Lambs on the Run go to Breckenridge

Because the heels of socks are typically worked on half of the leg stitches, it’s easy to make substitutions. In this class, we’ll explore three types of heel to expand your sock-knitting repertoire.
Experience level: Advanced beginner to expert. Must be comfortable knitting small circumferences in the round.

Learn an assortment of decorative cast-on techniques that will add unexpected style to the edges of whatever you knit. Techniques will include Channel Island, I-Cord, Braid, Fringe, and others as time permits.
Experience level: Advanced beginner
Materials: Solid-color worsted-weight yarn in two colors (tightly twisted wool or wool blend recommended); U.S. size 8 (5 mm) knitting needles (double-pointed needles are preferred); tapestry needle.

Practice fixing common mistakes, including ripping out, picking up dropped stitches (even edge stitches!), reversing the direction of a cable turn, and correcting a snag that breaks the yarn.
Experience level: Advanced beginner; must know how to cast-on, bind-off, knit, purl and turn a cable
Materials: One partial ball of your choice of yarn (tightly twisted worsted-weight wool or wool blend in a solid light recommended); knitting needles in a size appropriate for your yarn; cable needle; crochet hook.

Variously called “Japanese fine knitting” and “optical knitting, “shadow knitting” is the term introduced by Vivian Høxbro to describe a technique in which purl ridges define a pattern on a two-color striped stockinette-stitch background. Depending on the angle of observation, the right-side ridges cast a “shadow” pattern that comes and goes. When viewed straight on, the fabric resembles simple two-row stripes. When viewed at an angle, the garter ridges predominate and a different pattern is visible.
Experience level: Advanced-beginner knitting skills required; must also be familiar with reading charts
Materials: Tightly twisted sport-, DK, or worsted-weight wool yarn in two colors—one light and one dark (you’ll use part of each ball); needles in a size or two smaller than you would normally use for the yarn you’ve chosen; stitch markers.

Learn new lace skills while swatching a beautiful lace cowl! We will start out with my favorite provisional cast on for lace, then work our way through some stripey lace fun. We will go over tips and tricks for staying on track with your knitting and creating a beautiful product. Skills covered: provisional cast on, joining to work in the round, working in the round with two circular needles, jogless join for stripes, knitted on lace edging, and i-cord bind off.
Materials: Sport weight yarn in at least two colors for swatching (cowl uses 3 colors), 2 x 16 inch circular needles in US size 4, one double pointed needle in US size 7.

Learn about different shapes that shawls can come in! We’ll go through several ways to shape shawls and how you can expect to increase or decrease to arrive at a particular shape. Then we will cast on for a small shawl made with sock yarn.
Materials: knitting needles in size depending on pattern, shawl pattern, sock or other yarn for shawl.

Techniques to avoid mishaps are discussed and you will learn how to rip a section of lace (or lace and cable) back and knit it up row by row without having to rip the entire project out.  The homework, a charted lace swatch and a cable swatch with mistakes, will be operated upon during class!
Materials: swatches, double pointed knitting needles at least 2 sizes smaller than used to knit swatch, crochet hook in similar size to dpns, small foam core sheet (or something else to pin the swatch to), t pins, point protectors, patience.

A beautiful and successful project always comes down to the details! In this class, students learn techniques used in “New Lace Knitting” (Interweave, 2015) projects, plus others, like Kitchener cast on and bind off, grafting, spit splice, joining top of shoulder seams invisibly, and placing beads with a crochet hook. We’ll swatch all the different techniques.
Materials: your yarn and needles of choice for swatching. Recommended: extra needle sizes to compare fabric achieved.

A fun, creative approach to learning how to make up new cables. Instead of starting with a chart, students will play with making their own free form cable pattern while knitting. Then we’ll take some time to learn how to note what you’ve done in chart form.
Materials – Light colored DK or worsted weight wool and the needles that go with it.

Learn how to knit 2 different types of 2 sided cables. The first looks great on both sides because it is built of ribbing and the second has a different cable on each side. Knitting from a chart is a necessity in this class but you can learn as you go.
Experience level: Intermediate
Materials – Light colored DK or worsted weight wool and the needles that go with it & a cable needle.

Norah will show you why she loves twisted stitches while teaching her favorite method for knitting right twists and left twists. Yes, there is a difference between twisted stitches and 1/1 cables! Students will make super easy mini cables, followed by a deeper dive into techniques you can do with the diagonal lines made by twisted stitches. Combination knitters are more than welcome. Norah knows how to make twisted stitches easy for you too!
Materials – Light colored DK or worsted weight wool and the needles that go with it.