INTRODUCING

Berroco’s
5
NEW YARNS
Spring 2019

You will receive a mini ball of

each of the new yarns
—enough—
to get to know each yarn by
making a generous swatch.
Berrroco’s spring pattern booklets will be on
hand for you to choose your next project.
Your tasting fee includes a coupon for a
complimentary pattern for the Berroco
project of your choice.

Door prize will be a yarn kit for

one of the new spring designs.
Saturday
February 23
1 to 3 pm
$10

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SUPERBOWL OPEN KNIT AND CROCHET
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Sunday • February 3 • 1 to 4 pm
Enjoy pregame knitting time with your friends at Sheep’s
Su l Clothing and be back home in plenty of time for the big game.
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Fran the Hen
Fran the Hen is a needle felted Fair Isle
finger puppet designed by Petit
Felts. Fran begins with a hand-
ful of loose, white wool roving.
Felted Tote
Susan’s design for a felted tote uses small,
You’ll use a small, barbed needle
traditional Fair Isle designs. It’s a perfect
to firm up and shape the wool to
first project for this technique. You’ll learn
form the body. Then come the
the essentials of successful color stranding
fine details added with little bits
and get a chance to practice, practice, prac-
of dyed wool. The comb, wattles
tice. The final felting process will hide any
and the twinkle in her eye will
imperfections and turn your very first Fair
give your version of Fran her
Isle project into a project to be proud of.
own personality.
There is homework before the first class.
Saturday
Saturday
1 to 4 pm
1 to 3 pm
March 16
Mar 2, 9, 23
$55 includes all supplies
$50 plus supplies
Teacher: Susan Childress
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Crochet Flowers
Scarf or Wrap
First we’ll learn to crochet the small
flower motif that is the basis of this
design from Churchmouse. As you are
finishing the second flower, you’ll cro-
chet it on to the first flower, The third
flower will hook up to the first and the

Snowfling
second, and so on. Each new flower will
be crocheted to its neighbors to build
your scarf or shawl fabric. You can
choose from a wide variety of light-
weight yarns for your project. Mittens
Friday Knitters with experience in color
1 to 3 pm stranding will appreciate
Mar 22, 29 Tanis Lavallee’s Snowfling Mittens
$25 plus supplies on many levels. They are beautiful,
Teacher: Paula warm, and full of knitterly details.
A sampler set of large snowflakes
decorates the backs of the mittens,
while smaller snowflakes decorate the
palms and thumb gussets. The cuff
is doubled for warmth. And finally,
the ultimate mitten luxury will be the
knitted lining which will make your
mittens cozier and more durable.
Thursday
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Mar 14, 21, 28, Apr 4
$50 plus supplies
Teacher: Debbie
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Socks Cuff
Down
Begin your sock at the cuff
so you will have plenty of
time to get comfortable
knitting in the round on
small needles before
learning how to shape the
heel and toe with a heel flap
and gusset. Finish the sock
with kitchener stitch so that
there will be no seam at the
toe of your socks. This is
the preferred class for first
time sock knitters.
Wednesday
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Mar 6, 13, 20, 27
$50 plus supplies
Teacher: Heidi
Asymmetric Cardigan
This cardigan is a first sweater friendly project
taught by Kate, who truly loves to help people achieve
a wearable piece to be proud of on the very first
go. You'll work with an easy to understand pattern
published by Knitting Pure and Simple. Kate will
also have you try on your sweater in progress at
appropriate points along the way so that you can make
fit adjustments as needed. Your choice of a bulky yarn
will make the knitting go faster so you'll be ready for
warm days this winter.
Thursday
3 to 5 pm
Mar 14, 21, 28, Apr 4, 11
$60 plus supplies
Teacher: Kate
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Dare to
Repair
Challenge yourself to
understand your knitting in
a way that you never have
before. Learn the anatomy of
a happy, balanced knit stitch. Riasa
See how stitches fit together
Alison Green’s extravagantly cabled Riasa pullover uses
to form a knit fabric. Using
uses Catena, a chainette yarn from Berroco. Catena is
bulky and medium weight
surprisingly lightweight considering that it knits up to
swatches, we will practice,
a bulky gauge and the cables are beautifully defined.
practice, practice some of
Happily all of the garment shaping is done outside of
the most useful repair moves
the cable panels, leaving you free to enjoy the cable
so that you can confidently
knitting process. Riasa also features an on trend
perform basic repairs and get
split hem. Class will emphasize chart reading skills
back to your knitting.
and navigating a complex cable design. There will be
Tuesday
homework before the first class.
7 to 9 pm
Tuesday
Mar 19, 26, Apr 2
Feb 5, 12, 19, 26, Mar 5
$50 plus supplies
3 pm or 7 pm
Teacher: Paula
$60 plus supplies
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Rockin Rows
This piece from the prolific shawl

