New Courses

Wednesday 24^th February 2016

I am going to add 2 dates in September for Knit Gifts For Christmas.  These will be the same event, repeated.  If you are not on my email alert list, please contact me to be added this week.  The gifts will be small (1 – 3 balls of yarn, typically) and fairly fast gift-knits.  I think there will hats for adults and children and mittens for ladies (‘cos ladies love mittens.  Fact).  I can knit the adult male sized hat in three evenings or a series of The Returned on Netflix.  I can knit the mittens in a week of evenings or two series of Once Upon a Time on Netflix. So by having these in September, you get plenty of time to make a few as gifts. I was thinking of another topic for September and based on feedback, I think that would be a throw, but I think I will soon run out of weekends.  An option I’d like to explore is holding full workshops on weekdays, probably Fridays.  What do you think?  I know this will limit a lot of people, but I always teach in shops on weekdays and these classes are usually full. It would enable me to offer more dates and subjects, which I would like to do. I am also definitely going to add a new Throncho date, hopefully for 2016 but it may slip into 2017, for a special day on learning to knit my new Throncho, which is an elegant DK wool, stripy garment, knitted based on iCord casting on and iCord casting off.  Here it is: This deceptively simple looking garment is constructed in a way I have never seen used (but then, I have decided not to Google-ize it in case it has). I know iCord cast ons and offs are sometimes used to begin and complete an item, but I have used them throughout the work.  Thus, the work runs in both horizontal and vertical directions.   There is no sewing up or tacking on of iCords – they are an integral part of the design. Anyway this day will be a fairly intense teach as we will need to show you the easily-mastered but highly unusual techniques we have developed to make this work – and it works like a dream.  You will have to swatch, here, with Madam Morgan and me.  There will two item choices – the full Throncho, or a skinny scarf version.  Both are based on the same techniques. OK I am off to look in awe at the red-nose I have blooming in the middle of my face.  Maybe by the time these courses run I will less infectious – and on that happy note, be sure to let me know if you want to get an alert.