each variation is worked and their advantages are discussed.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
554-3 Easy Knitting in Circles Sarah Peasley
Tired of knitting back and forth? Ready to move on? Expand your horizons with a variety of circular-knitting techniques. Learn to knit in the round using double points, 1 circular, 2 circulars, and the Magic Loop, with I-cord and double knitting thrown in for good measure. You'll be ready to make seamless sweaters, sleeves, gloves, bags, and socks (even 2 at a time), and much, much more.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
625-3 Advanced Elongated Stitch Enchantment Merike Saarniit
Knitters who enjoy exploring stitches and their variations will get a good start at this satisfying skill. Start this class with a basic stitch maneuver that elongates the stitching, this becomes exponentially more complex and exciting with every added element. By the end of class, you'll be enchanted with the prospect of future possibilities.
Saturday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
636-3 Intermediate More Creative Knitted Lace Myra Wood
Discover how to incorporate and design lace patterns for any shawl. Start a triangular shawl in class while learning how to creatively design and/or incorporate multiple existing lace pattern repeats over increase rows for triangles and other shapes, including circles. Understanding lace gauge, how different yarns and patterns affect the drape of the fabric, attaching borders and knitted edgings, and blocking and finishing will be discussed.
Note: Need to have taken 602-3 Intro to Creative Knitted Lace or understand chart and lace basics.
Saturday 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
No skills required Student Banquet and Attendee Show  
Join Rick Mondragon and Beth Whiteside as attendees strut their stuff on the catwalk.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
505-3 Intermediate The Norwegian Purl Beth Brown-Reinsel
The Norwegian Purl, a variation of the conventional Continental purl, is noted for its superior tension control, and ease of execution. The yarn always stays behind the work, making ribbing a breeze and two-color textured knitting a pleasure. A swatch will be knitted in class to practice this technique and its applications: Proper tensioning of the yarn, the conventional Continental purl, and knit stitches, the Norwegian purl, purl garter stitch, ribbing with the Norwegian purl on the right side and on the wrong side, the Scandinavian method of working with two yarns in the left hand (knitting, purling, and weaving the floats) on the right side and the wrong side of the work, as well as corrugated ribbing on the right side and the wrong side of the work.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
632-3 Intermediate Stitch Strategies for Hand-Dyed Yarns Laura Bryant
If you have ever fallen in love with a hand-dyed yarn, only to be disappointed in the knitted fabric, this class is for you. We'll explore stitch strategies to avoid the often undesired pooling, patterning, and striping of hand dyed yarns. Learn to read a skein of hand-dyed yarn, the different types of dyeing, and then explore the stitches that will help you coax the inherent beauty from even the most difficult color combinations. Some hands-on swatching during class.
Optional materials fee: $3 for hand-dyed yarn
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
354-3 Intermediate Pocket Possibilities; Before, During, and After Christine Bylsma
Knitted-in pockets are convenient, beautiful, and easy! Learn where to place pockets and how to determine the correct size as we explore patch, slit, and slash pockets that can be added at any stage in the knitting, even after the garment is done. Discover the secrets to lining and edges while avoiding sagging and 'grinning' pockets.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW     SOLD OUT
577-3 Easy Join as You go Knitting Lily Chin
Most knitters avoid seaming like the plague. When working garment pieces or different colored strips, sewing seams is daunting. Learn how to join as you go for many situations, including edgings. Join a new piece to the left of an existing piece, to the right of an existing piece, or to the top or bottom of an existing piece.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
755-3 No skills required Ergonomics for Spinners Carson Demers
Time seems suspended when you're at your spinning wheel. Hours melt away but stress and strain can be accumulating in your body. Spinning shouldn't hurt! In this class you'll learn what ergonomic risk factors are and where they exist in spinning at a wheel. Most importantly you'll learn what to do to minimize them and early warning signs that could prevent an injury. Safer strategies for seating, balancing your spinning work, and of course, stretches will all be taught? This is not a 'how to spin' class. Students must be able to spin a singles.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
358-3 Easy Watch that Swatch Edie Eckman
This class is for knitters and crocheters who don't think they need to swatch. Even if you 'always' get gauge, a properly worked swatch can give crucial information about the project you are about to start, saving time and avoiding costly mistakes. Learn how to accurately measure your gauge. Discover the benefits of a larger-than-usual swatch, and find out what to do with the swatch when you have finished.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
