The plan is to make small, easily accomplished Christmas gifts—in time for Christmas. December’s class is an English paper pieced ornament. We will have kits with the fabric and paper. You will need to bring a glue pen and a light colored thread (like our Aurofil thread). If you’ve never paper pieced before, this is a good introduction and the ornament will be simple to master 

We’re offering Potluck again, because….well, we like it so much. This is a quilt made from left over parts from other quilts, combined with other free form blocks that we will teach you how to make. You get to choose the size and shape of your quilt and we’ll offer suggestions on how to bring it all together. The inspiration is from the various Liberated Quilting books by Gwen Marston and Freddie Moran (found only as used books now). In the first class I will show how to make free form house blocks. I will also offer other blocks that you may choose to make to include in your quilt. This quilt can be completely scrappy/ad hoc, or you can center your blocks around a theme and/or color. 

This is a support class, plus teaching you your knits & purls. We are working on a scarf, and will move on to a hat when anyone is ready. You will learn to cast on and to knit & purl, to make the scarf. You will be changing colors when making the scarf, so you will learn different ways to join a new color and then how to weave in the ends. You will learn how to recognize your knits vs your purls, and, probably, how to unknit when you make a mistake. When you are comfortable with the basic knitting & purling, we will proceed to making a hat, knitting in the round. The hat will teach you how to decrease and increase, how to join in the round without twisting, and then more practice knitting and purling. Finally, we will do a mitten, which will teach you how to work with 5 double pointed needles. We’ll also talk about and maybe teach the Magic Loop method. Mittens also teach how to put live stitches on a “holder,” and then how to pick up and knit extra stitches in order to put the thumb on the mitten. At any point, if you want to soar off into sweater land, we will help you do that. And colorwork—making the color patterns in hats, mitts and sweaters. We’ll also talk about felting, think Christmas stockings.