The Sheep Shop

Classes and workshops

Beginners

Beginner knitting - £19

Wednesday June 20th, 7 - 9pm (2 places available)

Learn with Harvey. Learn the knit stitch, casting on, casting off and make a pair of handwarmers.

Materials to bring: 1 ball aran weight yarn, 5mm or 5.5mm needles. Yarn & needles provided for £3 supplement.

Moving on with knitting - £19

dates tbc

Learn with Harvey. Learn how to purl, increase, decrease and how to read a pattern.

Experience required: Knit stitch, cast on, cast off.

Materials to bring: 1 ball of aran weight yarn with 5mm needles or DK weight with 4mm needles. Yarn & needles provided for £3 supplement.

Beginner crochet - £24

Wednesday 20th June, 10am - 1pm (full)
Saturday 7th July, 10am - 1pm (5 places available)

(classes are individual classes, you need not come to more than one)

Taught by Michelle. Learn about the common crochet stitches, UK/US terms, appropriate hook sizes and begin to make a scarf. Introduction to granny squares if time allows.

Materials to bring: 1 ball DK weight yarn, 5mm hook. Yarn and hook can be provided for £4.50 supplement.

Note: to make a complete scarf you will need 250 - 300m of yarn.

Tasty crochet

Saturday 26th May, 10am - 1.30pm. £24 including materials - introductory offer from new teacher. (4 places available)

Tina will teach you the basic crochet stitches for how to crochet in 3D. Learn how to make a beautifully-shaped apple, pear or strawberry. Great for pin cushions, key-chains, children's toys and decorative centerpieces.

Experience required: Suitable for beginners and people with basic crochet skills.

Materials to bring: All materials are provided.

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Beyond beginners

Continental knitting

Wednesday 23rd May, 10.30am - 1.30pm, £24 (5 places available)

Taught by Kim. Continental knitting differs from English knitting in that the yarn is held in the left hand and the hands and arms move less, it is often quicker than English knitting. Learn how to knit, purl, increase and decrease. The latter part of the lesson you will put into practice what you have learnt using a pattern of your choice.

Materials to bring: 1 ball DK weight yarn & 4mm needles for practice, plus a pattern, yarn and needles of your choice.

Skills required: If you can knit and purl already and want to learn an alternative method, this class is intended for you. If you are a beginner please get in touch as there may be potential to come on this course.

Crochet Granny Squares and beyond

Saturday June 30th, 10am - 1pm, £15 (full)

(introductory offer from new teacher - future classes £22)

Taught by Joanne. Learn to make a range of shapes in the traditional granny stitch that you can join together to make beautiful scarves, blankets and more. Joanne will also share clever joining techniques to minimise seaming and sewing in.

Experience required: You should be able to chain and do treble crochet stitches for this class.

Materials to bring: 3 colours of yarn (or more) with appropriate sized needle. DK weight yarn with a 4mm needle recommended. A complete baby blanket will take about 100g each of three colours.

Interpreting and working from vintage patterns

Sunday 22nd July, 10am - 4pm, £60 including light lunch (4 places available)

Taught by designer of astoundingly beautiful vintage patterns, Susan Crawford. In this class you will study a 1930s vintage sweater pattern, get to know some of the common problems you can encounter, interpret some of the stranger instructions and how to deal with missing information to enable you to re-interpret it into a pattern for yourself. The group will all work from one pattern provided by Susan. This class will provide the basics needed to take a

vintage pattern and reconstruct it for yourself.

Experience required: Intermediate knitting skills combined with good pattern reading skills.

Materials to bring: Please bring a wide selection of knitting needles, a calculator, paper and pencil, tape

measure, pins, scissors, stitch holders. Yarn will be provided for swatching.

If you have a suggestion for classes, please get in touch.

Booking information

Please call into the shop, call Sarah on 01223 311268 or email us.

Classes will be for three to six people. Advance booking is recommended as if there are insufficient participants classes will be cancelled a few days beforehand.

25% of the class fee is required as a deposit with payment in full by seven days before the class. If a class regrettably needs to be cancelled you will be informed ASAP and refunded in full. If you need to cancel your money cannot be refunded, though you can transfer to another class run by the same teacher.

Class participants get 10% off any purchase for the class and 10% off any purchase on the day of the class.

Tea and biscuits provided.