Bring in your unwanted quality fiber items and offer them for sale! All proceeds are collected separately and will be donated to the Living Faith Food Pantry. Prices may be set by the buyer in some cases or donate what you can in others.

Wound or partial skeins are fine! Also needles, hooks, notions.

Don’t have a stash? Come and get some great deals on great yarn.

Leftover items will be donated to the Youth Initiative High School or the residents of Maplewood Terrace. If you have ideas for other places let us know!

We will accept items through the week before.

A free KAL making these lovely mitts by Camilla Vad. You will need to purchase the pattern though. DK yarn and needles to get 7.5 sts/inch. This KAL may continue for two or three Wednesdays.

This three week class covers cuff down socks and a traditional turned heel. During the last class we will introduce the cast on for toe up socks as well.

Cost is $40 for three weeks. Yarn choice is up to you but consider choosing thicker yarn if you are a beginner knitter or don’t have much time between classes to knit.

You need to be a comfortable in both knitting and purling.

Using one of our Schacht Cricket looms, or one of your own, you’ll learn warping and weaving a small table runner. This has been a popular class, and is limited to four (or five if someone has their own loom).

The loom is available for use during the week if you want to weave a longer piece and meet up with the instructor Saturday afternoon Feb 24 for instruction on removing it from the loom.

Cost $75 - you will need to bring yarn for the project.

This class had to be rescheduled from last week due to illness - so if you couldn’t make it then, maybe you can now!! Cost $30 and includes supplies

Details to follow! Class limited to eight felters. No experience needed. $75 and includes supplies.

RESCHEDULED for FEB

Michelle Workowski is back to lead another fabulous embroidery class! Learn the basic stitches and be inspired by such a creative teacher. Cost $30 and includes supplies.

After a very successful doll-making journey with Maryellen Mattison Doerr, we’re doing it again! Learn to make a cloth doll of cotton jersey and stuffed with wool. Your doll will be fully formed, and if all goes on schedule, simple clothes will be made. Choose from 8”, 12”, or 16”.

Cost for four sessions is $65, and supplies, if you need to purchase them, run about $40.

It is a lovely way to spend some time actively learning a new skill, hand sewing, and building this solid three-dimensional doll with lots of character! Even if you don’t have a young person in your life who wants a doll, I encourage you to think about making one just for yourself.

I did, and I’m really enjoying knitting a sweater for her!

Rigid Heddle Weaving is a great way into the world of weaving. Using the technique of “direct warping” you can cut lots of time from the process, and still have a beautiful project.

You can use one of our 15” Cricket looms, or bring your own rigid heddle. Cost is $75. This class fills up, so register early!

Cost $35 and includes yarn and bamboo straight needles.

Check out our previous newsletters for pattern ideas, but what you choose is entirely up to you! Topdown brings us all together for the hard parts, but then it’s easy sailing after that!

This Make Along (MAL) is free and open to everyone. It will run through March 16 officially, but unofficially that’s up to you- it’s just fun to knit together.

This is not a stranding lesson however, more like stranding tips, and how that might be incorporated in a sweater. We will cover basic fair Isle stranding, as well as how to manage long floats using ladderback jacquard.

Cost $10

Learn a variety of bind offs useful in sweater knitting!

• chained bind off

• tubular bind off

• stretchy bind off

• hemmed bind off

Cost $10 - bring worsted weight yarn and needles.

Needle felting is an intuitive fiber art that many people feel is like sculpting. It is well suited for all ages (well maybe 8 and up), and no previous experience is needed to achieve great results.

Having said that - there is a lot to learn in a class to help lay out a more complex project! Local fiber artist Justine Zimmer will guide you through the process and give you lots of tips too.

Cost $30 class, $12 for supplies. UPDATE: only a couple spots left!

About the instructor:

Justine Zimmer graduated from the University of Iowa in 1999 with her MFA in Metalsmithing.

With an established 9 to 5 work career in historic preservation, Justine endeavored to be true to her passion and need to create art. 

Her artwork is best described as 3D mixed media sculpture and wearable art. Though formally trained as a metalsmith she often immersed herself in experimenting with and combining different materials and techniques. This lead her to the exploration of fiber, where she fell in love with the colorful and versatile world of wool.

Justine is currently a self-employed artist and caretaker of an elderly parent. She spends her time between Iowa City and the beautiful Driftless hills in Wisconsin.

Make a squishy DK weight sock from the toe up! Learn Judy’s magic cast on, turn a heel, and you’ll have one sock done in no time. Then you have to make another one! Cost $30 for two weeks. Bring one to two skeins of DK weight yarn that’s good for socks and needles to knit a firm gauge.

Learn a variety of cast ons including:

• Long tail

• German Twisted

• Backwards Loop

• Provisional

• Tubular

These cast ons may are useful because they all act different ways! These are some of the most common cast ons that you will find in a sweater pattern.

Cost - $10 - bring worsted weight yarn and needles to match

Every January Ewetopia hosts a Topdown Sweater Knitalong- it’s great fun while being greatly productive! But if you are brand new to sweater making you might not feel confident enough to jump in (although many people are making their first sweaters quite successfully)

This class is an introduction to two very popular forms of topdown sweater making - the raglan and the circular yoke - by making the yokes of two baby sweaters. What if you don’t have a baby to knit for? I recommend using this class as a learning experience, even if you only knit to the underarms, and then tear it out. If you have been putting off making a sweater for yourself, it’s a great way to understand the technique without committing large amounts of time and money.

The first class we’ll tackle raglan shaping, the second circular yokes, and the third week covering any problems and strategizing sizing, yarn, and Ravelry - basically how to choose a great pattern!

Cost for three weeks $45. Bring worsted weight yarn and needles.

This is a great beginner brioche class. If it’s some thing that you’ve wanted to learn, but been confused by the unique knitting lingo and technique, you’ll get comfortable with it here. Spend the first week learning the simple, brioche stitch and come back two weeks later to do the decreasing for the top of your hat. Two colors of sport or dk weight yarn and US 2 to 4-16 inch needle. Dpns too.

$30 for two classes