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Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, CA

FEB. 23-26, 2017

THURSDAY 2-3Follow Your Bunny: The Creative Life From A to Q with Franklin Habit

Teachers à la Carte Luncheon

Student Market Preview

FRIDAY 4Fashion Show & Dinner

Pajama Party

SATURDAY 5From KNITTER’S Pages With Rick Mondragon

Student Banquet & Style Show

The Key to Selecting Your Classes 6Class Schedule 7-8Teachers & Classes 9-65Schedule of Events 66Hotel Info 66Registration Form 67

Classes &Events

Franklin Habit

Introducing Franklin Habit, debuting at STITCHES West 2017. Designer, teacher, author and illustrator.

Gaze upon wonders seldom exhibited for public view,

from the Couch of Despair to

the Bathtub of Revelation to

the terrifying

Deadline That Just Wouldn’t Die.

FOLLOWYOUR

BUNNY

If you’re coming to STITCHES West, you already know the joy of creating beautiful and useful things by hand. But is it possible to overdo it? What if your creative well runs dry? What if you find yourself up to your elbows in yarn, utterly bereft of the urge to cast on?

Author, designer, and long-time STITCHES instructor Franklin Habit invites you to take a lavishly illustrated, rollicking backstage tour of the creative process, drawing upon the coffee-and-chocolate-soaked wisdom and tears of folks whose lives depend upon the needle and the hook, the spindle and the loom.

thecreative

life FROM

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OPENING DAYThursday 10am

Be forewarned, though…

making pretty things isn’t

always pretty.

Franklin’s stories will help and inspire you to keep your own creativity fresh and vibrant; to throw off the shackles of negativity; and to expand your horizons as a maker without fear or hesitation.

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5:00-8:00 PM Student Market Preview Attendees only At STITCHES Market, vendors from around the world gather to bring their newest and best to fiber enthusiasts. Thursday night's special preview is open to all attendees. Your student badge gets you in the door and gives you the chance to shop before the Market is open to the public.

Thursday

NOON Teachers à la Carte Luncheon Included in the WORKS and ALMOST the WORKS packages Food, fun, and first impressions: Wonder what a class is all about? Join us for lunch and table-side visits from STITCHES instructors.

Teachers à la Carte Luncheon

Student Market Preview

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6:30 PM Fashion Show: STITCHES Market in Motion! Included in the WORKS and ALMOST the WORKS packages. See the best of the STITCHES Market and the knitting universe live on stage! Knitter’s Magazine editor, Rick Mondragon, hosts this exciting, full-runway show. Be inspired to knit and crochet as our professional models take to the catwalk with some of the most beautiful garments from STITCHES Market.

8:00 PM Fashion Show Dinner Included in the WORKS and ALMOST the WORKS packages. Following the Fashion Show, join us for a great dinner where winners walk out the door with prizes galore!

10:00 PM Pajama Party Kick off your shoes, slide on your slippers, and join in the fun and games.

Friday

Pajama Party

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Fashion Show & Dinner

February 23–26

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February 23–26

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NOON From the pages of KNITTER'S Magazine with Rick Mondragon Celebrate a rich history of knitting excellence as Rick Mondragon, editor, takes you through the pages of the current Knitter’s Magazine.

6:30 PM Student Banquet and Style Show Included in the WORKS and ALMOST the WORKS packages.

This is what STITCHES is all about ! You'll be amazed and inspired as knitters and crocheters share their best pieces and the stories behind them. Join in and you'll be eligible to receive a Participation award. And even if you don't step onstage, you are eligible to win one of the many Banquet Door Prizes donated by STITCHES vendors AND the Banquet Grand Prize — The STITCHES Works package to a future event!

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Student Banquet

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• Opening Day Spotlight

• Teachers à la carte Luncheon

• 18 class hours

• Fashion Show & Dinner

• Student Banquet

THE WORKS

• Opening Day Spotlight

• Teachers à la carte Luncheon

• 21 class hours

• Fashion Show & Dinner

• Student Banquet

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CLASS LEVELS:

No skills required No knitting or crochet skills required Easy You should know the basics of knitting or crochet, how to increase and decrease, and have made at least one project. Intermediate You should have worked with a few stitch patterns and should be familiar with basic project shaping. Advanced You should have made several projects in various stitch patterns and should be comfortable making minor changes to patterns. Advanced is fun and challenging for thinking knitters.

Key to Selecting Your ClassesCLASS LENGTH IN HOURS:

Indicates a 3-hour or 6-hour class.

CLASS COLOR & NUMBER:The COLOR of the box indicates the type of class

and 4 digits make up the CLASS NUMBER.

SKILL LEVEL:Definitions of skill levels are

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NOTE: Certain skills OR additional fees required for this class. (Fees payable in cash to the teacher in class.)

3056 3 Hrs Easy Design Your Own Socks Create socks that fit your feet and match your wardrobe! Note: Need the ability to knit in the round.

2000’s Finishing Finesse

3000’s Garment Shaping & Designing 4000’s Projects & More Projects

8000’s Crochet

6000’s Stitch Patterns & Textures

7000’s Extras

1000’s Color & Creativity

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5000’s Techniques & Tips for Knitters

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2000’s Finishing Finesse 3000’s Garment Shaping & Designing 4000’s Projects & More Projects

8000’s Crochet6000’s Stitch Patterns & Textures 7000’s Extras

1000’s Color & CreativityCLASS COLOR CODES

5000’s Techniques & Tips for Knitters

TEACHERS THURSDAY afternoon 1:30–4:30 FRIDAY morning 8:30–11:30 FRIDAY afternoon 2:00–5:00

Denise Bell 4100 Wrapped in Warmth: Shetland Hap Shawl

Lorilee Beltman 5082 Continental Knitting Intro 5150 Never Look Up Kitchener Again 6208 Fun Fabrics for Continental Knitters

Steven Berg 3141 Big City Knits in a Hot Minute

Anne Berk 5241 Gauge Master Class 1040 A New Approach to Intarsia 1042 Intarsia in the Round

Jill Bigelow Suttle 3132 Customizing Your Mitered Squares 1068 Color Play

Marly Bird 4078 My First Pair of Gloves 5252 Miter Me This, Miter Me That 8048 Single Crochet Entrelac

JC Briar 5004 Charts Made Simple 7093 Manage Those Numbers!

Laura Bryant 1002 Intro to Color 1060 Color Gradations

Christine Bylsma 2001 Beyond Basic Buttons 5006 Stashology 201 2003 Eight Empowering Edges

Lily Chin 5247 Knit-in, No-sew Pockets 1063 Designing & Charting Your Own Original Cables 3096 Draping a Pattern

Cindy Craig 2016 Seams Made Simple

Carson Demers 7006 Ergonomics for Knitters

Judith Durant 8071 Beady Bangles 4099 Bead Up Your Knitting

Elise Duvekot 6010 Columns of Color with Knit One Below 4019 How Do Your Socks Get Striped with Knit One Below

Edie Eckman 5244 Mastering Mosaics 8068 Crochet Confidence 3143 Pattern Writing Workshop

Candace Eisner Strick 2018 Skirts for Every Body 5229 Thumbs Up Continental 4103 Morphing a Mobius

Margaret Fisher 2025 Advance Seaming: Texture, Color, Pattern 5013 Seven Things that Can Make or Break a Sweater 2044 Zip, Button, Tie: Creative Closures

Karen Frisa 5273 Floating Away 1071 Fabulous Fair Isle 5208 Mysterious Illusion Knitting

Franklin Habit 5270 A Sense of Proportion 6124-2 Weave the Center, Knit the Edge: Part 2

Susanna Hansson

Cecilia Ho 7105 Felt-a-Tote: 2D Needle Felting 7106 Felt Applique on Your Own Knit Scarf/Sweater 7107 Wet Felt Soap, Pod Vessel & Keepsake Bowl

Michelle Hunter 5129 Sock Bucket List 5128 Navajo Knitting 5230 Short-Row Round Up

Deborah Jarchow 7056 Beginning Weaving for Knitters 7053 Learn Rigid-heddle Weaving and Use Up Your Stash

Barry Klein 6111 Slip Sliding Away 3015 Perfect the Fit

Patty Lyons 5275 Twice the Fun, Half the Work 5276 Fantastic Cast-ons and Bind-offs 5277 Miraculous Cable Fixes

Jennifer Miller 3131 Shawl Shaping: Design Your Own Shawl 4089 EZ’s Baby Surprise Jacket Explicated! 1055 Color Confidence with Handpainted Yarns

John Mullarkey 6124-1 Weave the Center, Knit the Edge: Part 1 7103 Ply-split Braided Scarf

Shannon & Jason Mullett-Bowlsby 8074 Creating FAB Fabrics 7104 Stitch and Click 8069 Couture Finishing for Crochet & Knitting

Sarah Peasley 6083 Basic Fair Isle Techniques 6112 Basic Double-knitting Techniques 6212 Basic Entrelac Techniques

Alasdair Post-Quinn 5153 Intro to Double Knitting 5155 Double Knitting Lace 5232 Double Knitting Off the Grid

Gayle Roehm 6017 Challenging Stitches from Japanese Designs 5033 Understanding Japanese Knitting Patterns

Leslye Solomon 2011 Buttonholes and Bands for Better Cardigans 4105 Knit a Beautiful Log Cabin Throw

Stacey Trock 4111 Knit your First Top-down Sweater

Kennita Tully 3137 Sleeves are a Breeze 3136 Side-to-Side: Shaping with Short Rows 5267 Loosen Up with Asymmetry

Jennifer Vancalcar 7111 Dye Your Own Yarn

Beth Whiteside 5095 Round Up! 4 Ways to Knit in the Round

Andrea Wong 5002 Portuguese Style of Knitting

Myra Wood 8075 Modern Irish Crochet 1053 Knit a Quilt 1070 Gradient Magic

Anna Zilboorg 6064 Twisted Traveling Stitches

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2000’s Finishing Finesse 3000’s Garment Shaping & Designing 4000’s Projects & More Projects

8000’s Crochet6000’s Stitch Patterns & Textures5000’s Techniques & Tips for Knitters 7000’s Extras

1000’s Color & CreativityCLASS COLOR CODES

TEACHERS SATURDAY morning 8:30–11:30 SATURDAY afternoon 2:00–5:00 SUNDAY morning 8:30–11:30 SUNDAY afternoon 1:30–4:30

Denise Bell 2057 Magic Tricks with Wires and Pins 6121 The Unst Effect: Shetland Shawls

Lorilee Beltman 6207 Colorful Cables 3 Ways 5082 Continental Knitting Intro 2059 Totally Tubular

Steven Berg 5256 Mix Your Six 4101 New Perspectives on Unique Garments and Amazing Accessories

Anne Berk 1065 Round and Round We Go! 1066 Stranded/Fair Isle Knitting 1067 Putting it All Together

Jill Bigelow Suttle 5234 Cables Front and Back 6095 Slip Stitch Mania 5131 Cables Decoded

Marly Bird 5141 Four Play: How to Master DPNs 3084 Curvy Knits: Plus-size Knitting 3109 Becoming a Designer

JC Briar 3140 Mapping Lace Scarves 3125 Wedge Shawl Design 6210 Beginning Brioche

Laura Bryant 1039 Magic Number Knitting 6137 Beyond Basic Chevrons 1054 Intro to Ikat 3142 Stash Down!

Christine Bylsma 2026 Steeks to the Rescue 3054 Pocket Possibilites 2002 Joy of Finishing

Lily Chin 3008 Custom Fitting Existing Patterns 5300 Join-as-you-go, No-sew Pockets 5007 Tips and Tricks with Lily

Cindy Craig 7092 Zippy Zippers

Carson Demers 7009 Swatchbuckling 7085 My Aching Hands (and Wrists) 7006 Ergonomics for Knitters

Judith Durant 5265 Increase, Decrease 5272 Bead Knitting 101 5266 Dress Up Your Cables

Elise Duvekot 6010 Columns of Color with Knit One Below 5228 Avoiding the Dreaded Purl Blips 4072 Beaded Bag with Knit One Below

Edie Eckman 8072 Understanding Symbol Crochet 5226 Unlearn to Knit 5137 No-longer-a-novice Knitting Knowledge 4084 No Wrong-side Scarves

Candace Eisner Strick 3134 Basically Yours: Custom Skirts 3144 Gores, Godets, and Insets 3108 Scallops: They’re Not Just for Dinner 7021 Kumihimo: Japanese Braiding

Margaret Fisher 3122 Demystifying Set-in Sleeves 2006 Superb Seams 5249 Stripes and Steeks

Karen Frisa 5274 Learn from Your Swatch 6143 Infinite Cables

Franklin Habit 6091 Knitted Tessellations 6129 Carved in Wool: Bavarian Twisted Stitch 3065 Working with Antique Patterns

Susanna Hansson 3013 Japanese Short Rows 4049 Jogless Fibonacci Stripes 6027 Bohus Stickning

Cecilia Ho 7108 3D Wool Charm Needle Felting 7109 Wet Felt Knitting Needle Case 7110 Animal Portrait Needle Felting 101

Michelle Hunter 4104 Navajo Intarsia 1051 Two Colors=Too Much Fun

Deborah Jarchow 7101 Color Blending on the Loom 7100 Weaving a Mohair Scarf

Barry Klein 3120 It’s a Swing Thing 6014 Style with a Twist

Patty Lyons 3135 Customizing Sweater Patterns 6211 Let It GO: Drop-stitch Patterns 5260 Improve Your Knitting Techniques

Jennifer Miller

John Mullarkey 7098 The Ultimate Band! Card Weaving Primer 7102 Tablet Weaving: Woven Shoe Laces

Shannon & Jason Mullett-Bowlsby 3133 Fashion, Fit, Form, and Function 7104 Stitch and Click 8077 Crochet Cables

Sarah Peasley 6108 Basic Cable Techniques 3028 A Well-executed Sleeve Cap 4082 Downside Up Socks 5031 Preventing and Fixing Mistakes

Alasdair Post-Quinn 5153 Intro to Double Knitting 5152 Multi-color Double Knitting

Gayle Roehm 5233 A Sampler of Japanese Tips & Tricks 8032 Getting Started with Japanese Crochet 6213 Lace Stitches from Japan 6220 Three-dimensional Embellishments

Leslye Solomon 5038 Continental Knitting 3130 Designing Knits from Sewing Patterns

Stacey Trock 4106 Beginning Shawl Bootcamp

Kennita Tully 1064 Painting on Knits 6214 Shadow Knitting 6215 Slide into Colorful Reverse

Jennifer Vancalcar 7111 Dye Your Own Yarn

Beth Whiteside 7068 KLITCH Your Knits

Andrea Wong 8060 Turkish Crochet 5242 Peruvian Purls, Puntas, Picas & Popcorn 5235 Hooked on Knitting

Myra Wood 3052 Creative Knitting Crazy-quilt Style 1048 Pattern-free Possibilities

Anna Zilboorg 2024 Embroider Your Knitting 5103 Surprisingly Special Techniques

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When she was growing up, Denise always performed some kind of handwork. When she learned to knit she was instantly addicted. Wherever she looks, Denise sees pattern, so it’s no surprise that her knitting emphasis is lace.

Travel and spending time in the natural world provide more inspiration; she recently visited Shetland and Scotland to delve further into the history of fine lace knitting. Her business, Lost City Knits, named for the community nearest her Oklahoma farm, offers fine, hand-dyed yarns and original designs. She also teaches at shops and festivals including STITCHES Expos, DFW Fiber Fest, and the Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza. When not knitting, teaching, dyeing, or designing, Denise puts her pattern-seeking abilities to work solving cryptic crossword puzzles, and because no one can do just one thing, she also kayaks on lakes and streams near her eastern Oklahoma home. Along with her husband, she is the author of the book Ultima Thule: Patterns Inspired by the Shetland Islands.

For more about Denise, go to www.lostcityknits.com.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 4100  3 hrs Easy Wrapped in Warmth: The Shetland Hap Shawl Not all Shetland shawls are knit from skinny yarn and can pass through a wedding ring. While we love those that do, the traditional Shetland Hap Shawl is generally knit with jumper-weight (fingering-weight) yarn in the natural colors of true Shetland-bred sheep. In this class we’re going to add a little twist to the traditional everyday Shetland shawl. Bring 3 to 5 solid-colored fingering-weight non-superwash wool yarns to class. While the traditional choices are natural sheep colors, your swatch need not be so. Scraps of 100-200 yards are perfectly fine for our swatch. (There is a time and place for multicolored superwash sock yarns, but this is neither.) For this class you’ll choose one of your colors as your main color and plan the others to coordinate a pleasing palette. We’ll discuss traditional techniques and color placement in class and work on a swatch to learn the basics of modern Hap Shawl construction. Finally, we’ll discuss how to block/dress a Hap Shawl.

Note: Should have some chart reading experience.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am2057  3 hrs Intermediate Magic Tricks with Wires and Pins Every lace shawl knitter talks about the ‘magic’ of blocking.

Turning a puddle of finished lace knitting into a striking shawl takes more than just the waving of a magic wand. It also takes tools and attention to detail.

In this class we will look at typical shawl shapes and discuss how to use blocking wires, pins, rulers, foam mats, a towel, and a yard stick to stretch and pin them for maximum jaw-dropping lace effect.

