Millicent’s offers a wide variety of classes for beginners and advanced knitters. Beginner/Refresher classes are scheduled several times every month and are limited to 6 students. Other popular classes rotate every several months. Special classes may be requested.  Full tuition payment guarantees a place in the class.  All tuition will be refunded if a student cancels two days before the beginning of a class. If notification is later, only 80% of the tuition payment will be refunded.

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CLASSES AT MILLICENT’S
September 2010

301-722-8100  -   www.millicentsyarns.com  -  email: mel@millicentsyarns.com

Students and senior tuition discounted 50%

PLEASE REMEMBER:  TUITION MUST BE PAID BEFORE WE CAN RESERVE A SPACE FOR YOU IN A CLASS.

 

HAT OF THE MONTH CLUB meets Sunday, August 1 from 1 - 4, and again on Wednesday, August 4, at 2 and again at 5.  Please see our August Newsletter for details.

The SUNDAY SOCIAL meets Sunday, August 8 from 1 – 4. We will be knitting a summer bag using Deco Ribbon (on sale!!!!)  You’ll need to bring a 16” circ US 9 and US 8 double pointed needles.  

INTRODUCTION TO KNITTING

This four-week class gives new knitters and former knitters many of the skills needed to become competent life-long knitters.  While knitting a sampler scarf, you learn the two basic stitches of knitting, how to cast on and bind off, how to read a pattern, and how to execute 10 different stitch patterns.  There is homework for this class.  The first session is a 2 hour class, while the next three are 1 ½ hour classes.  Fee:  $45 plus 20% off all materials

SEPTEMBER:  Fri, Sept 10  (10:30 – 12:30),
Sept. 17, 24, Oct 1 (10:30 – 12)

 Also      Saturday, Sept 11 (2 – 4), Sept. 18, 25, Oct 2 (2 – 3:30)

We will offer private lessons or add classes for groups of 2 or more students.  Please feel free to call us any time between mid-July through September if we can set up something for you.

 

BEGIN YOUR HOLIDAY KNITTING NOW!

Our project classes from AUGUST through SEPTEMBER are single-session classes which last 2 hours each.  Each class will be offered twice:  once on a Tuesday during the day and then again on a Wednesday evening or occasionally on a Saturday.  Every week you will be learn a new technique and use a different yarn.  There are models at Millicent’s for all these projects for you to see.  Keep reading!

September 4 This week we will knit the Tudora, a cabled cowl. This pattern asks for an Aran weight yarn (it looks great in a tweed yarn) and a US size 6 needle. We carry the Debbie Bliss Aran Tweed recommended for this project, and many other Aran weight yarns besides.  Your finished project will need a button.  Fee:  $10

Times:  Tuesday, August 31, 10:30 – 12:30  OR  Saturday, September 4, 10:30 – 12:30

 

 

September 7 or 8 This week we will knit the Calorimetry, made famous on the Knitty.com website.   Calorimetry is a head scarf that is worn buttoned at the nape of the neck. The pattern calls for one skein of  Filatura di Crosa’s Print 127 which we have in 8 colors – eight – which costs under $8.20.  You will need size 8 needles, straight or circular. Fee:  $10

 

 September 14 or 15  This is Mystery Scarf week  – but for many of you, it is not really a mystery and for those of you for whom it is a mystery, come on into the shop to see it!.  This project needs at least a week of preparation:  You will need to purchase one ball of sock yarn, cast on 185 stitches onto a 24” US 7 circular needle, join in the round, and knit approximately 16 inches (you will have a 16” tube essentially).  Do not bind off.  We will do that in class. We have direction sheets at Millicent’s that will guide you through your preparation.  While this is a lot of knitting, it is very easy knitting.  The fun comes in the bind off.  Please bring a pair of scissors with you to class.  Fee:  $10 Times:  Tuesday, September 14, 10:30 – 12:30  OR Wednesday, September 15, 5 – 7

September 21 or 22  We will build on your knowledge of multi-color knitting (remember the hat done in two colors using mosaic knitting on August 17-18?) with a technique called Fair Isle or Stranded Color Work.  Our workshop is geared toward beginners – you do not have to know how to do Fair Isle knitting to join us to knit the Fake Isle Hat. 


You will need a 16 inch size US6 circular needle and size US6 double points.  As for yarn, you’ll want one skein of Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted and one self-striping yarn in the heavy worsted weight yarn.  One blogger used DK weight yarn using the size L instructions for the number of repeats and the size S/M for number of rows or length.  Fee:  $10

Times:  Tuesday, September 21, 10:30 – 12:30  OR  Wednesday, September 22, 5 - 7

SOCKS  SOCKS  SOCKS

You have spoken and we have heard … we are offering two basic sock classes in September.  You will be knitting a sock in worsted weight yarn on US 4 or 5 double pointed needles.  You will gain the following skills:  knitting with dpns, joining in the round, knitting a variety of rib patterns, making a heel flap and heel turn, picking up stitches to create a gusset, decreasing for the toe, finishing with a Kitchener Stitch.  Want to go further in months ahead?  Fingering weight socks?  Lace socks? Modular socks?  Entralac socks?  Fair Isle socks? Just ask!  Fee:  $30

Times:  Thursday, Sept 16, 23, 30  (10:30 – 12)

            Saturday, Sept 11, 18, 25 (2:00 – 3:30)

 

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