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A typical morning will include breakfast, an island walk, and an energizing yoga session held either at the inn or at one of the many scenic vistas on the island. This will be followed by open time during which you may have lunch, explore island artist's studios and shops, or rest.

Our day will then continue with an afternoon knitting workshop with light refreshments, a restorative yoga session, and an evening meal.

Evenings may be spent in a relaxed open knitting session in the main room of the inn in front of the fire visiting and sharing our experiences of the day.Knitting classses for this year will focus on the subject of color knitting...

How to Add Color to Your Knitting with Stripes, Fair Isle, and Intarsia Color Knitting Techniques

A 4-part series of knitting workshops teaching the basic color knitting skills.

Students must be proficient in basic knitting skills. Please bring size 8 to 10 US needles, worsted weight yarn in a minimum of 5 colors for swatching, and coordinating colored pencils.

Session 1: Colorwork Basics and Stripes

We will overview the basic color knitting techniques with knitted models, photos, books and explore samples from known artists such as Kaffe Fassett and Alice Starmore. This session will also review the basic elements and principles of design such as balance, repetition, symmetry, and color selection. The project for this session will be to create a striping pattern and knit swatches while learning how to carry colors vertically and use textural stitches to enhance the designs.

Session 2: Fair Isle -- The Advanced Stripe

This session will involve basic chart reading skills and explore stranding and weaving in tradition and non-traditional fair isle knitting. The project for this session will be a small fair isle knitting project with both group and individual assistance. Students will also create their own fair isle chart in class for knitting at home.

Session 3: Intarsia -- No Limits Knitting

This session will cover wrapping and chart reading skills learning to identify the technique required to complete a variety of projects. Students will develop their own charts to work either in class or at home with both group and individual assistance.

Session 4: Open Studio --Developing Your Own
Work of Art

This session will be devoted to completing projects from previous sessions and working will assistance on individually developed projects. We will "show and tell" our work in order to learn from each other and discuss any discoveries and or complications students came across in their work.