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New Guy, New GirlTrunk show November 1 to 21

Kate Oates has created two beautiful ensembles to greet the new baby in your life in style. New Guy and New Girl each

feature 5 pieces sized from preemie to toddler. Garments also have variations in sleeve and leg length. All the garments from these two booklets will be visiting Sheep’s Clothing in November to help

you make your baby knitting plans.

IrishCrochetFriday • 1 to 4 pm • Oct 12

Come make an Irish crochet rose and leaf with Laura Ricketts, author of Irish Crochet Cuffs in July/August 2015 PieceWork magazine. You’ll work 3 pieces to create your three dimensional flower: the outer petals, the rose center, and the leaf. While you’re working on your class project, Laura will share her knowledge of the history of Irish Crochet. Traditionally this type of crochet would have been worked in very fine cotton or linen. Your learning piece can be worked in a smooth sport weight cotton or wool. Students must be very comfortable working chain, single, double and half-double crochet. Laura teaches at Nordic knitting conferences across the country. We’re fortunate that she lives nearby and can teach regularly at Sheep’s Clothing. She’s had many articles published in PieceWork and Knitting Traditions magazines. She loves to help people learn from and be inspired by our knitting and crochet cultural heritage.

Teacher: Laura Ricketts$45 plus supplies

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Fair Isle Christmas Stocking

Begin that Christmas stocking on your to do list now, when there is no holiday pressure and the luxury of time to enjoy your knitting. This class is perfect for first time fair-isle knitters. Debbie loves introducing people to color stranded knitting and has a bag of tricks to help you be successful. The planing process is also interesting to experienced fair-isle knitters. Choose your own combination of charts for traditional Christmas motifs from a selection that includes all the favorites such as Santas, candy canes, hearts, snowflakes, Xmas trees, and reindeer. Alphabet charts are included to knit in or duplicate stitch a name on your stocking

Thursday6 to 8 pm

October 11, 18, 25$45 plus supplies

Teacher: Debbie

All Day Mitten

Add the practical art of mitten making to your skill set in this all day class. Your class mitten will be done in a bulky yarn so that you can complete it during class. You’ll work with our own shop mitten pattern written for all sizes and weights of yarn. Once you master this mitten making formula, you’ll never be more than a couple hours away from a new pair of mittens and warm hands for anyone on your knit list.

SaturdayOct 20

10:30 am to 4:30 pm$50 plus supplies

Teacher: Debbie

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TraceryNorah Gaughan’s short sleeved pullover design uses panels of lacework to create a funky, rugged lace look. We are reyarning this design in Brielle, a new yarn by Berroco that has a very subtle hint of sparkle. This design keeps the garment shaping outside of the lace panels, making it surprisingly easy to create this look.

Tuesday3 pm OR 7 pm

Oct 9, 16, 23, 30Teacher: Paula

$60 plus supplies

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FloatingStars Stars are common in folk knitting traditions because they are easy to memorize and fun to work. This capelet uses enlarged versions of the traditional star shape with lots of space between the stars. To make this work, we’ll need to master a technique called continuous trapping so that the long floats of yarn between stars will be safely anchored in the knit fabric. This class will give you a new technique to add to your fair isle tool box. We’ll also explore it’s history involving Armenian expats living in Paris in the early 20th century. Class participants will also receive a pattern for companion fingerless gloves.

TuesdayNovember 6, 13, 20, 27

2 pm or 7 pm$50 plus supplies

Teacher: Paula

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Asymmetric CardieThis cardigan is a first sweater friendly project taught by Kate, who truly loves to help people achieve a wearable piece to be proud of on the very first go. You’ll work with an easy to understand pattern published by Knitting Pure and Simple. Kate will also have you try on your sweater in progress at appropriate points along the way so that you can make fit adjustments as needed. Your choice of a bulky yarn will make the knitting go faster so you’ll be ready for warm days this winter.

ThursdayNov 8, 15, 29, Dec 6, 13

1 to 3 pm$60 plus supplies

Teacher: Kate

HopkinsJill Zielinski, the Plucky Knitter, uses the honeycomb cable for the body of this poncho. Classic cables outline the two arm slits, which come together after the slit to create a pleasing shoulder detail. You’ll finish off with a cozy cowl neck. Work it in your choice of a smooth worsted weight yarn.

ThursdayNov 8, 15, 29, Dec 6


Teacher: Debbie

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GrangerThis top down cardigan uses Berroco’s new yarn, Pixel, a gentle self striping yarn with a sprinkling of small dots of color. The designer adds some refinements to the basic top down raglan formula. These refinements are done to achieve a better fit. Heidi will help you create the roadmap that will make it easy to navigate these pattern details. You’ll also enjoy knitting in the handy pockets.

