 Class
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classes in calendar format
We have a wonderful array of classes to
choose from---and no final exams,...
just fabulous results and loads of fun!
.....That's edutainment!
Classes vary from basic
skills for new & returning knitters, to refinement
and advanced skills
for
experienced knitters, to design and
problem
solving classes
for " explore the limits" knitters. Our most popular classes
often focus on a particular kind of project....and
always the fun & frienships....
(You will soon be able to search here for
classes by key word )
Registration:
For those on our mailing list, registration
can be done over the telephone with a credit card. |
Basic
Skills for New & Returning Knitters
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Stitches from the Start
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Simple Beginnings
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| Refinement
and Advanced skills |
| Design
and Problem Solving Classes |
| Project Focus |
Booga-Booga- Boogette!
Saturday February
21st 1 to 4pm  Next Class:
Saturday March 13th. 1 to 4pm
Boogette!
The Booga Bag has
taken the felting world by storm. Our Boogette is the miniaturization
of the Booga to
permit you to complete the knitting & felting in one afternoon.
Techniques: knitting
on double pointed needles
Cost: $35.00 plus
materials
Included for Current
Grads & Students |
Slip Stitch Scarf
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to enlarge.
Play with this stitch and spice up your
scarf life!
This technique is particularly effective
using 2 yarns with dramatically
different textures. For example:
1. Icona - a flat firmly woven wool blend
tape
And Touch Me - a softly rounded luxury chenille
2. Prism Lunette - a hand dyed tubular
strand with subtle colour & textural
variations and metallic interest featured
on a background of Berroco Quest,
a lightly misted metallic ribbon.
This technique makes maximum effect from
a small quantity of feature yarn.
Thursday February 12th 7 to 9pm
Choose your yarn pack and join the class.
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Stitches
from the Start
For new or returning knitters, whose knitting
goals include major forays into traditional lace, Aran, Fair Isle or adventurous
multi-technique knitting. This comprehensive 8-week class is geared to
you. Create a stitch sampler cushion cover that includes lace, cables and
graphic textures.
Begin with the basics: cast on, knit, purl,
increase, decrease and cast off. Combine these basics following both written
& graphed instructions and experience the variety of textures, which
can be produced. Gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to "read
your stitches" correct flaws and carry on independently with more advanced
projects.
Gloria
8 Monday evenings 7-9pm
-$95.00
Includes swatching yarn
& needles
(project materials extra)
Winter Class: beginning
January 5th. 2004
Spring Class:
beginning April 5th.2004
Fall Class: beginning
Sept. 13th. 2004 |
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Simple
Beginnings: Knitting can
be as complex as a mensa puzzle or as simple as 1,2,3. This class is aimed
at the latter: those who want to master the basics quickly while producing
something to wear. For a broad assortment of patterns and handy at home
reference, we will use The Knitting Experience - Part 1: The Knit
Stitch, by Canadian Author Sally Mellville.
Julia
Dates: Winter from Nov. 1st to Nov.
22nd.
2004 from Jan. 17th to Feb.7th.
Time: 10 to Noon Fees
$95.00 includes book, swatching
yarn & needles
(project materials extra)
Allowing for individual preferences, class fees
do not include cost of materials. All yarns for class projects must be
purchased in our shop. |
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Enrichment
Series, The following growing series of classes: First Cable project
First Lace project
is intended as enrichment
for our Stitches from the Start and Simple Beginnings students and as introductory
classes to experienced knitters who may not have experienced these types
of Knitting. |
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Cables
Swatch a variety of cables from a graph
and from a written pattern learning the language and abbreviations of cables
as you knit. Finish your knitting as an amulet, cell phone or glasses pouch.
Nov. 8th. 1 to 4pm
$25.00 - included for students & grads
(materials extra)
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Lace Project |
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Brush
it Up! For
returning Knitters -
an intense review of basic
skills - For many, this may be all you need!
This class takes place about a month before
the beginning of our complete
slate of classes to permit you, in consultation
with the teacher to select
classes which will help you to meet your
knitting goals.