A variety of shawls will be on hand but students are welcome to bring an additional lace shawl to facilitate discussion and demonstration.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm and Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6121  6 hrs Advanced The Unst Effect: Shetland Shawls The northern-most reaches of Scotland are the Shetland Islands, renowned for their wool and knitting traditions. By the time one travels north to the island of Unst, one is quickly running out of Scotland. However, the lace there is worth the trek.

When Shetland lace was presented to Queen Victoria, her excitement sparked aristocratic interest and launched the most popular era for the Shetland lace industry.

In this class we will discuss the traditional methods used in Shetland shawls and consider current techniques for their construction, including both ‘inward’ and ‘outward’ progressions. Denise’s photographs of Shetland lace will be available.

Note: Students must be skilled at working standard increases and decreases, be proficient at chart reading, and have experience with lace-weight yarn.

This class begins on Saturday afternoon and concludes on Sunday morning.

Denise Bell

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This former yarn shop owner’s experience providing answers for a steady stream of questioning knitters taught her the value of delivering an honest answer with kindness. Since 2009, she has enjoyed her students at national events and looks forward to meeting you in class! She urges her students to try projects that introduce new techniques.

Lorilee is the Techniques columnist for Knitty.com, a Craft Yarn Council certified knitting instructor, a TNNA designer/teacher member, and an instructor at Craftsy.com and Interweave. Lorilee’s continental knitting video has over a million views on Youtube. While she enjoys teaching continental to those who want to learn it, she appreciates all knitting styles. She urges her students to try projects that introduce new techniques. Her articles and designs have been published in The Ultimate Hat Book, Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin’ Sock Club, Vogue Knitting Magazine, Interweave Knits Magazine, Interweave Sockupied eMag, Twist Collective, and Beyond Toes by Judy Becker.

Tent-camping with her husband and boys has brought Lorilee to over twenty National and Provincial Parks. Lorilee grew up in Pittsburgh, spent 30 years in west Michigan, and now calls Seattle home.

For more about Lorilee, go to www.lorileebeltman.com OR https://www.facebook.com/LorileeBeltmanKnittingEnabler.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5082 3 hrs Easy Pick Your Knits and Purls: Continental Knitting Introduction When you learn continental knitting, you will minimize your hand motions for a more comfortable, and perhaps speedier, way to knit. Each finger has a job to do. Understand exactly what motions have a bearing on stitch gauge (it’s not what you think!). Learn to create even knitting by sizing your knits and purls equally. Learn how your choice of tools affects your outcome. Practice the knit stitch, then move on to purl, increases, decreases, and ribbing, where efficiency really pays off.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5150 3 hrs Intermediate Never Look Up the Kitchener Stitch Again! Do you have to look up instructions for the Kitchener Stitch graft every time you work it? Learn this essential skill, then memorize it by using economized moves and training your eyes and fingers to work together. We’ll work it in stockinette stitch first, proceed to garter stitch, and then work one option for grafting ribbing. Imagine being able to take a phone call while grafting. You can do it! This is not a class for grafting in any pattern, but rather it is aimed at an understanding and to memorizing the basics.

Once you have become comfortable with the technique, we’ll look at existing patterns for opportunities to refine your knitting. You can plan your way to a more professional, finished look by exchanging one of these grafts for what is called for in the pattern.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm6208 3 hrs Intermediate Fun Fabrics for Continental Knitters Any style of knitting is equally valid. One should always knit in the style that pleases them. If you are a continental knitter, I invite you to explore with me some knitting textures and patterns that are, if I may be frank, a bit easier or more swiftly accomplished in the continental style. We’re talking about textures that involve lots of needle gymnastics, or lots of bringing of the yarn forward and backward.

I’ve hunted for textures and colorwork that you are unlikely to have tried before. Among them: Tunisian knit stitch, Estonian lace with nupps, and colorwork variations. Come ready to play.

Note: You must be comfortable knitting in continental style.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6207 3 hrs Intermediate Colorful Cables Three Ways You don’t have to choose between texture and color in your knitting. You can have both. In this class we’ll knit 3 swatches, worked flat. In one motif we’ll work 2-handed-stranded knitting with cables. In another, we’ll try our hand at 2-stitch-wide cables offset by the main color. In a third, our colorful cables will travel over a reverse stockinette background. I’ll have a fourth option in our handout, if there’s time.

Speaking of having it both ways: we’ll learn how to make these cables traditionally with a cable needle and be a little radical and learn to make them without!

Note: Students should be able to accomplish a simple 2/2 right cross and left cross cables before attending this class.

Lorilee Beltman

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Saturday 2:00 pm-5:00 pm5082 3 hrs Easy Pick Your Knits and Purls: Continental Knitting Introduction When you learn continental knitting, you will minimize your hand motions for a more comfortable, and perhaps speedier, way to knit. Each finger has a job to do. Understand exactly what motions have a bearing on stitch gauge (it’s not what you think!). Learn to create even knitting by sizing your knits and purls equally. Learn how your choice of tools affects your outcome. Practice the knit stitch, then move on to purl, increases, decreases, and ribbing, where efficiency really pays off.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am2059 3 hrs Easy Totally Tubular For crisp, professional edges to your knitted ribbing, tubular is the way to go. Students will learn and practice a tubular cast-on for both k1, p1 and k2, p2 ribbing. We will learn the method that requires no waste yarn nor crochet hook, which means no picking out waste yarn. On our swatches, we then learn and practice the tubular bind-off for each, so that our sweater beginnings and endings can look fabulous and match exactly.

The teacher’s goal is to have the student understand and practice to the point of no longer needing to look up instructions. Skills learned in class: Judy’s Magic Cast-on, Tubular Cast-on, Tubular Bind-off, Kitchener Stitch graft.

Lorilee Beltman

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Steven Berg is a whirlwind of color and texture and every encounter with him will leave you irrevocably changed, awed, inspired, and ready to tackle a new challenge. Steven’s adventurous and fashion-filled life has taken him around the world and back home to Minneapolis where he holds court in his 6,000 square foot firehouse-turned-fiberhouse, StevenBe.

Steven is known for his cavalier attitude toward the rules of the fiber arts, often heard to be pronouncing that “there are no mistakes, only variations.” His chunky funky style has made Hollywood and runway knitwear fashions accessible to all knitters and his belief in the transfor-mative power of creativity will have you under his spell and ready to cast on anything you can imagine. With Steven anything is possible!

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 3141  3 hrs Easy Big City Knits in a Hot Minute No-rules, fun, fast, and furious knit and crochet with StevenBe! Capture this season’s hot trends right off the runway and make them this weekend! Explore the use of large circular knitting needles with uber chunky yarns and combinations of fibers that will blow your mind. Be inspired by creative ways to use both traditional and non-traditional fibers.

This workshop powers up your creative juices and boosts your imagination into overdrive. Become comfortable using unconventional gauges and needle sizes. Cast on simple knits with unusual techniques and Glitter Knitter flair.

Steven will review current trends and projects from his designer collections. This fashion and art presentation is interjected with anecdotes from the world of high fashion and the inspiration Steven finds in his travels.

Break free from the rules: There are no mistakes, only variations!

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 5256  3 hrs Easy Mix Your Six: A Game of Modifications You’ve heard Steven say it, now experience it: a pattern is only a guideline! Pick six things from our playlist to create your custom Mixify Menu and find playful ways to incorporate them into a base pattern from a StevenBe or Westknits accessory or garment pattern. Free yourself from the traditional boundaries of the pattern by learning to modify the written instructions to make your imagination come to life. Steven will teach you his famous tips and tricks while you learn to let go and knit with wild creative abandon.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm and Sunday am 8:30 am - 11:30 am 4101  6 hrs Easy New Perspectives on Unique Garments & Amazing Accessories Broaden your knitting horizons and change your life with StevenBe. This workshop is designed to be an amazing opportunity to have fun while learning Steven’s best tips and tricks. It will set you free from patterns as written and help you feel comfortable making your own modifications and design decisions. Allow StevenBe to help you release the hidden designer within.

Experience the magic of mixology, taking a variety of yarns from different brands, weights, and fiber contents to create magical and unique garments and elaborate accessories (such as the Shawlvest). Starting with your own cut-out shape and a base pattern from Steven, learn different methods of creating angles and edges, using modular knitting to add to the shape, adding new colors, and combining fibers in unique ways to customize the pattern and truly make it yours.

Note: This class begins Saturday PM and concludes Sunday AM.

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Anne Berk was certified by TKGA as a Master Knitter in 2003. She has designed for many yarn companies and has written patterns and articles for publications including Piecework, Sockupied, ColorKnit, and Twist Collective. Her DVDs, Inside Intarsia and Intarsia InDepth, are produced by Interweave.

Anne has taught classes nationally on subjects ranging from argyle socks to zipper insertion. Next Steps in Intarsia is her Craftsy class. Annetarsia Knits is a reference book for working intarsia flat or in the round, in stockinette or garter stitch.

And all of this is after-hours! Anne is an optometrist in Portland, OR.

For more about Anne, go to www.annetarsia.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5241 3 hrs No skills required Gauge Master Class You know the importance of stitch gauge to manage the fit and size of a garment, but do you know how to gain and use that knowledge? This class will give you tips to efficiently knit and measure your gauge swatches to reveal their secrets for successful knitting results. Stitch, row, and yarn gauges will all be covered, using multiple weights of yarn and needles of different sizes. You will knit swatches and compare your results with classmates to see how gauge differs from knitter to knitter. Learn to use gauge to calculate the amount of yarn needed for any section of your project. Gauge mastery is fun, and you will be amazed at how much you will learn in the process of swatching!

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am1040 3 hrs Easy Inside Annetarsia: A New Approach to Intarsia Knitting Expand your horizons to conquer non-stranded color knitting. No previous experience with intarsia is required! Learn ways to manage multiple yarns, to read colorwork charts, and to deal efficiently with the ends. You’ll develop confidence as you link the yarns between sections and create a flat, single layer of stockinette where YOU control the color. You won’t believe how easily you will knit motifs and produce professional results.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm1042 3 hrs Easy Annetarsia: Intarsia in the Round Yes, you can knit intarsia in the round—with no seam! This can be the answer for working a motif on knit socks or hats. Learn techniques to manage yarns, bury ends, and read charts when working non-stranded color work in the round. We will practice with a simple motif. You will be amazed at how quickly and easily you will produce professional results.

Note: Some experience with traditional intarsia and working from color charts will be helpful but is not required.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am1065 3 hrs Intermediate Round and Round We Go! Converting from working flat to circular knitting can be tricky for certain techniques. Learn to work stripes circularly to minimize the appearance of a seam, with several techniques for ‘jogless jog’, as well as Mattress stitch for when an invisible seam is preferred. We will explore Annetarsia ITR (‘In the round’) for intarsia worked circularly, and will cover how to change colors for stranded knitting without having any ends to weave in.

Anne Berk

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Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

1066 3 hrs Intermediate Stranded/Fair Isle Knitting — Improve Your Efficiency Working with 2 colors on the same row can seem slow and confusing. In this class, explore different methods of knitting with 2 yarns at once, to find the best technique for you. While practicing, we will also explore color combinations and design elements that will allow you to customize your knitting and express your creativity.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am1067 3 hrs Intermediate Putting It All Together Learn to combine techniques — intarsia, fair isle, duplicate stitch, and embroidery to customize projects in new ways. Starting with a basic motif, you will decide how to bring it to life with the skills you know. The class will concentrate on intarsia and fair isle for basic fabric, duplicate stitch and embroidery for embellishment. We will learn how to read a chart, and adapt it for embroidery. Many samples, as well as the swatches produced in class, will provide inspiration for creativity.

Anne Berk

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Jill learned to knit at 10 years of age. After a ‘teen years’ break, she re-learned and has been knitting with a passion ever since. The first sweater she knit, she modified, and the next was her own design.

Five years as a yarn shop owner gave her a passion for teaching as well as designing. Jill has been an instructor at STITCHES events, Knitter’s Day Out, Knitter’s Connection, Pittsburgh Knit and Crochet Show, and many shops. Her designs can be found in Knitter’s Magazine, Cast On, and Knitty. She is co-author of A Knitter’s Gallery of Mitered Squares: 45 Unique Designs in Color, Texture and Lace.

For more about Jill, go to b-ewe-tiful.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm3132 3 hrs Intermediate Customizing Your Mitered Squares Expand your knowledge of mitered squares. Add color for a stash-busting project, lace for an airy shawl, texture for depth, or a combination of the three. We will discuss re-sizing of squares, different ways of picking up stitches, using multiple-sized squares, and different ways of building squares upon one another.

Note: Mitered square experience necessary.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm1068 6 hrs Advanced Color Play Ready for the ultimate knitting challenge? Let’s try combining stranded (Fair Isle) and Intarsia color techniques. The key is learning to work Fair Isle from the ‘wrong’ side. Class will cover: Fair Isle basics, Intarsia basics, knitting left to right, working with yarn in both hands. Also included are tips and tricks to avoid holes, minimize tangles and slip stitches.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5234 3 hrs Intermediate Cables Front and Back Cables make a beautifully textured fabric on the front—but what about the back? With little effort, you can make the back look just as pretty as the front. Try several different reversible cables and even design your own.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm6095 3 hrs Easy Slipped Stitch Mania Slipped-stitch patterns allow you to add texture or to create the look of 2-color knitting while only using 1 color per row. Mosaic knitting (one form of slipped-stitch patterning) can bring to mind beautiful, Native American fiber art. There is no stranding, bobbins, or changing color within the row. We will explore different techniques, the do’s and don’ts of this method of knitting, and how to read two types of charts.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5131 3 hrs Easy Cables Decoded Adding a cable instantly brings a new dimension to your project, but decoding the terms and reading the charts often leaves knitters uneasy about attempting them. Cables are simple once you uncover the mystery. In this class, we will try different types of cables, learn to interpret all those abbreviations, and learn to read a chart.

Jill Bigelow Suttell

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Marlaina ‘Marly’ Bird fled the world of financial services to launch a career in the yarn industry and hasn’t looked back since. To Marly, a bi-craftsy girl who both knits and crochets, the yarn is the star, not how you work with it.

She is the national spokesperson for Red Heart Yarns, hosts the YarnThing podcast, is the author of Cold Weather Crochet and I Can’t Believe I’m Entrelac Knitting, and co-author of Knitting for Dummies, 3rd ed. You’ve seen her designs in Knitter’s Magazine, Interweave Crochet, Knitscene, Love of Crochet, Love of knitting, and in the books Knitter’s Book of Socks, Unexpected Afghans, Simply Crochet, Lace Yarn Studio, Blueprint Crochet Sweaters, and Knitting Plus.

Along with her designing and podcast, Marly has a successful YouTube channel where she teaches both knitting and crochet. On top of all that, Marly also has several online classes available with Creativebug and Craftsy.com.

In her spare time, Marly is a wife to a very understanding husband, raises three kids, and teaches at her local yarn store in suburban Denver.

For more about Marly, go to www.marlybird.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm4078 3 hrs Intermediate My First Pair of Gloves If you’re smitten with mittens then you will be gleeful about gloves! Don’t let all those fingers frighten you away from these wonderful winter accessories. Marly Bird will show you how to turn any mitten pattern into a glove (or fingerless glove if texting is your thing) and help you master fingers and eliminate holes.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5252 3 hrs Intermediate Miter Me This—Miter Me That Learn how to knit the building blocks of the knitting world. The mitered square has long been a staple in knitting design, and now it will be a staple in your knitter’s toolbox. These magical mitered squares are knit in a variety of stitches. In class, learn how to make one in garter, a mix of garter and stockinette, and plain stockinette, as well as a variety of center decreases that can be used to create the dividing line down the center. Also, these squares are joined as you go making miters the perfect traveling project for any knitter.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm8048 3 hrs Intermediate Single-crochet Entrelac Let’s try something new. How about learning to crochet a fabric that resembles basket-woven stripes? That sounds a lot like entrelac. But entrelac is only for knitters, you say. NOPE!

Get the look of basic entrelac with a crochet hook instead of knitting needles. This class doesn’t use the Tunisian technique to complete each square or diamond and triangle—simple single crochet is all you need!

Amaze your friends with your newfound crochet skill. Create striking blankets, accessories, and garments. And have fun!

Note: Must have a good command of basic crochet skills.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5141 3 hrs Easy Four Play: How to Master Double-Pointed Needles Let Marly show you how to master those double-pointed needles. No more dropped needles, lost stitches, or unsightly runs in your knitting! Learn a unique, never-fail cast-on; how to keep the stitches between each needle join snug; and how a few tips and tricks along the way can help in your future knitting projects.

Marly Bird

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Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 3084 3 hrs Intermediate Curvy Knits: Plus-size Knitting Have you ever spent time and yarn money to knit a sweater that you never wear because it stretched, feels funny, or makes you look massive? Designer and plus-size lady Marly Bird feels your pain.

In Curvy Knits: Plus-size Knitting you’ll learn to select the perfect pattern for your shape and to make easy fit adjustments to bust, sleeves, neckline, and other trouble spots. Learn how to transform swatching from a boring chore into a valuable tool. You’ll use your favorite sweater, right out of your closet, to tell you things you never knew about yourself. Get advice and help from Marly as you learn the same techniques knitwear designers use. You can get a perfect fit and finish every time!

