We are welcoming spring at the Studio with exciting new master classes! Knitting experts Edie Eckman and Cat Bordhi will both be teaching advanced knitting techniques in May. These classes go on sale February 24th!
About Edie Eckman
Edie Eckman has her hands in many aspects of the fiber arts—teaching, writing, designing and editing. Her designs are contemporary classics accessible to the average knitter or crocheter; they have appeared in many yarn company publications, magazines and pattern leaflets.
Edie travels extensively teaching at conventions, shops and guilds. She enjoys sharing in that “aha” moment when her students grasp a new technique. She is the author of Around the Corner Crochet Borders, How to Knit Socks: Three Methods Made Easy, The Crochet Answer Book and Beyond-the-Square Crochet Motifs, as well as many other books and pattern leaflets.
About Cat Bordhi
Cat Bordhi’s mission, according to Stephanie Pearl McPhee, “is to make you a more creative, freethinking knitter who problem-solves and experiments with vigor and fearlessness. The best part? She can.”
Cat teaches and inspires more than a 1,000 knitters each year in classes all over North America. Her Youtube knitting tutorials have more than a million views, and her innovative books, Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, A Treasury of Magical Knitting, A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting, New Pathways For Sock Knitters, Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters, Cat’s Sweet Tomato Heel Socks, and an award-winning novel, Treasure Forest, have reached hundreds of thousands of readers. For more information, visit www.catbordhi.com.
7 Techniques to Instantly Make You a Better Knitter
In any class I teach, I always find myself spontaneously adding various useful techniques from my rather large bag of tricks. I’ve gotten used to hearing knitters say, “This one thing is worth the price of the workshop!”.
This class integrates mini-tutorials on some of my most appreciated techniques into an elegant cowl that is a relatively quick knit (I’ve had a few students complete it in the 6 hours of class time). You will learn the stretchy Crocodile Cast-On; how to determine cast-on tail length needed; how to digest and internalize a chart; how to perfect your SSK lines with “Hungry Stitch”; how to work pairs of crossed stitches without extra tools; how to draw stitches and read your knitting; Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off; and how to create smooth chain closure to a circular edge. And best of all, you will have practiced these techniques enough times in the cowl to remember them and make them a part of your permanent knitting know-how.
Friday May 17,
Tuition: $95
How to Say It: Technical Writing for Knitters and Crocheters
If you have a design you’d like to get published, or even if you just want to share your design with other knitters or crocheters, you need to be able to write it so others can read it.
Learn how to craft a well-written pattern, avoiding typical mistakes along the way. Explore the joys and pitfalls of describing grading for a number of different sizes, and pick up tips for getting your designs accepted for publication. Go home with a pattern template you can use for writing your own patterns. This is NOT a pattern drafting (number crunching) class, but a class in technical writing.
Sunday May 12th
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Tuition: $65
Join as you Go
Join-as-you-go (JAYGo) methods may be the easiest way to put your crocheted motifs together, but which method is best for which situations? How do you maintain maximum portability while adding more and more motifs? What’s the best way to join different shapes? How do you minimize the number of ends? What do seven bridges in Königsberg have to do with crochet?
Learn the answers to these and many other questions in this fun hands-on class. You’ll be amazed at how many fast-and-fun ways there are to connect those shapes.
Sunday May 12th
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Tuition: $65
Cat’s Sweet Tomato Heel Socks
When this new heel emerged on my needles in December, 2010, I thought I was dreaming. I had by chance done one small thing, and suddenly a smooth round heel (simple and clean like a tomato) came into being.
The sock is pleasant and rhythmic to work, and can be toe up or top down, with the heel in stockinette, heel stitch, in a twisted stitch variation, or even with a small intarsia motif. Once the process is understood, the average knitter can apply it to any size sock and proceed without written directions. In this workshop, you will learn to knit a Sweet Tomato Heel, how to fit different shapes of feet, and be inspired by the ease of adding designs. My goal is that you will be able to join the chorus of knitters who tell me that this is the easiest sock they’ve ever knit and that now they can grab yarn and needles and run out of the house, knowing they can knit socks to fit. The class will include an assortment of my favorite related tips and techniques, including ways to use the Sweet Tomato Heel method for shaping sweaters, hoods, and other garments.
Sunday May 19th
10:00 am – 5:00 pm (with a 1 hour lunch)
Tuition: $95
