Enjoy! Happy Knitting Debra

Cat Borhdi-Dec 2,3 & 4, 2011

Come spend the day with this amazing, inspiring, knit guru.

Class Registrations will begin on Sunday October 23, 2011.

YfY will be OPEN Sunday October 23 from 10am to noon to take registrations. We are unable to accept phone registrations until Tuesday October 25 during normal business hours. Phone registrations will be accepted from that day forward with a credit/debit card.

 Please note:

·Class seats will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.   Customers may purchase up to two seats per class.

·Class fees are $125 for 6 hours of instruction.

· Lunch Special:  There will be a 1-hour lunch break in each class. If you would like, we will provide a yummy, boxed lunch from Boudins SF for just $5; please check the menu on the registration form. This way you won’t be rushed and you can sit back and relax, chat or knit during the lunch hour.  Bottled water will be provided.

· Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to class ready to begin.
 
· Homework and class supplies are required.

· Class fees are non refundable and non-exchangeable.  In the event that YfY cancels a class, then the class fee will be refunded..

· Classes Cat will be teaching are listed below:

Cat’s Sweet Tomato Heel

Friday, December 2, 10 am – 5 pm

When this new heel emerged on my needles in December, 2010, after several days of sitting by the fire with my mother while fiddling with my knitting, I thought I was dreaming. I had by chance done one small thing I‘d never thought to try before, and suddenly this smooth, round, clean heel existed. This small thing takes only moments to learn, for it is a very small thing. The heel’s shape resembles a tomato’s clean curves and is pleasant to work, can be toe up or top down, in stockinette, heel stitch, in a twisted stitch variation, or even with a small intarsia motif. Once the process is understood, the average knitter will be able to apply it to any sock of any size, and understand how to proceed without written directions. In this workshop, you will learn to knit a Tomato Heel, how to fit different kinds of feet, how to work the variations, and be inspired by lots of design ideas. We’ll also talk about how to use the Tomato Heel method for shaping sweaters, hoods, and other garments.

 Class supplies and homework: In addition to the usual knitting supplies, come to class with a sock leg completed to just above your ankle (please be sure the leg fits comfortably). Your leg may be stockinette, ribbed, or textured, as you wish. If you are a slow knitter, you may want to knit this sock not with traditional sock weight, but sport or worsted weight, so you can complete most of the sock in class. You may choose DPNs, 1 long circ, or 2 circs. Whatever yarn you choose, please be sure it has some bounce (when you pull a strand, it stretches a bit and bounces back) and a nice amount of twist (multiple plies, and well-spun, since a single-ply or fluffy yarn will not wear well), and use needles that give you a nice sock fabric (dense yet elastic). Please bring several needles in a smaller size with you in case we decide your fabric needs to be denser.

 New Pathways for Sock Knitters

Saturday, December 3, 10 am – 5 pm

 This class takes you “backstage” to see and understand how the new sock architectures in my book, NEW PATHWAYS FOR SOCK KNITTERS, BOOK ONE, work. In fact, my goal for the class is that you won’t need my book unless you want a particular pattern. So if you’ve been hankering to create your own original designs, or maybe just add stitch patterns with confidence, this class will empower you to be a sock designer and a better all-around knitter. You’ll knit one very small sock to gain a fluent understanding of the elements underlying all the architectures. Then you’ll be ready to design within any of the architectures, even to create new architectures! We’ll explore ways to integrate stitch patterns, texture, elasticity, durability, and color to help you create beautiful, well-fitted, and original sock designs. Our day together will be chock full of sock-knitting “ahah!” moments and deeper and deeper understanding of how to cover the foot with a continuous strand of yarn in charming and clever ways.

 Class supplies and homework: In addition to the usual knitting supplies: excellent quality (no acrylics please – it is the least cooperative of all yarn), light-colored (so you can clearly see your stitches) sport to worsted weight wool for the exploratory baby socks, with appropriate sized needles; and several choices of sock yarn for making full-size socks, with appropriate sized needles. Needles may be dpn’s, 2 circs, or 1 long circ; bring a variety of sizes so you can swatch to get a gauge that makes good sock fabric. Please watch Cat’s Youtube tutorials on wrapping and turning stitches, and then concealing the wraps, as well as her tutorial on Judy’s Magic Cast-On, and practice the techniques before coming to class.

 Moebius Knitting….the most peaceful of all

Sunday, December 4, 10 am – 5 pm

 Learn Cat’s Moebius Cast-On and the tricks of knitting along the “Moebius highway”, and then the thrill ride begins! For utterly carefree knitting you may make a scarf, or if you’re feeling adventurous, decide how and where you’d like to open up this single-surfaced, single-edged stream of knitted grace. Your opening can give birth to a basket (a great first project) or a bag. Other possibilities you’ll be encouraged to imagine and design for yourself are a sweater, a skirt, or even an evening wrap with sleeves ending in gloves! Moebius knitting is unlike any other kind of knitting because of its innocence,grace, simplicity, peace, beauty, and willingness to head in a sophisticated and complex direction if that pleases you.

 Class supplies and homework: In addition to the usual knitting supplies: bring good quality, cooperative dk or heavier weight yarn (no acrylics please—it is uncooperative can handicap your learning) suitable for a scarf, or for a basket, about 135 yards of a worsted-weight felting yarn and a few yards of a smooth yarn in a contrasting color to your project yarn. You’ll need either an interchangeable needle kit with a long cord (for a needle that measures between about 40” to 60” tip to tip) or a 47” needle in a size suitable for the yarn(s) you will be using. Needle size should give you a nice drapey fabric if you are making a scarf, or a very loose fabric if planning a felted project like a basket. You’ll also need one conspicuous marker, as well as a generous supply of plain markers if you choose to make a scarf with a lace repeat.  See either of my Treasuries of Magical Knitting for more information or to choose a project. Please watch my Youtube video on Moebius knitting and practice the cast-on before coming to class: http://tinyurl.com/lxsc4o
 Happy Knitting!!!!

Cat Bordhi

 December 2,3,4 2011

Cat Bordhi’s mission, according to Stephanie Pearl McPhee, “is to make you a more creative, freethinking knitter who problem-solves and experiments with vigor and fearlessness. The best part? She can.” Cat teaches and inspires more than a 1,000 knitters each year in classes all over North America. Her Youtube knitting tutorials have more than a million views, and her innovative books, Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, A Treasury of Magical Knitting, A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting, New Pathways For Sock Knitters, Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters, and an award-winning novel, Treasure Forest, have reached hundreds of thousands of readers.

Stay tuned for Cat’s YfY teaching schedule you don’t want to miss out.   I will be announcing classes very very soon.