
| Winter 2010 Class Schedule Weekly Happenings OPEN HOUSE Thursday, 5:30-7:30 and Sunday, 1:00-3:00 Grab your needles, hooks, spinning wheels, drop spindles and come on in! Inspire and be inspired by your fellow fiber artists. Needing help with projects? Check out Studio Walk-In below. No fee. STUDIO WALK-IN Nita Porter, Pat Pennock, or Elise Clason, Instructors Thursday, 2:00-4:00 (Knitting) Friday, 5:00-7:00 (Knitting & Crocheting) Have you knit or crocheted a "problem child" and need some advice? Then Studio Walk-in is for you! Come in with your questions. Only $5.00 per session. FINISH LINE! Elise Clason, Instructor Friday, 5:00-7:00 Open shop time especially for fun and for FINISHING those stashed projects. If it sounds like this might fit in with your fall plans, if you've been wanting to get back to a particular project, or if you just want to enjoy an evening with other fiber enthusiasts - come on in! Studio Walk-In will also be available during this time if you want or need assistance. New Classes EACH WEEK, ONE SQUARE: an afghan at your own pace Elise Clason, Instructor Fridays beginning 1/29, 3:00-5:00 Every Friday, Elise will have a featured pattern for an afghan square and will help you get started knitting it. Come any week or every week. Bring prepared knitting on needles: 4 rows of garter stitch, 44 stitches per row, on needles suitable for your yarn. $10.00 plus cost of materials COLOR - A CRASH COURSE Pat Pennock, Instructor Saturday, 1/30, 10:00-3:00 (with lunch break) This four-hour workshop is an opportunity to gain a basic understanding of color relationships. Color is magic! Bring supplies: old magazines, postcards, glue stick, paper and scissors. $25.00 plus cost of materials BIRD IN THE HAND FAIR ISLE MITTENS Helen Burros, Instructor Sunday, 2/21, 3/7 and 3/21, 1:00-3:00 With the cold weather, it's time to knit mittens! And stranded mittens are warm, cozy and easy to knit in your choice of colors. Join us as we knit the Bird in the Hand mitten, a pattern designed by Jorid Linvik, a noted Norwegian designer. Helen knit her sample with Cleckheaton's Country 8 Ply. This yarn comes in many wonderful colors just waiting to be knit into mittens for the whole family! Come and join the fun as we learn the tricks to warm and cozy mittens. $36.00 plus cost of materials CROCHETED SWIRL BAG Elise Clason, Instructor Tuesday, 2/23, 3/2 & 3/9, 5:30-7:30 In this free pattern from Interweave Knits, four single crochet sections swirl around to make a sturdy handwork bag or purse. See sample at shop. Elise used Cottonwood, a 100% organic cotton from Fibranatura. $36.00 plus cost of materials KNIT ONE BELOW SCARF Bobbie Dolp, Instructor Sunday, 2/28, 10:00-12:00 This simple stitch creates wonderful effects with variegated and/or solid colored combinations. Make a scarf and become confident with this easy-to-learn technique before going on to exploring its uses in larger projects. Check out the sample scarf in the shop made with Poems yarn. Pattern can be downloaded or is available in the irresistible book of the same name, Knit One Below by Elise Duvekot. Pattern is free online as Inside Outside Scarf at www.knittinguniverse.com. $25.00 plus cost of materials CREATE YOUR OWN FAIR ISLE VEST Pat Pennock, Instructor Friday, 3/12, 3/26, 4/9 & 4/23, 5:30-7:30 Using 7 to 12 colors of yarn, each knitter will design her/his own fair isle pattern. A graph and 6" swatch are created before garment construction begins. Taking the 4-hour Color Class may be a help to your creativity. $50.00 plus cost of materials Our Favorites Offered Again! BEGINNING KNITTING Pat Pennock, Instructor Friday, 2/5, 2/12 & 2/26, 10:00-12:00 or Saturday, 2/20, 2/27 & 3/6, 1:00-3:00 or Thursday, 4/8, 4/15 & 4/22, 10:00-12:00 Hand-knit sweaters sell for hundreds of dollars - an incentive to learn how to knit your own! Knitting basically uses only two stitches - the knit stitch and the purl stitch. Once you learn these, the possibilities are endless! In addition to basic knitting, topics such as utilizing different knitting techniques, correcting mistakes, and how to read patterns will be covered. Needed supplies will be discussed at first class. $36.00 for three 2-hour classes plus cost of materials. BEYOND BEGINNING KNITTING Pat Pennock, Instructor Saturday, 5/1, 5/8 & 5/22, 1:00-3:00 Continue a project started in beginning class, develop new skills, or receive help with one of those unfinished projects. $36.00 plus cost of materials BEGINNING CROCHET Elise Clason, Instructor Tuesday, 2/2, 2/9 & 2/16, 5:30-7:30 It is the newest - and the oldest! - hip thing!! Crochet builds a whole fabric on a basic single loop stitch. Class will cover the various stitches that can be created and how to read crochet patterns. $36.00 for three 2-hour classes plus cost of materials. TOE-UP SPIRAL TUBE SOCKS Nita Porter, Instructor Saturday, 1/30, 1:00-3:00 or Saturday, 3/6, 12:00-2:00 This class is a great one for those of you who fear the "turning of the heel!" If you're just not ready to take on a heel, we have the sock class just for you. This sock begins at the toe and ends at the cuff - what could be more simple? Nita knit her sample with Raggi, a worsted weight yarn from Swedish Yarn. $15.00 plus cost of materials ENTRELAC SCARF Rachael Harms, Instructor Thursday, 2/4 & 2/25, 5:30-7:30 or Sunday, 4/11 & 4/25, 1:00-3:00 A series of building blocks, textured diamonds, or trellis patterns are terms used to describe this technique, which involves knitting and purling a series of short rows. See Rachael's sample scarf, knit from Poems, a multi-colored wool at the Rose & Ram. $25.00 plus cost of materials BABY SURPRISE JACKET Bobbie Dolp, Instructor