Sand and Sea Knitting Guild

Guild Workshops for 2010

April 10-11	Spring Workshop	with Amy Singer - amysinger.ca or www.knitty.com "In this class, Amy will give you a simple plug-and-play manual that will let you turn sock yarn, or any other fingering-weight yarn, into something gorgeous to wrap around your shoulders. Triangles and rectangular wrap options are offered and the lace patterns are guaranteed easy-but-beautiful. This class provides the basis for designing your own lace shawls and an afternoon's instruction, feedback and support as you work through your ideas." Plug-and-Play shawl design all-day workshop • Saturday April 10, 2010 Session Location: (our regular meeting place) St. Andrews Lutheran Church, 11555 National Bl. (corner of Federal and National) in West Los Angeles. Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm We will take an hour lunch break, please pack your lunch or there are several places close by to buy lunch. Supplies: - 600-800 yards of fingering-weight yarn – suggestions include wool blended with silk, bamboo or tencel, pure silk, alpaca, cashmere, tencel blends, bamboo – in a solid or semi-solid color. - optional: approx 100 yards of fingering- or sport-weight cotton or cotton-blend yarn for swatching purposes only - a good selection of needles in sizes US5 - US9 [circulars are great for the increasing row length in triangular shawls], and more sizes wouldn't hurt - a big pile of simple ring stitch markers [at least 25...more is better] - a pad of graph paper and a pencil/eraser Plug-and-Play shawl design all-day workshop • Sunday April 11, 2010 ADVANCED VERSION Locaton: Nan O'Donnell's - For directions contact Ila Tanchuk at ilatan@earthlink.net or petrova@petrova.com Supplies: - 600-800 yards of fingering- or sport-weight yarn – suggestions include wool blended with silk, bamboo or tencel, pure silk, alpaca, cashmere, tencel blends, bamboo – in a solid or semi-solid color. - optional: approx 100 yards of fingering- or sport-weight cotton or cotton-blend yarn for swatching purposes only - a good selection of needles in sizes US5 - US9 [circulars are great for the increasing row length in triangular shawls], and more sizes wouldn't hurt - a big pile of simple ring stitch markers [at least 25...more is better] - a pad of graph paper and a pencil/eraser, as well as paper for taking notes - at least one stitch pattern book, such as Barbara Walker's First or Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns. Any book that includes lace patterns the student finds appealing is suitable for this project. Signups for members begin in January. Non-member signup begins Friday March 19.
September 10-12	Design Retreat Weekend	with Shirley Paden shirleypaden.com at Sherton Four Points in Culver City Friday, Sept 10 - 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm Saturday, Sept 11 - 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday, Sept 12 - 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Signups for members begin in June(?), non-members in July(?)
October 9-10	Fall Workshop	with Anna Zilboorg - www.knittinguniverse.com/flash/athena/ProsDetail.php?ID=1958 Saturday Workshop: TWISTED TRAVELLING STITCHES Students will need to bring worsted weight yarn and 5 dp or two circular needles. (Dk weight yarn is also okay.) Sunday Workshop: Stranded Knitting or STRANDING Students will need yarn in two contrasting colors with dp needles. For more details about the workshop, check out the blog entry on Ana Petrova's site: bananaknits.blogspot.com/2010/05/planning-ahead.html Signups for members begin in July(?), non-members in August(?)

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