721-3 Intermediate Kumihimo: The Art of Traditional Japanese Braiding Candace Eisner Strick
Begin your adventure in this beautiful fiber tradition by making a bracelet with one of the easier braiding techniques. Kumihimo discs will be provided for you to use. Once you learn the possibilities, you will never want to stop!
Materials fee: $10 for braiding materials, beads and bracelet clasp.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
613-3 Easy Intro to Entrelac Margaret Fisher
Entrelac knitting creates a fabric with a wonderful basket weave or quilted appearance. Although it looks complex, the knitting is easy and lots of fun to do. In this class, you will create an entrelac sampler as you learn all the steps of this fascinating technique. Class discussion will cover the use of entrelac in garments and accessories, and the effects achieved with various types of yarn.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
405-3 Advanced Have a Ball! Betsy Hershberg
Who doesn't love beads? Who doesn't like to wear them? In this class you'll learn how to KNIT your own fabulous beads that can be used to create unique necklaces, bracelets and even earrings. All shapes and sizes, some soft and some structured, some with bead knitted "bling" and others understated, but all of them fun and just possibly addictive to make.
Materials fee: $8.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
214-3 No skills required Grafting with a Russian Twist Galina Khmeleva
Leave it to those innovative Russian knitters to devise simple, yet effective methods for casting-on that fit every knitting occasion, and for a clever grafting method that will make your seams seem seamless. You will like them so much you will use them on all your future knitting projects.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
589-3 Easy The Excitement of Accessories and More Barry Klein
There are so many really fun yarns out there and special ways to knit them so that they look their best and work to an advantage. We will spend time playing with these yarns, looking at how they knit up and talking about designs that make them amazing. Lots of accessory scarves, shawls, wraps, shoulder cozies and more will be shown as we knit up different swatches and look at the application of the yarns in each of the ideas. Be prepared for laughs and lots of fun.
Materials fee: $5.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
626-3 Intermediate Colorful Cables Melissa Leapman
Savvy knitters know that cables add beautiful texture to knitted fabrics without much effort. Just imagine the awesome effects you can achieve by incorporating colorwork into them! Discover several easy ways to make cables even more exciting and fun-to-knit.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
527-3 Easy All About Steeks Lorna Miser
Steeking is a traditional technique for making openings in pieces knit in the round. In this class we will discuss both common and uncommon ways to use steeks. You will practice 3 different methods for securing steeks without a sewing machine. You will take a deep breath and cut your sample steeks. Then, you will learn a variety of methods for dealing with the cut edges to create a beautifully finished product.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
325-3 Easy Armhole Success Judy Pascale
Learn to modify instructions for better-fitting armholes and neat shoulder seams. Revise patterns to begin fitted sleeves at the armhole and work to the cuff, shaping both as you go. This process avoids the common difficulty of matching armhole shaping with sleeve shaping and assures desired sleeve length. We will also cover cuff to armhole.
Sunday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm NEW
635-6 Advanced Even More Challenging Stitches From Japanese Designs Gayle Roehm
Japanese hand-knitting patterns often use complex and interesting stitch patterns. This class introduces patterns that present unusual challenges in executing the stitch or deciphering the chart. We'll do a quick review of Japanese chart symbols, then you'll swatch eight or more pattern stitches.
Note: These patterns are not part of 617-3 Challenging Stitches. You MUST be comfortable knitting from charts.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
535-3 Easy Making the Most of Self-Striping Yarns Sandi Rosner
The market is full of yarns that are dyed to make lovely stripes. Take advantage of these yarns to produce beautiful, flattering garments. Learn to analyze the stripe patterns so you can predict and control your results. Break free from horizontal stripes and see what happens with vertical, diagonal, and modular patterns.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
720-3 Easy Spinning for Knitting Merike Saarniit
Spin your own yarn and then develop unique 'gourmet yarns' in silk, alpaca, angora, and the most luscious wools. Learn tips and tricks to ensure gorgeous handspun yarns, perfect for your special projects. Great for both those who want to learn the art of spinning and those who want to develop their spinning skills.
Material fee: $10 for assorted fibers and drop spindles for use in class.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am     SOLD OUT
212-3 Easy Sweater Finishing Leslye Solomon
