Summer 2009 Workshops!!!
Northampton wools
3 & 11 Pleasant st
413 586 4331
Spring and summer bring lots of knitting time. Watching the kids at the pool, cheering at the baseball games, sitting on the beach or warming up around the campfire all; offer unique moments of true knitting time. Increase your skills this season with one of our quickie workshops. These classes are designed to give you a little break away form the kids, a little time to visit with other knitters and a little time to make a fun and different project. Keep your summer knitting portable and easy and you’ll find yourself taking your knitting everywhere you go.
Learn To Knit in Three Hours
$25 3hrs
Even if you have never held needle before you will know how to knit when you leve this workshop. In three short hours we will teach you how to cast on, how to knit, purl and how to cast off. Everything you need to make you very first scarf or potholder. Join us for a night of fun and leave knitting on your own! Students will need a pair of size 10
or 10 ½ needles and 1 sk of bulky weight yarn.
Choose one: June 8; July 6; July 20
Introduction to Lace
$25 2 hrs
Learn the keys to decoding lace charts, symbols and written directions as you create holes in your knitting. This little scarf pattern will soon be the most popular thing you own and will teach you the basic skills of lace knitting,
Students should bring size 7 straight needles and a smooth light colored dk weight yarn. Students should know how to increase and decrease.
June
Felted Moebius Baskets
$35 3 hrs
Learn to do the Moebius cast on developed by Cat Borhdi. This is the perfect Moebius for first time Moebius makers. The process teaches you how to make the Moebius cast on and then to open it up into the handles for the basket. Once you know the cast on technique you will be ready to try Moebius scarves, bags and even cat beds. The felted basket that you learn in class can be enhanced with beads, or novelty yarns and are beautiful pieces of functional art. These baskets knit up quickly and are a breeze to felt.
Students should bring scissors, tapestry needle, markers and will need one skein of Manos del Uruguay wool and a 47” size 11 needle.
July 17
Lace Sampler
$40 8hrs
This four session class will help even the most timid of knitters learn how to put holes in her knitting on purpose. After all, this is normally something we avoid. Several different stitch patterns will combine to teach how to read charts and patterns as well as reading your knitting. Solve problems and learn to un-knit without loosing your place. Take a bold leap into the wonderful world of lace, but do it at your own pace.
June 17, 24, July 8, 15
Learn To Crochet
$40 8hrs
Believe it or not, crochet is finally growing up. You can learn the four basic stitches and start a bag, a t-top and a grannie square blanket (because everyone needs to know how to do a grannie square) by the time the four classes are over. Even if you have never even seen a crochet hook, you will be able to succeed in this class.
July 8, 15, 22, 29
Socks in a Day
$25 3hrs
It can’t be done you say? We beg to differ… learn the steps in knitting a basic sock on big needles with bulky yarn and you will end up with snuggly, cuddly, warm and welcome socks for winter. We use an LWDesign; which is included in the class fee. All you need is needles and yarn and a readiness to tackle four needles at a time.
July
Moebius Smoke Ring
$25 3hrs
Learn the famous and mysterious Moebius cast on, learn to follow a simpole chart, learn a few lace techniques and dazzle yourself with your creativity. This class covers all of that as you work your way through some of Cat Borhdi’s wonderful techniques.
June 18
Learn To Cable- Needle or Not
$25 2hrs
What a way to make your first cabled project. Learn to knit in the round and how to follow the directions for making several basic cables. Charts will be discussed and various cable designs will be demonstrated. We will also learn to make cable without using a cable needle!
June 25
Self Fringe Shawl
$10 2hrs
Tired of guessing how much yarn to leave for the fringe? Want to make a shawl for those summer nights up at Tanglewood? This quickie workshop will teach you the trick to making fringe at the same time as the knitting. You will create a one of a kind piece that you will be proud to show off anywhere.
June 27
Finishing Day
Free As long as you need
If you dare to look in the back of your closet will you find that bag that contains the unfinished sweater? The one that just needs to have the sleeves sewn on and the side seams done? You put it away and it has been haunting you every time you go to start a new project. This is the day for you to bring those scary horrors to the shop. We will help you to get going with putting them all together. We’ll help you figure out the next step and show you some of the newest, easiest techniques to make your sweater look like a professionally done piece. Dig out those paper bags full of knitted pieces and grab a cup of coffee and start sew3ing.
June 27 all day
Learn to Knit Basics
$35 6hrs
This is a class for the real beginner who needs a little more time and a few more hands on then the learn t o knit in three hours. Adrienne will take you through the basics of knitting, the best way to cast on, counting sts, knitting, purling, fixing mistakes and working on an even tension. Come prepared to have some fun as you learn a new skill and enter the knitting world.
June 16, 23, 30