Gloria
3 hours $35.00
Saturday morning 9 to noon
Winter Class: January
2004
Spring Class: March
2004
Summer Class: June
2004
Fall Class: |
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First
Garment
For graduates of "Stitches
from the Start", this 4 week series follows "Stitches... and provides guidance
through a first project. With the support of the teacher, this class permits
a broader and more challenging range of projects to be considered "first".
Gloria
Winter Class: Mondays, beginning March
1st. 2004
Spring Class: Mondays, beginning June
1st. 2004
Summer Class: None
Fall Class:
Time:4 Monday evenings 7-9pm -Fees: $55.00 |
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Thursday
Night "Grads"
The
core of this knitting group is made up of graduates of Gloria's "Stitches..."
classes over the last 5 years. New graduates who wish to continue to advance
their skills, bring change & vitality. |
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Fair
Isle 1, 2, 3....
Hors'deuvres, entrée,
Prix Fixé....
Fair Isle is a rich knitting tradition with
very specialized techniques. There are designers who have focused their
entire careers on this specialty.
A monthly class to guide a small group through
the knitting of a major project such as a sweater or jacket is on our calendar
for the 3rd. Tuesday of each month from January through May of 2004. The
group would establish monthly knitting milestones. Ultimately, in
the Fair Isle tradition, the project would culminate in the cutting of
steeks and professional finishing. To assure success and common working
knowledge, this Fair Isle *"Banquet" class
includes the "hor'deuvre" & "appetizer" classes described below.
Gloria
Date(s): Tuesday evenings: January
20th., Feb. 17th. March 16th.
April 20th., May 18th.
(see below for dates & times of the
"hors'deuvres"
& "entrée
classes)
Time: 7 to 9
Fee: $150.00*
Allowing for individual preferences,
class fees do not include cost of
materials. Please join us Saturday Jan.
10th., from 10 to Noon to plan your
project and choose materials.
At that time, we will have a colour
specialist available to consult on colour
choices.
1.
In the Fair Isle Tradition, 2 colours are worked in every row or round.
In the first class in our series of Fair Isle classes, you will knit a
hat in the round, carrying one colour in each hand, in a short rhythmic
pattern repeat.
Date(s): Tuesday Nov. 18th.
Time: 7* to 9
Fee: $50.00 includes hat kit.
This fee is included in the Fair
Isle "Banquet"
*If you have never knit on circular needles
before, please come
for 6:30pm.
2.
Using a variety of traditional Fair Isle patterns with more complex repeats,
and working from both knit and purl sides of your work, you will create
a swatch which could easily be finished as a cell phone cover or glasses
case.
Date(s): Tuesday Nov. 18th.
Time: 7 to 9
Fee: $50.00 includes kit.
This fee is included in the Fair
Isle "Banquet" |
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Intarsia
Successful "picture knitting" has crisp
clear colour definition,
flat unruffled knitting and is most often
knit from a graph.
Acquire the skills to put you in the mood
for this exuberant playful colour knitting.
Gloria
Saturday Afternoon 1 to 4
November 2003
$35.00 (included for Registered Grads &
Stitches Students)
swatching materials supplied |
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Embellishment
Duplicate stitch and other fast &
easy methods to add colour to knits. Bring a square knitted in stocking
stitch approx. 8".
Sue
Saturday Morning 9 to Noon
May, July & September 2004
$35.00 embellishment yarns supplied |
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Finishing:
A knitter who has
taken workshops all over the world,
apologized for photocopying
Margaret' s class notes and
distributing them
to her knitting friends. "..the best finishing
class I have ever
taken" added our photocopying friend!
Master invisible
seams - side seams, shoulder seams, and armholes.
Perfect your
techniques by practicing sewn seams in mattress stitch
and knitted seams
for incredible shoulders.
Perfect your neckline
"pick up" and add the perfect buttonhole from Margaret's repertoire to
make your "homemades" into "handcrafted".
Margaret
Bring:*four
eight inch squares knit in stocking stitch, 2 pairs of 4.5mm. needles a
blunt end darning needle and the ball of swatching yarn.