Note: Must have knit at least one sweater and know how to increase, decrease, and read a pattern.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 3109 3 hrs Intermediate Hobby to Profession: Becoming a DesignerYou have fallen in love with knitting and crochet and now you want to become a professional designer, but you aren’t sure where to start...or how.

This is the class for you! Learn from crochet and knitwear designer Marly Bird as she shows you how to take a design from a rough idea to a full proposal. This comprehensive, how-to class benefits designers of all levels and gives you a set of tools that you will need as you venture into design.

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A self-confessed “technique freak” and “skill junkie,” JC dabbles in all kinds of knitting, but has a special fondness for textured knitting and novel construction techniques. If it involves lace, cables, or seamless construction, it’s sure to catch her eye.

JC shares her enthusiasm by teaching at shops and fiber festivals and through her book Charts Made Simple. Her latest venture is Stitch-Maps.com, a website for viewing and creating grid-free charts of unparalleled fluidity, authenticity, and beauty.

For more about JC, go to www.jcbriar.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5004 3 hrs Easy Charts Made Simple A chart takes the place of written instructions, telling you which stitches to work. But a good chart does so much more, showing you what the knitted fabric should look like.

Learn to read charts, to make sense of their symbols, and to use them to keep your knitting on track and to minimize mistakes.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am7093 3 hrs Advanced Manage Those Numbers! What’s the best way to manage all the numbers in the patterns you write? With a spreadsheet! Learn spreadsheet basics for organizing gauges, measurements, and notes. Make friends with functions and formulas for determining stitch counts, figuring sleeve increases, estimating yardage requirements, and more. Pick up tips for ensuring your patterns are as error-free as possible.

Note: This is NOT a class on design. Students must already be familiar with basic design concepts, such as calculating stitch counts from gauge without the help of a spreadsheet. Familiarity with spreadsheets is helpful but not required.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3140 3 hrs Intermediate Mapping Lace Scarves Traditional lace charts can be tricky to decipher, especially if they contain ‘no stitch’ symbols. But stitch maps are different. These special grid-free charts unlock the secrets of lace patterns, exposing landmarks and other aids to successful lace knitting. Learn about stitch maps, and become skilled in using them to minimize mistakes while knitting. Practice in class by designing and starting a simple lace scarf.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm and Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3125 6 hrs Intermediate Wedge Shawl Design Stunning shawls are often formed of lace ‘wedges,’ sections that gradually grow wider as the knitting progresses. Triangular shawls formed with 2 wedges are a familiar option. But shawls of 3 or more wedges are also possible, and often sit more securely on the wearer’s shoulders.

Take this class to learn how to design a wedge shawl of your own. Pick from a selection of lace wedges, or learn to tweak your favorite lace pattern into a wedge shape. Choose your edgings and a spine to appear between the wedges. By the end of class, you’ll be well on your way to a new, unique shawl.

Note: Must be comfortable reading charts and knitting lace. This class begins on Saturday afternoon and concludes on Sunday morning.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm6210 3 hrs Easy Beginning Brioche Brioche knitting creates cushy fabric suitable for comfy garments and all sorts of cozy accessories. Done in two colors, it creates vertical stripes, even though only one color is used at a time. Take this class to learn all the basics: working brioche rib in one or two colors; maintaining tidy selvedges; fixing mistakes; working pretty increases and decreases; and casting on and binding off effectively. You’ll practice by knitting a small sample in class, but take away the skills needed to complete a lovely patterned scarf.

JC Briar

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After developing a life-long passion for color while earning a degree in fine arts from the University of Michigan, Laura began Prism Yarns in 1984. She continues as Prism’s creative force, specializing in color, hand-dyed yarns, and developing designs and patterns that use them in exciting and innovative ways.

Laura has written six books including The Yarn Stash Workbook, The New Knitter’s Template (coauthored with Barry Klein), and recently produced the DVD Knitter’s Guide to Color with Laura Bryant and the video, Yarn to Fit with Barry Klein. Artful Color, Mindful Knits from XRX Books is her latest book.

Laura teaches and designs with a ‘no rules’ approach, and her classes are designed to bring out the creativity within all of us.

For more about Laura, go to www.prismyarn.com.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 1002  3 hrs No skills required Intro to Color Color brings life and excitement to our knitting and crochet, yet many experienced knitters and crocheters feel uncertain about how to approach it. The human eye is capable of discerning over three million distinct colors, yet most of us have untrained eyes. Learn about color from an artist’s perspective and begin a journey of enhanced perception.

Laura presents color effects in tangible visual terms that illustrate why color combinations work or don’t work. While a basic understanding of the color wheel is useful, this class will not present wheel-based formulas. A new way of sorting color and seeing relationships becomes the basis for exploring color through knitting.

You will achieve a deeper understanding of color and perception, and Laura promises you will never look at color in the same way again. You will leave understanding Laura’s favorite axiom: You don’t get WOW by doing the expected!

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm1060   3 hrs   Easy Color Gradations   Join Laura and learn how to control a large group of colors, shading artfully and gradually from one color to another. We’ll employ Half Linen Stitch to create small dots of color that allow for optical mixture. Shift from light to dark or from hue to hue or any which way you choose. Laura’s tips will have you making your own controlled long-repeat stripes in no time!

Materials fee: $5.00 instructor-supplied yarn.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 1039  3 hrs Intermediate Magic Number Knitting Expanded If you have fooled around with patterning hand-dyed yarn and want to go further, this class is for you! You’ll spend three fast-paced hours swatching different approaches to intentional patterning, and gain skill at manipulating your knitting to force colors to do your will.

Note: You must know how to find a Magic Number. You must have experience in Intentional Patterning.Materials fee: $5.00.

Laura Bryant

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Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 6137 3 hrs Advanced Beyond Basic Chevrons Chevron stitches present great possibilities for dramatic movement of color and line in both knitting and crochet. Once you have mastered the basic increases and decreases (there are multiple styles taught in Captivating Chevrons), you are ready to move on to more creative endeavors. In this class we’ll cover asymmetrical or eccentric chevrons, chevrons with built-in shape or architecture, traveling chevrons, and more. Lots of hands-on work including formulas for designing your own unique chevron stitches.

Optional materials fee: $3.00 for instructor-supplied yarn.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am1054 3 hrs Intermediate Intro to Ikat Knitting or Crochet If you have ever wanted to fool around with patterning hand-dyed yarn, Ikat knitting or crochet is the easiest introduction. You’ll spend three fast-paced hours swatching Ikat-dyed yarns with several different approaches to design, and along the way you will gain skill at manipulating colors, forcing them to do your will. Lots of design options will be discussed and illustrated.

Materials fee: $10.00 for ikat-dyed yarns.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm3142 3 hrs Easy Stash Down! If you have too much stash but don’t know how to use it, this class is for you. Learn a new way of sorting your stash that will allow you to mix colors, weights and textures. Hands-on swatching allows you to experiment with several techniques that are perfect for small amounts of yarn. You will leave brimming with ideas!

Laura Bryant

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Chris retired from a career in marketing communications and advertising to pursue her artistic passion, knitting and texture play, at home in Madison, WI. Instead she is having a wonderful time teaching workshops from coast to coast—and beyond—for TNNA, shops, guilds, and conferences and has her own line of knitting patterns. She has also designed knit garments for the American Girl clothing line.

Chris finds inspiration in nature’s colors and combinations, and her knitting designs reflect her pleasure in combining fibers, textures, gauges, and colors in ways that create fun, yet always wearable, knits.

For more about Chris, go to www.chrisbylsmadesigns.com.

Thursday 1:30 am - 4:30 am2001 3 hrs Intermediate Beyond Basic Buttons Can’t find the perfect buttons? Great! You can create many different types of buttons and closures. Covered, woven, balled, fringed, finger-cording knots, and swirls — explore them all plus half-a-dozen unexpected closure options. You will even learn to rethink how and when to use basic buttons.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5006 3 hrs Intermediate Stashology 201 You have ‘archived’ those countless balls of yarn that you could not pass up. Find new inspiration in what you already have, and use your stash to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary! Be prepared to be amazed.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm2003 3 hrs Intermediate Eight Empowering Edges Ribbing and garter stitch are usually reliable choices for edges, but not all edges are equal. Learn eight hard-working edges that empower you to create beautiful, professional details; provide the control needed and give the option of making your own design decisions.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am2026 3 hrs Intermediate Steeks to the Rescue Knitters often think scissors are the enemy of yarn, but actually they are great enablers. Learn three different non-machine ways to anchor and cut your knitting (yes!) to change a pullover to a cardigan, shape a neckline, re-size a garment, add armholes, and put you in charge.

Note: You need to be comfortable with a basic crochet chain.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm3054 3 hrs Intermediate Pocket Possibilities; Before, During, and After Knitted-in pockets are convenient, beautiful, and easy! Learn where to place pockets and how to determine the correct size as we explore patch, slit, and slash pockets that can be added at any stage in the knitting, even after the garment is done. Discover the secrets to lining and edges while avoiding sagging and ‘grinning’ pockets.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am2002 3 hrs Intermediate Joy of Finishing Learn the joy of sleek shoulder lines, invisible seams, picking up the perfect number of stitches without counting, beautiful buttonholes, ‘shortening’ sleeves, taming sleeveless armholes, and other finishing touches. If it is worth knitting, it is worth finishing beautifully.

Christine Bylsma

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Lily M Chin is an internationally famous knitter and crocheter who has worked in the yarn industry for over 25 years as a designer, instructor, and author of 8 books on knitting and crochet. She has created looks for the New York Fashion Week runway collections of designers Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, Diane von Furstenberg, and Isaac Mizrahi and her work has been on the backs of celebrities and supermodels.

Lily was named a Master Knitter by Vogue Knitting and is regularly cited in media across the U.S., including the Late Show with David Letter-man, Martha, CBS Morning News, CNN, HGTV, and more.

Lily Chin has lived in New York City all her life and has been involved in some aspect of the fashion industry since age 13.

For more about Lily, go to www.lilychinsignaturecollection.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5247 3 hrs Intermediate Knit-in, No-sew Pockets Women never have enough pockets, if any at all. Furthermore, most knitters avoid seaming like the plague. Learn this innovative and revolutionary way of applying inset pockets to any garment or accessory as it is being worked. Work up a miniature sample in class. Plan placements perfectly beforehand. Never lose a cell phone or scrounge around for lipstick or a tissue ever again.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am1063 3 hrs Intermediate Designing and Charting Your Own Original Cables You’ve done many cables before and want to get into more complex cable patterns. Maybe you even want to design your own. Learn how cable patterns are actually formed: what are the basic traits, characteristics, and manipulations? When you get a better understanding of how cable patterns work, not only can you follow the directions a whole lot better, but fewer mistakes are made. You may even be able to look at a cable pattern and figure out how to work it even without written directions!

Note: Must be comfortable reading knitting symbols or reading stitch charts. Must have worked several cables before.

Friday 2:00 pm -5:00 pm3096 3 hrs No skills required Draping a Pattern: a Demonstration There are many ways to draft an original pattern. Draping is one of them and is never talked about nor covered in knitting. With commercial knit fabric, we will construct garments on 2 volunteers and use this ‘mock up’ as a basis for our knitting. We will transpose the pieces onto gridded marker paper then plug in our gauge and figure out areas of simplification. Motifs may be previewed, stitch patterns ‘tried out,’ and details tested. Most importantly, a personal and customized fit will be ensured.

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Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm3008 6 hrs Intermediate Custom Fitting Existing Patterns Many patterns are available, but often you want to change the neckline, lengthen the sleeves, etc. Find out how to personalize the fit of a pattern for yourself or those you knit for. See how small alterations can make a garment hang better. Learn easy alternatives to drop shoulders. These simple refinements don’t require extensive pattern rewrites but produce great results.

Note: This class does not cover extensive pattern sizing and fit alterations.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5300 3 hrs Intermediate Join-as-you-Go, No-sew Pockets Women never have enough pockets if any at all. Furthermore, most knitters avoid seaming like the plague. Learn this innovative and revolutionary way of applying patch pockets to any garment or accessory as it is being worked. Work up a miniature sample in class. Even put those dreaded gauge swatches to good use. Plan placements perfectly beforehand. Never lose a cell phone or scrounge around for lipstick or a tissue again.

Sunday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5007 3 hrs Easy Tips and Tricks with Lily Learn Lily’s secrets to make your knitting life easier: join a cast-on for circular knitting without adding twist, start a new skein of yarn or a new color without losing the first stitch, attach knit pieces as you work, work a circular bind-off on the neck so the beginning and end are imperceptible, and weave in ends that are too short for a darning needle. Leave class with lots of small ‘fix-its’ and a new eye for knitting details.

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Cindy learned to knit while chaperoning Girl Scouts in Norway. As a self-professed knitting geek, she enjoys exploring the technical side of knitting and tinkering with new skills, stitch patterns, knitting patterns, and concepts. Cindy has been teaching professionally in yarn shops, guild events, and knitting shows for more than 10 years. She is the author of The Kids Knitting Notebook and has designs published in Knitter’s Magazine, Knitting Today, and Red Heart, in addition to many self-published patterns.

Cindy is the manager of The Studio Knitting & Needlepoint since 2002 where she loves helping students learn to knit or crochet and is very skilled at getting students unstuck. She knits everywhere she goes and frequently answers knitting questions on the sidelines of the soccer field, at PTA meetings, or at Scouting events.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm2016 3 hrs Intermediate Seams Made Simple The seams of your garment provide structure and showcase your overall knitting skills. Good seams improve the look of any project. Learn to identify your stitches and rows so you can execute precise seaming techniques. You’ll also learn to do perfect shoulder seams, invisible side seams, and sleeve seams.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm7092 3 hrs Easy Zippy Zippers Adding a zipper to a sweater can change the whole look—from ho-hum to awesome. We will explore 2 different ways to attach a zipper to knit fabric as well as how to shorten a zipper to fit your desired length. There will be plenty of time to practice both with lots of support. Dive in and tackle these techniques, and you’ll be putting zippers on everything.

Cindy Craig

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By day, Carson is a physical therapist who runs an ergonomics program for a San Francisco Bay Area medi-cal center. Every other moment, he’s knitting, spinning, designing, or teaching with a watchful eye toward ergonomics. His passion and his professional knowledge can help you knit and spin better and safer.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 7006  3 hrs No skills required Ergonomics for Knitters Ever known a knitter who hasn’t said, “Just one more row”? Me neither! I’ll bet they’ve also complained of aches and pains while knitting. In this class, you’ll learn how knitting effects the ‘fabric that makes the fabric’ your body and see how your knitting technique impacts your efficiency and productivity. By completing a Risk of Injury assessment in class, you’ll learn how knitting contributes to those aches and pains throughout your body. But more importantly, you’ll learn how to reduce them. A little knowledge and some simple changes can keep you knitting comfortably and safely ever after. Students who’ve taken this class have said that it should be “required learning for all knitters regardless of experience level and it’s as important as the knit and purl stitches!” This class is taught by a passionate knitter who is also a physical therapist.

Note: This class is not an individual knitting assessment.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 7009  3 hrs No skills required Swatchbuckling Avast ye maties! Let’s bring improved ergonomics to life in your knitting technique. We’ll swatch to improve your posture, comfort, and efficiency. We’ll examine yarn tensioning techniques and all phases of stitch creation first with simple then more challenging swatches and stitches. We’ll also look at ways to add movement to knitting and to avoid stiffness and injuries caused by disuse.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 7085  3 hrs No skills required My Aching Hands (and Wrists)! Few knitters don’t complain about discomfort in their hands and wrists at some point in their knitting journey. New knitters beware! Learn what contributes to knitter’s discomfort and most importantly, how to avoid it. Unlearn techniques that don’t serve to keep you knitting comfortably, learn to make choices to ease the work your hands do, and even some tips for making them better.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 7006  3 hrs No skills required Ergonomics for Knitters Ever known a knitter who hasn’t said, “Just one more row”? Me neither! I’ll bet they’ve also complained of aches and pains while knitting. In this class, you’ll learn how knitting effects the ‘fabric that makes the fabric’ your body and see how your knitting technique impacts your efficiency and productivity. By completing a Risk of Injury assessment in class, you’ll learn how knitting contributes to those aches and pains throughout your body. But more importantly, you’ll learn how to reduce them. A little knowledge and some simple changes can keep you knitting comfortably and safely ever after. Students who’ve taken this class have said that it should be “required learning for all knitters regardless of experience level and it’s as important as the knit and purl stitches!” This class is taught by a passionate knitter who is also a physical therapist.

Note: This class is not an individual knitting assessment.

Carson Demers

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Judith Durant is a knitter and beadworker as well as author, editor, and teacher of both subjects. Trained as a theatrical costume designer, she took a circuitous route through various New York City costume shops, then on to a theatrical book publishing house where she was managing editor, and later she landed at Interweave Press where she was book editor and one of the founding editors of Interweave Knits magazine. She is editor of the best-selling One-Skein Wonders series, the author of several books including Cable Left, Cable Right; Increase, Decrease; and Knit One, Bead Too, and co-author of Knitting Know-How and The Beader’s Companion. Judith writes about, edits, and teaches knitting with and without beads to anyone who’s interested.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm8071 3 hrs Easy Beady Bangles This project is a great introduction to tubular slip-stitch bead crochet, using larger than traditional materials. With size 6 seed beads and size 3 crochet cotton, you can whip up a bracelet in very little time. We’ll begin a bracelet in class using beaded chain stitch and slip-stitch bead crochet.

