Weekend Workshop

I'm heading out to the beautiful Pacific Northwest this weekend to teach a workshop at Camp Yawatink, sponsored by Ana-Cross Stitch in Anacortes. I'll give an introduction to sweater design based on The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns. It will be the first time I teach this workshop and I can't decide if I'm expecting to accomplish too much or too little. Over the course of two days, we'll knit a baby (or teddy bear) sweater following the instructions outlined in the Handy Book. Students will choose between a V or round neck, and between drop-shoulder (blue), modified drop-shoulder (green), and set-in sleeve (rust) options. We'll work the sweaters with worsted-weight yarn and only 40 stitches for the front and back, but still, it's a fair amount of knitting. I'll talk about cast-ons, shaping, bind-offs, seaming, and picking up stitches, and whatever else comes up along the way.

Wish me luck! I sure had fun knitting sample sweaters for the class.