Tuesdays Evenings
- 7:00 to 9:00 or Wednesday Afternoons 4 to 6
$65.00 - *on registration,
you will receive swatching yarn
Fall Classes:
Tuesday evenings
September 23rd, 30th & October 7th.- cancelled
( Tuesday eve) October
7th,14th &21st
Tuesday evenings
October 28th., November 4th&11th - Full
Wednesday afternoons December 3rd, 10th &17th |
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Knit to Fit
In this class Margaret will
guide you through your body measurements relative to finished garment measurements
and the degree of ease for various types of garments and designs.
To permit you to make minor
adjustments to patterns, weights of yarn and knitted gauge will be a focus
as you practice the simple mathematical calculations which will permit
you to substitute yarns and stitch patterns.
Margaret will help you to take
accurate measurements and record them on a chart that she has prepared
for you.
Margaret
Saturday afternoons 1 to 4pm $35.00
Fall: October 4th.
Winter: January 17th.
Spring: April 3rd. |
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| Increases
& Decreases for all Occasions |
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| Mittens on 2 needles
Mittens are fun, easy and make wonderful
gifts! A good reason to start early.
Tuesday: 6:30
to 8:30pm
Class Fee: $20
(plus materials)
Future classes scheduled for:
Tuesday: 6:30 to
8:30pm
Class
Fee: $25 (plus materials) |
Mittens
in the Round
Join us to learn how to knit mittens in
the round. Avoid the need for seaming and prepare for knitting Fair Isle
and Thrum Mittens.
(plus materials) |
Socks:….a
most appreciated gift.
For the beginner sock knitter...if you can
knit, purl,cast on and off, increase and decrease, you can master the basics
of turning heels, picking up stitches for insteps, and Kitchener stitching.
If you have not worked in the round on double pointed needles, please come
2 hours early so that you can become familiar with the technique and complete
the cuff & leg of your sock before the class.
Margaret
Fall Class: October 18th 1 to 4pm
November 22nd 1 to 4 pm
Winter Class: Jan. 31st 1 to 4pm
Spring Class:
$35 (included
for Registered Grads & Stitches Students)
Please buy your sock kit when you register.
Homework: complete the cuff and leg of your
sock before class. |
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Mitts, Socks and Beyond
You will learn to knit the traditional fleece
lined thrum mitts & Socks from Newfoundland. Consider this technique
for other “winter comforts” such as vests, slippers and headbands. Should
have experience knitting socks or mittens.
Bring 3.5mm and 4.5mm double pointed needles.
Saturday afternoon November 15th. 2003, 1 to
4pm
$25.00 - included for Registered Grads &
Stitches Students (materials extra)
Thrum Mitt kits are $15.00 to $25.00 |
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Midnight Marathon
2003:
Friday, December 12th., 5pm - ???
Registration in advance necessary
Christmas is a weekend away--panic time! Bring
that must-finish project and get it done without snooping eyes. Let's
make it a potluck, too, so we won't all run out of steam.
............
'jammies optional.
For current students & "Grad" Students
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Row Scarf: Gloria
was inspired by the design in Vogue Knitting by Catherine
Lowe using Short Rows to Create Stripe patterns, to adapt this scarf
to a variety of weights, materials and types of yarns including hand dyed
yarn. An intriguing technique with applications far beyond scarves.
In this workshop, master Short Rows
as you knit a scarf and explore the possibilities.
  
 
Thursday Evening October
30th. 7 to 9pm.
$25.00 - included for passport holders
(materials & Vogue Magazine from $40.00) |
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Faux Entrelac
Scarf with Wanda
This Scarf looks so much more complicated
than it really is, that when you have experienced it, you will want to
make a dozen.
$25.00 -(included
for Registered Grads & Stitches Students)
Winter
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Entrelac:
Experience self patterning Noro yarns and the entrelac
technique in this project class. Add to
your knitting repertoire and
your gift chest at the same time.
Fall Class: Tuesday Nov. 25th. 6 to 9 pm
Winter Class:
Spring Class:
Summer Class:
$25.00 (included for Registered Grads &
Stitches Students)
Materials extra |
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Ready,set,Mittens!
Intro to Circular Knitting
Never knit in the round? Do
double pointed needles make you feel like you're wrestling with a porcupine?
Learn to knit on double pointed needles. An essential preparation for knitting
basic mittens and socks, thrum mitts and Fair isle mittens,
you will work the cuff of
your selected project. Discover how easy finishing is with no seams!