Do you feel that sinking sense of uncertainty when you are faced with completing your sweaters? Do you pay someone else to do something you should be able to accomplish like a pro? Do you look for sweaters knit in the round just to avoid the finishing process? Learn tips to help you love finishing as much as you love knitting. Learn how blocking can help you get the results you want. Practice creating invisible shoulder and side seams. See an amazing way to graft ribbing. Watch the two methods of sewing set-in or drop-shoulder sleeves. Learn how to pick up neck stitches by knowing exactly where to insert the needle and where to avoid. Learn what to do with all those yarn tails to safely make them disappear. Learn important crochet edges every knitter should know.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am NEW
725-3 Easy Creative Crochet Lace Myra Wood
Crochet lace is easier than you think! If you can chain, single, and double crochet, you can crochet incredible lacework in different directions without any patterns! Apply the basic logic of crochet lace as you create lace patterning for a beautiful triangular shawl. Learn to read crochet charts and make your own. Must know basic crochet stitches.
Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am
648-3 Intermediate Intro to Combining Lace & Cable Patterns Kathy Zimmerman
Lace & cable techniques both delight and challenge knitters with variety in shape, design, and texture. Creative combinations of the 2 can result in truly artistic knitting. Kathy will discuss the importance of gauge, treating the 2 pattern stitches as a unit, interpreting chart symbols, and tips for keeping track of patterns. The class project is a scarf combining a basic rope cable with a simple openwork/mini-honeycomb panel based on Kathy's popular 'Ube' cardigan from Knitter's Issue 99. The lacy oval columns alternate with mirrored rope cables for elegant textured stitch work.
Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
558-3 Intermediate Knitting in Both Directions Gwen Bortner
Most of us knit in one direction, but what would happen if you could knit in EITHER direction? Bobbles would pop out faster, entrelac would be even more fun, edgings would be added quicker and your yarn would be less tangled. Some call it knitting back backwards, but regardless of the name, it is a great skill to have in your knitting arsenal. You can learn the basics to knitting (and purling) in 'the other direction' regardless of the way you knit now! All it takes, as with most things, is a little bit of practice. Learn the how and the why and get started with what some students have called "the coolest thing they have ever learned in knitting".
Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm     SOLD OUT
507-3 Easy Tips and Tricks with Lily Lily Chin
Learn Lily's secrets to make your knitting life easier: join a cast-on for circular knitting without adding twist, start a new skein of yarn or a new color without losing the first stitch, attach knit pieces as you work, work a circular bind-off on the neck where the beginning and end are imperceptible, and weave in ends that are too short for a darning needle. Leave class with lots of small 'fix-its' and a new eye for knitting details.
Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
650-3 Easy Mosaic Knitting: Colorful Knitting the Easy Way Melissa Leapman
You like the look of intricate colorwork but hate the thought of all those bobbins and tangled yarns? Learn the in's and out's of this deceptively easy technique.
Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
529-3 Easy Mastering Yarn Substitution: Art, Science, or Black Magic? Kellie Nuss
Learn to predict the results of yarn substitution by understanding yarn weights, fiber content, gauge, measuring, and how these elements interact with each other. Gain confidence and prevent disappointment as you learn why things can go wrong. Then, spend time practicing the basic math involved with a real pattern.
Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
436-3 Easy My First Sweater Beth Whiteside
Ready to go beyond scarves & hats? Take the terror out of sweater-making with this sleeve-less doll-size shell! Designed for those newer knitters taking their first steps into garment-making, we'll read a pattern, shape an underarm and neckline, and seam it together (time permitting). Garments are easier than you think!
Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW
724-3 Easy Embellish It Knits Myra Wood
Embellishing is a fast and fun way to add a little magic to your finished knit or crochet pieces. Discover how to turn a plain garment or handbag into wearable art. Learn freestyle embroidery stitches, ruffles, duplicate stitching, knitted appliques, and beading techniques to enhance and embellish your work. This creative, hands-on workshop will have you thinking about your knitted wardrobe in a whole new way. Great for quick gifts, too!



notes: levels:
Classes with a picture icon have images on the class detail page

Crochet-friendly class

No skill required

Basic Know basic stitches (knit, purl or single crochet, double crochet).

Easy You should know the basics, how to increase and decrease, and have made at least one project.

Intermediate You should have worked with a few stitch patterns and should be familiar wtih basic garment shaping.

Advanced You should have made several garments in various stitch patters and should comfortable making minor changes to patterns. Advanced is fun and challenging for thinking knitters.

Color & Creativity Finishing Finesse Garment Shaping & Designing Projects & More Projects Techniques & Tips for Knitters Stitch Patters & Textures Extras Crochet