Our Hard Cider pullover class started this past weekend – it felt wonderful to me to start another class! I thought I’d bring you up to date on where the other classes stand. First, our Hat Challenge starts this Saturday and still has some space available. Here are all Karen’s beautiful samples –
and I don’t know how anyone can resist them! I want them all. Soft, warm, and full of style and charm, these are the gifts people want and the projects to build your skills and knitting confidence! (Sorry about the little black Purly blotch; she photo-bombed everything this past week.)
Deb’s Mukluk Slipper and Bamboo Field Mitt classes also still have openings. If you’d like to learn how to use double-pointed needles to knit in the round (which is the traditional way to make a sock or knit a sleeve, for instance), Mukluks
will give you the experience without the tiny yarn and needles. If, however, if you think Magic Loop is more your style, the mitts
will teach you the technique and you can make socks, sleeves, tops of hats, and other small-diameter items using a long circular needle. Try both techniques and see which suits you, and you’ll be ready for a sock class in the spring!
Deb’s Concetta Cardigan class is filling up fast. Her model is wonderful – the style is cozy and the wool is warming; no one wants to take it off! This is terrible photo, but it was still a little damp when I took it so I didn’t want to hang it up:
So, there are still opportunities to make something warm, woolly, and wonderful this winter! I, however, on this frigid day, am knitting with a shiny linen blend yarn in a lacy pattern for spring. And believe me, I yearn for a lovely pile of wool on my lap! And speaking of lovely piles of woolly goodness, we have a pile of lovely hats to be donated to the homeless,
and thanks to everyone who knitted one! (or two, or three…) This will be an on-going thing: I’ll donate a ball of Encore and the free Plymouth pattern to anyone who wants to knit a hat. It’s easy TV knitting and a worth-while use of your time.
