WORKSHOPS
All our Workshops will be hosted by Di Gilpin with Sheila Greenwell and will be worked around a specific project. The workshops aim to be fun, friendly and creative in our studio at Comielaw Farm with visits to Kellie Castle a short walk away.
Latest Available Workshops
7th June 2025 - 10:00am - 1:30 pm - Still spots available!
Join us for a special class, learning how to create the correct tension for your design. We will be testing different weights and types of yarn to explore their behavior. With this knowledge we then discuss how to create your own design, or modify an existing design to your unique fit.
Specifically, the class will include:
How to identify to proper tension for your design.
How to use tension to design or change any pattern to fit yourself.
How to modify shaping using needle size changes
How to choose your own colours to suit yourself when knitting in colour.
The workshop will be from 10.00am to 1.30pm. Coffee and Cake will be served!
Standard Workshops - NOT Currently Scheduled.
A Future Saturday - Date Still to be Set - 10am to 1:30pm.
Workshop : How to make your patterns work for you with fit and colour
Join us for a special class, exploring how to check your tension, how to use tension to change the design of a pattern to suit yourself, how to modify shaping and how to choose colours that best suit yourself.
Specifically, the class will include:
- How to measure your knitting to check tension.
- How to use tension to design or change your pattern to fit yourself.
- How to modify shaping, neck etc.
- How to choose your own colours to suit yourself when knitting in colour.
The workshop will be from 10.00am to 1.30pm. Coffee and Cake will be served!
An In-depth Exploration of Knitting and Finishing Techniques - Part One
In this 3 hour class we will explore all the Knitting Studio’s special techniques for knitting and final finishing to achieve a perfect result. This will include:
- Cast on and Cast off.
- Tension
- Shaping and Picking-Up. Making a Gusset.
- Reading your knitting!
- Mattress stitch for sewing up.
- Edges.
A Future Saturday - Date Still to be Set - 10am to 1:30pm.
An In-depth Exploration of Knitting and Finishing Techniques - Part Two
In this 3 hour class we will explore all the Knitting Studio’s special techniques for colour knitting and final finishing to achieve a perfect result. This will include:
- Stranded Colourwork
- Tension
- Working Fair Isle purlwise
- Intarsia
- Working Fair Isle and Intarsia together
- Sowing in Ends.
A Future Saturday - Date Still to be Set - 10am to 1:30pm.
Make your own Super-Cool Gansey scarf design
