I’ve been busy this winter teaching fibre arts noon-hour programs to elementary school aged children. I taught two classes (knitting and crochet) at my son’s school and I picked up a crochet class at a new school, Emily Carr Elementary.
teaching
Missing …
… and feared lost. We’re still in an upheaval from our move. Boy, it’s a lot of work, isn’t it! I cannot find my workshop samples.
… and then …
I had great intentions of blogging more regularly throughout the summer …
… and then we bought a house …
… and then I had to pack up all the yarn and our other “things” …
… to get our apartment staged and cleaned to sell …
… and then we went on vacation …
… and then we sold our apartment (while we were on vacation–how great is that!) …
… and then I taught a week’s worth of classes (the owners, staff and students at River City Yarns are fantastic) …
… and then I went to Sock Summit …
… and so it goes!
Busy
Can’t talk.
The crochet class at school is finished and the kids were really happy with their hacky sacs. They did a great job.
Madly knitting samples for the Victoria Knit-Out.
Show and Tell Time
The finished projects have been pouring in for the past couple of weeks. My little kidlets have been working hard learning to knit and I’m really proud of what they’ve accomplished.
Little Knitters
This week has been all about teaching knitting and crochet classes to little kids. I’m offering three different classes for the noon-hour programs at Hana’s school. This marks the first of 8 weeks of lunchtime madness!
Noon Hour Knitting
I’ve been teaching a knitting class at lunch time at Hana’s school. I have a great group of kids who are all eager to knit. On the first class as I was handing out their knitting bags and knitting needles they were so excited they were saying it was the best knitting class ever!
In the classroom
I have been volunteering in Hana’s class again this year and it’s been really nice to get to know her classmates. Hana is in a grade 2/3 split class and I’ve been showing them how to make pom-poms and most recently we’ve been spool knitting again.
Tantalizing Tootsies
I’m still working on the second sock of Cat Bordhi’s pattern, Bartholomew’s Tantalizing Socks. The first sock was completed along with several other single socks for my workshop last weekend where I taught the sky sock architecture from Cat’s book, New Pathways for Sock Knitters.
Stairway to Heaven?
Cat leads and interesting journey into her brilliant sock construction. I have followed her footsteps (in stocking feet, no less) up to the sky and immersed myself in her sky sock architecture. All of this in preparation for one of the classes I’m teaching tomorrow at Wool and Wicker based on Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters book.
