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• Modular Mitered Knitting

  • Start
    17 May 2025
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    18 May 2025
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    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Where: Interpretive Center, Historic Johnson Farm
  • Spaces left
    18

  Modular Mitered Knitting  Canceled

  2-day workshop with Melissa Weaver Dunning

   Please do not wear scented products to class.

  Title: Modular Knitting

  Description: Knitting bumped into geometry one day and they have been making beautiful things together ever since!

  "When handpainted yarns began to appear on the knitting scene I started exploring interesting ways to use these exciting yarns and found that modular knitting was a great way to use handpaints and also helped to break up color pooling.  I was particularly interested in finding modular designs for garments and accessories rather than just afghans.

  So, this class also includes a lot of information about using handpainted or gradient or color sequenced yarns in the context of modular designs. Here are some of the most interesting modular designs on Ravelry."

  Knit squares, triangles, and other interesting shapes and learn how to put them together with very exciting results. Start with a simple bag, and the possibilities are unlimited from there. Not your grandmother’s knitting!

  Adventurous knitters of any level are welcome.

  This 2 day class will include mitered squares, triangles, hexagons, log cabin, entrelac, continuous design, I-cord variations, finishing. Students should bring smooth DK and worsted weight yarns in any color, an assortment of knitting needles (straight, dps, circs) in US size 6-8. It is best to pool yarns to give every student lots of color options, scraps and partial balls are fine; natural fibers preferred.

  Cancellation policy

   Refunds can be processed for cancellations until May 1.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Crimp and Create

  • Start
    5 Nov 2025
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    7 Nov 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Where: Interpretive Center, Historic Johnson Farm
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Crimp and Create

  3-day workshop with Diane Totten

   This is an on-loom workshop taking fiber in a new direction by creating “crimp cloth.”  Learn to create fabric with permanently crimped designs that hold their memory even when washed. Apply this stash-busting technique to any threading and learn the thought process that will lead to endless possibilities for creating magic cloth. Participants will draft, weave, and crimp their samples in class.  Learn how the fabric can be used for one-size-fits-all garments that flatter any figure, scarves and shawls that won’t slide off your shoulders, and knit-look ribbing for a sweater or jacket collar.  Garment design and sewing tips are included. Advanced beginner and beyond.

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  About Dianne Totten: One-of-a-kind handwoven garments have been Dianne Totten’s main focus with emphasis on garments using “crimp cloth,” a technique she developed and teaches nationally/internationally for guilds and conferences. Dianne has been a weaver and workshop junkie for over 40 years and a teacher for twenty-five. Her award-winning work has appeared nationally and internationally. She teaches at John C. Campbell Folk School in NC and for guilds and regional conferences in the US and Canada, and at Convergence. She has two crimp cloth DVD’s available and has been published in SS& D, Handwoven, Weavers, Complex Weavers Journal, and Vävmagasinet, as well as Catherine Ellis’ book, Woven Shibori, Revised and Updated, IP, 2016.

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  Cancellation policy   Refunds can be processed for cancellations until October 4

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