Fixing Mistakes with Ann McCauley, author of The Pleasures of Knitting: Timeless Feminine Sweaters and Together or Separate: Knitting the New Twinset.
Description: Pick up dropped stitches, correct mistakes a few rows back, and understand the difference between ripping back and un-knitting. These skills help you relax when an error is made.
Materials: practice amount of #4 or worsted weight yarn, US size 7, 8 or 9 needles, and an F, G, or H crochet hook
Level: Continuing beginning & intermediate, must know how to knit and purl
Time: 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Class Size: 10
Fee: $20.00
Design and Creativity with Ann McCauley
Description: Be inspired! This class includes insights into the creative process and an opportunity to look at knit garments and their construction and creation from a design point of view.
Materials: none
Level: any
Times: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Class Size: 20
Fee: $20.00
Successful Sweater Knitting with Ann McCauley
Description: Focus on ways to enhance the elements of your knitting that create a professional finished product . Topics to be covered include selecting a pattern, measuring, fit, swatching, gauge, quality of knitting, preferred increases and decreases, blocking and seaming.
Materials: paper and pen for any notes you might wish to take, due to the length of this class you will be receiving the best advice I can give you rather than hands on practice time of preferred techniques that are advised and sources for techniques are given when too detailed for this context.
Level: all levels beyond beginning have enjoyed this class
Times: 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. or 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Class Size: 20
Fee: $20.00
Ann McCauley is the author of The Pleasures of Knitting: Timeless Feminine Sweaters, 2/05, and Together or Separate: Knitting the New Twinset, 9/08. Ann can be seen in the Knitty Gritty episode known as "Delightful Details". Her first published pattern was in the Great American Aran Afghan from Knitter's magazine and XRX publishing. She teaches knitting locally and nationally at yarn shops, guilds, and large knitting events as well as teaching for Stitches West and East. She has also designed for Louet yarn company. Ann grew up in Bedford and currently makes her home in Boulder, Colorado.
Beginning Spinning and Beyond with Mauna Hair
Class & Supplies Fee: $15.00 *Please bring your own or a borrowed spinning wheel*
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Class Limit: 8
Description: Whether you have been a spinner 'wanna-be' or tried and stalled out, come and learn spinning basics with some tried and true tricks to get you up and spinning.
Dye Your Own Yarn in 10 Minutes with Mauna Hair
Class Fee: $15.00
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Class Limit: Unlimited
Description: With a minimal cost and 10 minutes you can create hand dyed yarn. In this class we will be covering the science of dying and you will see demonstrated many dye techniques that can be done in the microwave.
Please note that all proceeds
from Mauna's classes will be
donated to the
A spinner for 21 years, weaver for 20 years, lifelong crotchetier & knitter, Mauna Hair, lives in Bedford County, Virginia.
Class & Supplies Fee: $40.00 (Supplies include a hook, small frame,
wool strips & a designed project on linen)
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Project: Mug Rug
Class Limit: 12
Tatting with Paula Veldhuis
Class & Supplies Fee: $30.00 (Supplies include a shuttle & thread)
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Class Limit: 6
Knitting-in-the-Round Options with Janice Mosley
Class Fee: $25.00
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Class Limit: 10
Project: Learn the four following methods of knitting in the round:
- Using a single circular, something that fits the size of the circular
needle, i.e. a hat;
- Using a long circular needle - Magic Loop;
- Using two circulars; and
- Using double points.
Class Supplies: Please bring a skein of smooth worsted weight yarn, one set of US 7 dpns, two US7 circular needles (one circular must be 32" or longer) to class.
Janice Mosley has been seriously knitting since 1991. Her Bedford, VA store, Yarn Theory, opened in 2004. Jan calls herself a "yarn class junkie."
Which Cast On To Use with Jane Morton Bynum
Description: Learn several cast-on methods, their characteristics, and when to use them.
Fee: $20.00
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Class Supplies: Plain, light-colored worsted weight or bulky yarn with appropriate needles
Class Limit: 6
My grandmother taught me to knit when I was five, but I don't remember making anything useful until the summer I turned twelve. That year, I made mittens and hats for every member of my family. It's also the year I learned to "take control" of my knitting by adapting 2-needle patterns to dpns and adjusting sizes based on actual measurements and gauge. I have taught several workshops for my guild, Twisted Threads Fiberarts, and other local groups, along with with one-on-one help. My current passion is for Twined Knitting (Two-End Knitting), a traditional Scandanavian technique.
Please pre-register for any classes you wish
to take by e-mailing
Thank you.
