Come knit-a-long with Rae! StevenBe designed this great poncho especially for Bella Filati. It is an easy but very beautiful knit. It is the perfect wrap for dodging the AC or the chilly nights to come. No charge to join but please buy your yarn and pattern from Bella Filati Tuesday:… Read More »KNIT-A-LONG WITH RAE AND MAKE A “BELLACHINE”
Do you have a skein of yarn that’s just too special to make plain socks or a sweater with? (If not you will find one at Bella Filati!) Let’s build a fade! Tammy will talk to you about the basics of color mixing or matching to create a beautiful fade.… Read More »Color Class for Fades and Gradients
KNIT TO FLATTER AND FIT A knitter who spends the time and energy to make her own clothes should be rewarded with a result that makes her happy and proud. It should fit, it should flatter, and there should be no mystery as to how this happened. But sadly, and… Read More »Sally Melville – Knit to Flatter and Fit
LEARNING TO LOVE INTARSIA Intarsia (also known as picture knitting) is glorious stuff but not without its challenges. This workshop will explore techniques to create beautiful fabric, tricks to minimize the ‘mess’, and possibilities to design your own. SKILL LEVEL intermediate SUPPLIES TO BRING more homework yarn + part ball… Read More »Sally Melville – Learning to Love Intarsia
ESSENTIAL SKILLS No matter how advanced and accomplished we are, there are habits or holes in our knitting repertoire. Perhaps we rely upon the same cast-on, the same increase, the same decrease; perhaps we are confounded by selvage stitches; perhaps we knit without the awareness that we have choices. This workshop… Read More »Sally Melville – Essential Skills
BORDERS AND BUTTONHOLES This workshop explores the best techniques for these finishings that make such a difference in our knitted garments. It covers basic maneuvers, four or more basic edging stitch patterns, and the very best buttonholes. Participants will never again struggle with instructions to “pick up and knit 137… Read More »Sally Melville – Borders and Buttonholes
“Falling Water” is a very simple lace patterned scarf. We will cover the basics of following a lace pattern using both written and charted instructions. Materials required: 300 – 400 yards of a soft fingering weight wool yarn and US #5 or #6 needles of any length. A sport weight,… Read More »Very Simple First Lace Scarf
“Falling Water” is a very simple lace patterned scarf. We will cover the basics of following a lace pattern using both written and charted instructions. Materials required: 300 – 400 yards of a soft fingering weight wool yarn and US #5 or #6 needles of any length. A sport weight,… Read More »Very Simple First Lace Scarf
“Falling Water” is a very simple lace patterned scarf. We will cover the basics of following a lace pattern using both written and charted instructions. Materials required: 300 – 400 yards of a soft fingering weight wool yarn and US #5 or #6 needles of any length. A sport weight,… Read More »Very Simple First Lace Scarf
We all make knitting mistakes…but how do you fix them? Make your knitting a more pleasurable experience by learning to fix your own mistakes. Don’t let your project become a UFO because you dropped a stitch, added a yarn over, or made some other mistake and can’t figure out what to… Read More »Mistakes 101
