The Knitting School

I have wanted to offer all four knitting classes together for a while and have, at the request of a student from out of town, posted all four classes together in April with a one day break in the middle.

Beginner Intensive – Saturday April 20th & Sunday 21st

Patterning Intensive – Monday April 22nd & Tuesday April 23rd.

Ribber Intensive – Thursday April 25th & Friday April 26th.

Garment Intensive – Saturday April 27th – Monday April 29th

Cost of all four classes together $1400.

Includes all materials for swatching and finished garment and use of all Knitting School machinery.

A great opportunity to take a crash course in machine knitting.

Suitable for complete beginners.

Email or phone if you want to get one of the three remaining spots.

Sara and Stacia working on their garments

I have been working on some patterns for machine knit garments which I hope to publish later in the year. Last week I scored on some vintage machine knit pattern books on ebay. They are from the early 1930′s. The illustrations and photos are adorable. There are a couple of problems however – they are for Dubied machines and the patterns are written in French. But wait – I have a Dubied machine, two in fact, and I kinda sorta know french. I impressed myself by how much of the instructions I could understand.  The instructions seem a bit scanty – were people just smarter back then? Stay tuned for more…

Any one who has spent more than a couple of hours at The Knitting School knows I like as good mix tape.

I have spent the last hour hanging out at the ITunes store and have come up with some new tunes.

I am calling the collection “Where’s the Effing Sun” because, well, that is what I have been wondering a lot of the time.

Bon Iver – holocene

Cass McCombs – county line

Destroyer – chinatown

Great Lake Swimmers – everything is moving so fast

Merz – moi et mon camion

Great Lake Swimmers – palmistry

Andrew Bird – oh no

Sean Hayes – calling all cars

JayMay – sea green see blue

Brett Dennen – ain’t no reason

Brandi Carlile – turpentine

Brett Dennen – she’s mine

Clem Snide – our time will come

A A Bondy – mightiest of guns

Zee Avi – monte

Vanessa Carlton – paradise

….getting some new yarn and a mix tape from my friend Wren to make me get knitting…..