Materials fee: $8.00 for bracelet kit.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 4099 6 hrs Intermediate Bead up Your Knitting Add some sparkle to your knits! In this class you’ll make a small sampler bag that uses five different methods for incorporating beads into your knitting. You’ll learn three methods using beads strung on your knitting yarn, one method using beads strung on a separate strand of yarn, and one method for adding beads individually with a crochet hook. In class we’ll complete half of the sampler bag, incorporating all five techniques, which you can finish on your own. Once learned, you can bring these techniques into any knitting project.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5265 3 hrs Intermediate Increase, Decrease Based on her book Increase, Decrease: 99 Step-by-Step Methods, Judith will teach you what to consider when choosing a shaping method and how to execute the chosen technique. Increase and decrease stitches can be decorative or nearly invisible, and using them intentionally can bring your knitting to a whole new level. We’ll also look at shaping in both textured and multicolored patterns.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5272 3 hrs Intermediate Bead Knitting 101 Bead knitting is the way to go for creating pictorial designs. String beads following a charted design, then watch the pattern come alive as you knit (and purl) your piece. You can also use a random mix of beads to create a colorful and luscious beaded fabric. In this class you’ll string beads onto your knitting yarn or thread, knit with a bead, purl with a bead and work a crochet beaded border.

Materials fee: $5 for beads and thread.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5266 3 hrs Intermediate Dress Up Your Cables Cables can certainly stand on their own, but why not bring even more interest to your cable knitting by adding texture, color, or beads? Learn to customize your cables by making variations of the basic cables found in many knitting books. We’ll work several swatches that incorporate knit and purl stitches, contrasting colors, and beads.

Materials fee: $2 for beads.

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WEST 2017Elise DuvekotElise Duvekot is a knitwear designer whose enthusiasm for novel techniques led to the stitch patterns presented in her book Knit One Below—One Stitch, Many Fabrics. Her inspiration comes from geometrical patterns and from the many beautiful colors and yarns that are available. The style of her work can best be described as traditional in workmanship, while modern in color and design.

Elise also divides her time between the Old World (The Netherlands) and the New World (Canada). In addition to knitting strands of various yarns together as a designer, she knits words of various languages together as a translator. Knitting and translating provide ideal environments in which to be creative and productive.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm OR Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 6010 3 hrs Intermediate Columns of Color with Knit One Below Would you like to learn a completely new stitch pattern? In this introduction to the knit-one-below technique, you will knit two colors horizontally, one at a time, and yet you will create vertical stripes on one side and an interesting, very different pattern on the reverse side. Make swatches with differing selvedges for various purposes as well as bind-offs that match your cast-ons. This class will provide you with the skills you need to launch into a myriad of knit-one-below projects.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm4019 6 hrs Easy How do your Socks get Striped with Knit One Below? Learn the knit-one-below technique as you make socks with stripes that are vertical rather than horizontal. The stretchy fabric hugs the foot, making it fit perfectly. Your sock will have an unusual heel and matching toe: all of these features add up to create a two-color sock that is a far cry from conventional socks.

Note: Must have experience making socks.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5228 3 hrs Intermediate Avoiding the Dreaded Purl BlipsAre you one of those knitters who would like to avoid the purl bumps that are visible on the reverse side when you change colors? The right side looks right, but the wrong side looks wrong. Would you like both faces of your shawls to look good as you fling them around your shoulders? Scarves, blankets, shawls and lapels are just a few of the items that will benefit greatly from these techniques.

Join Elise and you will learn how knit-one-below and a number of other techniques can overcome this dilemma. Some options are subtle, some are decorative, but all are preferable to those dreaded purl blips. Let’s get together and make the wrong side right.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am4072 3 hrs Intermediate Beaded Bag with Knit One BelowLearn the knit-one-below technique as you complete this versatile project to add to your collection. Carry it as an elegant small purse, fill it with potpourri, or put it into your knitting basket and enjoy it on a daily basis as the ultimate yarn cozy. Beads are optional, and you can use a thicker yarn to make a larger bag.

Note: Must have experience with dpns.

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Edie Eckman is a popular author, teacher, designer and editor who loves both knitting and crochet. Just don’t ask her to choose one over the other! Her comfortable and encouraging teaching style empowers students to gain the skills they need to confidently and enthusiastically take on any crochet or knitting challenge.

Edie teaches online at Craftsy.com and Creativebug.com and she serves as a Master Teacher for the Craft Yarn Council’s Certified Instructors Program, helping train others to become knitting and crochet teachers. She has written a number of best-selling crochet books including The Crochet Answer Book, and Around the Corner Crochet Borders. Her newest book, Every Which Way Crochet Borders comes out in January 2017, just in time for Stitches West. For more about Edie, go to www.edieeckman.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5244 3 hrs Intermediate Mastering Mosiacs Dramatic colorwork using only one color at a time, easy enough for beginners but intriguing to experienced knitters—what could be more appealing? Mosaic knitting does just that and more. It’s forgiving of uneven tension, doesn’t require exact stitch counts to match multiples, and allows you to go on auto-pilot every other row. Furthermore, you can switch up stitch patterns without affecting the gauge. The downside? Understanding this fascinating technique can be somewhat confusing at first glance. Banish that bewilderment as you learn to read mosaic charts, play with garter-stitch and stockinette-stitch variations, and maybe even get started designing your own mosaic designs.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am8068 3 hrs Easy Crochet Confidence

You’ve got the basic crochet stitches down pat, but you still have questions. How do I tell the right side from the wrong side? Why are my edges crooked? How do I decrease without making a hole? How do I weave in ends invisibly and securely? How do I read a pattern? If these and similar questions plague your crochet, now’s the time to clear up the confusion. No matter your level of crochet experience, if you have questions, then this is the class for you! You may even find answers to questions you didn’t know you had. Crocheters of all experience levels are welcome. Leave class ready to tackle your next project with confidence! (Students enrolled in the Craft Yarn Council’s Certified Instructors Program will find this class helpful.)

Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm3143 3 hrs Advanced Pattern Writing Workshop

Designers, make yourself understood! Knitters and crocheters, decipher those cryptic patterns! Do you struggle with the wording of patterns? Do you spend lots of time answering (or asking) questions? Is it possible to have too many words in a pattern, or too few? How do tech editors and test stitchers help clarify pattern language? What happens when designers don’t really know how to make themselves understood? We will look at specific pattern examples for both knit and crochet and examine what works best in various situations. Students will have the opportunity to have their own patterns reviewed anonymously, and will receive suggestions to improve their pattern-writing skills. The benefit of having an entire class working together is that we get a variety of viewpoints!

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Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am8072   3 hrs Easy Understanding Symbol Crochet

More and more crochet patterns are using international crochet symbols. With symbol crochet, you can see what your stitch pattern is supposed to look like and see the relationship of stitches to one another. Many crocheters find this way of presenting patterns easier to follow than written-out instructions, allowing them to avoid mistakes before they happen! Learn the fundamentals of symbol crochet and see how this universal crochet “language” makes it easy to read patterns from any country.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5226 3 hrs Easy UnLearn to Knit

You learned the rules: Put your needle in this way, wrap your yarn that way. Now unlearn those rules to gain control of your knitting.

No matter how long you’ve been knitting or what your knitting style, understanding the structure of the knitted fabric and how the stitches are related to one another is the key to becoming an expert knitter. We’ll have fun exploring what it really means to take a length of string and turn it into a fabric. You’ll leave class with the confidence and ability to fix mistakes, take shortcuts, and be the master of your stitches.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5137 3 hrs Easy No-longer-a-novice Knitting Knowledge

You know how to knit, purl, cast on, and bind off, but you still have questions. How do I tell the right side from the wrong side? Do I slip knitwise or purlwise? Why are my stitches twisted? How do I increase without making a hole? How do I weave in ends without having them come undone? If these and similar questions plague your knitting, now’s the time to clear up the confusion.

Whether you are an inexperienced knitter, a longtime knitter, or just have questions, this is the class for you. You may even find answers to questions you didn’t know you had.

Note: Students enrolled in the Craft Yarn Council’s Certified Instructors Program will find this class helpful.

Sunday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm4084 3 hrs Intermediate No-wrong-side Scarves

Problem: You love to knit scarves, but you hate when the wrong side shows. You detest garter stitch. You want good-looking reversible patterns so you can relax and look fabulous, no matter which side is ‘up!

Solution: Take this class! Move beyond garter stitch to explore fun-to-knit stitch patterns that have 2 right sides and self-edging selvedges. You’ll be casting on, knitting, and binding off to create a mini scarf with no wrong sides.

Problem solved!

Edie Eckman

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Learning both music and knitting at the age of three, Candace Eisner Strick has followed these two loves all her life. A former cellist, she now devotes her time to all aspects of knitwear. She is the author of eight books, her most recent being Knit My Skirt (XRX, Inc., 2016).

She lives in rural Connecticut with her pianist/knitting husband Ken, rescue wonder-bunny Abraham, and a parrot who owns her. Her designs can be found at the Ravelry store and at Love Knitting website. Appropriately, strick mean to knit.

For more about Candace, go to www.strickwear.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm2018 3 hrs Intermediate Skirts For Every Body Most knit skirts use a turned-down waistband with elastic. This creates bulk right where most people don’t want it! With Candace’s unique method you can banish that bulk. Also learn all the necessary techniques to knit a custom-fit skirt. Sample some fun and flirty design options: from ruffles, to inserts, to handkerchief hemlines.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5229 3 hrs Easy Thumbs Up Continental Learn continental knitting and purling the Candace-way that eliminates almost all motion. Two fingers do it all, and one is your thumb! You won’t believe how lazy your wrists will become once they stop doing all the exercise! Your knitting and purling will become so smooth and fast that you will be begging to knit a seed stitch full-length coat.

Note: Must be willing to use the non-dominant hand.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm4103 3 hrs Intermediate Morphing a Mobius A mobius shawl? What the ?? It’s true; it can be done, and you get the geometric beauty of a mobius framing your face. Factor in the added benefit that it will keep your shawl on your shoulders through a hurricane! In this class we will learn the super-easy cast-on to start your mobius from the spine and work outwards. Learn when and how many stitches to bind-off so you can morph directly into a shawl. The knitting is pleasant and easy to do, and it yields spectacular results.

Note: Must be familiar with circular knitting.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3134 3 hrs Intermediate Basically Yours: Custom Skirts Make yourself a custom-fit skirt that is completely yours. It will fit, it will drape, it will flatter, and it will look good whether you are sitting, standing, or dancing. With just a smidgeon of math and some beautiful yarn, you can enter the zone of skirt knitting. You will plan out a basic A-line skirt to custom fit yourself. Once you have the basics, a myriad of variations are within your reach, along with some charming hemline special effects. Come in curious; leave skirt obsessed.

Candace Eisner Strick

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Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm3144 3 hrs Intermediate Gores, Godets and Insets Dressmakers know all about them, but knitters can use them too. While mostly confined to skirts and dresses, these little designer details can be added to sweater bottoms and sleeves, as well as skirts. They can be flattering, feminine, flirty, and elegantly interesting. Make some class samples while learning the difference between the three, then start brainstorming where to use them. They are fun, safe, and can use up small amounts of odd yarn.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3108 3 hrs Intermediate Scallops: They’re Not Just for Dinner You’ve done mitered squares, you’ve done diamonds, and now you’re looking for some curves, right? Scallops have arrived, and they have nestled into a beautifully shaped shawl. Any yarn, any size needle, and you can customize the colors, too. Add some nice techniques to your repertoire along the way.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

7021 3 hrs No skills required Kumihimo: The Art of Traditional Japanese Braiding Begin your adventure in this beautiful fiber tradition by making a bracelet with one of the easier braiding techniques. Kumihimo discs will be provided for you to use. Once you learn the possibilities, you will never want to stop!

Materials fee: $10 for braiding materials, beads and bracelet clasp.

Candace Eisner Strick

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A TKGA Master Knitter and past co-chair of the Master Hand Knitting Committee, Margaret Fisher is a nationally known knitting instructor and a designer of one-of-a-kind garments and accessories.

She learned to knit at the age of ten and was self-taught for many years, driven by her teenage enthusiasm for knitting colorful, stylish, and trendy clothing. She is still passionate about knitting garments, focusing on well-made, well-fitting, contemporary clothing that has a timeless appeal. Many of Margaret’s classes give students practical skills and techniques used in garment knitting. She believes that when knitters under-stand the 'how' and the 'why' of techniques, it allows them to make choices in their own projects. Her classes focus on teaching techniques that empower knitters and increase their confidence. She is the author of Seven Things that can “Make or Break” a Sweater®, a knitting technique book.

For more information on Margaret, go to www.margaretfisher.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm2025 3 hrs Intermediate Advanced Seaming: Texture, Color, Pattern Do you know how to seam stockinette stitch, but find other stitch patterns challenging? Learn how to apply the same techniques and principles to seaming textured stitch patterns and colorwork.

The key to seaming is understanding stitch pattern structure and recognizing where to place the sewing needle. We will work with two simple textured stitch patterns, garter stitch and seed stitch, to learn how to identify ‘where to sew.’ These two patterns are representative of many textured patterns and by seaming them, you will understand many aspects of seaming others. You will practice seaming vertical, horizontal, and horizontal-to-vertical seams in garter stitch and seed stitch.

Also, you will learn how to adjust textured and colorwork stitch patterns so they match at the side-seams of a garment. Charts and knitted samples will be used to examine the stitch patterns and determine how to adjust them. The class includes a discussion of using selvedge stitches with colorwork and textured stitch patterns.

The last part of the class focuses on the knitting and seaming techniques used for set-in sleeves. All of the steps for sewing set-in sleeves will be reviewed, and you will practice seaming the diagonal section of a set-in sleeve on seed stitch swatches.

Note: Must be able to sew vertical, horizontal, horizontal-to-vertical, and diagonal seams in stockinette stitch and vertical seams in reverse stockinette stitch (or must have taken Superb Seams class). Must be able to identify the structure of knit and purl stitches in handknits.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5013 3 hrs Easy Seven Things that can ‘Make or Break’ a Sweater®

Learn seven things that will make a big difference in the appearance of your sweaters. The smallest details can have a huge impact: increasing in ribbing, bumpy or smooth cast-on edge, slanting decreases, invisible increases, perfect buttonholes, flat edgings, and blocking.

You will learn about all of these things while you practice and receive lots of tips and hints. Since you are going to spend hours making a garment, you’ll want to use these techniques to make even the simplest sweater look marvelous.

Note: This is an advanced beginner level class.

Margaret Fisher

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Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm2044 3 hrs Intermediate Zip, Button, Tie: Creative Closures Learn a number of attractive and functional closures for garments. Start by practicing and mastering all of the steps of placing a zipper in a fabric. Understand how to avoid puckers and make sure the zipper fits the opening. Then have fun making I-cord and crocheted buttons. See how they can add a nice visual touch, especially when worked in fancy yarns. Finally, focus on using drawstrings and ties as fastenings. See how zippers, buttons, and ties can accent your work and make it special.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3122 3 hrs Advanced Demystifying Set-in Sleeves Sweaters with set-in sleeves have an attractive silhouette and fit the body well, but the caps can be tricky to shape and seam.

Learn the shape and construction of a sleeve cap which is knit from bottom to top (underarm to shoulder) and how it fits into the body of a sweater. Knit a sample cap using the shaping calculations and techniques, decrease placement, and refinements that ensure a perfect fit. Learn and practice the seaming techniques which make your set-in sleeves look beautiful.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm2006 3 hrs Easy Superb Seams Seaming is one of the most important finishing steps for a knit garment. In this class you will master all the seaming techniques used to assemble a sweater and understand how to make seams look flat and smooth. Learn how to sew invisible side seams on stockinette, reverse stockinette, and ribbing. Find out how selvedge stitches make seaming easy, even on the most complex pattern stitches. Practice joining shoulders and attaching sleeves. Discover how to make your garments look seamless.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5249 3 hrs Intermediate Stripes and Steeks Do you love variegated yarn with long color repeats? Are you unhappy with the uneven and mismatched striping that can occur in garments knit with these yarns? Learn several knitting techniques that produce beautiful results. See how to tame the stripes by planning your garment layout. Understand how to create steeks, a band of vertical stitches which are cut to create armholes, necklines, or the front opening on a sweater. We will talk strategy and practice cutting steeks. This class will help you create garments with beautifully balanced and matching stripes when using yarns with long repeat variegation.

