SUMMER 2014
CLASS CATALOG
840 Grand Avenue • Saint Paul, MN • 651.222.5793 • yarnery.com
CLASS POLICIES
WELCOME to classes at The Yarnery! We hope
you’ll find just the class you’re looking for: to
inspire your knitting, crocheting, or weaving, to
learn a new craft, or just to have fun! You can find
this catalog and other information online at
yarnery.com. Register for classes in person at The
Yarnery or pay with credit card by phone at
651.222.5793.
Class fees do not include supplies unless
indicated.
Class supply lists are available at The Yarnery or
via email.
The Yarnery offers a 10% discount on class
supplies. You will also receive a 10% discount
card to be used once over the duration of your
class; it expires one week after the last class
session.
PARKING
Parking is free on Grand Avenue and
surrounding streets, in one- or two-hour
increments, depending on the time of day.
Paid lots and ramps are available just north
and south of Grand Avenue, accessible off
Victoria Street.
Our own parking lot (yes, we have one!) is
accessible off the alley behind The Yarnery.
Use either Avon Street or Victoria Street and
proceed to the lot marked with signs for
parking at 840/844 Grand Avenue.
Plan on arriving twenty minutes before your first
class session to purchase supplies, wind yarn, and
get oriented to the shop (though we encourage
you to visit the shop a few days before your first
class to purchase supplies). A yarn swift and ball
winder are available for student use.
Class cancellations must be made 7 days prior to
the first class session to receive a refund.
Class cancellations may occur, particularly if a
minimum student requirement is not met. If this
happens, you will be contacted by phone and/or
email regarding the cancellation. We will help you
find a new class or offer a refund for the original
class fee (by check if you paid with cash or check,
or on the credit card you used).
PRIVATE LESSONS
Not sure if classes are for you? Our expanded
private lesson schedule was developed to
give you focused attention, at a time that
works for you.
Individual lessons are $25 per hour, and
include a 10% discount on supplies for the
lesson.
Teaching for Two includes an hour of private
instruction, a 10% discount on supplies for
your lesson, and a special gift from us, all for
only $40.
Call 651.222.5793 for more information.
Photos used by permission of Jared Flood, Scott Rohr, and Shelly Sheehan. All rights reserved. Cover Image: Boardwalk Vest (Class, p. 5)
CONTENTS
WORKSHOPS
KNITTING
SPECIALTY & CROCHET
KNITTING BASICS
Advanced Beginning
Knitting a la carte
Beginning
FOR KIDS
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JUNE
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JULY
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Boardwalk/Sycamore
Knitting a la carte
Beginning Knitting
Fair Isle Hat
Knitting a la carte
Advanced Beginning Knitting
Catastrophic Repair
Beginning Knitting
Darning 101
Weaving Weekend
Know Your Fiber
First Sweater
Adult/Child Beginning Knitting
Quick Start Crochet
Kids Knit
Oops! Fix Your Mistakes
Tunisian Crochet
Advanced Beginning Knitting
Adult/Child Beginning Knitting
Adult/Child Advanced Beginning Knitting
Advanced Beginning Knitting
Hitofude I & II
Tunisian Shawl
Socks: Any Needle
Finishing Marathon
Beginning Knitting
AUGUST
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Beginning Drop Spindle
Beginning Knitting
Advanced Beginning Knitting
Beginning Knitting
Speed Knitting
Oops! Fix Your Mistakes
Finishing Marathon
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WORKSHOPS
CATASTROPHIC REPAIR
OOPS! FIX YOUR MISTAKES
Level: Advanced Beginning
$26
Lace or cable mistake 12 rows down? Learn
how to isolate and fix the problem! Never rip
back row upon row to fix one problem again.
Level: Beginning
$18
Does your stomach sink when you check over
your knitting and see a mistake? Fortunately,
most knitting mistakes are easily corrected.
Learn to recognize mistakes and fix them, pick
up dropped stitches, and safely rip out stitches.
Saturday
June 7
Gretchen Funk
12-3 pm
DARNING 101
Level: Advanced Beginning
$18
Learn how to repair your hand knits or machine
knit garments (SmartWool socks come to
mind!). This workshop will focus on traditional
or woven and the Swiss darning method to
make those garments good as new.
