2023 Class Schedule
To be announced
2022 Class Schedule
Friday, September 23, 1pm-2pm
Choosing, Caring For & Spinning on an Antique Wheel
Pegg Thomas, Instructor
Cost: $ 25.00 / Student
Materials Student May Bring: Antique Wheel if you have one
Skill Level: Beginner
Students will learn to identify the different parts of an antique wheel, how to evaluate if an antique wheel is worth restoration, and the basics on how to refurbish an antique wheel for use
Friday, September 23, 2:30pm-3:30pm
Hand Carding With Colors
Pegg Thomas, Instructor
Cost: $ 25.00 / Student: includes dyed wool or bring your own dyed wool
Materials Student Must Bring: Hand Cards
Skill Level: Intermediate
Students will learn to use hand cards to blend colors and to create striped rolags to spin into variegated yarn. Student must bring hand cards.
Saturday, September 24, 8:30am-11:30am
Knitting With Two Colors
Stephanie Carrico, Instructor
Cost: $48.00 / Student: which includes color handouts
Materials Student Must Bring: Two or more colors of contrasting worsted weight wool and double pointed needles to match (size 5 – 8)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Learn and practice the two handed color technique that makes traditional Fair Isle knitting fly by.
Students will work a small sample in the round which may be completed to make a child’s mitten.
Steeking; the art of cutting your knitting to insert sleeves will also be demonstrated and explained.
Saturday, September 24, 9am-12pm
Needle Felted Pumpkins
Lisa Huberty, Instructor
Cost: $35.00 / Student: which includes wool roving for one pumpkin
Materials Student may purchase: needles, needle organizer, and other materials from the instructor
Skill Level: Beginner
Celebrate the arrival of autumn and tickle your senses and your sense of humor by learning how to needle felt pumpkins with wool fiber sourced from Michigan and Wisconsin. Participants will learn basic needle felting techniques. All tools, materials, and instruction will be provided for you to complete one pumpkin (approximately 6 inches tall). Safety caution: needle felting is accomplished by poking wool fiber with a barbed needle.
Saturday, September 24, 12pm-1:30pm
Shawl Knitting Without a Safety Net
Pegg Thomas, Instructor
Cost: $25.00 / Student
Student Must Bring: Three skeins of yarn (can be partial or leftover balls); three knitting needles (circular are fine) that compliment the yarn; stitch markers
Skill Level: Advanced
Students will learn the basic construction of a triangle, asymmetrical, and crescent shawl, as well as different techniques for beginning, increasing, and binding off and how to incorporate different stitch patterns within a shawl.
Saturday, September 24, 2pm-4:30pm
Basic Broom Making
Nancy Binkowski, Instructor
Cost: $60.00 / Student - All materials included
Skill Level: Beginner
Students will be making brooms – a round scrubber, a small whisk broom and a short handled (hearth) broom.
Sunday, September 25, 8:30am-11:30am
Toe up Sock Recipe
Stephanie Carrico, Instructor
Cost: $60.00 / Student – Includes color print out of Toe up Sock recipe (pattern) and tips
Materials students must bring: Worsted weight yarn in a light color and a set of five double point needles to match ( size 5 – 7)
Skill level: Intermediate – have knit at least one sock of any kind & be comfortable knitting with double point needles in the round.
In this class you will work through an easy to remember method of knitting a toe up sock to produce a baby size sock in class. The recipe allows you to size a sock to fit any foot without a gauge swatch. Along the way decades worth of toe up sock knitting tips will be shared and some of the many alternatives in toe and heels will be discussed.
