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Thank you to all who joined us for this year's retreat. We enjoyed having you! We are looking forward to next year. Hope you can join us again. 15th Annual Knitting Retreat February 26-28, 2010
The Fourteenth Annual Knitting Retreat At the Hotel at Gateway Center Ames, IA February 27 – March 1, 2009with February 26 as an optional Strikkedag (extra day) brought to you by Arnhild’s Knitting Studio Join Arnhild and friends for a weekend of knitting, learning, relaxing and fun! Special Guest Instructor! Elsebeth Lavold Elsebeth is a Swedish knitwear designer, instructor and lecturer with more than 30 years of experience. Her Viking Knits Project is known worldwide. She has authored numerous books of knitting designs. As our guest instructor for this year, Elsebeth will be teaching Basic Viking Knits, giving a presentation at our banquet and doing a book signing. Keynote Speaker Elsebeth will share with us about her Viking Knits Project during our Saturday night banquet. This project is now a traveling museum exhibition of knitwear designs which incorporate the beautiful interlace patterns from Scandinavian Viking artifacts. Book Signing Saturday, just before the banquet, Elsebeth will be available to sign books. You may preorder Elsebeth’s books through us on the book page. The profit on the books will go toward the cost of the book signing.
2009 Classes Basic Viking Knits Instructor: Elsebeth Lavold Discover the wonderful world of Viking cables, a 1000-year-old treasure of patterns re-discovered in a new technique. Join Elsebeth as she focuses on the technical aspects of knitting Viking Patterns. Learn how to cable without a cable needle. Analyze a simple Viking Interlace ornament. This class aims to give you confidence in reading charts, knitting Viking (and other) cable patterns, and get you started on the road to creating your own variations. This is an Intermediate level class. Students must know how to do basic cabling before attending this class. This class will be limited to 20 students per session. We need to have assigned times for you to attend. Please sign up for the time you prefer on the class form. Let us know if you are attending with a friend and wish to be in the same class. We will do our best to try to make that work.
Cable Basics Instructor: Arnhild Hillesland Learn how to do cables or refresh your skills before taking Elsebeth’s Basic Viking Knits class. Nålbinding Instructor: Linda Terry
Nålbinding is "woven with a needle", stitched, knotless knitting. It is a technique that produces materials that look somewhat like they've been knitted, but have actually been created with a single threaded needle. Nålbinding produces a fairly tight fabric, and unlike knitting doesn't ladder when you drop a stitch. Join us to learn this ancient technique.
Beginning Crochet Instructor: Denise Balvanz Crochet is often used to finish off or jazz up your knitted projects. It also can be used for beautiful lace or sturdy bags. Beginning Knitting Instructor: Sally Hillesland If you have never knit before or if you haven’t knit for a long time and need to get back up to speed, this is the class for you! In this class you will learn the knitting basics: Casting on, knit stitch, purl stitch, reading patterns, increasing/decreasing and measuring gauge. When you go home you will be sporting a lovely sampler scarf of your work to accent the infinite inspiration you receive! Faroese Shawls Instructor: Lisa Grulke Learn about the special shaping of the Faroese Shawl which makes it a unique triangular shawl. You will make a small shawl in the class. Knitting Clinic Instructor: Arnhild Hillesland This will be an informal session for students to tap into Arnhild’s expertise. If you need assistance with a project or idea, bring it with you to class and Arnhild will help make your project a success.
Extra Day: Want to come early? We have added an extra day to our schedule which is optional. If you would like to come early and join us for some informal knitting and chatting time, we will be available on Friday from 10am-4pm. You will be able to learn cables if you need to do that so you can take Elsebeth’s class. You may also bring projects you would like help with and Arnhild or one of our other teachers would be glad to assist you or just bring a project that you want to work on while you visit. The store will be open Friday from 10am-4pm exclusively for those who sign up for this extra day. There are additional fees for this day to cover the cost of the guest and meeting rooms. Meals will be on your own. Extra Day Class Time: Fee $60. If you need a guest room for Thursday night the cost will be $105 per room.