Tuesday
June 10
Peggy Lexau
6-8 pm
KNOW YOUR FIBER
Level: Beginning
$18
A great new class! Confounded by the many
different fibers you see in the shop—alpaca,
wool, cotton, linen, silk, and all the variations in
each one? Peter will show you how each
behaves when worked into fabric, and you’ll see
fibers in various stages of production, from raw
fleece to refined yarn. As if that’s not enough,
you’ll also learn how and why different fibers
are plied, and what each weight of yarn means.
This class is a must for every knitter.
Tuesday
June 17
4
Peter Kennedy
6-8 pm
Sunday
June 22
Karen Richtman
3-5 pm
Saturday
August 23
Karen Richtman
3-5 pm
TUNISIAN CROCHET
Level: Advanced Beginning
$18
Learn the basics of Tunisian crochet! Students
will make a washcloth.
Sunday
June 22
Karen Richtman
12-2 pm
SPEED KNITTING
Level: Advanced Beginning
$18
Do you dream of knitting faster? Karen Richtman
will help you fine-tune your knitting technique
and get you on your way to becoming a more
efficient knitter.
Saturday
August 23
Karen Richtman
12-2 pm
KNITTING
FIRST SWEATER
Level: Advanced Beginning
$78
Tired of hats, scarves, and cowls? Your first
sweater may seem intimidating, but it need not
be. Besides, Gretchen Funk is the most patient
teacher on earth. She’ll make the process easy
and fun, guaranteed.
Thursdays
June 19, 26, July 3, 17, 31
Gretchen Funk
6-8 pm
FAIR ISLE HAT
FINISHING
Level: Advanced Beginning
$34
Intimidated by the pile of unfinished projects
that need a little help to get them finished? Let’s
do it! Four hours of intensive work and you’ll get
those garments ready to wear.
Saturday
July 26
Sunday
August 24
Level: Advanced Beginning
$47
Learn to knit with two colors as you make a Fair
Isle hat. You’ll leave this class with several skills:
how to hold the yarn, create floats on the wrong
side, and read the charts used in color knitting.
SOCKS: ANY NEEDLE
Wednesdays
June 4, 11, 18
Thursdays
July 24, 31, August 7, 14
Peggy Lexau
6-8 pm
Sherry Enzler
12-4 pm
12-4 pm
Level: Advanced Beginning
$64
Learn how to knit socks with a variety of
different needle methods using a pattern that
allows for any weight of yarn.
Sarah Rye
6-8 pm
HITOFUDE
BOARDWALK & SYCAMORE VESTS
Level: Advanced Beginning/Intermediate $64
One of our most popular classes ever is back!
“Hitofude”, means a single brush stroke in
Japanese. This open front cardigan with an
allover lace pattern is worked in one “yarn
stroke”—a continuous strand without ever
cutting the yarn. We’re fairly certain it’s an
essential piece for any knitter’s wardrobe.
Level: Advanced Beginning
$64
Choose from Brooklyn Tweed’s Boardwalk or
Hannah Fettig’s Sycamore, vests that are light
and easy to knit in the summer, and perfect to
layer in the fall. Each would be beautiful knit in a
variety of fibers, from wool to cotton to a Shibui
Mix.
Saturdays
July 19, August 2, 9, 16
Susan Rainey
10 am–12 pm
or 12:30–2:30 pm
Mondays
June 2, 16, 30, July 14
Jess Bandelin
6-8 pm
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SPECIALTY
CROCHET
BEGINNING WEAVING WEEKEND
Level: Beginning
$104
Interested in trying your hand at weaving? In this
two day class you will learn how to warp and
weave on a Beka rigid-heddle loom. The class
project is a scarf, and you can choose from a
variety of sock yarns. No previous weaving
experience required. Cost includes two-week
rental fee of loom.
Saturday/Sunday
June 14, 15
Theresa Gaffey
9 am-4 pm
BEGINNING DROP SPINDLE
Level: Beginning
$31
Who are those people walking around the yarn
store playing with a yo-yo? It’s not a yo-yo, it’s a
drop spindle, and they are spinning their own
yarn! You can too, and it’s easy, and fun, and
addicting. Two sessions and you’ll be creating
your own stash of handspun yarn. Beautiful!
