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Jump into June
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Jump into June is this month’s theme for classes. This Saturday, learn beginning crochet. Next week: The first sock class, reading crochet patterns, personal bags, felted bag with needle felting, February baby sweater, beginning knitting, and tatting! Whew! I’m tired just listing everything! Check the website www.hankofyarn.com and let us know what you want to learn.
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THE MICE ARE AWAY
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Hank, Kathy and Laura will be leaving tomorrow to go to the TNNA market in Columbus, Ohio, returning Tuesday, June 15. You will need to help us by coming by the shop and keeping Charlotte and Rita behaving while we are gone. We will come back with lots of new ideas, yarns and doodads.
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YOUTH FIBER WORKSHOP
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Have fun this summer! Dye your own yarn, make your own needles and learn to knit! You will knit a small project, and make a twisted cord-all customized with your favorite colors in the yarn you dyed. You will also learn about spinning and weaving, and weave a small project. We have surprises in store for you in each session. Learn new skills this summer and have a great time! Enrollment is limited, so sign up soon.The camp will be held in 3 sessions as follow:
(all sessions are from 1-4 P.M.)
Session 1: Monday, July 12 for making your own needles and dyeing yarn.
Session 2: Monday, July 19 for learning to knit
Session 3: Monday, July 26 for spinning and weaving
Summer Camp is designed for youth ages 8 to 13.
Class Fee: $30.00 per session or $80.00 for all three.
Instructors: Hank, Kathy, Laura, Rita
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COURTNEY
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Courtney will be here Thursday night from 6 pm till ? doing waxing, nails, and beauty questions. It is always a fun time when Courtney comes!
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KNITALONG WITH CHARLOTTE
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Charlotte will lead a knitalong starting tomorrow, Wednesday, from 1-3 pm to make the capelet everyone is ahhing over. It can be a child’s capelet ages 4-12, or a lovely long collar for an adult. Using the feather and fan pattern, this project is geared toward the advanced knitter. Uses 400yds of DK yarn, size 5 and 6 needles, 15 stitch markers, two buttons. REFRESHMENTS will be served!! ($5.00 fee)
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KNIT IN PUBLIC DAY
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Join the Memphis Knitting Guild and attend the Knit in Public (KIP) Day, June 13 at either Davis-Kidd Booksellers at Poplar and Perkins, or the Benjamin Hooks Main Library on Poplar. Bring extra needles and scrap yarn so you can help newbies get acquainted with knitting. Bring the attention of the general public to our favorite hobby. (Crocheters are welcome also.)
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NEW AT HANK OF YARN
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New items in the shop:
Annie Adams shawl sticks and pins, cute “knit” necklaces, and a beautiful silver necklace with stitch markers attached.
The blocking boards have arrived…come and get yours soon.
The new Vogue Knitting magazine is in.
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101 KNITTING TIPS, CONT.
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19. Getting the gauge right doesn’t guarantee that you will like the way the fabric turns out. Follow Kathy Connelly’s advice and make ‘a nice, big swatch’ to see how the fabric drapes and to decide whether or not you like working with the yarn.
20. If your yarn is too fuzzy to count gauge easily, knit the prescribed number of stitches and rows, and measure the whole swatch.
21. Wash and block your swatch before you begin knitting.
22. Keep your gauge swatches, label them with yarn name, needle size and any notes or reminders and use as a reference guide. Collect enough and make a garment from them.
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KNITTING QUOTE
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Our favorite quote: “Knitting for an hour uses 102 calories.”
Ann Budd: “There are few things that give me as much pleasure as feeling yarn travel through my fingers in a rhythmic pulse as stitches form one by one….So it’s no wonder that I get double…pleasure out of knitting gifts for friends and family.”
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