January MiniClasses

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Saturday, January 12, 2019
Millcreek Library 1-5pm

This is a Guild Members’ Only Event.

Expand  your knitting knowledge or dig deeper into techniques you think you know. Join us for two 90 minute mini-workshops from two local experts.  You can attend one, both or just socialize and knit with friends. There’s no class specific registration of fee for current guild members. Also, the swap and drop table will be up, the Mystery Yarn Exchange will begin, and snacks and munchies are welcome.  

Class #1:  Deconstructing Cast Ons with Miriam Felton

Cast Ons are the start of any project, but which one do you choose? Have you bound off only to find that the cast-on doesn’t best fit the piece? Do you wan to learn more than your go-to option? In this class we’ll cover the 4 basic cast-on types (Backward Loop, Knitted, Cable, and Long-Tail), their variations, pros, cons, an best uses, with an emphasis on exactly how the strand(s) of yarn interact to make the stitches. Bonus: We’ll also cover how to pick up a dropped stitch in each one.

Student Skills: Be able to knit and purl
Materials: Worsted weight yarn (2 or more colors), size 8 needles for flat knitting, coilless pins (metal or plastic)



Class #2: Better Brioche with Sarah Marsden

Brioche Wrist Warmers offer a simple way to try 2-color brioche. We will discuss cast-on and bind-off techniques appropriate to brioche, and learn basic brioche stitches.

Student Skills: Cast on (long tail or other), knit, purl
Materials: Bring US#5 double pointed needles or a long circular needle for knitting in the round, locking or coilless stitch markers, and too contrasting colors of DK or worsted weight yarn, approximately 50 grams each, pencil for note-taking

Mystery Yarn Exchange

For just 300 yards of nice yarn and a plain brown paper bag, you could have another talented guild member knit you a delightful surprise!

Here are the important notes:

Yarn Donors: Put 300 yards of nice yarn in a brown paper bag, and label it with the fiber content (wool, silk, acrylic, alpaca) so that knitters are not given a yarn they are allergic to. “Nice yarn” does not need to be expensive. “Nice yarn” means yarn that is not tangled, unknittable, or moth-eaten. Yes, this has happened. You will be assigned someone else’s bag of yarn. Knit something creative from it, and return it at the April meeting.