Instructor: Sandi 2 meetings $40

Almost a sweater, almost a wrap, a shrug is the perfect thing to keep you warm without weighing you down. Come learn the secrets of the shrug that are simple, yet give impressive results. This is the ultimate year round garment. Snugly enough in the cold of winter for keeping you warm while you knit or are at your desk, wonderful for keeping the chill off as spring starts to roll around, perfect for our cool summer evenings and comforting as a fall staple. You will want several. This pattern is easy to adapt for sleeve length, different stitch pattern and yarns.

Materials: worsted or bulky weight yarn, approximately 400-600 yards, needles to match gauge of yarn. Store sample is knit with Cuzco and #10’s

Instructor: Darlene Hayes 1 class (3 hrs) $35.00
Knit a Sweetheart Purse - Combinations of more than one shaping technique in a knitted fabric can produce all manner of fanciful pieces. This class explores what happens when you combine a mitered square, short rows, and seed stitch to make a sweet heart shape that can be used to make a purse or a sachet.

1 skein of sport weight cotton
Size 5 circular needles, at least 16″ long.

Shelli,Instructor 2 classes $60.00

Knitting from the top down is my favorite way to design a simple shrug or sweater, you can customize your garment as you are knitting, short sleeve, long sleeve, short body, long body, add some cables, or maybe some lace what ever you choose you will be knitting it all in one piece so when you get to the end you will just put it right on! No Seaming up!
Materials: aprox. 800 to 1200 yds, any gauge yarn
Needles to match yarn you pick ( Denise Interchangeable are great for this class! )
10 stitch markers

Teachers: Shelli & Ana & Anna Louise

Every Tuesday Evening 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.    
Four Classes for $40.00 or One Class for $15.00

Our ever popular knitting night remains in place every Tuesday. Please sign up in advance. Space is limited. This is a very social group so be ready to laugh while you knit a bit. No refunds for this class!

Materials List: Bring your projects your working on and need help with!

Working with Traditional Dyes - Ancient and Modern

Instructor Darlene Hayes 1 class 6 hours $60.00 & $35.00 materials Fee

Nature-based dyes have been used for millenia to bring color to the world of textiles. After a century of declining use, these dyes are increasingly being taken up by textile dyers that want to work with the multifaceted colors produced by nature and also lessen their impact on the environment.
In this workshop participants will learn the basics of using nature dyes including extracting color from various materials, shifting colors with minerals, acids and bases, and identifying new dye sources. We will work with a variety of traditional plant and insect dyes as well as discuss local plants that can be used as sources of color. Each student will go home with a detailed handout to guide their future dyeing experiments and 9 full skeins of brightly color yarn. (Students end up with a lot of usable yarn - 9 50g skeins)

Darlene Hayes is the owner and creative brain behind Hand Jive (www.handjiveknits.com), a small company specializing in naturally-dyed yarns. This is her third career, after working as a reserach moledular biologist and an intellectual property attorney. She started experimenting with natural dyes more than 30 years ago, particularly those that are local to Northern California, and has made them the focal point of her current business. Sold under the brand name Nature’s Palette®, Darlene’s yarns can be found in shops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe and appear in such books as The Natural Knitter by Barbara Albright, The Yarn Lovers Guide to Hand Dyeing by Linda Labelle, Son of a Stitch and Bitch by Debbie Stoller, New Pathways for Sock Knitters: Book One by Cat Bordhi, Sock Innovation: Knitting Techniques & Patterns for One-of-a-Kind Socks by Cookie A, and More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson and Anna Williams (coming in September 2010) and in a variety of magazines (including some really stunning cuffs desined by Nancy Bush for Piecework in 2006). She continues to be amazed at the magic that comes out of the dye pots!

Instructor: Cheryl 2 class meetings, $40.00
Expand your knitting skills by making this small wrap that can also be worn as a scarf. You will learn a rib stitch with a twist, short row shaping by creating and picking up wraps and turns, and a lace edging. The leaf edging is a 14 row repeat that is added perpendicular to the body of the wrap. If you’ve wanted to knit on fingering weight yarn, but not on a size 0-3 needle this is the project for you.
Materials: Approximately 300 yards of fingering or sport weight yarn, 24+” US #6 or #7 circular needle, DPN for edging, 2 removable stitch markers.