Now, don't forget that Saturday is World Wide Knit In Public Day. Find an event, take your knitting and show the world that knitting is fun, cool and social.
Last Saturday, Linda and I taught our first Beginning To Knit class. I love to team with Linda. We play off each other well, are not just good knitters but great teachers and WE HAVE FUN! There were four wonderful women in the class. Nine had signed up, but I think Ann learned something about having participants pre-pay. It's too bad people chose not to come but we had a blast. I have a philosophy that whoever shows up are the right people. (I struggled grammatically with that sentence for two days and I think that is right even though it is awkward.) It's too bad for the people who didn't come and too good for those who did. There was plenty of time to give individual attention. Ann's By Design has this great teaching room which is big enough for 12 or 8 comfortably. But I am noticing that it does not take an interesting picture. I wonder what I can do about that. Maybe hang knitted things on the walls--like the giant knitted wall hanging! Remember this? I blogged about it sometime last year. It's knit with many different strands of yarn at the same time on size 50 needles. I think it would spruce up the class room. Well, let's get back to class. This is Marilyn, Julie, Cheryl and Joan. First we went on a field trip of Ann's By Design talking about the different Cascade yarns and their properties. We talked about reading a yarn label, what every knitter should have in their knitting bag, and different kinds of knitting needles. The skills to learn were cast-on, knit stitch, purl stitch and bind-off. With that they can do almost anything. (Isn't knitting great in both its simplicity and its complexity?) They had a homework assignment and we had lots of wonderful conversation. The little black and white bags contained things knitters should carry in their knitting bag. What may have been the most fun was the serendipitous conversation. Unplanned "teachable moments." These are the "what every knitter needs" in their bag. I would have loved to give them everything, but just couldn't. In addition, we told them they needed a crochet hook, tape measure, the needles with the little curve on the end and counter. Linda and I have many little pouches already packed so all we have to do is grab one, put it in our knitting bag and we're off. I must admit that I am addicted to knitting gadgets. I love them all. But I really didn't want to confuse them with some of the weird things I have.
Now, don't forget that Saturday is World Wide Knit In Public Day. Find an event, take your knitting and show the world that knitting is fun, cool and social.
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jan parsonThis blog is dedicated to Mary Helen Growt my first knitting teacher and the woman who changed my life. The mission of Knitting: A Love Story is to preserve, share and promote the love of knitting. Archives
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