Knitting for Beginners I, with Kirsten West

Enjoy the relaxing, creative art of knitting! In this 4-part beginner class students will learn the Continental/Scandinavian Method of knitting. Kirsten will teach students how to cast on stitches, knit, purl, how to slip a stitch, yarn over, decrease, and increase. Students will learn how to cable to the right and to the left and will learn how to bind off. There is a lot of one-on-one in this class as needed.

Bring a pair of single point straight needles size US 8( 5mm), 10” long (brand: Takumi Bamboo, Brittany Birch Wood, or Knitter’s Pride Wood, or similar).

One cable needle size US 8(5mm).

One skein of Lamb’s Pride Worsted, 85% Wool/15% Mohair in the color Cream.

A notebook, pen, and pencil.

Kirsten, a native of Denmark, was born and raised on the island of Fyn, where farming, fishing, “hygge” and knitting is still a way of life. Kirsten learned to knit at an early age from her mother Marie, who was an expert knitter, sewer, embroiderer, and bobbin

lace maker.

In the mid 1980’s Kirsten co-founded Nordic Artisans, a boutique mail order company that imported artisanal Rauma yarn from Norway. Nordic Artisans featured traditional Norwegian sweater, hat, and cardigan designs ( patterns) and Kirsten’s designs in kit form along with traditional Norwegian pewter buttons and Norwegian wool ribbons.

Now retired to Cape Cod, Kirsten is making her knowledge, skills, patterns, and products available once again.

Come and learn from the master knitter herself and enjoy some genuine Danish Hygge at the same time.