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FIBER FRIDAY Ragtime Coasters with Helen Robertson VIA ZOOM!
Travel virtually to Shetland and learn Helen’s new easy way to knit your old clothes into decorative items for your home!
Ragtime knitting uses an easy clever method to incorporate your rags into functional and decorative items. You will learn the single sided and the double sided version to start coasters. Re-purposing worn clothing gives them a second life and is so great for our planet!
This is a Live One Time Zoom event at 6 Eastern, 5 Central, 4 Mountain, 3 Pacific
Your zoom link will be sent the day before the class. If you do not see it please check your spam filter.
This class will be recorded and participants can view the recording for 7 days after the class.
Materials list:
~15 x 1 inch wide, 8 inch long (2.5cm by 20cm) strips of fabric, e.g., a cotton shirt to make one coaster
~1 continuous strip of 1 inch wide, 8 feet (2.5cm by 2.5m) long cotton strip to make a double sided coaster
~0.5oz (13g) fingering or sport weight yarn or 4ply yarn
US 4,5, or 6 (3.5mm,3.75mm or 4mm) needles to knit flat
Pattern and instructions on Helen's Ragtime Knitting Technique is included in class tuition and will sent to you with your Zoom Link the day before class. 
| Skill Level: | Intermediate |
| Skill Details: | Casting on, casting off and an ability to knit plain knit stitch. |
| Instructor: | Helen Robertson |
| Instructor Bio: | I was born and grew up in Shetland, knitting since age 3. I am inspired by Shetland’s rich heritage and natural environment and I enjoy developing new knitting techniques and designing knitwear and jewellery. I am known for my innovation in knitting - both in exploring new materials and developing new techniques. My jewellery designs have been described as ‘quirky’ and ‘startlingly original’. I love creating replicas of natural objects and abstracting images to create new designs. I deliver knit workshops in person and online in my various original techniques and I run social online knitting classes aimed at bringing folk across the world together though knitting. . I am also a Shetland Wool Week tutor and teach textiles through the Adult Education program for the Shetland Islands Council. For the past two winters I have travelled around 8 of Shetland’s inhabited outer isles to deliver knitting workshops in two of my original techniques wire knitting and fizzy fair isle knitting as part of Culture Collective. I am very proud of my Shetland Heritage which I love to modernise and share! |
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