Learn to Knit, Crochet, Felt or Spin your own yarn or refresh your skill
1 Day Workshop @ €55
Saturday March 21st 2009
10am—5pm
Full payment taken upon booking
Venue:
Tinahely Courthouse Arts Center, Tinahely, Co Wicklow
Booking:
www.theyarnroom.com
Tuition will be given in:
Knitting: Beginners will learn to cast on, knit, purl, increase, decrease, cast off. The intermediate class will also learn basic lace stitch and basic Aran stitches. The class is aimed at beginners, intermediates and those who are refreshing their skills.
Tutor: Stephanie Kennedy
Crochet: Complete beginners will learn simple chain stitch, double and treble crochet, increase, decrease. Intermediates will do trendy lace and squares with a twist in simple colour work. The class is aimed at beginners and those who are refreshing their skills.
Tutor: Irene Lundgaard
Wet Felting: The felting workshop is now full, but if you are interested, please e-mail irenelundgaard[@]gmail.com (remove square brackets) to go on a waiting list or for information on future courses. This course is ideal for people wishing to learn the basics of wet felting. A variety of materials will be provided and participants will learn to make cords, balls, flowers and more. For use as handles, bags, brooches. Participants may wish to bring their own beads to incorporate into their work. Please bring a large towel too.
Tutor: Nicola Brown
Spin Your Own Yarn: Participants will be given a drop spindle and some fibres and create their own unique yarn which they can knit or crochet. It will also be possible to learn to spin on a spinning wheel.
Tutor: Catherine Cronin
The price for tuition and materials is €55.
Lunch is available in the village or you can bring your own. Tea and coffee and a selection of home baked cakes will be provided.
Bookings at www.theyarnroom.com. Please specify the craft that you are interested in on booking.
Payment in full will be required upon booking.
We need a minimum of 10 participants.
We will also be hosting a knitting and crochet group in The Tinahely Courthouse Arts Center from 3 – 5pm on the day.
All local yarn lovers are welcome. The Yarn Room will have a range of yarns, needles and patterns available for sale all day.
Come along and enjoy the warmth of woolly fibres!
wow. that sounds lovely.
Yup Knititch, it’s due to popular demand we are repeating the day, although this time we cater for the intermediates as well as complete beginners. Are you joining us?
WOT – I haven’t even blogged the first one yet, but I am wearing the product of my labour already and I LOVE IT – blog post to follow.
Well Tina, we don’t dilly-dally around these parts! I guess we we’ll see you at this one too… The snow should have cleared by March!
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Hi,
are you available anytime to give classes in Tunisian Crochet.
I know you gave one at Tinahely but I was doing something else that day.
regards
Helena