In Person Classes and Workshops

Learn to Knit! Washcloth

Take your first step toward making your own clothes and household items by learning to knit! This foundational course is designed for absolute beginners. Even if you've never held a knitting needle before, our patient and experienced instructor, Brooke, will walk you through all the steps necessary for completing a simple project—your very own washcloth.

Where: Good Grief Yarn and Provisions, 1590 Dundas St W, Toronto, Ontario

Dates: 

  • Wednesday, January 7th from 6-8PM

  • Wednesday, January 14th from 6-8PM

  • Wednesday, January 21st from 6-8PM

Price: $115 (Includes all materials)

Course Outline

This 3-part, 6-hour course demystifies the craft and focuses on building core techniques and confidence.

What You Will Learn:

  • How to Cast On: Starting your project the right way.

  • The Foundational Stitches: How to execute the Knit and Purl stitches.

  • Creating Texture: How to successfully change between knit and purl stitches on the same row.

  • Finishing Strong: How to bind off and finish your project cleanly.

  • Troubleshooting: Essential tips for fixing common mistakes like dropped or misplaced stitches.

  • Reading Patterns: Taking your first step into understanding knitting patterns and abbreviations.

Materials Included: All materials are included so you can start right away! You will receive yarn, high-quality needles, and essential notions.

Splish splash! Maybe don’t take your knitting into the bath, but after you’ve learned to knit this simple washcloth you can scrub a dub dub with your own hand knit!

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Beginner Drop Spindle Workshop (coming soon)

Have you ever wanted to make your own yarn? It’s easier than you think! In this Beginner Drop Spindle Spinning Workshop you’ll learn how to spin and ply a 2-ply yarn that you can use for knitting, crochet, or weaving. 

Skills taught will include how to set up your drop spindle for spinning, the park and draft method working up to suspended spinning, and how to ply 2 spun singles together to make a 2-ply yarn. Students will also receive instructions for how to wet finish the yarn once they get home, to make it stable and ready to use in their favourite yarn craft!

Where: TBD

Dates: TBD

Price: TBD

Course Outline

Learn this ancient craft in a 3-hour workshop with lots of hands-on practice. By the end students will have spun a mini skein of 2-ply yarn.

What You Will Learn

  • Meet Your Drop Spindle: How this stone-age tool turns fibre into yarn

  • Pre-drafting Fibre: Getting used to how to attenuate the fibre to make it ready to spin

  • Park and Draft: Practice adding twist and drafting in a controlled way

  • Putting the “Drop” in Drop Spindle: Practice suspended spinning and making friends with gravity

  • Putting it All Together: Learning to combine 2 singles into a 2-ply yarn

  • Bath Time!: How to prep skeins to take home and wet finish