2025 Registration

Member Registration starts at 7:00 am on November 17, 2024

Registration for all others starts at 7:00 am on December 1, 2024

Let’s Get Together: Not Just One OR the Other; Knit and Crochet

Skill Level

All Levels Welcome

Required Skills:

Students need to know the basic stitches of both knitting and crochet. Students need to know how to read a simple pattern.

Class Schedule

Class Length:

Half Day

Class Times:

Saturday, 2 pm to 5 pm

Description

Knitting and crocheting create very different fabrics. People often keep them separate, but wonderful and unique pieces can be created if you break down the barriers and mix up these two wonderful techniques. Let’s see how great new looks can be made by thinking beyond books and patterns. From simple edgings to projects that incorporate both techniques in the body of the piece. Try out some combinations of the instructor’s and try out some combinations of your own. The results can be to take your work into new and exciting directions. The class will cover different ways to mix these techniques. Students will be given a pattern for a scarf which they will begin in class.

Fees

Registration Fees:

For FTWG Members: $85

For all others: $100

Materials Fee:

$5

Materials Fee Includes:

Handout Patterns

Registration Fees are paid when you register to attend the FTWG Conference. Materials fees are paid directly to the instructor at the beginning of class. You should plan to pay the materials fee in cash.

Students to Bring

  • Knitting and crochet tools
  • A selection of yarns in several colors
  • Note-taking materials

Instructor Bio

For 43 years, Paula has been spinning, weaving, sharing her love for fiber with others, researching and experimenting with yarns, dyes, and techniques. She has organized public exhibits, regional and national conferences, childrens’ summer camps, and taught workshops nationally. Paula presents programs to art, quilting, sewing and knitting groups, schools, and colleges, and demonstrates at the GA Renaissance Festival and the GA National Fair, where she has been the supervisor of the Spinning and Weaving Competition since 1998. Paula works to help fiber artists and the fiber producers come together to support the continuation of fiber production in Georgia and the Southeast. For more than a decade, she has focused on natural dyes and processing kudzu fiber for weaving. She shares her adventures in fiber where ever she can, in person and in print.