Miscellaneous Fiber Fun Classes

0106 Crochet for Knitters

Date: Wednesday, July 16, 1 pm to 3 pm, one session

You need not panic when a knitting pattern calls for a crochet edging. Learn how to hold the yarn, hook, and fabric, and how to work at least two edge stitches.

Required book: Getting Started: Crochet, Judith L Swartz

Optional book: Knitting Loves Crochet, Candi Jensen

Required supplies and equipment: size H hook and worsted weight wool

Pre-class homework: Knit one stockinette stitch swatch approximately 5" square (cast on 24 stitches) using size 8 needles and worsted weight yarn. Bind off loosely.

Joan Sheridan Hoover, $25 class fee, no materials fee

0101 Learn to Crochet

Dates: Wednesdays, September 17 and 24 from 1 pm to 3pm, two sessions

Learn the basics of crochet in just two lessons. If you know how to knit, crochet is a good tool to have in your arsenal, or just learn crochet for its own merits. Designers have been peppering us with tempting new patterns; this class will make it possible for you to make them. Learn single, double, and triple crochet, and how to increase and decrease in each of these stitches. You'll also learn the basics of reading a crochet pattern.

Required book: How to Crochet, Pauline Turner

Required supplies and equipment: Size H crochet hook, two colors of worsted weight wool, locking stitch markers

Joy Stimac, $35 class fee, no materials fee

0401 Learn to Tat

Dates: Thursdays, September 25 and October 3, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm, two sessions

Tatting is the art of making lace by tying well-placed knots. It isn't as hard as you'd think, but it is hard to teach yourself from a book. Enter Dorothy who is in love with all things tatting! She'll teach you the basics of tatting and how to read a pattern. We'll make a butterfly and picot edging. Yarn included.

Required supplies and equipment: Tatting shuttle and Cordennet crochet cotton (available in shop), scissors. Don't forget your reading glasses!

Dorothy Dusenbury, $35 class fee, thread not included

0499 Color Confidence

Date, 2008: Sunday, November 9

or 2009, Sunday, March 1, 12 pm to 3 pm

Learn how to make better color choices by using the color wheel, nature, and even catalogs or magazines as your guide. Diane will step you through some simple exercises that will increase your comfort with color exponentially. You'll learn what to look for when building your palette and how colors work together for knitters, spinners, and weavers.

Optional recommended book: Color Works by Deb Menz

Required supplies and equipment: TBD

Diane Lammers, $35 class fee, includes yarn for samples