The Top Down Ear Flap Hat is a fun and funky hat with instructions for Super Bulky, Bulky and Worsted gauge yarn. The hat is easy and instructions guide you through the top down shaping. Embellish and improvise to personalize. Looks great knit in a self-striping yarn!

The Cable Bag is quick to knit in chunky yarn and with rigid handles you can have a new bag tonight!

Lace Rib Hat and Socks: Perfect for an infant, this stretchy hat will also fit a child, or the larger size makes a lovely chemo cap. Add the quick matching child or house socks for a great gift.

Two days of progressive workshops focus on techniques for project success through hands-on learning creating swatches and samplers. Jill and Susan Wolcott bring a wealth of knitting experience—each sharing their point-of-view and techniques, so you can pick two brains!

Friday, March 31
10:00-12:00
Learn three methods to cast on and their application; tips for reading and understanding stitch patterns as you work with two shifting stitch patterns; and how to count stitches and rows and why gauge matters.

1:30-4:30
First learn how to execute and use paired increases and decreases; move on to yarn overs and manipulating stitches as you learn how to work basic cables and simple lace patterns; end the day with three methods to bind off.

Saturday, April 1
10:00-12:00
Learn how to do basic slip stitches and to work color into your knitting with 2-color slip stitches, which don’t involve complicated color changes and yarn tangles. We’ll also cover techniques for knitting in the round, including working slip stitch patterns in circular knitting.

1:30-4:30
The icing on the cake is finishing techniques. Learn basic seaming techniques, how to pick up stitches, edgings (including the wonders of I-cord), and joining without seaming. Finish with how to handle ends smoothly.

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Where's Funkstown? 65 miles from Washington, DC or Baltimore, near Hagerstown, MD. It's an easy drive on major highways--or choose scenic backroads. Workshops are held at the Funkstown Town Hall, 2 doors away from the Y2Knit Yarn Shop.

When you register, you'll be sent information for our online forum, Knit2Gether, where you'll receive details about pre-event knitting (pieces for a child-size sweater). Through paced instructions with knitting goals for every month beginning in June, you'll begin the learning which culminates in finishing and embellishment applications in Vermont with Jill and Susan and your new knitting friends.

Register early for maximum enjoyment of this spectacular knitting experience. If you receive this email newsletter, you'll be notified when registration is open.

The Superbowl Saturday and Sunday sale was a great event, as always, though a bit frantic for Abigail the cat who finally retired to her basket and napped.

Workshops are underway for the winter season. Still ahead:

Interested in Aromatherapy? Watch your email for a date for an educational session with Karen Reilly, knitter and internationally certified aromatherapist. We'll learn about using essential oils for wellness and health restoration AND knit with Meditation, a new yarn that soothes you with the scent of lavender as you knit. $10 fee includes a ball of Meditation and oil sampler.

We're reprising the Valentine Thong, which we reminded you of last month. We just can't do better than that for the month of love!