Silver Linings

Silver Linings

8:30am-11:30am

$40.00

Class Description: Using any yarn imaginable, you can knit a purse, tote, or bag and line it without a sewing machine and give it body and durability without felting. Learn to use fusible adhesives, ready-made canvas totes, quilting fabrics, and fabric glues to accomplish this. Examples of zipped, buttoned, snapped, tied and flapped closures will be displayed. Turn any skein of yarn into an eye-catching purse you’ll love.  Lots of options for handles, closures and embellishments will be presented. You will complete a purse in class.

Skill Level:  All Skill Levels Welcome!

Maximum Class Size: 20

Materials Fee: $5 materials fee per student covers the fusible adhesive

Students to Bring:  A knit or crocheted sample swatch (see homework instructions below) and a “fat quarter” of cotton fabric (18″ x 22″) which matches your knit or crocheted swatch. Fabric needs to be larger than knit homework rectangle.

Other supplies needed:  blunt darning or tapestry needle, stitch holder, stitch markers, scissors, pen or pencil.  Lorna will supply tabletop ironing surfaces, irons and all adhesives

Optional: bring one decorative button or snap, zipper or tassel.

Homework to be complete BEFORE class:

Pre-knit fabric Instructions:

Knit (or crochet) a rectangle using yarn of your choice (no nylon, soy, milk or corn yarns please) in ANY pattern stitch.  The size should be a minimum of 6″ x 12″. This piece, folded, becomes your purse, so knit the proportions you would like for the finished size of your bag.  Please have rectangle knit before class in order to fully participate in sample project. For even more hands-on experience, bring several swatches of any size or stitch pattern or yarn for practice or pockets.

Instructor: Lorna Miser

Long, long ago I was a skilled seamstress.  I loved to sew and design clothing. Then I switched to knitting, spinning and dyeing my own yarns. With those skills I created Lorna’s Laces back in 1986. I sold that company in 2003. Since then I’ve been designing knitwear for every yarn company and magazine you can name, as well as writing my first book. “Faith, Hope, Love, Knitting” is now available! “The Knitter’s Guide to Hand Dyed and Variegated Yarns” was released on November 16, 2010. Please visit my web site for more information:  www.lornamiserdesigns.com

 

Email Address: lornaknits@yahoo.com