First class Monday, 2/8, 6:00-8:00 Time for second class to be decided by participants Curious? This intriguing design produces a one-piece all garter stitch sweater whose structure is not revealed until the very end - hence the title. The pattern incorporates several basic techniques as well as the possibility of embellishments so it is perfect for knitters with all levels of expertise. Size varies with the weight of yarn and size of needle. See display items at the Rose & Ram. Sign up soon - our last class was a big success! $25,00 plus cost of materials MARIPOSA SHAWL Rachael Harms, Instructor Saturday, 2/20, 3/13, 4/3 & 4/24, 10:00-12:00 This beautiful openwork shawl, designed by Merrilee Parker for Southwest Trading Company, is an intermediate level lace project. $48.00 plus cost of materials FAIR ISLE BERET Bobbie Dolp, Instructor First class Monday, 2/22, 6:00-8:00 Time of second class to be decided by participants Have you ever been riveted by those glorious Fair Isle sweaters? A great place to gain confidence is to try your hand by knitting a beret. A seemingly complex way to knit, there are only two colors in any row. Make a beret as a first project and learn to carry those colors! See samples at the Rose & Ram. Kits come in 5 different colorways. $36.00 plus cost of materials ARAN FROM THE TOP DOWN Bobbie Dolp, Instructor First class Monday, 3/1, 6:00-8:00 Times for classes 2-4 to be decided by participants Learn how to create a sweater that fits, requires no gauge, needs no sewing and is uniquely yours! Skills taught include knitting-in-the-round, cabling, picking up stitches and design calculations. You will select your own combination of stitch patterns, thereby producing a one-of-a-kind garment. A smooth worsted weight yarn in a light, solid color will produce the best results in your class project. $50.00 plus cost of materials 'RETRO' BABY BOOTIES Nita Porter, Instructor Friday, 3/19, 5:30-7:30 and Saturday, 3/27, 1:00-3:00 This class reintroduces the retro baby booties from generations ago. It's designer wished this pattern not to be lost so here it is again! The booties knit up in either fingering, sport or DK weight yarn. See Nita's sample knit with Mandarin Petit, a 100% cotton yarn. $25.00 plus cost of materials SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS! Pat Pennock, Instructor Saturday, 3/20, 4/3 & 4/17, 10:00-12:00 This class is all about knitting in the round with 5 double pointed needles. Turning the heel, decreasing, and the kitchener stitch are covered. Pattern included with class gives instruction for knitting socks with all weights of yarn. $36.00 plus cost of materials DIAGONAL SCARF Nita Porter, Instructor Thursday, 4/8, 5:30-7:30 or Thursday, 4/22, 5:30-7:30 If you missed it before, we are offering the diagonal scarf class again! It's really fun to see this project grow. A self-striping or multiple fiber yarn is great for this project. Techniques covered include short row knitting. $15.00 plus cost of materials BEGINNING LACE: BRANCHING OUT SCARF Elise Clason, Instructor Tuesday, 4/13, 4/20 & 4/27, 5:00-7:00 This lovely scarf pattern (found on Knitty.com) for beginning lace has decreases with "branching" to the right and the left. Shop sample is knit with Terra, a bamboo/cotton blend from Southwest Trading Company. $36.00 plus cost of materials SOCKS ON CIRCS Jan Johnson, Instructor Dates and times to be announced This is a brilliant technique which you may well have heard! Two circular needles are used to knit a sock. One half of the sock is worked off the points of one circular needle, while the other needle "rests", which creates just enough of a bend to give the working needles the angle they need. This technique can also be used for cuffs, hats and any other project calling for double-pointed needles. $36.00 plus cost of materials. SPINNING CLASSES BEGINNING SPINDLE SPINNING Frances Buckovic, Instructor Call or email the Rose & Ram to set up a time Learn to spin balanced singles on a drop spindle. Cost of beginning spindle kit is $21.00. We also have spindle kits available for $38.00 without a class (written instructions included). $18.00 plus cost of spindle kit. PLYING ON THE DROP SPINDLE Frances Buckovic, Instructor Call or email the Rose & Ram to set up a time Learn to make 2-ply yarn from one or two singles. This is a follow-up to Beginning Spindle Spinning so you will need you drop spindle already full with single spun fiber. $18.00 BEGINNING SPINNING WITH YOUR WHEEL - a two part class Frances Buckovic, Instructor Call or email the Rose & Ram to set up a time Part I - Learn to spin balanced singles on your wheel. Your wheel will need to be in good working order. Wool fiber available for spinning at the time of the class. Part II - Learn to make balanced 2-ply yarn from the singles you have spun. You will need 2 bobbins filled with singles and/or 2 center-pull balls of single spun yarn and 1 empty bobbin. $40.00 plus cost of fiber and equipment if needed. |
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| HOW TO REGISTER To register for classes, send us an email at roseandram@msn.com or call (503) 838-KNIT (5648). Payment to be made at time of registration. A minimum of 3 students per class is required to ensure that classes are not cancelled, so call your friends! TO REQUEST A SPECIFIC CLASS Call the Rose & Ram Knit Shop at (503) 838-KNIT (5648) or email at roseandram@msn.com Our teachers are flexible - please let us know if you'd like to take a class but need to schedule an alternate time! SHOP HOURS Wednesday 11;00-4:00 Thursday 11:00-7:30 Friday 11:00-7:30 Saturday 11:00-4:00 Sunday 12:00-4:00 Closed Monday and Tuesday |