KNITTING

Beginning Knitting with MYS Staff
During the first 2 classes, you will learn to cast on, knit, purl, increase, decrease & cast off. On the 3rd class session, you will pick out an easy project, learn to read knitting instructions & work on your chosen project for the remainder of the course. Fee: $76/4 week session

Note:  All materials must be purchased from Mosaic Yarn Studio, Ltd.  Beginning Knitting can be taken twice.

Intermediate Knitting
You will learn more advanced techniques of your choice. For example, you can choose a simple cabled sweater pattern, a fair isle pattern, an intarsia pattern - the choice is yours! This class can be taken over and over and over and over...

Entrelac Technique with Judy Chan                                                    Learn the basic technique of entrelac including making base triangles, side triangles, rectangles and top triangles.  This is a completely NO SEW technique that forms a basketweave look.  Pick out 300 yards of worsted weight yarn (Noro Kureyon & Silk Garden work especially nice) and a size 6 needle.  Students will make a sample that can be folded into a purse or pillow or continued into a scarf. 

Color: Fair Isle & Intarsia with Kris Neuarauter                                Explore ways to incorporate color into your knitting, including fair isle and intarsia technique.  Students must have Sally Melville’s  Book 3, The Knitting Experience:  Color.  Please pick up materials sheet.

Totally Tubular with Kris Neurauter                                                         This unique felted bag uses plastic tubing as handles.  Learn how to knit over the tubing, basic grafting and picking up and knitting stitches while you make Totally Tubular, one of the new MYS designs.                           

Set-in-Sleeves in the Round with Darlene Joyce                              Learn to knit a set-in-sleeve pullover or cardigan in the round.  Students must come to class with a stockinette stitch swatch and be ready to be measured.  Using Sweater Wizard, Darlene will print out a custom pattern to fit each student’s unique body measurements.  Students will learn how to knit sleeves from the armhole down using short row shaping.  Homework required.

Continental (European) Knitting with Judy Chan                         Learning continental knitting, sometimes called picking, can help give you options while knitting.  Some knitters find that they can knit more evenly and quickly with this method. 

My First Sweater with Darlene Joyce                                                       Use Ann Budd’s book, The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns and the yarn of your choice to make a basic pullover sweater or cardigan in any size.  The set-in-sleeve is flattering to almost all body types.  Couture techniques are taught to refine your knitting repertoire.                   

Multi-directional Scarf with Judy Chan                                                  Have fun with a new way to make a scarf.  This scarf uses short rows and changes directions as you knit, resulting in interlocking triangles.  It is surprisingly easy and fun to do.  Use novelty yarns like Prism for a more dressy look or a self-striping yarn like Noro for a more casual look                                     

Correcting Mistakes with Darlene Joyce                                                Are you tired of running in to the shop every time the stitches fall off the needle?  Come and learn how to correct common mistakes made while knitting.  You will learn to pick up dropped stitches in stockinette, garter, and at the end of the row.   The class will include exercises in dropping down pattern stitches, picking up dropped stitches and ripping out rows of knitting and getting stitches back on the needle.  Please pick up homework sheet.          

Crayon Box Jacket with Darlene Joyce                                                   Learn how to combine different weights of yarns and work mitered squares to create Chris Bylsma’s one-of-kind Crayon Box Jacket.  No two jackets are the same!  Children’s sizing also available

Crystalline Shawl with Judy Chan                                                     Designed by Karen Joan Raz, this beautiful lace shawl has a unique shape.  Using simple decreases and yarn overs, this elegant shawl is not as difficult as it looks.  Judy will give tips on how to read a lace chart and how to block the finished shawl.                                                  

The Icing with Kris Neurauter                                                              

Learn a new cable technique while making a top-down raglan sweater.  The Icing, an MYS design, uses unique cables that act as buttonholes.  This class is perfect for knitters looking for a second sweater or a first sweater with a bit of a challenge.                        

Felted Bowls with Darlene Joyce                                                          Learn how to make a basic felted bowl.  Bring two skeins of worsted weight wool (i.e. Ella Rae classic)--two skeins will make two bowls and a 24” circular and double pointed needle in size 11 .  Students will learn how to work an applied I-cord to the top of the bowl before felting and how to felt the bowl in the washing machine.  Pattern is free!

Kumihimo Fiber Necklaces  with Marilyn Speh                                         Kumihimo is the Japanese art of braiding.  It means the “gathering of threads”.  In this class you will spend some time picking fibers for your necklace, purse handle, cording for a sweater or possibly a belt.  There are many uses for a braided cord.  For those wishing to make a necklace, there will be an optional class for $10 to finish the necklace with wire and findings.                                

Crystal Tennis Bracelet  with Marilyn Speh                                               Don't you just love crystal bracelets?  If so, come and take Marilyn's latest class, a Swarovski crystal bracelet, in a color of your choice.  This bracelet is one that you will just love having in your jewelry collection.  Pair it with your gold or silver bangle for an elegant look.  You may choose your crystal at class time.  The color choices are:  Fire Opal, Ruby, Padparadscha, Black Diamond, Crystal AB, Amethyst, Crystal Copper, Silver Shade, Light Colorado Topaz, Light Smoky Topaz and Tanzanite.  Kit cost is $38                                                     

These clogs are the perfect gift for the whole family!  Learn the fun process of felting!