(2 hrs)
Tuesdays 6:30 to 8:30
$25.00 |
Perfect Your Circular Knitting
Unhappy or uncomfortable with circular knitting?
Tried it, but you're not sure you like it? Perfect your circular knitting
skills-learn the easiest ways to cast on and join the first round without
twisting or gaps, become comfortable working with double pointed needles,
get rid of those loose stitches, and adapt flat patterns to circular knitting.
You'll learn all this, plus we'll trouble-shoot any specific problems with
your circular knitting, such as stranding that is too tight or too loose
when working Fair Isle. (3 hrs) |
Circular Knitting Workshop
Learn to knit circularly knit garments
in one piece without seaming! Students will design and knit a basic vest,
and in the process will learn to work in the round, to convert flat patterns
to circular, and finishing techniques. There will be lots of room for creativity
each student controls the pattern stitches and colors to be used in her
(or his)own vest. (6 hrs) |
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Cast
On Cornucopia
Still using the same cast on you learned
when you started knitting? It's time to explore some of the many different
ways to start your knitting. Learn tough cast ons for kids'garments, stretchy
ones for cuffs, multicolor cast ons that can add decorative edges to a
solid garment or complement complicated color work. Add to your repertoire
- several easy "provisional" cast ons that can be removed in seconds. (3
hrs)
To Be scheduled Winter 2004 |
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| Crochet
Saturday!
Join the Saturday morning crochet class.
Begin at the beginning with basic stitches,
terms & abbreviations. Dawn has prepared
file cards of the stitch descriptions to which
you attach your sample for easy reference.
She will also welcome knitters & returning
crocheters who want to refresh & refine
their skills.
Bring crochet hooks if you have them.
Tools available to purchase in the shop.
Materials for sample swatches provided.
Included for all Students & registered
"Grads" - or – $35.00
Winter Class: Saturday
January
24th - 1 to 4 pm
Spring Class: Saturday
April
24th - 1 to 4pm
Summer Class: Saturday
July 24th. - 1 to 4pm
Fall Class: Saturday October 2nd. - 1
to 4pm |
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Crochet
Project Group
This four week crochet project class is
designed to extend your learning of the basic stitches in the Saturday
morning class into a completed garment. As with all crafts,
you will need to practice at home, but by the end of 4 weeks you will be
able to read a pattern and create beautiful sweaters, cardigans, afghans,
hats, scarves, etc.
Included for all Students &
registered "Grads" - or – $45.00
plus materials
4 Tuesday evenings 6:30 to 8:30
Winter Class: Januuary 27th, February 3rd,
10th & 17th
Spring Class: April 27th., May 4th., May11th.,
May 18th.
Summer Class: July 27th., Aug. 3rd., Aug.10th.,
Aug.17th.,
Fall Class: October 5th., October 12th.,
19th., 26th. |
Magic
Loop
This workshop is based on
one given by Bev Galeskas of Fiber Trends at our Gone Stitchin' Weekend
and for the "Village People" on her recent visit. With her permission,
we will provide you with copies of her class notes and guide you through
the technique as described in a book published by Fiber Trends (available
for sale at $12.95), while you knit a baby sock on a single 80 to
100 cm long
circular needle.
Julia
Saturday
Morning November 2nd 9:30 to 12:30
$35.00. Tools - circular
needle 3 to 4 mm
(appropriate
for your knitting style on dk yarn knit firmly for a sock)
must be 80 to 100 cm.
long.
yarn will be provided. |
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Brush it Up! For
returning Knitters -
an intense review of basic
skills - Identify the areas that require attention
to meet your knitting goals.
Gloria
3 hours $35.00
Saturday morning 9 to noon
Fall Class: December
6th.
Winter Class: January
2004
Spring Class: March
2004
Summer Class: June
2004 |
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| One of a Kind: Calling adventurous knitters!
Beginning with a measuring tape, you produce your own knitting pattern
in the form of a full size schematic and knit your unique vest from
assorted fancy yarns |
| Qualifier |
| Cracking the Code: Knit Speak 101 Terms abbreviations, references |
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