Weather

It looks like we are in for a great weekend.

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

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