FridayNov 9, 16, 30, Dec 7


Teacher: Heidi

Caterpillar to Butterfly Scarf&Wrap

This easy knit piece in humble garter stitch will morph before your very eyes into a graceful fashion piece. Planned dropped stitches create the fabric. You’ll feel like you are watching a butterfly emerging from its cocoon when you let the stitches drop all the way down to the cast on. In this class you will make a small sample piece while learning the critical secrets to success for this project. Secret number one is choosing an appropriate yarn. Kate will help you understand the yarn characteristics that work well for this project. She’ll have a basket of suitable choices for your class sample piece. Secret number two is in the right beginning. And finally, secret number three is Kate’s special bind off.

ThursdayNov 1

1 to 4 pm$40 includes yarn

Teacher: Kate

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Felt ClogsClogs are knit XXXL size in wool and then run through the washing machine to shrink the wool into a tight, firm fabric. Susan will share her tips and tricks to help you keep track of the wrap and turns and increases that create the clog shaping. There are size options for every family member. Every new pair that Susan creates has a new element of creativity. She’ll show you how to use needle felting to add a name, a flower, a soccer ball, a snowman, snowflake, or whatever embellishment you want. You can even add a jester fringe to the cuff for a real touch of whimsey.

SaturdayOct 27, Nov 3, 10


Teacher: Susan

GnomeDo you have a friend or relative spending Thanksgiving weekend with you? How about doing a class together at Sheep’s Clothing? This one session class requires no prior experience in knitting or crocheting. Your needle felted gnome can be done in earth and forest colors. Or choose red and green, call him a Christmas elf, and hang him on your tree. The shaping techniques you will learn in class will be useful for future needle felting projects. Your class fee includes wool for the gnome and a complete needle felting starter kit.

SaturdayNovember 24

1 to 4 pm$45 includes all supplies

Teacher: Susan Childress

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Socks: Cuff Down

Begin your sock at the cuff so you will have plenty of time to get comfortable knitting in the round on small needles before learning how to shape the heel and toe with a heel flap and gusset. Finish the sock with kitchener stitch so that there will be no seam at the toe of your socks. This is the preferred class for first time sock knitters.

Thursday 1 to 3 pmOct 4, 11, 18, 25

Teacher: Kate$50 plus supplies

Baby Lace & Leaves

A classic leaf motif forms the yoke of this sweet little baby cardie. There are two choices of hat to complete your outfit to welcome baby. The classic bonnet style hat uses the leaf motif on the back of the head. The other hat option features a stem sprouting at the top of the hat--perfect for the new little sprout in your family. Sizing is done with your choice of yarn, finger-ing for preemie size, DK/sport for newborn size, and medium weight yarn for size 3 to 6 months.

WednesdayOct 10, 17, 24, Nov 7

5:30 to 7:30 pm$50 plus supplies

Teacher: Susan

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CocoknitsJulie Weisenberger of Cocoknits has created a top down, seamless sweater making system that imitates the look of a set in sleeve. It is a perfect technique for enjoying a fiber while making a quick, simple, classic sweater.

Sometimes seamless sweaters suffer from lack of structure that causes them to lose shape. Julie Weisenberger has conquered this problem by adapting the English Tailored Shoulder to hand knitting. Her techniques give your sweater good bones, providing structure and support in the critical shoulder area.

The goal of this class is to get you comfortable with the Cocoknits basic sweater system and help you see how you can easily make small modifications to get the sweater you want. Julie's methods will help you think about gauge in a new way, knitting yarns at looser gauges than the ball band suggests. There will be sweater options at 3, 4, and 5 stitches per inch.

Friday4 to 6 pm

Nov 2, 9, 16, 30Teacher: Paula



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Open Classes

Knit Beginner Project

Practice the skills you learned in Knitting for Beginners while making a hat and scarf set. You’ll learn to use circular and double pointed needles while making the hat. You’ll also learn to read a multi gauge pattern. The scarf combines the cable, lace, and other stitches you learned in Knitting for Beginners with an emphasis on learning to read your stitches to build your knitting skill set.

Friday1 to 3 pm

Oct 19, 26Nov2

OR Saturday10:30 am

to 12:30 pmOct 27

Nov 3, 10$40 plus supplies

Beginners ClassesLearn Knitting

Learn to knit by making swatches of basic stitches. Emphasis is placed on learning to “read” your stitches so that you can become a confident knitter. Class also includes a taste of lace and cables.

Tuesday6 to 8 pmOct 9, 16

23, 30

WednesdayNov 14, 21, 28,

Dec 55:30 to 7:30 pm

Crochet Beginner Project

This class gives graduates of Crochet for Beginners a chance to practice their new skills while making a hat and scarf. We’ll emphasize basic pattern reading skills while working through 2 well written, beginner friendly patterns from Churchmouse.

Saturday8 to 10 am

Nov 10, 17, 24$40 plus supplies

Learn CrochetBegin your crochet future with a set of 3 classes designed to get you comfortable with the basic crochet stitches. You will begin with the classic granny square and end with a lightweight cowl. Basic finishing skills for crochet fabrics will also be included. Saturday

8 to 10 amOct 20, 27,

Nov 3$60 includes all supplies

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