August Wooly Bulletin

Erica came up with this versatile project - it can worn as a wrap or a shrug. Will this be your first blush with lace? Perfect! The 5 Points Shawl is ideal for a beginner lace project! Additionally, this shawl can easily be completed with just one skein of fingering weight yarn.
$30, not including cost of supplies.

Every year it happens - Christmas rolls around and I see these beautiful stockings and I’m struck with jealously. Why didn’t I think of that five months ago??!!
This year is different - I’m making my own! Join Hannah and Erica and create a (soon-to-be) heirloom Fair Isle Christmas Stocking. This is a great project to learn Fair Isle color work. You’ll become familiar with interpreting color work charts and learn how to design your own fair isle stitch pattern. Those of you not feeling quite as intrepid have nothing to fear - there are hundreds and hundreds of color work patterns to choose from. The stocking has similar construction to a sock and you’ll learn how to make an "Afterthought Heel." You’ll also feel so virtuous! This project is perfect for using up  stash yarn and you can use odds and ends for embellishment. Your stocking will be personalized in every way! 

$45, not including cost of supplies.

 

 

You’ll have to check out some of our 
example stockings hanging in the shop!

 

 

While every style of knitting has its own merits and weaknesses, there are some differences that set Continental knitting apart. Continental knitting requires fewer hand movements to form each stitch and can potentially be more efficient - especially for stockinette in the round! Continental knitting utilizes different muscles and postures which can lessen strain and problems associated with repetitive stress. It’s also a helpful skill when doing stranded colorwork.
$15, bring some worsted weight, pale colored yarn and appropriately sized straight needles, and some 16" circulars (sized for working with worsted weight yarn)

 Nancy Bush’s latest book Knitted Lace of Estonia has spurred a great interest in the handicraft. Join Maria to for a brief history of this Estonia handcraft, centered around the seaside village of Haapsalu. Estonianpatterns popularize the nupp technique, creation of a small flower bud
Maria will cover interesting textural accents (nupps and more) and help you choose a design motif. Estonian lace often features gorgeous edgings, and you’ll see how stitches for the edging are picked up around the shawl and then worked all around, away from the shawl. There’s also a wildly elastic bind-off that eliminates the need to tie off your yarn. This should not be the participants’ first lace project. We’d like you to be somewhat familiar with the lace knitting (beginners - check out the 5 Points Shawl class with Erica!). $30.

Forever eliminate the scourge of SSS, Second Sock Syndrome! Maria, Wooly Bully’s guru on this technique, will teach you how to work 2 socks simultaneously on 1 long circular needle starting from the toe up. Why two at once? It’s easier to match patterns when using self-striping yarn and you’re guaranteed two socks that are more or less the same size. Since you’ll be working them from the toe-up there’s no risk of running out of yarn! Maria will have a stitch pattern that you can work the socks in to make the project a little tangy, but you can also stick to basics with a utilitarian rib. This class will meet three times. 
Note: Participants should already familiar with basic sock construction, $45.
Supplies: 100g fingering weight yarn, one 40" or 47" circular needle in your preferred sock knitting size, probably size US 0-3 (to get desired gauge with fingering weight)

 

 

• There is a minimum of three students in each class.
• In order to guarantee your placement in a class full payment is required upon registration.
• All student cancellations must be received no later than 48 hours before your class meets and you will be placed in the next available session or given a refund in the form of a store gift card.
• In the case of a last-minute cancellation or a no-show we will be unable to issue a refund.
• We reserve the right to cancel a class in the event of instructor illness, low enrollment, and other emergency situations, issuing you a refund in the form of a store gift card.

Hannah Readdick and the Wooly Bullies