Interested in a class? Contact the store for more information!
Mawata with MarySue!
Join us for this free class (with purchase of materials). Experiment with fiber, but without the need for special accessories like a spindle or spinning wheel. Learn the technique known as mawata using layers of silk hankies which are drafted into strands that you can use directly to knit or crochet a unique one of a kind scarf or hat.
Beginning Spinning I with Beth Witters
Have you ever looked at yarn and wondered how it was created and why it looks and feels the way it does? Learn how to make our own unique handspun yarn! Learn the basics of how to go from raw fiber to colorful novelty yarn beginning with a drop spindle.
Materials: drop spindle, 2 oz wool roving, large dowel or knitting needle, pencil and paper, an apron or lap cover.
Week 1: How to draft fiber (wool), how to use a drop spindle, basic information on fibers and tools for spinning.
Week 2: How to ply yarn, finish the yarn, wash the yarn, wash raw wool and how to judge a fleece (fiber).
Week 3: How to prepare wool (carding and combing), how blend fibers and introduction to the spinning wheel. Dying wool if time permits.
Beginning Spinning II with Beth Witters
This class teaches the fundamentals of spinning yarn with a wheel. Students will learn the principles of using a wheel to create yarn in the first 2 lessons. The final lesson discusses and demonstrates spinning other animal and baste fibers.
Week 1: Students will learn about their individual wheel including how to lubricate and adjust it and how to draft and spin on the wheel.
Week 2: Students will trouble-shoot their spinning and ply the yarn they have spun. Students will also learn how to create blended batts of wool for creating one of a kind roving.
Week 3: Learn about alpaca, llama, angora, mohair, flax, cotton and how these fibers are prepared and spun.
Great Beginnings with Harriet Angulo
Want to make your knitting more interesting and unique from the bottom up? Interested in learning new tricks?
Learn provisional, backwards loop, long tail, i-cord, knit-on and tubular cast on methods.
Take home a wide range of samples for future reference. She will also teach new ideas for welts (cuffs and bands.)
Materials needed: Worsted weight yarn and needles to match (size 7 works well)
and a crochet hook 2 sizes larger than your needles (size I for size 7 needles)
$15+any needed materials
Hats, Hats, Hats! with MarySue French
Cables add incredible texture and depth to hats, stop on down for our free Saturday hat workshops. Let MarySue walk you through her original hat patterns or answer your "hat" questions. Learn all the hats, a headband option, and get help at each step along the way. You’ll be likely to finish the hat during the second class session and leave with a gift ready to wrap up!
Saturdays from 2-4
Requirement: Students must be comfortable with basic knitting stitches, increases and decreases.
Knitted Socks with Pam Burson
Come and learn a basic socks in this 4 week class. With the top-down basic sock pattern, the skills that you will acquire or build upon include: the long-tail cast on, joining the round, knitting in the round, the heel, short rows to turn the heel, gussets, and the kitchner stitch. You will learn to custom fit the sock. Once you've made a sock, you will want to make more and more!
Cost is $60 + materials (determined by project)
Requirement: Students must be comfortable with basic knitting stitches, increases, decreases, long tail cast on and double pointed needles.
Beginning Crochet with Tori Lucier Miller
Always wanted to crochet? Come and join other beginners as we master crochet chains, basic stitches and patterns. This class starts with a basic sampler scarf and then your choice from a few beginner projects (hat, different scarf, or shawl pattern.) Help is also available on weekdays between lessons at no additional cost.
Class is $60+materials
Beginning Knitting with Pamela Burson -
Have you always wanted to learn to knit? Come and join others in this great introductory class as you master the techniques of casting on, using the basic stitches and casting off. You’ll start with making a basic cotton washcloth and will start on a scarf by the end of the classes. As a bonus, you’ll have unlimited access to experienced store staff between lessons.
Cost is $60 + $15 materials fee
Fix Your Knitting! with Tori Lucier Miller
Tired of starting over? Take the fear and worry out of knitting with this incredibly useful class. You'll learn how many common mistakes are made, as well as how to correct them on the following row when possible. We'll also practice picking up dropped stitches, and methods for taking out your knitting stitch-by-stitch as well as many rows at once.
Requirement: Students must be comfortable with basic knitting stitches, increases and decreases. Must pre-register for class for homework.
Needle Felting with Cheryl Smith
Needle felting is done with carded wool roving and barbed needles which you use to intertwine fibers and form soft felt.
No mess or water necessary!
Join artist Cheryl Smith to learn the basics of making a flat piece of "fiber art." You don't have to be an artist to make something great!
Needle felting is only limited by your imagination. Once you learn some basic techniques, needle felting can be used to add embellishments to your knitted garments or woven fabric or as a stand alone work of art. In class you will work on a portrait of dog to learn to "paint" portraits in fiber.
$20+materials
The Magic of Garter Stitch with Margaret Maxwell
Garter stitch is much more than the stitch beginning knitters use to knit back and forth making their first scarf. It has many creative possibilities and this class will explore them. We will start with a simple diagonal wash rag and an explanation of how garter stitch works. Then each student will branch out and use the new techniques for a scarf, a shawl, a baby blanket and/or a child's sweater. We'll also learn an intriguing technique called "log cabin knitting."
$30+materials
Three Dimensional Needle Felting with Cheryl Smith
Needle felting is done with carded wool roving and barbed needles which you use to intertwine fibers and form soft felt.
No mess or water necessary!
Join artist Cheryl Smith to learn the basics of making a three dimensional piece of "fiber art." in the form of a pony. You don't have to be an artist to make something great!
Needle felting is only limited by your imagination.
$20+materials