It looks like we are in for a great weekend.
Needle Emporium Knitting Camp
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Camp Homework
Trick Up my Sleeve
Materials:
- knitting basket basics
- pencil & paper
- calculator
- Please bring along a garment (one you already own) that you either love or hate the fit of the sleeve. It doesn’t need to be hand-knit and can be in woven fabric
Homework: none.
Rootcamp Bootcamp
Materials:
- 2 - 3 balls of different coloured medium weight yarn
- This can be double knitting weight to worsted weight yarn
- yarn appropriate needles
- for double knitting weight 4mm needles
- for worsted weight yarn 4.5mm - 5mm needles
- pencil
- squared paper (optional).
Homework: none.
Top Down Seamless
Materials:
- 4mm-5mm, 16”-24” circular needle
- 4mm-5mm double pointed needles or a needle for magic loop
- approximately 50grams of a light coloured worsted weight yarn
- Cascade 220, Malabrigo Rios or something similar
- stitch markers
Homework: none
Custom Mitts
Materials:
- Your homework swatch
- The needles you knit your swatch on
- Also bring needles that are one size smaller and one size larger.
Homework: Swatch
- Find a yarn you’d like to make mittens with
- You will need 200m-400m
- less for thicker yarn and smaller hands
- more for larger hands and finer wool
- You will be working with needles 2 sizes smaller than the ball band recommends. If the ball band says 4.5mm then use 3.75mm. If the ball band says 6mm then use 5mm.
- Cast on 26 stitches and work 3” (8cm) in the round. You will be knitting every row so your swatch will be in stocking stitch.
- You can do your swatch on double pointed needles or do magic loop on circular needles
- Bind off the swatch
- Handwash the swatch
Size & Fit
Materials: none
Homework: Please bring patterns you’ll like to make so we can talk about them.
Please make sure you have the following in your knitting bag
- Variety of knitting needles and crochet hooks
- Extra yarn for class - just in case
- Sewing Needle
- Scissors
- Pen
- Paper
- Tape Measure
- Stitch Markers
- Stitch Holders
- Calculator
- Scrap Yarn
- Reading Glasses
- Credit card
Monday, September 5, 2022
Camp Agenda
It’s hard to believe that Camp is only 4 weeks away.
Friday September 30th
3:00pm Registration in Cedar Room
3:00-4:00pm Mini Yarn Shop will be open in the Cedar Room
6:00pm Dinner in Echo's Dining Lounge
8:00pm Fashion Show in Cedar Room
Saturday October 1st
8:00am Breakfast in Echo's Dining Lounge
9:00-11:45am Morning session of classes
12:00pm Lunch in Echo's Dining Lounge
1:30-4:15pm Afternoon session of classes
6:00pm Dinner in Echo's Dining Lounge
8:00pm Student Fashion Show in Cedar Room
Sunday October 2nd
8:00am Breakfast in Echo's Dining Lounge
9:00-11:45am Classes
12:00pm You must be checked out of your room
12:00pm Lunch in Echo's Dining Lounge
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Come join the fun
Knitting Camp is nothing like the camp you attended as a kid. At Knitting Camp you get to choose your day’s activities. Go to class, sleep in, take a hike - totally up to you. Super comfy accommodations with someone else making your bed. And the food is incredible and seemingly endless. The one way it is like camp though, is that you will make great new friends who you will look forward to seeing year after year. Come as a group, a couple (non-knitting partners love camp too!) or on your own. Don’t worry you’ll all be included in the fun.
Before dinner meet up.On Saturday evening we hold a student fashion show. Everyone is invited to bring one or two items that they have recently knit to show them off.
Our suppliers are very generous with door prizes and items for our goodie bags.
A mini yarn shop is set up for the weekend.
Come join the fun!
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Camp Food
Please don’t come to Camp and think you are going to lose weight. 😘
All meals are eaten in the dining room. We are at long tables so no one is sitting in the corner by themselves.
Breakfast is a buffet. Cereal - hot and cold. Breads. Lots of fresh fruit. Pastries. Then there is a hot table - you will see some or all of pancakes, scrambled eggs, eggs Benedict, French toast, bacon…
Lunch is a buffet. Breads and cold cuts. Salads. Fruit. Soup. There is a hot table with different foods each day. There is a table with deserts.
You won’t be hungry!
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Camp Accommodations
I haven’t posted about the accommodations for Camp. Double occupancy doesn’t have to be a room with 2 beds. There are even accommodations for 3 people where you each have your own bedroom.
If you and a few friends are coming to Camp, cottages are available. This is the Maple cottage. There are 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a sitting room. This was my cottage for many years.Friday, March 4, 2022
Camp Brochure
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