Saturday Knitting Workshops
It's always interesting to learn a new technique or plan a new project and our latest workshops will help with both. Based around projects, each workshop will teach new techniques (or help you refresh your skills) and at the same time give guidance on a new project.
With Covid restrictions still in place, we are transferring our courses online. The dates and topics are listed below. When you book online courses we will book you onto the class. Two weeks before it is due to run we will e-mail you details of any preparation needed together with handouts and participation codes so that you can log on to the workshop. We can supply yarn packs and needles for the class if required or you can use up your stashes. Yarn pack details are on the booking page.
You can add yarn packs when booking.
Skills required for workshops:
Confident Beginner
Make a Mini-Hat -- Online workshop
27th March 2021 1pm till 4 pm
£40.00
By making a mini-hat, learn suitable cast on techniques, working in the round, decreasing for the crown, finishing options. You will need suitable yarn and needles to make the mini-hat (details will be sent after booking) and you can also order a yarn pack to make a full-size hat using the skills learned in the class.
Hat Yarn Pack A: 100g Croft plus two sizes of circular needles or
Hat Yarn Pack b: 100g Croft plus two sizes of double pointed needles
Please state your preferred colour in the additional information on your order.
Make our Signature Ammonite Toy
May 2021 exact date & details tbc
How to make our lovely Ammonite softie. Techniques include how to make i-cord, knitting in the round and stuffing the toy.
How Many Fingers Gloves linked workshops
Autumn 2021 exact date and details tbc
Part One: Just one thumb or How to make mittens
Part Two: A bunch of Fives or How to make Gloves
So you've got working in the round down pat and have made enough socks to clothe the family for decades to come. How about working in the round and adding fingers and thumbs in our glove workshop. Not a workshop for novices.
Extreme Lace
Date to be confirmed 2021
10 am till 3 pm
£60.00 including refreshments and lunch
Lots of us are interested in lace but don't want to make any more shawls. This workshop will have lots of ideas for projects using lace including some more unusual ideas including using wire and beads to make jewellery.
More information to follow.
Slip Stitch Variations
date to be confirmed
9.30 am till 1.30 pm
£35.00 including refreshments
Exploring how slip stitch is used to create single colour items like fisherman's rib to colourwork like mosaic.
Learn the Moebius Cast-On
date to be confirmed
9.30 am till 1.00 pm
£35.00 including refreshments
The moebius cast-on in knitting creates an infinity loop with no join. Here's how to do it.
Christmas 2021 Top-down knitting
date to be confirmed
10 am till 3 pm
£60.00 including lunch £60.00
Make a Christmas mini-sweater and turn it into buniting. Learn how top-down shaping works, how to do short rows using two different technqiues and how to choose suitable cast-ons and offs.