Margaret Fisher

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Karen has worked as a knitting instructor since 1998, teaching for local guilds and shops as well as at regional and national knitting confer-ences. She worked as the Knit Doctor at STITCHES events for several years and especially enjoys working one-on-one with students, helping them with specific questions about their knitting. Her day job as a knitting technical editor, working mostly for Interweave, exposes her to a wide range of knitting techniques, methods of garment construction, and pattern-writing styles, which in turn informs her teaching. She likes to explain the “why” of what’s happening, not just the “how.” Her articles have been published in Knitscene and Sockupied magazines. In her free time, she enjoys spinning, sewing, and playing with beads.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 5273 3 hrs Easy Floating Away Simple, pretty, and effective, floats are the strands of yarn that go in front of or behind stitches when you slip them. In this class we’ll learn several different stitch patterns that use floats in unusual ways. The stitch patterns are easy to do and look beautiful! They can be a nice way to show off a variegated yarn by mixing up the colors, but they also look great with solids.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 1071 3 hrs Intermediate Fabulous Fair Isle Fair Isle knitting is a traditional method for creating beautiful garments using only two colors per round. Knitting it is like eating candy: just one more piece; just one more round. Learn to hold a yarn in each hand to create the lovely patterns while starting a winter hat. We will also cover tacking floats on the wrong side of the piece, discuss steeking, and, if time permits, discuss some ways to disguise the “jog” that can happen at the beginning of round.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5208 3 hrs Intermediate Mysterious Illusion KnittingUnlock the mysteries of illusion knitting (also called shadow knitting). This fabric looks like stripes, but can reveal a secret image when viewed from the side. Using garter stitch and stockinette stitch, we’ll learn to create the fabric’s interesting texture — which is what creates the image. We’ll look at two different ways to chart illusion patterns while working a swatch to practice the techniques.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5274 3 hrs Easy Learn From Your Swatch Your swatch can save you from investing a lot of time in a garment only to realize that the hand isn’t right, you’re about to run out of yarn, or the dye has run. Learn how to make a swatch that will help you to foresee these problems and overcome them. Learn how to take accurate gauge measurements from your swatch, and what to do with those measurements to insure that your garment will fit. Find out what you can learn from your swatch and make it work for you!

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm6143 3 hrs Advanced Infinite Cables Do you love working standard cables but want to try something different? Rather than starting at the bottom of a piece and going all the way to the top, infinite cables begin out of nowhere and end before the top of the fabric. These cables, also called circular cables, continuous cables, and closed-ring cables, are unusual but make striking designs. We will learn to make both rounded and pointed beginnings and endings while working on a bag.

Karen Frisa

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Designer, teacher, author and illustrator Franklin Habit is the author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons and proprietor of The Panopticon (the-panopticon.blogspot.com), one of the most popular knitting blogs on the Internet. On an average day, upwards of 2,500 readers world-wide drop in for a mix of essays, cartoons, and the continuing adventures of Dolores the Sheep.

Franklin’s varied experience in the fiber world includes contributions of writing and design to Vogue Knitting, Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, Twist Collective; and regular columns and cartoons for Knitty.com, PLY Magazine, Lion Brand Yarns, and Skacel Collection. Many of his independently published designs are available via Ravelry.com. He travels constantly to teach knitters at shops and guilds across the country and internationally; and has been a popular member of the faculties of such festivals as Vogue Knitting Live!, STITCHES Events, Squam Arts Workshops, Sock Summit, and the Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 5270 3 hrs Intermediate A Sense of Proportion: A Glorious Compendium of Methods for Knitting without Tapes and Rulers A tape measure is wonderful thing. So is a knitting pattern. But have you dreamt of being freed from both, and working your way from cast on to finished garment, neither one nor the other? You can. The history of knitting is full of time-tested methods for using the proportions of the human body — and of the knitting itself — to determine stitch counts, shapings, and measurements to yield garments with a custom fit. In this class — part lecture, part practice — students will learn about useful relative proportions of the human body, as well as formulae and folklore for hats, mittens, socks, shawls, and fitted upper garments. And yes, you’ll need a tape measure — but not for long.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 6124-2 6 hrs Easy Weave the Center, Knit the Edge: The Ligeia Stole Workshop (Part 2) The Ligeia Stole brings together two ancient arts — weaving and knitting — to create a finished piece that’s both striking and elegant. In this full-day workshop, designers Franklin Habit and John Mullarkey will guide you through all the necessary steps, from weaving and joining the beautifully patterned elements of the pin-woven center; through the knitting-on of the matched lace edging. You won’t believe how simple the tools and techniques are, and how quickly your own treasured stole will come together. No previous weaving experience is required!

Note: This is a two-part class, you must also sign up for 6124-1 with John Mullarkey on Saturday AM. You cannot take one part without the other. You must be comfortable knitting from lace charts.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm6091 6 hrs Intermediate Knitted Tessellations: Playful and Powerful Patterns in Practice (Deluxe Edition) A hands-on introduction to the creation of tessellations: motifs that interlock without gaps or overlaps. Tessellations are as old and pervasive as design itself; they can be found in some of the most ancient examples of human craft, and were famously used in the modern era by the artist M.C. Escher.

In this class, we will begin by discussing the theories behind tessellating, and put into practice the basic techniques for designing new tessellated patterns in hand-knitted fabrics. In this expanded, six-hour edition we will also delve into eleven varieties of symmetry, and use them to create striking, original new designs.

Note: Fluency in the basics of knitting in the round (or, if it is the student’s preference, speed-swatching or flat stranded colorwork). Students are offered the choice of working in knit/purl texture patterns or in two-color (stranded) knitting; those choosing the latter should be adept at it. A sense of humor, a taste for adventure, and a reasonable ability to concentrate are strongly advised.

Franklin Habit

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Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6129 3 hrs Intermediate Carved in Wool: Bavarian Twisted Stitch The intriguing twisted stitch patterns (strickmuster) of Southern Germany and Austria are known in their native German as a signature of “Bayerisches Stricken”—”Peasant Knitting”— but their effect in knitted fabric is of unsurpassed richness. We will study and practice the twist maneuvers required of the technique, and also learn how to read the special charts in which the patterns have most often been recorded.

Prerequisites: Fluency in the basic techniques of knitting, including knitting in the round. Prior familiarity and comfort with working from charted patterns will be helpful.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm3065 3 hrs Intermediate Working with Antique Patterns Don’t let the tiny type and archaic language fool you, there’s a gold mine of beautiful, functional designs waiting to be discovered within the pages of Victorian and Edwardian books and magazines. In this session, we’ll discuss the history of patterns; the selection of appropriate yarn and needles; methods for deciphering and trouble shooting, and ‘reverse engineering’ from photographs and pieces. You don’t need to be a historian or re-enactor to enjoy this class, just a knitter with a curious mind.

Franklin Habit

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Susanna grew up in Sweden and learned to knit in the fifth grade, as did all young Swedish girls in the early 1960s. She has been an instrumental influence in the renaissance of interest in the unique patterned colorwork Bohus Stickning sweaters, and her collection of vintage garments was the centerpiece of a highly successful exhibit at the American Swedish Institute (ASI) in 2009.

In addition to teaching at STITCHES events, Susanna takes her workshops on the road to guilds, retreats, and shops in North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and the UK. Her work is grounded in her love of technique, detail, history, and culture. She loves to teach as much as she loves to knit!

For more information about Susanna, please visit her website at www.oneofsusannas.com.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3013 3 hrs Intermediate Japanese Short Rows Short rows are an elegant way to shape your knitting and are the perfect way to finish off shoulders and build collars that lie flat. Japanese short rows are done without using the wrap-and-turn. Although they are a little tricky to learn, ‘stair-step’ shoulder bind-offs will be a distant memory once you master this technique. Complete your short rows with an elegant Japanese bind-off.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm4049 3 hrs Easy Jogless Fibonacci Stripes Your swatch for this class becomes a cute baby hat, striped to perfection!

We will cover how to add rhythm to stripes including using the Fibonacci sequence of numbers, and will practice the four steps necessary for creating perfect ‘jogless’ stripes every time you knit in the round.

Note: You are expected to know how to knit in the round.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm6027 6 hrs Advanced Bohus Stickning The story of Bohus is a story of couture knitting, sociology, women’s history, social justice, and cultural legacy all in one.

Learn more about the Bohus movement, its background, and its history. Discuss differences between this and other multi-color techniques, and discover what it is that makes the Bohus patterns ‘sing.’ Participants will be able to examine in detail several vintage pieces from Susanna’s collection.

The class project is a pair of wristlets worked in a 50% merino/50% angora yarn from Sweden.

Note: You are expected to know how to knit in the round.

Materials fee: $25.

Susanna Hansson

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Cecilia Ho was born into a family of designers in Hong Kong but was first introduced to felting after moving to Nova Scotia, Canada in 2007. The local and plentiful sheep farms influenced her passion and direction into felting and fiber arts. She has held felting demonstrations and workshops at museums, galleries, art and fiber festivals, and local businesses across the United States and Canada. Cecilia has taken part in exhibitions, fashion shows, and wool campaigns worldwide. FELTasticFashion is the business created by Cecilia in 2011 which provides all-inclusive felting DIY kits for beginners.

Learn more about Cecilia at www.facebook.com/FELTasticFashion

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 7105 3 hrs No skills required Felt-a-Tote (2D Needle Felting) Join Cecilia Ho to learn how to felt and decorate your own eco-friendly yet functional tote bag! This “FELT-a-Tote” project will be great hands-on fun as you learn 2D applique needle felting.

Discover how a felting needle replaces a paintbrush to create a unique painting with wool. With over 30 color choices, learn how to mix various colors of wool fibers to achieve a beautiful wool painting. Everyone is encouraged to put his/her own personality into each creation. Let’s have fun painting with wool!

Materials fee: $15 includes felting needle, felting foam, wool top, and cotton tote.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 7106 3 hrs No skills required Felt Applique on your Own Knit Scarf/Sweater Bring a knit scarf, hat, or sweater and learn to add special embellishment with 2D applique needle felting. This class will be great hands-on fun.

You will learn how to use a felting needle to add special patterns directly onto your favorite knits! Everyone is encouraged to put his/her own personality into each creation. Best of all, no sewing machine, thread, or sewing needle are required.

Join Cecilia and have fun adding embellishments to all your knits using the felt applique technique!

Materials fee: $10 includes felting needle, felting foam, and wool top.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 7107 3 hrs No skills required Wet Felt Soap, Pod Vessel, & Keepsake Bowl Explore wet felting by working on several basic projects. Discover how to create seamless 3D felted pieces with just wool fibers and hot soapy water. Students will also learn techniques using resists to create special patterns.

Materials fee: $15 includes resist and wool top.

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Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am7108 3 hrs No skills required 3D Wool Charm Needle Felting Natural wool fibers can work wonders! Learn to use a felting needle to build sculptured wool creations as you create a one-of-a-kind, eco-friendly ornament. Make this adorable sheep in combos of white, black, gray, and brown. Then use yours as a Christmas ornament, auto rear-view mirror charm, handbag charm, or even a baby mobile!

Materials fee: $5 includes felting needle, wool top, and elastic cord.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm7109 3 hrs No skills required Wet Felt Knitting Needle Case Explore using wet felting to create a seamless piece of non-woven fabric! This project will be a great hands-on, fun way to learn how to turn loose wool fibers into a wool case to store all your knitting needle supplies. With over 30 color choices, students will be able to add colorful painting and designs to make a one-of-a-kind case.

Materials fee: $15 includes resist, wool top, and wooden button.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am7110 3 hrs No skills required Animal Portrait Needle Felting 101 Discover how a felting needle and wool can be used to create beautiful wool paintings. Needle felting can not only create 2D but also add 3D texture-features! That’s right, felting is like 3D printing, by adding layers and layers of wool. The felting technique is very simple, and you can work at your own pace. It’s a great active meditation handicraft! Everyone can turn wool fibers into seamless piece of felt fabric under Cecilia Ho’s instruction to create a 4" x 6" animal portrait wool painting. i.e. Tiger, Elephant, etc. Optional: Bring in a picture of an animal portrait as a sample guideline.

Materials fee: $20 includes all basic felting tools, wool batt, and choices of over 20+ colors of NZ Corriedale wool.

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Best known as the creator of the knitting education website, Knit Purl Hunter, Michelle’s videos have been viewed by millions of knitters. Her books, Building Blocks and Building in Color, are skill building series designed to progress the knitter through the major knitting principles. Michelle divides her time between teaching classes nationwide and online instruction. Her designs have been featured in various publications and are all supported with video tutorials. She considers herself the luckiest person alive to be able to combine her passion for teaching with her love of knitting.

For more about Michelle, go to http://knitpurlhunter.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 5129 3 hrs Intermediate Sock Bucket List Does your knitting Bucket List include Magic Loop, toe-up socks, and an afterthought heel? Master all of these techniques in one class! The Magic Loop is the slickest way to knit socks using one long circular needle and is preferred by the legion of toe-up sock knitters. The afterthought heel is a great way to add contrasting-colored or striped heels. This heel may be removed after many wearings and reknit, making it a perfect choice for those who tend to wear holes through their heels. Students will create a sample sock using all the skills needed to knit a full-sized sock.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 5128 3 hrs Easy Navajo Knitting Magically turn lace weight yarn into worsted-weight yarn with Navajo knitting, also known as chain plying. Navajo knitting triple plies yarn from one skein without cutting or dividing the skein. This is a perfect use for that large skein of lace yarn hiding in your stash, or that cone of handspun that is begging to be knit!

Learn the basics of the technique plus how to alternate triple and single plies within a project to create sheer stripes, a big trend in today’s fashion. Begin a beautiful scarf using all of the above methods. WARNING: This technique is addicting!

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 5230 3 hrs Intermediate Short-row Round Up Do you avoid patterns with short rows? Do you know only one method of working short rows? Are you unhappy with the appearance of your short rows? Join me for a round up of short-row techniques that will give you the confidence and expertise to short row like a pro!

In class we will work a multiple of short-row methods, including garter, Japanese, and German short rows, discovering which one is best suited to your tension and/or project. We will also learn ways to sneak short rows into your knitting with surprising results.

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Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am4104 3 hrs Intermediate Navajo Intarsia This magical technique combines Navajo knitting and intarsia to create opaque motifs on a sheer background. Unlike traditional intarsia, only one skein is used at a time with no interlocking or ends to weave in. It’s fast, fun and easy to learn! Previous experience with Navajo knitting and intarsia are not required.

All of the basics of Navajo Intarsia will be covered while creating a swatch for the stunning shawl, Spotted Fever. The whimsical wrap features opaque polka dots dancing on a sheer background. Using fingering weight yarn, the pattern is available in two sizes — both perfect for warming the shoulders on a chilly evening. During the session we will be swatching and beginning the shawl — be sure to bring a fabulous yarn to showcase the design!

We will also explore ways to incorporate the technique into an endless array of design possibilities.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm1051 3 hrs Easy Two Colors = Too Much Fun!What’s better than a gorgeous color of yarn? Two colors, of course! Discover the joys of knitting with two colors in this class chock-full of color techniques.

Take the fiddly out of color work with expert tips to manage, carry, and tame multiple yarns. Learn several two-color cast-on and bind-off techniques to create beautiful edges that complement any color work. Experiment with increases and decreases that enhance rather than disrupt color work. Sample a few delightful stitch patterns sure to whet your appetite for more color knitting. Class covers advanced striping, double ended knitting, intarsia, stranded knitting, slip stitch patterns, and more.

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After many years of teaching knitting and crochet, Deborah discovered weaving in 1996, and her love of fiber, texture, and color came together. Since then she has worked full time as a weaver and artist, including teaching fiber arts, creating and selling wearable art, giving lectures, and showing in local, regional, and national exhibits. Deborah’s work has been exhibited at galleries and museums across the country, and she has won numerous awards and written articles for national publications. Her work has been commissioned by churches and is in many private collections. Since 2004 she has been an artist in residence, teacher, and weaver at Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo, CA.

Deborah loves helping knitters discover the joy of weaving.

For more about Deborah, go to www.deborahjarchow.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm7056 3 hrs No skills required Beginning Weaving for Knitters

Have you wondered if you’d like to try weaving, but feel confused about it and don’t know if you’d like it or not? In this class you will see 3 of the top brands of rigid-heddle looms and find out how they work. You will learn about setting up the looms to prepare for weaving, and then you will weave on them.

This class gives you an overview of how weaving can expand your fiber skills. It’s the perfect opportunity to give weaving a try without purchasing the equipment. See just how easy weaving can be!

Note: Rigid-heddle looms provided for class use.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm7053 6 hrs No skills required Learn Rigid-heddle Weaving and Use Up Your Stash

If you are looking for ways to use up those leftover balls of yarn, this method of weaving is easy, fun, and creative. Learn ways to combine different colors, textures, and fibers as you make a unique and beautiful scarf.

Note: Rigid-heddle looms provided for class use.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm7101 6 hrs Easy Color Blending on the Loom Learn the secrets for blending the colors in your weaving. Have you looked at some of the gorgeous color packs so many dyers are making and wondered how to best use them in your weaving? By using one of those color packs and the techniques you learn in this class, you can create a piece that blends the colors beautifully! Colors will be mixed in both the warp and the weft so the gradients flow together almost invisibly. This technique can provide the basis for many future exciting projects!

Note: Rigid-heddle looms provided for class use.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm7100 6 hrs Easy Weaving a Mohair Scarf

While learning to weave, you’ve probably been advised to stay away from hairy yarns. During this class, you’ll learn the secrets of working with beautiful mohair yarn. Although a bit tricky, you can tame the hairy fiber in both warp and weft to create a stunning piece. Learn to add beads or tie decorative knots to tame the fringe. Overcome the challenges and add another skill to your weaving accomplishments!

Note: Rigid-heddle looms provided for class use.

