Please join us for the 5th annual Gotta Knit! fashion-show.
Come and feast on hors d’ouvres while watching Gotta Knit’s customers strut their stuff down the “Gotta Knit runway”. Become inspired by the gorgeous garments our customers have been working on all year long. Please feel free to wear something you have made. We’d love to see it.
November 29th, 5:30-7:30pm; Admission: FREE
Other important dates to keep in mind:
- Shirley Paden Bernstein’s Finishing Class: December 3rd, 6:00-9:00pm; cost: $70.00
- Gotta Knit’s Circle Jacket Class December 9th , 4:00-6:00pm; cost $50.00 plus materials. (Please note the date change from the original December 2nd that was posted on our website)
Thinking of knitting a scarf for your holiday gift? Remember that if you knit one row; purl one row ( stockinette stitch), your fabric will curl like a sausage. Be sure to pick a stitch pattern that doesn’t roll.
(come to Gotta Knit for free scarf patterns with Yarn purchase)
With the holiday season upon us, one might ask “does it pay to knit my gifts?”
Using dollar cost averaging, let’s compare two entertaining pursuits:
average cost of a movie ticket : $11 over 2 hours or $5.50 per hour
average cost of knitting a sweater: $100.00 over 50 hours or $2.00 per hour
Cost of seeing a loved one wear what we make: PRICELESS !
Life is too short to knit with crummy yarn!!
We’ve told you how to cast on more loosely(see Laura’s purl of wisdom for August). Now here’s some help binding off with just the right amont of tension:
1st: knit two stitches
2nd: place the second stitch back on your left hand needle, drawing up an elongated loop( the tension of your bound off stitch will be controlled by the size of this loop)
3rd: knit thru the back of both of these stitches (k2tog tbl)