Decouverte Vest
designer, Martina Behm, features
a large zigzag pattern. Susan’s
color drenched version is done
in 4 self-striping colorways of
As much as we knitters enjoy knitting
Perth by Queensland. This piece
texture, whether lace or cables or other
also works up beautifully when
stitch patterns, there is a time and a place
you stripe it yourself, using 2 to 4
in every knitter’s life to enjoy some peaceful
colors of a lightweight yarn of your
and meditative stocking stitch knitting. Julie
choice. Experienced knitters will
Hoover’s layering piece will provide you with
enjoy watching the zigzag grow
three season versatility. The back is tailored
from a small beginning to create a
with armhole and waist shaping. The fronts
generous triangular shawl.
hang in a graceful drape. Or cross over your
Wednesday
fronts and anchor with a pin or shawl stick.
1 to 3 pm
Thursday
Mar 6, 13, 20, Apr 3
1 to 3 pm
$50 plus supplies
Feb 7, 14,
Teacher: Susan
Mar 7, 14
$50 plus supplies
Teacher: Debbie
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FEBRUARY Beginners Classes
Learn to Knit Learn to Crochet
Learn to knit by making swatches of Begin your crochet future with a
basic stitches. Emphasis is placed set of 3 classes designed to get
on learning to “read” your stitches you comfortable with the basic
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knitter. Class also includes a taste
crochet stitches. You will begin
with the classic granny square
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OR Basic finishing skills for crochet
Tuesday Saturday Tu 12 to 7
fabrics will also be included. W 10 to 7
Mar 19, 26, Feb 16, 23 Saturday Th 12 to 9
Apr 2, 9 Mar 2, 9 Feb 9, 16, 23 F 12 to 7
5 to 7 pm 10:30 am to 8 to 10 am Sa 10 to 5
12:30 pm $60 includes all supplies
Teachers
$60 includes all supplies
Heidi Yelich

Knit Beginner Project Crochet Susan Brobst

Kate Schroeder

Practice the skills you learned in Knitting for

Beginner Project Debbie Teibel
Paula Strietelmeier
Beginners while making a hat and scarf set. This class gives graduates BJ Licko-Keel
You’ll learn to use circular and double pointed of Crochet for Beginners a Design
needles while making the hat. You’ll also chance to practice their new Kristina Rost
skills while making a hat Artwork
learn to read a multi gauge pattern. The scarf
Susan Childress
combines the cable, lace, and other stitches and scarf. We’ll emphasize
you learned in Knitting for Beginners with an basic pattern reading skills
emphasis on learning to read your stitches to while working through 2 well
build your knitting skill set. written, beginner friendly
patterns from Churchmouse.
OR OR OR OR
Thursday Friday Saturday Tuesday Friday Saturday TREASURE HUNT
Feb 14, Feb 22 Mar 23, 30 Apr 16, Mar 1, 8, 15 Mar 9, 16, 23 SALE
21, 28 Mar 1, 8 Apr 6 23, 30 4 to 6 pm 8 to 10 am 25% OFF
4 to 6 pm 1 to 3 pm 10:30 am 5 to 7 pm Look for the
$40 plus supplies Treasure Chest
to 12:30 pm on yarn tags
throughout
$40 plus supplies the shop

open Bring your wheels

Early Bird Knitters
classes EVERY WEDNESDAY EVERY WEDNESDAY EVERY THURSDAY
Drop spindle demo.

EVERY 4TH FRIDAY 1ST & 3RD

4 TO 5 PM 10AM TO NOON 6 TO 9PM 4 TO 6PM SATURDAY

JA N UA RY 2019