Deborah Jarchow

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Trendsetter Yarns company owner/designer Barry Klein has been knitting for 40 years. He started knitting by working in his family’s knitting store, where all patterns were designed for the knitter’s body. For the past 25 years he has worked as an industry teacher, doing knitting classes all over the world.

Barry has designed knitwear for magazines, television shows, ice skaters, and movie stars. He has authored 5 knitting books and worked as a spokesman on Knitting Daily and other television knitting shows. He loves to share his love of yarn and everything that can be done with it. Barry has been voted one of the Top 10 Men who Knit/Design throughout history. Learn why "Let the yarn do the work" is his favorite motto.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 6111 3 hrs Easy Slip Sliding Away Slip-stitch knitting is a fantastic way to play with color and texture and create a piece of fabric that is unique to the yarns you’ve selected. We will work on multiple slip-stitch variations and talk about yarn selection, color placement, and details that will allow you to use this technique to create something truly fantastic. This technique is simple, easy, and really fun.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm3015 6 hrs Intermediate Perfect the Fit When patterns are written, generic sizing does not allow the perfect fit. Learn to remove size labels and worry only about the finished size for your body. Explore swatching for gauge, changing needle sizes, and playing with pattern stitches. Work backwards from an existing pattern and forwards from a stitch gauge to create a design that will fit your actual body measurements.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm3120 6 hrs Intermediate It’s a Swing ThingTaking a regular sweater or jacket and adding swing by a means of short rows or increase/decrease shaping can take a garment from okay to fantastic. Learn the different methods for doing this and how placement and choice of shaping can make the difference. We will experiment with different stitch patterns, style choices, and fashion options, so it will be clear how to make this work on the garments you knit. Lots of finished projects will be in class to show how it all works. This is a great hands-on class.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6014 3 hrs Intermediate Style with a Twist Knitting combines yarn and style, but it’s not always easy for the two to come together. We will work with classic, textured, and hand-dyed yarns as we make small samples of sweaters and designs that will bring it all together. This class is for knitters who want to be more involved in the design process and use different yarns for their favorite sweaters. See how easy it is to go from average to fantastic.

Materials Fee: $5 for yarn assortment.

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Patty is a nationally recognized knitting teacher and technique expert who is known for teaching the ‘why’ not just the ‘how’ in her pursuit of training the ‘mindful knitter.’ She specializes in sweater design and sharing her love of the much-maligned subjects of gauge and blocking.

Patty teaches nationally at guilds and knitting shows around the country. One of her classes was named Craftsy’s most popular class of 2013! Her DVDs include Knitting Bag of Tricks, Advanced Fixes in Knitting, and An Introduction to Color Knitting.

Patty’s designs and articles have been published by various yarn companies and in Knitter’s Magazine, Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, Cast On, Knit Style, and Creative Knitting magazines, where she also writes a knitter’s advice column called Patty’s Purls of Wisdom.

For more about Patty, go to www.pattylyons.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5275 3 hrs Intermediate Twice the Fun, Half the Work

Learn the fun and time-saving technique of working any two items, in the round, two at a time! Whether socks, sleeves, or wristers, getting both pieces done at once means you’ll never suffer from ‘second item syndrome’ again! First, we will go over the basics of working magic loop and two circs. Then we’ll move on to the secrets of how to cast on and work two items for both magic loop and two circs. We’ll also go over professional tips for improving the look of your work in the round.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5276 3 hrs Easy Fantastic Cast-ons & Bind-offsHow you start and end a project is an important decision. There are so many amazing cast-ons and bind-offs; I’ve gathered some of my favorite and most practical. We will go over great cast-ons and bind-offs for lace, for rib, for leaving your stitches live, or for giving you a firm edge. Let’s start and end with a bang!

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5277 3 hrs Intermediate HELP! I Took a Wrong Turn: Miraculous Cable FixesCables are beautiful and intricate, but oh my—do mistakes jump out. No need to live with them anymore. Crossed the wrong way, or on the wrong row, or did you even forget a cable entirely? No problem! If fear of fixing mistakes has kept you from trying out larger cable projects, no need to fear. We will master fixes while your stitches are still on the needle as well as some pretty amazing fixes you can make to your cables after you stitches have been bound off. Go back and fix those past knitting mistakes, help is here!

Patty Lyons

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Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3135   3 hrs Intermediate Customizing Sweater Patterns

Make every pattern your own. How many of us look at a pattern in a book or magazine, and immediately start thinking about how we would like to do it differently. Learn the simple process of changing sweater features. Turn that crew neck into a V-neck, add a collar, change the sleeve length, add waist shaping, and more. We will also explore how to get a different size and work with different yarn gauges. Go ahead, start redesigning, it’s fun!

Note: Math is used in sweater design.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm6211   3 hrs Intermediate Let it Go: Drop-stitch PatternsRemember when the thought of dropping a stitch made your heart stop? Now learn to let that GO! Discover the beauty of dropping a stitch on purpose! Drop stitch patterns are fun and add a wow factor to anything you knit. In this hands-on knitting class, we will explore a variety of beautiful drop stitch patterns that include manipulated drops and lifted floats. Add a bit of wow to any pattern. Come on, drop a stitch, and let it go!

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5260   3 hrs Easy Improve Your Knitting Technique

There’s always room for improvement! Does your knitting ‘row out’ (your purl stitch looser than your knit stitch), are you looking for a better way to control your knitting gauge? What about alternative ways to tension your yarn when working with stiff yarn or slippery yarn? We’ll explore ways to improve your knitting technique by looking at stitch sizing, a better way to make a clean edge, neater increases and decreases, and look at things like which cast-ons and bind-offs to use when, and a better way to pick up stitches. The last part of the class will be open for all knitting questions, so come with your questions and let’s explore our knitting.

Patty Lyons

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Jennifer brings her background in marketing, psychology, counseling, art history, science, and metaphysics to the knitting classroom. A yarn and color designer, Jennifer is the creator of Theodora’s Pearls, nationally-known handpainted and hand-dyed yarns, featuring unusual and luxury fibers. Jennifer is dedicated to promoting creative confidence in every knitter, enhancing knitting skills, and encouraging new and innovative experimentation in yarn! A self-taught artist, sourcing inspiration from the natural world, folk art, and historical textiles, she shares her own creative journey as an example of how you can express yourself through fiber, creating beauty, harmony, and functionality.

Jennifer’s popular classes include basic and advanced technique, knitwear design, creativity, lacework, texture, and color design. Jennifer is known for her content-rich classes, chock-full of tips, tricks, shortcuts, and easy tools to enhance the creative process.

For more about Jennifer go to theodoraspearls.com.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm3131 3 hrs Intermediate Shawl Shaping: Design Your Own Shawl from Start to Finish without Charts or MathIf you are ready to design your own shawl, this class is for you. We will tackle the basics of shawl shaping, texture, and combining color. Learn the basic geometry of the triangle, cresent, and heart-shaped shawl while focusing on personal design. You will create the shawl size and features you prefer. Class covers several shawl starting methods including garter tab, creating texture, and striping/gradation. Learn some easy lace, picot, and other edgings.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 4089 3 hrs Easy Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Baby Surprise Jacket Explicated! Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Baby Surprise Jacket is a very charming, adaptable, and useful pattern that works, as written, for newborns through toddlers. This famous pattern must be easy to knit since tens of thousands of them have been made over the years, and that counts only those posted on Ravelry! EZ’s pattern and writing style is famously conversational but not particularly linear. With this class and the basic pattern, you will be able to make it quickly! In fact, it’s quite easy and lends itself to endless creativity. Jennifer has constructed dozens of the jackets in all sizes and will share her own annotation to the basic instructions.

Note: Must have the Baby Surprise Jacket instructions from Schoolhouse Press.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm1055 3 hrs Intermediate Color Confidence with Handpainted Yarns If you’ve got a few (or many) skeins of lovely handpainted yarn but don’t know what to do with them, this class is for you! Jennifer, a designer of hand-dyed yarns, will show and teach the most spectacular ways to show off your special skeins. Learn fearless color combining, innovative ways to work with 2 or more skeins of handpaints, color theory, and more. Focus on the creation of socks and shawls as well as mitts and scarves.

Learn to visualize how a handpainted, multicolor skein will knit up and how to work with long and short-color repeats. Explore stitches that avoid unsightly color pooling and flashing. Practice several stitch patterns and their variations that show off multicolored yarn including chevron, linen stitch, feather and fan, and mitered squares. Leave with beautiful samples of knitted handpaints as well as the confidence and resources to create lovely pieces on your own!

Jennifer Miller

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Nationally-recognized teacher John Mullarkey has been tablet weaving for nearly a decade. His work has been displayed in the Missouri History Museum, and garments using his card woven bands have been featured in international fashion shows. His designs are featured frequently in weaving magazines. John is the primary author of A Tablet Weaver’s Pattern Book and has produced two DVDs: Tablet Weaving Made Easy and Double-Faced Tablet Weaving. He is the developer of the Schacht Zoom Loom, featured frequently in weaving magazines.

For more about John, go to malarkycrafts.com.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 6124-1  3 hrs Easy Weave the Center, Knit the Edge: The Ligeia Stole Workshop (Part 1) The Ligeia Stole brings together two ancient arts, weaving and knitting, to create a finished piece that’s both striking and elegant. In this full-day workshop, designers Franklin Habit and John Mullarkey will guide you through all the necessary steps, from weaving and joining the beautifully patterned elements of the pin-woven center; through the knitting-on of the matched lace edging. You won’t believe how simple the tools and techniques are, and how quickly your own treasured stole will come together. No previous weaving experience is required!

Note: This is a two part class, you must also sign up for 6124-2 with Franklin Habit on Saturday PM. You cannot take one part without the other.

Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm7103 3 hrs No skills required Ply-Split Braided Scarf    Literally what it sounds like, learn to split the plies of commercial 2-ply or 4-ply yarn to create a colorful braided scarf. Using a grip-fid and commercial yarn, start on a scarf while learning the basics of ply-split braiding, a very old cloth-making technique. The interaction between the yarn colors as one yarn splits another is a fascinating and fun effect.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm7098  6 hrs No skills required The Ultimate Band! Card Weaving PrimerTired of knitting I-cord? Bored with store-bought webbing? Learn the fundamentals of card weaving! This ancient portable-weaving technique takes little investment in tools but produces the strongest, most durable, most beautiful bands imaginable for custom camera and guitar straps, belts, and straps for shoulder or carry bags, or facings for a cardigan. We will discuss the basics of reading a draft, warping a loom, and weaving a band. This style of card weaving is straightforward and easy to weave, but allows for very colorful repeating patterns.

No prior weaving experience is necessary.

Materials fee: $15 for 20 cards and 1 shuttle. Portable looms will be provided for the students to use in class.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm7102 6 hrs No skills required Tablet Weaving: Woven Shoe Laces    Weave your own shoe laces! Using a weaving technique called tablet weaving, and literally using cards as your loom, learn how to weave laces out of crochet cotton. Your fly shoes will only get flyer with laces you’ve woven for them.

Materials fee: $15 for 20 cards and 1 shuttle. Portable looms will be provided for the students to use in class.

John Mullarkey

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Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm8074 3 hrs Intermediate Creating FAB Fabrics: Unlocking Your Inner Textile Designer Whether you’re making a scarf, an afghan, a dress, or a cardi, good fabric makes or breaks a design. No matter how good the design concept is, if the fabric isn’t right, the design just isn’t going to work.

While many factors regarding fiber content and type of yarn are important in creating fabrics, we’re going to concentrate on the foundation for all fabrics: the stitches!

We’ll start at the beginning with strong base stitches that you probably already know and help those stitches evolve into fabrics that are as different as tree bark and tapioca. To accomplish this, we uncover the basic priciples of design, apply them to our crochet stitches, and follow a step-by-step evolutionary course to develop surprisingly different fabrics based on the original stitches.Just pick a stitch and add a variation element based on the type of fabric you want.

Next, we’ll apply the same principles to stitches that might not be familiar to you, the result is unique and FAB custom fabrics made by your own two hands!

By the time we’re finished, you will have an understanding of how to create fabrics from the inside out and the tools for experimenting with designing custom fabrics of your own!

Note: Must know how to make ch, sc, hdc, dc, and tr stitches.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am OR Sunday 8:30 pm - 11:30 am7104 3 hrs No skills required Stitch & Click — Photographing your Fibers

Nothing is more disappointing than finishing a FAB fiber project and not being able to take an equally FAB photo of it. In Stitch & Click we will show you how to take great photos that show off your stitch and fiber work.

Don’t have an expensive camera or fancy photography studio equipment? No worries! We will show you simple tips and tricks to use what you have around the house to create photos that will really show off all that hard work you put into your handmade projects.

In this class we’ll teach you the basics of how ALL cameras work whether you have a DSLR, or a mobile device. Yes, you can take FAB photos JUST using your smart phones or tablets! We’ll learn where to find the right light for photographing any handmade project, how to create a professional environment for taking your photos, explore a few downloadable apps to assist you in your quest for the perfect photo, and we’ll give you one sure-fire

Shannon & Jason Mullett-BowlsbyShannon and Jason, the Shibaguyz, are the DIY duo behind the design studio of Shibaguyz Designz and Shibaguyz Photography.

Shannon’s award winning crochet and knit designs have been featured in and on the covers of both US and international publications, and he currently has over 300 published patterns credited to his name. Shannon has been teaching adults for 20+ years and is a Craft Yarn Council certified instructor. His quirky sense of humor and relatable teaching style have made him a sought-after teacher in both local and national venues.

Jason is a professional fashion and portrait photographer whose fashion photography can be seen in many of the Shibaguyz’ pattern books. Jason also works as a freelance book-packaging designer and photographer for indie knitwear designers as well as major publishing companies like Sterling Publishing, Leisure Arts, Quayside, and Creative Publishing. Jason is sought after in the fiber arts community for his insights into what it takes to show an artist’s work at its best.

Shannon and Jason live in Seattle, Washington with their three Shiba Inu who, more or less, support their ventures as long as enough time is taken for walks and treats.

For more about Shannon and Jason go to ShibaguyzDesignz.com.

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tip that is certain to take your photos from drab to FAB. We’ll even share our favorite DIY solutions so you can set up great photos at home without breaking the bank! Finally, we’ll practice hands-on so you get experience setting up your own stage and lighting for a signature look and receive immediate feed-back from the experts. You’ll work on a few photo assignments and receive invaluable immediate feedback from the experts.

By the time this course is through you’ll have all the information needed to step boldly into basic product and consumer photography and take FAB photos that truly show off your work!

Goals

• Understand what makes a good photo.

• Learn the unique qualities of fiber projects that create special photography issues . . . and how to overcome each one.

• Understand how to use any digital camera, point and shoot, and even camera phones to get great results.

• Learn about DIY camera equipment you already have in your house.

• Take a FAB photo . . . or two . . . or three . . . .

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm8069 3 hrs Easy Couture Finishing for Crochet and Knitting Master sewists and finishers work for years to perfect their finishing skills and they are sought out by couture designers for the skills that give their work the flawless finishes it deserves. You’ve worked hard to make your stitching skills the best they can be, now it’s time to bring your finishing skills up to the next level.

FAB finishing is the key to producing handmade projects that stand out from the crowd. In our Couture Finishing class, we share the professional skills we use to create the Shibaguyz Designz line of garments, accessories, and home décor.

We will break down each step of the finishing process from blocking to weaving in ends to flawless seaming. You’ll learn to apply professional finishing techniques including blocking, end cap finishing stitch, locking mattress stitch and mattress stitch for sewing invisible seams, setting in sleeves, and setting in zippers. As you practice your new skills, you’ll learn a well-kept secret: The finishing process just as much fun as the stitching!

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Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Saturday 2:00 - 5:00 pm3133 6 hrs Easy Fashion, Fit, Form, and Function: Designing Garments for EveryBODY There are a million patterns in the naked city... yeah... a million... and wouldn’t it be nice if just ONE of them fit?!? Well, my friend, the search is OVER! Shannon will teach you the basics of fashion, fit, form, and function that we use daily as fashion designers. We’re going to go deep into the minds of a designer and show you just what all this fit, ease, and drape talk is all about and what that means to YOU and YOUR body type and shape.

We’ll start with making sure you can look at a pattern and KNOW if it’s going to work for your body based on how the finished garment will sit on your body and how your body moves around inside the finished garment. You will learn how to make basic alterations to a pattern that you will be able to use for every garment you ever want to make... EVER... did we mention the ever part?

We will start with measurements and form: what measurements do I take from where and how do I apply them to my pattern? Then we’ll talk about fit: how do I make a garment that fits a certain style or body type? Then we’ll move to function: for whom am I making this and where will they wear it? Finally... fabrics: how to take your swatch and convert that into a pattern.

Materials fee: $5 includes cardi pattern template with measurement and sizing charts; calculation worksheet.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm8077 3 hrs Intermediate Crochet Cables: Put a Little Twist In Your Stitches!We all love the look of those luscious, sumptuous cables in sweaters, afghans, hats, scarves and, well, we just love cables! What’s that? You thought cables were only for knitters? Not so! In this class we will learn to wield our hooks to create these wonders of twisted yarn in ways previously reserved for those with pointy sticks (knitters).

