Saturday, August 1
10:00-1:00, 3 hours
About this class:
A Fair Isle hat is a MJ provides a basic hat pattern with multiple options to make it your own. Experiment with color! Go wild and invent your own pattern motifs—MJ will show you how! Decide what type of crown shaping you'd like. Lots of individual attention with group participation encouraged. You are welcome to arrive with a sketch of the hat you'd like to make, or just show up and be inspired by Mary Jane's samples!
Level: Intermediate
What you’ll need to bring to class:
Yarn: 3 or more colors of worsted weight yarn, 90 - 135m [100 - 150 yds] each of TWO high-contrast colors and 25 -50m [25 - 55yds] of any additional colors. Needles: 40cm [16 in] circular needles in 4mm, [US6] 4.5mm [US7], and 5mm [US8], one set 4.5mm [US7] dpns or your preferred needles for working small diameter pieces in the round (the crown of our hat). Notions: tapestry needle, stitch markers, calculator, graph paper and a pencil for taking notes or sketching. Colored pencils and eraser if desired.
About the instructor:
Mary Jane Mucklestone is a knitwear designer, teacher, and author of six knitting books specializing in stranded colorwork. Her volumes, 200 Fair Isle Motifs and 150 Scandinavian Motifs, sit on thousands of knitter's bookshelves worldwide. Endlessly inspired by traditional knitting, she likes to apply vintage ideas to modern knitwear. Although she’s lived in Maine for more than 30 years, Seattle is her hometown, and she’s still a PNW girl at heart.
Please note - Marketplace tickets are not included in the class price and will need to be purchased separately.
In order to allow our instructors to prepare for their classes, we are not able to refund class purchases if your plans change. However, we are happy to transfer them if you find someone to take your place!
