Block Party OR Learning new stitch patterns OR Making a blanket

Here is how we come up with ideas for our knit-one-one classes. It is always a collaborative effort involving many of the great minds in the k11 commmunity.
Block Party

for example is the brainchild of Ms Carrie with help from other knit-one-oners.

How exactly did we come up with this idea? Well our friend Janice A Y was very taken with a baby blanket that Carrie had created and asked if she would consider teaching that class. Mmmmm Carrie says, let me think about this. And she did. Around the same time Reuben said "you know Sile, I think you should offer a new stitch pattern class. "Mmmmmm I said ---let me think about this. And I did.

Kate, Carrie and I talked and thought at length about how best to put these ideas together and the The Block Party was born. Here is how it works. Each month you will be taught at least 3 new stitch patterns. You will go home, finish your block and maybe even make a second. (If you are like Baby Catcher Peggy, you will make 4 or 5!) Then the next month you will learn some more stitches, work on your block or blocks---and---- here's the great thing. At the end of the process you will have a fabulously impressive blanket which can be as small or as large as your heart, your needles and your patience desires! And here's another thing. You can sign up for ONE of the blocks OR for all 4---again the choice is yours. Oh and did we mention that Kate and Carrie insisted that shortbread be part of the deal too. Yum. Learning, creating, laughing and eating---what could be a better use of an afternoon I say.

And since this was Carrie's idea she is the one teaching the class.

PS The pics are the various blocks that Ms Carrie has been knitting feverishly---and I mean feverishly. She says that the process is totally addiciting. So don't say you haven't been warned!