We will work swirling left and right crossing cables then work our way up to wide cables with stabilizing stitches. Finally, we’ll put your cables together to create stunning fabrics of twisted, twirling stitches.

In the end, you will leave class with the knowledge and skills necessary to add these useful and stunning design elements to your bag of stitching tricks.

Goals • Understand the concept of cabling and how it works in crochet fabric through the use of post stitches. • Work sample blocks with different combinations of left twist and right twist stitches to create beautiful cable patterns.

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Sarah is a Michigan-based designer, teacher, and technical editor. She teaches at local yarn shops and guilds, for regional and national conferences, and on Craftsy.

Sarah’s passion is making knitting accessible to everyone. She is known for the patience and humor with which she teaches, for the relevance and detail of her class notes, and for her ability to instill confidence and provide her students with a wide range of lasting skills.

For more about Sarah, go to www.sarahpeasley.com.

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Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm6083 3 hrs Easy Basic Fair Isle Techniques

The Fair Isle technique has been around for centuries, but can be learned in a matter of hours. Learn to read charts like a pro. Practice knitting in the round with 2 colors while trapping those pesky floats. Discover the beauty of corrugated ribbing. Hold your breath while you cut open a crocheted steek. There’s nothing to it. What are you waiting for?

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6112   3 hrs Intermediate Basic Double Knitting Techniques Double knitting is pure magic. Using one method, a piece worked back and forth opens up as if it had been knit in the round. Using another method, the image created on the front of the fabric will appear in reverse image on the back. Learn both methods to create a small bag and a two-sided coaster while practicing appropriate cast-on, bind-off, and chart-reading techniques.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm6212   3 hrs Easy Basic Entrelac Techniques Take some tilty squares and triangles, add a fancy French name, and you get a totally addicting stitch pattern! Whether they lean to the right or to the left, whether they’re right side up or upside down, you’ll learn all of the building blocks you need to make any entrelac pattern. Bonus skills: knitting backward and flawless color changes.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6108   3 hrs Easy Basic Cable Techniques Do you love those beautiful textures, but think cables are too difficult? Think again! Conquering cable knitting is simply a matter of knitting your stitches in the proper order. Right leaning or left leaning, back and forth or in the round, with or without a cable needle, Sarah will help you get it all sorted out. And while we’re at it, let’s demystify those wacky chart symbols, and whip a few mis-crossed cables into shape.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm3028   3 hrs Intermediate A Well-Executed Sleeve Cap Learn how to design an armhole to fit YOUR body, then pick up and knit a perfect set-in sleeve from the top down with no unsightly seams!

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Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am4082 3 hrs Intermediate Downside Up Socks Turn tradition on its head! Use 2 circular needles to knit a sock from the toe up. Start with an unconventional cast-on, form a perfect heel without picking up any stitches (and without that pesky hole, too!), and finish with your choice of a ribbed or a hemmed cuff.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5031 3 hrs Easy Preventing and Fixing Mistakes

Become the boss of your knitting! Study the anatomy of a stitch, then apply what you’ve learned to correct a variety of common mistakes including twisted stitches, dropped stitches, split stitches, and holes. Learn to safely rip back a stitch, a row, or an acre of knitting—without losing your cool.

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Alasdair is a computer technician in the Boston area who spends much of his spare time as a knitting designer. He focuses on double-knitting, which is a knitting technique that creates a fabric with no wrong side. Until recently, a typical double-knit fabric was either tubular or reversible with the opposite side showing a mirror image design in opposite colors. Over the past few years, people here and there have been expanding the definition of double-knitting to include more complex color and structure variations.

While Alasdair cannot claim to be the only one pushing these boundaries, he is among those on the forefront of innovation in double-knit-ting. His books, Extreme Double-Knitting and Double or Nothing, document his repertoire of esoteric double-knitting techniques.

Alasdair has been teaching double-knitting around North America since 2005 and adds new techniques to his workshops regularly so that even experienced double-knitters or veterans of his previous workshops will have something new to learn. He also teaches on Craftsy, but for many there’s no substitute for face-to-face learning.

For more about Alasdair, go to double-knitting.com.

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Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm OR Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5153 3 hrs Intermediate Introduction to Double Knitting Double-knitting is a unique method of making a fabric with no ‘wrong’ side and a built-in capacity for reversible colorwork pattern. Significantly different from the standard intarsia and Fair Isle colorwork, double-knitting is a labor-intensive but wholly worthwhile technique to have in your repertoire.

In this workshop you’ll learn Alasdair’s 2-color cast-on for double-knitting, get comfortable with the techniques involved, then move into colorwork. By the end of the workshop you should have completed a motif swatch and be confident that you can tackle a larger standard double-knitting pattern

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5155 3 hrs Advanced Double Knitting Lace Alasdair says it best: “The more I double-knit, the more possibilities I see opening up before me. I love the possibilities of lace, the elegant shapes and flowing forms that can be generated with just a few holes and decreases. As I push the boundaries of double-knitting, how could I not try double-knit lace? It turns out that there are myriad ways to do it and not all of them are interchangeable.”

In this workshop you’ll learn 3 of these methods of double-knit openwork and the pros and cons of each. As with the other advanced workshops, you’ll also learn a really clean double-knit selvedge and a bind-off that mirrors the cast-on.

Note: Previous double-knitting experience required. (You should have taken Alasdair’s Introduction to Double-Knitting workshop in person or on Craftsy or have done some other standard [not slip-stitch] double-knitting colorwork on your own or in another workshop.)

Friday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5232 3 hrs Advanced Double Knitting Off the Grid Knitting is so often just one row of stitches on top of another — and double-knitting doubly so. In the pursuit of more interesting shapes, sometimes you need to go … off the grid. In this workshop, you’ll learn a whole host of double-knit increases and decreases — you can use them for shaping later, but I prefer to use them to make colorwork that almost seems to be embroidered onto the fabric. If you combine this technique with double-knit cables, whole new worlds will open up before you. As with the other advanced workshops, you’ll also learn a really clean double-knit selvedge and a bind-off that mirrors the cast-on.

Note: Previous double-knitting experience required. (You should either have taken Alasdair’s Introduction to Double-Knitting workshop in person or on Craftsy, or have done some other standard [not slip-stitch] double-knitting colorwork on your own or in another workshop.)

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Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5152 3 hrs Intermediate Multi-color Double Knitting Bored with only 2 colors in your double-knitting? Add a third, or a fourth! With more than 2 colors per row in double-knitting, the rules change a bit. Learn how to choose a color rotation and maintain it throughout a 3-color pattern. In this workshop you’ll get to play with 3-color single-pattern as well as 2-pattern double-knitting, and open new doors to design possibilities that were previously impossible (or at least improbable). You’ll also learn how to integrate the third color into a foolproof double-knit selvedge, and a bind-off that mirrors the cast-on.

Note: Previous double-knitting experience required. (You should have taken Alasdair’s Introduction to Double-Knitting workshop in person or have done some other standard (not slip-stitch) double-knitting colorwork on your own or in another workshop.)

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Gayle Roehm has been teaching knitters across the country how to enjoy Japanese knitting and crochet designs. Gayle majored in Japanese studies, speaks Japanese, and lived in Japan. She began to teach knitting after a long career as a management consultant focusing on development consulting, and worked in many countries all over the world. An avid knitter throughout her career, she has been using Japanese patterns for many years.

Her own designs have been featured in Knitter’s Magazine, Interweave Knits, A Gathering of Lace, and other publications. She also sells original designs through a local fiber arts gallery. Her article about Japanese patterns appeared in Knitter’s Magazine in 1997, and was one of the first to appear in English on the topic. She also prepared the Japanese section for the book Knitting Languages, and for several years translated Japanese patterns for Dancing Fibers (now Sunrise Yarns/Diakeito).

Gayle Roehm

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm6017 3 hrs Advanced Challenging Stitches From Japanese Designs Every knitter loves to discover new and interesting stitch patterns. This class will give you a chance to try a few unusual stitches that I’ve found in Japanese garment patterns. We’ll review the standard symbols used in these designs, then swatch four or five stitches that you may not have seen before. You don’t need to know how to read a Japanese pattern, but you do need to be comfortable knitting from charts. Some of the charts are difficult to interpret, and some of the stitches may be complicated to execute, so bring an adventuresome attitude — they’re all fun! You may find them useful in your own designs. The class aims to remove the fear from tackling complex charts, so you can approach just about any Japanese chart with confidence.

Note: Must be very comfortable knitting from charted stitch patterns. Some familiarity with Japanese stitch symbology is useful but not required.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5033 6 hrs Advanced Understanding Japanese Knitting Patterns Many knitters have recently discovered the intriguing world of Japanese hand-knitting patterns. Japanese designers are creative and innovative, and their designs use beautiful stitchwork and impeccable details. You’ll see that a Japanese pattern is presented in an almost entirely graphic format, which is quite accessible to a western knitter once certain conventions are explained.

This full-day class is aimed at those who would like to make a garment from a Japanese pattern. We’ll learn how to ‘read’ a schematic, including how to interpret shaping notation. We’ll cover how to find basic information such as gauge, yarn requirements, and needle sizing. We’ll also examine the symbols used in stitch charts, which are standard among all Japanese publishers, and we’ll make some swatches to become familiar with Japanese symbology. Bring any Japanese patterns that you may have questions about.

Note: Must be very comfortable knitting from charts.

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Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 5233 3 hrs Intermediate A Sampler of Japanese Tips and Tricks Japanese knitting patterns often include an interesting and useful technique. This class will introduce you to an assortment of techniques from Japanese patterns or technique books. Most are variations or refinements on techniques that every knitter knows. Among other things, we’ll look at variations on three-needle bindoff; two vertical buttonholes; a ribbed tubular cast-on; and Japanese bobbles worked with a crochet hook.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm8032 3 hrs Advanced Getting Started with Japanese Crochet Patterns Expand your Japanese knitting experience with crochet. Japanese designers are creating some of the most beautiful crochet garments around, and many designs combine knitting with crochet. Crocheters are lucky, too, because Japanese crochet symbols have been adopted around the world as the standard for representing crochet stitches.

In this class we’ll learn the basics of understanding the schematics and stitch charts that form the basis for a crochet pattern. We’ll cover hook sizes, gauge, yarn requirements, garment shaping, and the other basic information you need, as well as where to go for help when you’re not sure. We’ll swatch an overall pattern, a center-out motif, and an edging to practice crocheting from charts.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 6213 3 hrs Intermediate Lace Stitches from Japan Japanese designers create beautiful lace patterns, many of which are adapted from traditional European styles. In this class, we’ll swatch a couple of lace stitch patterns that I’ve selected from Japanese designs. We’ll look at what might be considered typically ‘Japanese’ about a lace stitch. We’ll also cover some tips on interpreting charted lace patterns, as well as variations (and pitfalls) you might encounter.

Sunday 1:30 am - 4:30 am 6220 3 hrs Intermediate Three-dimensional EmbellishmentsHave fun embellishing sock cuffs, hats, bags and other projects with dreadlocks (beaded or not), twists, blisters, crosses, nubs and other methods of adding texture and dimension. They’re all knit-in-as-you-go and don’t require breaking your yarn; you can even unravel them if you change your mind. You’ll leave with a hat pattern using these techniques, and lots of ideas for embellishing your own designs.

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Having taught at STITCHES events for more than 20 years and at a variety of knitting seminars from England to Alaska, Leslye Solomon is an enthusiastic, energetic, and empathetic teacher with extensive knitwear training.

Leslye owns Woolstock Yarn Shop in Glyndon, Maryland. She shares her experience and knowledge in instructional videos, DVDs, and books. Subjects covered include sweater finishing, making socks using double points and a single circular needle, techniques in buttonholes and bands, a wonderful method of continental knitting, bead knitting, and machine knitting, including a book entitled The Uncomplicated Knit-ting Machine. Leslye has also created KnitSpeaker, an iPhone, iPad, iPod timed-audio pattern-repeating app for knitters.

A class with Leslye is an experience that will arm students with valuable knowledge. Their only concern is whether they will remember it all!

For more about Leslye, go to woolstock.com.

Leslye Solomon

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm2011 3 hrs Intermediate Buttonholes and Bands for Better Cardigans Learn all about making the most professional cardigans with the neatest bands and perfect buttonholes sized for the buttons you want. Practice a variety of Leslye’s favorite buttonholes. See how easily you can space the buttons. Enjoy the confidence you’ll have when you can turn a vague pattern direction into buttonband success.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am4105 3 hrs Easy Knit a Beautiful Log Cabin Throw This is truly one of the most enjoyable projects a knitter can do. It is easy, and the majority of the work is very portable. You’ll love every minute of working with the beautiful colors found in this yarn. The end result is a magnificent and warm work of art. Learn the tricks to making the squares and the magical technique to invisibly join it into one gorgeous, impressive throw.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5038 3 hrs Easy Switch to Continental-style Knitting It doesn’t matter how old you were when you learned to knit or if you are left- or right- handed. Leslye has a proven technique that will help you quickly and easily change your style to knit faster and more ergonomically.

As a result of this easy-to-learn technique, students begin to fly through and love ribbing and seed stitch. Besides becoming more productive through speed, the quality of the knit fabric may improve and become more even. Enjoy renewed knitting confidence as you find yourself attempting more complicated stitch projects.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am

3130 3 hrs Easy Designing Knitting Projects from Sewing Patterns Sewing patterns come in a huge variety of design ideas and sizes and are a great source for your next knitting project! Did you know you can take the shape of a paper pattern piece and turn it into stitches and rows to knit?

In this class, you will learn how to choose your yarn and pattern size and the stitch that would best flatter your design. Find the stitch and row gauge of your selected yarn and stitch. Extract the measurements of the pattern piece and easily calculate the shaping into the stitches and rows to duplicate the shape in knitting. Learn how to take the angles and curves of hems and the curves of armholes, necks, sleeves, and sleeve caps found in sewing patterns and calculate the increases and decreases required to shape your knitting in the same way. Tap into a vast resource that could result in your next multi-size original sweater pattern.

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Stacey has been bringing fun into the yarn world with her successful designs and blog, FreshStitches, since 2008. She is the author of Cuddly Crochet, Crocheted Softies and Modern Baby Crochet. Stacey firmly believes there is no ‘right way’ to knit or crochet and enthusiastically experiments with a variety of techniques to achieve the desired finished product. This philosophy spills over into her teaching style; she guides students to the stitching style that works best for them!

For more about Stacey, go to freshstitches.com.

Stacey Trock

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am4111 3 hrs Intermediate Knit Your First Top-down SweaterHave you been wanting to knit a sweater, but feel... daunted? Then this is the class for you!

We’ll be knitting a miniature version of the easiest type of sweater to make: the top-down raglan. There are no seams to sew up and no separate sleeves to attach.

You’ll learn all of the basics of sweater-making: reading the pattern for properly-placed increases, discussing virtues of different types of increases, how to successfully separate the body and sleeves, and tricks for picking up stitches with no tears!

In this 3-hour class, you should expect to finish all of the tricky bits of your mini-sweater, and leave feeling confident to start your own one! Whether your goal is a baby sweater or one for yourself, you’ll have all of the skills under your belt.

I will teach this class using double-point needles. However, if you feel fully confident in an alternative technique (such as magic loop or two circulars), feel free to substitute. The course will not provide instruction for how to do these alternatives.

Sunday 1:30 am - 4:30 am 4106 3 hrs Easy Beginner Shawl Bootcamp Are you ready to hop on the shawl-knitting craze? If you can increase and decrease and are ready to take your skills to the next level, this class is for you! We’ll be knitting the Bento shawl, which is a sampler pack of stitches, that adds up to one delicious shawl! Yes, there are even some bling-y beads!

In this class, you will learn: how to measure gauge, how to knit with beads (by pre-stringing), how to work a garter stitch tab, how to change colors, how to work a variety of increases, how to read a basic chart for lacework, how to effectively use stitch markers, and how to execute the stretchy bind-off.

You will complete a mini-sampler shawl in the 3-hour class, and will leave fully-prepared to begin your full-sized shawl (pattern included).

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Kennita is a teacher, author, and freelance designer with a fine art background. Her work has appeared in every leading US knitting publication. She has also designed for numerous yarn companies. Her first published hand knit designs appeared in Knitter’s Magazine, Spring 2000.

Since closing her yarn shop of 12 years, she currently self-publishes her own pattern line under the name of Wildflower Knits and teaches both across the country and internationally. For the past several years, she has been teaming up with Tahki Stacy Charles and producing new collections each season. In addition, she designs for Knitting Monthly, a membership site featuring a new pattern, videos, and articles each month.

Learn more about Kennita at wildflowerknits.com or following her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/wildflowerknitwear.

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 3137  3 hrs Intermediate Sleeves are a Breeze! “If only it had sleeves...”. It’s easy to add sleeves to a vest once you understand the structure of the sleeve. This class will have you thinking sleeves are a breeze from now on. We will cover the basic sleeve styles from drop shoulder to caps, focusing on cap shaping.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am3136   3 hrs Intermediate Side-to-Side: Shapingwith Short Rows   Learn the pros and cons of knitting side-to-side instead of the traditional bottom-up method. We’ll talk about alternate methods of shaping and why short rows are a perfect match. While knitting a miniature sweater, we’ll work through the different techniques involved including various ways to do short rows.

