FREE "Meet & Greet" Book Signing 5pm-6pm By day Carson is a physical therapist who operates an award winning ergonomics program for a San Francisco medical center. Every other moment he’s knitting, spinning, designing, teaching, or otherwise up to some fiber fun – always with a watchful eye toward ergonomics. His passion and experience in […]
THIS CLASS IS ON A WAIT LIST. Ever know a knitter who hasn’t said, “Just one more row”? Me neither! I’ll bet they’ve also complained of aches and pains while knitting. In this class, you’ll learn how knitting effects the “fabric that makes the fabric”- your body. By completing a Risk of Injury assessment in class you’ll learn […]
Avast ye mateys! Let’s bring improved ergonomics to life in your knitting technique. We’ll swatch to improve your posture, comfort, and efficiency. We’ll examine yarn tensioning techniques, and all phases of stitch creation first with simple then more challenging swatches and stitches. We’ll also look at ways to add movement to knitting to avoid stiffness and injuries caused […]
Join us for an out-of-the ordinary Sunday at the Yarn Shop.
Do you always choose the exact colors a sample is knit in? Are you overwhelmed by all the choices at the yarn shop? Do you always go back to safe colors and wish you’d branched out? Does color scare you? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then this class is just […]
Casapinka has designed a new 4 skein surprise shawl. It is an asymmetric rectangle that has some very fun stitches in it. Suitable for solids, speckles, variegated yarns – and any combination of any of these. It can be made in a single-ply or multi-ply sock yarn. You do not need your yarn to attend […]
Mark your calendars for the 2018 Yarn Crawl! Get Your 2018 Passport Crawl Hours: Monday – Friday: 10am - 5pm Saturday, March 3 & March 10: 10am - 6pm Sunday, March 4: […]
Morning session: Introduction to Brioche Brioche is an easy stitch that creates a lush, drapey, warm fabric. In this class we’ll learn the basic principles of working brioche at and in the round, and increasing and decreasing in pattern, and get started on knitting the Hey, Little Songbird pattern. Experience needed: knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing. Materials and […]
Morning session: Introduction to Brioche Brioche is an easy stitch that creates a lush, drapey, warm fabric. In this class we’ll learn the basic principles of working brioche at and in the round, and increasing and decreasing in pattern, and get started on knitting the Hey, Little Songbird pattern. Experience needed: knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing. Materials and […]
Shawls are one of the most popular projects in the knitting world right now. They’re the perfect way to explore new techniques or use just a few skeins of precious yarn for something lovely. In this class, we’ll look at a how to create a few different shawl shapes, and then discuss adding stitch patterns […]