In less than a month, the Estes Park Wool Market will be in full swing with two days of workshops and two days of shopping! It’s a beautiful venue, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance. The weather is perfect for wearing sweaters!
I’m teaching a couple of classes there this year, and I will be signing copies of Crochet Bouquet in Suzanne Correira’s booth. She is otherwise known as Fire Ant Ranch.
There’s still time to sign up for classes! If you mail your registration form before Friday, May 22, great! If you mail it after that, there’s a late fee. So send in your registrations today! Here is the brochure and registration form.
May I recommend my workshop? It is called “Style and Shape Knitting with Pleats and Darts.” We will make at least three different kinds of pleats, including the one shown in the yellow top modeled above by young Ella.
These pleats look great on sleeves, but you can use them to enhance other parts of your garments, too. We’ll talk about this and brainstorm together to come up with great ideas for how to use pleats.
We’ll also discuss how to incorporate knitted pleats into garments, as design details or as major garment shaping. We will discuss how to deal with the extra weight. We will practice ways to figure out the number of sts you need for a pleated item.
Darts make sweaters fit better, and lucky us! We can knit darts right into our sweaters. I’ll show you how to measure and calculate darts, and how to knit them using short rows.
Every now and then you don’t know you need a dart until you’ve already finished the sweater. Never fear! You can cut a dart into your sweater. To see a cut-out dart in progress, have a look at this post.
There is homework, so be sure and read the brochure closely. Hope to see you there!