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5267 3 hrs Intermediate Loosen up with Asymmetry   You know asymmetry is hot! It’s all over the runways in one form or another. It’s time to free yourself from the box! Learn to spice it up with short rows, color changes, hem-length variations, and so much more. Get skewed with asymmetry!

We’ll do some serious brainstorming on all the ways we can add asymmetry to our knits, then you’ll have the chance to come up with some creations of your own! This class will explore some basic techniques to make it easy for you to challenge yourself to new levels. Learn to play with color sequences, patterning changes, ruffles, even pleats to skew your knit!

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am1064   3 hrs No skills required Painting on Knits Add color to your knits in a new way! Painting on knits is a fun and easy way to apply color. Try it with a freeform brush if you have the artist gene, or take the easy way out with stencils. The photo shows paint added to a few mosaic motifs. It’s great for applying highlight colors to Fair Isle and intarsia, too. We’ll explore working with stencils, painting by number (or stitches!), and freeform. The sky really is the limit. If this sounds daunting or too risky, consider embelllishing pockets or patches instead to really jazz up your knitting.Material fee: $15 for paint, brushes, stencils.

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Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm6214 3 hrs Easy Shadow Knitting Write a secret message in your knitting! With this easy technique and Kenita’s alphabet at your fingertips, you can create a special gift that will wow your friends and family. Get started with a small coaster project, then feel ready to tackle a larger project, like a heart pillow or maybe even a blanket (with that secret message)! Now you see it, now you don’t!

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6215 3 hrs Easy Slide into Colorful Reverse Discover a new way to work reversible stitch patterns in two colors. By combining slipped stitches and altering the direction of knitting, many reversible combinations are possible! In this class, we’ll explore a number of reversible patterns great for scarves, cowls, shawls, etc. Why hide the back side when you can show it off!

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Jennifer Vancalcar has been dyeing yarn as Holiday Yarns for the past 13 years and knitting even longer. Her yarns have been featured in magazines such as Spin-off and Interweave as well as on the popular show Knitting Daily. Holiday Yarns was the ‘Yarn of the Month’ for Yarnbox in December 2013 and January 2016. Among other places, you can find Holiday Yarns on The Yarn Harlot (Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee) Blog and on Debbie Macomber’s needles when her book Starry Night was released. Jennifer has produced over 100 fun and eye-catching colors over the years and continues to come up with more everyday!

For more about Jennifer go to: holidayyarns.com.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am OR Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 7111  3 hrs No skills required Dye Your Own Yarn Have you ever wanted to try your hand at dyeing your own yarn?

Indie Dyer Jennifer Vancalcar of Holiday Yarns brings you this exciting new Dye-Your-Own class.

Students will receive 1 skein of yarn to dye in the colors of their choosing. Learn how to hand paint yarn to produce beautiful tonal, variegated, or pooling effects when knit.

Along the way, students will also learn some color theory. At the end of the class, you will walk away with a beautiful skein of one-of-a-kind sock yarn created by you!

Materials fees: $25 for the yarn you will be dyeing (Holiday Yarns, Flocksock Sock Yarn: 75/25 Superwash Merino/Nylon).

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A former software professional, Beth now mixes her enthusiasm for yarn and fiber, teaching and learning, design of all kinds, and words and numbers into her own business, Beth Whiteside Design. She is originally from New England but currently lives in San Francisco, where mountains, ocean, and Haight Street are always good sources of inspiration. A STITCHES Expo teacher since 2005, she can now also be found online at Annie’s Attic and Craftsy. What she loves most about teaching is making light bulbs pop on in her students’ heads and giving them the confidence to continue forward on their own!

For more about Beth, go to bethwhitesidedesign.com.

Beth Whiteside

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm5095 3 hrs Easy Round Up! 4 Ways to Knit in the Round Love knitting in the round, but have trouble with small circumferences? Never tried it because you are intimidated by that cord connecting the sticks? We’ll go over the basics of knitting around on circular needles of all lengths for making knitwear of all sizes. Learn how stitch patterns are worked when you go round and round and round. Once you’ve practiced the old standard techniques (16 and 24" circulars and double-points), we’ll go over two newer methods, the 2-circulars and Magic Loop. When you head home, you’ll be ready to finish our class projects, a neck warmer and fingerless mitts!

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm7068 3 hrs Intermediate KLITCH your Knits! Knotting, Lacing, Inlay, Twining, Couching (faux), Hemstitching: amp up your knitting with these 6 afterthought embellishing techniques!

That single skein of pretty sitting in your stash can add pizazz to plain knitting (hand-made or store-bought!), cinch in a waist taper, or cover up an extended edging. You will practice all these techniques in class, as well as get ideas for using and developing them further. Come learn to KLITCH!

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Andrea Wong was raised in South America. For the last 13 years she has taught thousands of knitters to use the Portuguese Style of Knitting, either personally, through her publishings, or her class online. Her in-depth experience with this and related knitting techniques and clear, concise instructions make the methods attainable for any knitter who is interested in learning.

Andrea has published three technical DVDs on the subject: Learn how to Knit Portuguese Style, All about Socks: Portuguese Style, Portuguese Style of Knitting II. In 2010 she self published her first book: Portuguese Style of Knitting: History, Traditions and Technique.

For more about Andrea, go to andreawongknits.com.

Andrea Wong

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm5002 6 hrs Easy Portuguese Style of Knitting During this workshop knitters will have the opportunity to learn the history and practice the style of knitting common in Greece, Portugal, Egypt, and Turkey. The main characteristic is that the yarn is either wrapped behind the neck or looped through a pin attached to the shoulder in order to maintain a constant tension. Students will learn the knit stitch, the purl stitch, increases, decreases, cast-on, and bind-off. A project will be given to practice all techniques described in class.

Optional materials fee: $5.00 for knitting pin.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 8060 3 hrs Easy Turkish Crochet

Turkish bead crochet is not yet widespread in this country. It consists of a simple crochet technique resembling bead crochet, but the effects and possibilities are quite different. It only uses 2 crochet stitches, and they are the simplest ones: slip stitch and single crochet. The execution is easy and quick and it makes a great way to get rid of bead stashes (or start one!). The design itself is made by combining at least 2 different kinds of beads. Once you learn the principles of this method, it is very hard to stop making necklaces and bracelets, purse handles, and much more. The applications are endless!

Note: A basic knowledge of crochet is required.

Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm and Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 5242 6 hrs Intermediate Peruvian Purl, Puntas, Picas, and Popcorn When Andrea had the privilege of traveling around Peru, she visited many villages and learned first-hand about knitting Peruvian style, comparing and contrasting it with the Portuguese style of knitting.

Andrea makes this comparison as she points out what makes the Peruvian style of knitting different and especially efficient, how much is inspired by woven textiles, how beautiful the patterns are, and what some of their motifs mean.

The construction details exclusive to the Peruvian style will be taught including how they purl, how they work on the non-public side of the work, how they knit the puntas or picas as borders, and how they purl using 2 (or more) colors of yarn. As a bonus, you are going to learn how to make the popcorn stitch and how to apply it to your own designs. A pattern for a small bag is included in the class along with several traditional motifs to create your own if you wish.

Sunday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm 5235 3 hrs Easy Hooked on Knitting Let’s explore knitting as it was invented! Mary Thomas reported in her book the discovery of a half-finished sock and five hooked needles in a 12th century Turkish tomb. Since early age until nowadays, knitting is done on hooked needles. Peru, Egypt, Turkey, Portugal and a few other countries still take advantage of a hooked needle to knit.

Andrea will teach you how to knit using needles with hooks at the ends, show you the traditions of their use in different countries, and contrast advantages and disadvantages of knitting with them. A small project pattern will be given to you to practice as well.

Materials fee: $16 includes 1 set of hooked needles, one knitting pin, and a pattern.

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Myra is a fiber artist, designer, and author of Knit in New Directions (XRX Books), Crazy Lace, and Creative Crochet Lace. She’s appeared on TV shows including Knitty Gritty, Knit and Crochet Now, Uncommon Threads, and on online classes. With a background in fine and graphic arts, Myra teaches a wide range of inspiring classes specializing in all things creative.

For more about Myra, go to www.myrawood.com.

Myra Wood

Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm8075   3 hrs Intermediate Modern Irish Crochet Irish crochet has exploded across the globe in recent years! Magazines like Duplet from Russia feature a whole new, multi-color vision of a long treasured technique. Rather than using tiny hooks and cobweb thread, learn how to create incredible Irish crochet inspired work with size 10 thread and a B or C hook. You’ll learn how to interpret Russian charts and symbols and how to crochet motifs. Tons of examples will be shown!

Materials fee: $4 for foam base and muslin.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am1053 3 hrs Easy Knit a Quilt Many traditional quilt designs can be easily translated into knitting. In this unique workshop you will create quilt blocks and learn how to arrange them in different patterns to create an heirloom knit quilt. You’ll learn how to take a traditional quilt block and knit it in different colors and yarns. The sky’s the limit with this incredible technique!

Friday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm1070   3 hrs Intermediate Gradient Magic Yarns that graduate from one color into the next may be called many things — long color repeats, self striping, ombres — but they can all be used in endless creative ways. Learn how to separate a ball of yarn to make it appear to be several balls of the same yarn in different colors. Find out how to make the most of those balls and how different techniques highlight their usage. We’ll play with stitch patterns that create wonderful effects by using parts of the balls in different ways.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am and Saturday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm3052 6 hrs Intermediate Creative Knitting: Crazy Quilt-style

Learn how to design and knit in different directions to make a unique fabric based on an overall template rather than a specific pattern. A basic template will be provided to make a pillow or purse, but you’ll learn how to make your own clothing templates as well.

Learn to combine triangles, squares, and rectangles to fill your shape like a jigsaw puzzle or traditional crazy quilt. We’ll discuss how to knit shapes to exact sizes, ways to join as you go, and finishing and embellishing to complete your wearable work of art. You’ll never look at your knitting (or your stash) the same way again!

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am 1048   3 hrs  Intermediate  Pattern-free Possibilities   Simple rectangles and squares offer endless creativity. It’s all in how you put them together!

Start with a rectangular template, divide the space into sections, then knit to fill each section. Experiment with combining stitch patterns, techniques, and colors to create completely unique fabrics. Techniques include mitered squares, modular pieces, log cabin, and bias knitting.

Learn a join-as-you-go method and a modified mattress stitch to create a finished piece that can be turned into a bag or even part of a sweater design.

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Now an Anglican Solitary living in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Anna shares her knowledge on embroidering your knitting with Splendid Apparel (XRX books). Her other books include Fancy Feet, 45 Fine & Fanciful Hats to Knit, Knitting for Anarchists, and Socks for Sandals and Clogs.

Friday 8:30 am - 11:30 am6064 3 hrs Advanced Twisted Traveling Stitches Austrian twisted travelling stitches create patterns in high relief that resemble woodcarvings. They can also provide a wonderful base for embroidery. They require a few special techniques (among them, how to interpret the special charts), careful knitting, and some practice, but are well worth the effort. This class will focus on flat knitting, which is much harder than working these patterns in the round but gives the greatest flexibility for usage. After a few exercises, we’ll make a cell-phone cover that could easily turn into cuffs for an elegant sweater.

Saturday 8:30 am - 11:30 am2024 3 hrs Easy Embroider Your Knitting Embroidery has been used always and everywhere to embellish fabric, while knitting has been left bare save for a few lazy daisies and French knots. In this class we’ll integrate simple embroidery stitches into simple knit stitches to create many different effects, both new and wonderful. Learn to incorporate back stitch, cable chain, Palestrina knot, cross stitch flower, and others into ribs, cables, and other stitches whether you are right- or left-handed.

Sunday 8:30 am - 11:30 am5103 3 hrs Intermediate Surprisingly Special Techniques Learn techniques that Anna has found more useful than she ever imagined. Most important is the perfect buttonhole, and it IS a perfect buttonhole. There is also a k1, p1 rib with neat, even stitches; easy wrapping for clusters—once, twice, and thrice; knitting backwards with 2 colors (never purl Fair Isle again); plus other hints which are more or less arcane but no less useful.

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THURSDAY Opening Day Spotlight 10:00am Follow Your Bunny:

The Creative Life from A to Q with Franklin Habit

Teachers à la Carte Luncheon Noon Food & fun: Enjoy table-side visits from STITCHES teachers Classes 1:30pm–4:30pm

Student Market Preview 5:00pm–8:00pm Shop with all your fellow attendees before the market opens to the public.

FRIDAY Fashion Show 6:30pm See the best of STITCHES Market live on the runway. Dinner 8:00pm Pajama Party 10:00pm–Midnight Classes 8:30am–11:30am 2:00pm–5:00pm The Market 10:00am–6:00pm

SATURDAY From the Pages of Knitter's Magazine Noon

with Rick Mondragon Student Banquet & Style Show 6:30pm This is what STITCHES is all about— knitters and their knitting. Classes 8:30am–11:30am 2:00pm–5:00pm The Market 10:00am–6:00pm

SUNDAY Cash Grand Prize Drawing 1:00pm The 3 lucky winners must be present. Classes 8:30am–11:30am 1:30pm–4:30pm The Market 10:00am–4:00pm

Although STITCHES is a family-friendly event, classes, presentations & evening events are limited to ages 8 and above for everyone's enjoyment.

Thanks, STITCHES Management

We have a block of rooms set aside for STITCHES attendees. Be sure to mention STITCHES when you call the hotel; there are a limited number of rooms available at these prices.

NOTE: Additional hotels will be listed on the STITCHES web site when the room block fills. These will be further from the Convention Center but within close driving distance. Prices will vary.

Hotel reservations

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara5101 Great America PkwySanta Clara, CA 95054408-200-1234 or 800-233-1234 Connected to the Convention Center

Hilton Santa Clara4949 Great America PkwySanta Clara, CA 95054408-330-0001Push 1 for reservations and use code XRX17 Across the street from the Convention Center

$179 Single/ Quad

$189 Single/ Quad

Biltmore Hotel & Suites2151 Laurelwood Rd Santa Clara, CA 95054 800-255-9925 Shuttle Service available. Please plan accordingly.

$189 Single/ Double

February 23 – 26

WEST 2017

Avatar Hotel4200 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 408-235-8900

$189 Single/Double

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Cancellations are subject to the following fees:

Before December 15, 2016 15% of the cost of the order.

Cancellations received after December 15, 2016 will not receive a refund but may be considered for a credit to a future STITCHES event minus a processing fee equal to 15% of the entire registration. Registrations cancelled less than 24 hours before the event may not be eligible for any credit. Credits will be valid 3 years and may be used for any STITCHES event.

Class Change Fee: Any schedule changes made after your original registration are subject to a $10 fee.

STITCHES reserves the right to cancel any class.

Registration Opens July 28, 9:00am CST

To make immediate choices, we recommend online registration at KnittingUniverse.com/West2017.

REGISTRATION

PACKAGES

EVENTS

CLASSES

Name _________________________________________________________________________

(badge name) __________________________________________________________________

Address  new address _________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip, Country _________________________________________________________

Phone ( ) ________________________________________________________________

E-mail _________________________________________________________________________

Vegetarian meals required  Gluten-free meals required

METHOD OF PAYMENT:  Check  Visa  Mastercard  Discover  American Express

CARD # ______________________________________ EXP DATE _______________________

SIGNATURE __________________________________ CVV CODE ______________________

1st choice

2nd choice

3rd choice

Thursday Friday Saturday Sundaypm am pm am pm am pm

THE WORKS $595 $695 $ _________ Opening Day Spotlight & Teachers à la Carte Luncheon, 21 Class hours, Fashion Show & Dinner, Student Banquet & Style Show

ALMOST THE WORKS $560 $645 $ _________ Opening Day Spotlight & Teachers à la Carte Luncheon, 18 Class hours, Fashion Show & Dinner, Student Banquet & Style Show

Opening Day Spotlight & Teachers à la Carte Luncheon (THU) $60 $70 $ _________ Opening Day Spotlight only (THU) $25 $35 $ _________ Teachers à la Carte Luncheon only (THU) $45 $55 $ _________ Fashion Show & Dinner (FRI) $75 $85 $ _________ Fashion Show only (FRI) $25 $35 $ _________ Student Banquet & Style Show (SAT) $80 $85 $ _________ 21 Class Hours $435 $510 $ _________ 18 Class Hours $390 $460 $ _________ 15 Class Hours $345 $405 $ _________ 12 Class Hours $295 $340 $ _________ 9 Class Hours $235 $265 $ _________ 6 Class Hours $160 $185 $ _________ 3 Class Hours $85 $100 $ _________

TOTAL ENCLOSED $ _________

CLASSES � EVENTS � ETC�

Early Bird

Ends October 18, 2016

For immediate email confirmation register online.

3Mail it in with payment to:

STITCHES Registration

PO Box 965 Sioux Falls, SD

57101-0965

Phone it in to STITCHES with credit card information

1-800-237-7099

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1Register Online

KnittingUniverse.com/EVENTS

E-mail questions to stitches.registration

@xrx-inc.com

3 easy ways to register

Although STITCHES is a family-friendly event, classes, presentations & evening events are limited to ages 8 and above for everyone's enjoyment.

Thanks, STITCHES Management

February 23 – 26

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & Santa Clara Convention Center

Santa Clara, CA

WEST 2017

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