Sundays
August 3, 10
Peter Kennedy
1-3 pm
QUICK START CROCHET
Level: Beginning
$31
Learn the basics of crochet in two weeks while
making the Summit Hill cowl (this year’s shop hop
pattern!) designed by Sarah K Walker.
Saturdays
June 21, 28
Sarah K Walker
10 am-12 pm
TUNISIAN SHAWL
Level: Advanced Beginning
$47
You've take the Tunisian crochet workshop and
are ready to move beyond a square. Karen will
show you just how versatile, and lovely, Tunisian
crochet can be.
Tuesdays
July 22, 29, August 5
6
Karen Richtman
6-8 pm
KNITTING BASICS
ADVANCED BEGINNING KNITTING
Level: Advanced Beginner
$78
This flexible class is for just about everyone—from those just finishing beginning knitting to those
simply looking to learn new techniques. Select from one of our many advanced beginning patterns,
or work with your teacher to select the right project for your skill level.
Thursdays
June 5, 12, 19, 26, July 3
Jess Bandelin
6-8 pm
Wednesdays
July 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6
Sarah K Walker
6-8 pm
Tuesdays
July 15, 22, 29, August 5, 12
Sarah Rye
6-8 pm
Thursdays
Jess Bandelin
August 7, 14, 21, 28, September 4
6-8 pm
KNITTING A LA CARTE
Level: Advanced Beginner
$18 per session (5 prepaid sessions for $78)
Advanced beginning made even more flexible: you choose the dates that work for you. Preregister for as few or as many sessions as you’d like (and you get a price break if you register
for five). Add more sessions as the season goes on (depending on availability). Gretchen and
Mary Lou, our versatile resident experts, will guide you through almost any project you’d like.
Mondays
June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
July 7, 14, 21, 28
August 4, 11, 18, 25
Mary Lou Egan
6-8 pm
Wednesdays
June 4, 18, 25
July 2, 16, 23, 30
August 6, 13, 20, 27
Gretchen Funk
10 am-12 pm
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KNITTING BASICS
BEGINNING KNITTING
Level: Beginner
$70
Start knitting! Master the basics—and then some—while creating a pair of warm and cozy mittens.
You will learn how to cast on, knit, purl, increase, decrease, bind off, seam, and read patterns.
Wednesdays
June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 2
Tuesdays
June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8
Mondays
July 28, August 4, 11, 18, 25
Sarah K Walker
6-8 pm
Sarah Rye
6-8 pm
Jess Bandelin
6-8 pm
Wednesdays
Peggy Lexau
August 6, 13, 20, 27, September 3
6-8 pm
Tuesdays
Sarah Rye
August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 16
6-8 pm
FOR KIDS
ADULT/CHILD BEGINNING KNITTING
Level: Beginning
$78
Adults—moms, dads, aunts, uncles, or friends—
must be accompanied by a child age 8 or older
in order to attend this class. Learn to cast on,
knit and bind off while completing a small
project. Fee includes one child and one adult;
fee for additional child is $35.
Saturdays
June 21, 28, July 12
Sundays
July 13, 20, 27
Jess Bandelin
12-2 pm
Jess Bandelin
1-3 pm
ADULT/CHILD ADVANCED
BEGINNING KNITTING
Level: Advanced Beginning
$104
Adults with children 8 or older will expand
their knitting skills in this class. You will pick a
8
project from Melanie Falick’s Kids Knitting.
Prerequisite: Adult/Child Beginning or
equivalent experience. Fee includes one child
and one adult; fee for additional child is $48.
Sundays
July 13, 20, 27, August 3
Jess Bandelin
3-5 pm
KIDS KNIT
Level: Beginning
$47
Hey, kids in grades 1-3! Ditch the parents and
learn to knit on three awesome Saturday
afternoons this summer. You’ll learn to knit and
end up with an awesome garter stitch hat.
Saturdays
June 21, 28, July 12
Jess Bandelin
3-5 pm