Classes

Nov 26 2014

Cabled Vest (Finished)

Author: Mairi McKissock
  • Skill level: Experienced beginnerMP_Sulka sleeveless cardi
  • Dates: Thursdays, 22/Jan, 29/Jan, 12/Feb, 6:30pm-8:30pm (3 sessions, 6 hours total)
  • Instructor: Michelle Porter
  • Cost: $65 + HST + materials

This is a project class, perfect for the “newer” knitter ready to increase their skill at cables or create their first wearable garment. Michelle’s sleeveless, cabled cardigan is the best kind of design – a quick knit in a bulky yarn, relatively simple to execute, but with striking visual features and great wearability.  You will finish the class with a completed cardigan, new skills in cabling, and the confidence to tackle a wider range of garment projects.

 

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Nov 22 2014

Knitting Set-In Sleeves from the Top Down (Finished)

Author: Mairi McKissock
  • Set-in Sleeves, knit from the top down

    Set-in Sleeves, knit from the top down

    Skill level: Intermediate

  • Date: Saturday, 7/Mar, 2:00-4:00pm (1 session, 2 hours)
  • Instructor: Mary Pat McDonald
  • Cost: $25 + HST

A set-in sleeve knit downward has so many advantages over the alternative! There’s no sewing, you can try on as you go so no guessing the length, no sewing, you can perfectly match stripes to the sweater body, you’re able to try on and increase or decrease the sleeve circumference, AND there’s no sewing.  Picking up around the armhole and knitting a tube doesn’t work – it’s too bulky. In this class, you’ll learn how to pick up and shape a sleeve cap into the armhole and then knit triumphantly down.

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Nov 28 2014

Polar Vortex (Thrummed) Mittens (Finished)

Author: Mairi McKissock
  • Event ImageSkill level: Beginner/Intermediate
  • Dates: Saturdays, 17/Jan & 31/Jan, 2:00pm-4:00pm (2 sessions, 4 hours total)
  • Instructor: Sherri Bondy
  • Cost: $45 + HST + materials

Did you freeze your fingers off last year? Learn how to knit the warmest mittens known to knitters – thrummed mittens!  Tufts of unspun fibre are knitted into the insides of your mittens and guaranteed to keep your hands warm should the Polar Vortex happen again. This technique can be used for ear warmers and socks or any other pattern to keep your other parts warm. A custom designed pattern will be available to class members.

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Nov 19 2014

Chunky Fingerless Mitts (Finished)

Author: Mairi McKissock
  • Skill level: BeginnerMP_fingerless_mitts
  • Date: Thursday, 8/Jan, 6:30-8:30pm (1 session, 2 hours)
  • Instructor: Michelle Porter
  • Cost: $25 + HST + materials

Step by step, Michelle will walk you through the creation of a very basic, chunky weight fingerless mitt (one mitt of pair, both alike). This is perfect for the knitter wanting to make their first mittens, done in the round and with a simplified thumb gusset.

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Nov 21 2014

Toe-up Socks on 2 Circular Needles (Finished)

Author: Mairi McKissock
  • Skill level: IntermediateToe-Up Socks
  • Dates: Saturdays, 7/Feb 1:00-4:00pm, 21/Feb 2:00-4:00pm, 28/Feb 2:00-3:00pm (3 session, 6 hours total)
  • Instructor: Trish Denhoed
  • Cost: $65 + HST + materials

We will knit a sock from the toe up using 2 circular needles. We will fit the sock to your own foot as we go and learn this unusual method of knitting socks which does not require any grafting, and turns the heel in an unusual way. Each class will concentrate on one of the challenging parts of knitting socks: the toe, the heel, and the cast off.

 

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Nov 06 2014

Grafting—a Crash Course (Finished)

Author: Mairi McKissock
  • Grafting photoSkill level: All welcome
  • Date: Saturday, 6/Dec, 2:00-3:00pm (1 session, 1 hours)
  • Instructor: Michelle Porter
  • Cost: $15 + HST

In this short 1 hour class learn the basics of grafting in stocking stitch. This is the joining technique you need for: toes of socks, underarms, shoulders, tops of hoods and many other items.

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Apr 25 2014

Set-in sleeves, simplified

Author: Mairi McKissock

Skill level: Intermediate/ExperiencedSet-in Sleeves
Date: Thursday, 19/Jun, 6:00pm – 8:30pm (1 session, 2.5 hours)
Instructor: Michelle Porter
Cost: $30 + HST

Do you struggle with knitting patterns for sweaters and other garments designed with set-in sleeves?  You’re not alone.  Many of us have unfinished sweater projects in the backs of our closets; projects that ‘don’t seem to be working’, but we’re not sure why, or what we would need to do to fix them.  Perhaps the pattern is unclear, or poorly designed for different sizes, or we just need to make changes for our specific body measurements, and set-in sleeves can make it hard to understand how to read a pattern and modify it to fix specific problems.

Join experienced garment designer Michelle Porter for this workshop on set-in sleeves.  She will be teaching the design aspects involved in creating the sleeve cap and the armhole of a set-in sleeve sweater.  How the measurements and shaping of the pieces should correspond and come together to fit each other and the wearer exactly. This class is mostly theory, using measurements from our bodies and a tension gauge from a swatch.