For anyone else who arrives after 4pm on Friday, the store will be open. You are welcome to visit it before registration starts.
Store We will have all of your favorite Rauma yarns and patterns and some new ones too. The store will be open during the retreat from 4:00pm Friday through 3:00pm Sunday. Denise Balvanz of Denise’s Needleworks.com will be running our store again this year. Instructors Linda Terry - Linda is a medical technologist at the Vet Medicine Lab at Iowa State University. She has been knitting for years and has taught classes locally and at all the previous knitting retreats Denise Balvanz - Denise has been knitting for many years and has taught knitting and crochet classes locally for the past several years including groups of homeschoolers and most of her 8 children. She owns the online yarn store www.denisesneedleworks.com. Denise was in charge of the retreat store last year and will be again this year. Nancy Maakestad - Nancy will be available to lend her years of experience and expertise to help you with your knitting needs and in the on-site store.Lisa Grulke – Lisa has often taught at our retreat. She is a native of the historic Amana Colonies, in Iowa, where she learned to love knitting with the other women in her family and community. Lisa teaches at the biology lab at Drake University. Sally Hillesland – Is a nurse in La Crosse and mother of 3 girls who loves to knit. She grew up in northern Minnesota and was taught to knit before she started school by her grandmother who was 'known for her many knitting projects and gifts'. Sally was inspired by Arnhild to knit Norwegian sweaters after receiving sweaters she knit as gifts for her young daughters over 20 years ago... and has been completely hooked ever since. She says, “It's my favorite past-time especially when traveling.” Arnhild Hillesland - Arnhild is a native of Norway and respected expert on Scandinavian knitting techniques. Her career in the US is a compilation of operating her import/distribution business, teaching classes, designing patterns, translating patterns & books and guiding tours to Norway and other areas of northern Europe.
Facilities The Hotel at Gateway Center in Ames, Iowa is the home of the knitter’s retreat. The hotel is conveniently located just off of US highway 30 near the Iowa State University campus. The hotel features an indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna, fitness center, lounge and excellent facilities for class sessions. Hotel rooms pamper knitters with luxurious bedding including pillow-top mattresses, down comforters and feather pillows. For guests’ convenience, each room is equipped with an in-room dataport, coffee maker, hair dryer, iron and ironing board. Knitters will enjoy fabulous meals created by the hotel chef especially for the Knitter’s Retreat.
Fees The price of the retreat includes all of the workshops of your choice, all meals from Friday evening through Sunday lunch and lodging for Friday and Saturday nights, if applicable. Non-smoking rooms with two queen size beds are reserved unless otherwise requested. A $100.00 deposit is required with your registration to reserve your place. The balance of your fee for the weekend can be paid at the retreat. If notification of cancellation is received prior to the registration deadline, $75.00 of your deposit will be refunded. Once the registration deadline has passed, no refund can be issued. Deadline for registration: Friday, January 14, 2009 If you should choose to pay the full retreat fee upon initial registration, you will receive a coupon for 10% off all of your Rauma Yarn purchases at the Retreat Store. Once your registration has been processed, you will receive a confirmation letter, a list of supplies to bring, and a list of reference books that will be used in the different classes. This additional information about the retreat, classes, possible homework, supplies, etc. will also be available on the web site at www.arnhild.com under the class notes tab. 14th Annual Knitters Retreat: Schedule of Events Friday, February 27, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Meals There will be some delicious meals for our weekend. We would like to make this the best possible experience we can for you. Please let us know if you have any serious food issues so we can make accommodations for you. The chef is very willing to help us out with this. Please list any special dietary restrictions (i.e. allergies, diabetes, gluten intolerance, vegetarian, lactose intolerance)? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Books Here is a list of Elsebeth’s books and other books suggested for the classes. We would also be happy to order any other books available online at www.unicornbooks.com or www.schoolhousepress.com. You will receive a 10% discount off the retail price of any book ordered from us, except the books on Nålbinding, and you will not pay any shipping cost. The profit on the books will be used to help defray the cost of the book signing. We appreciate you buying them through us. Thank you.
Registration Form: Send to Arnhild’s Knitting Studio, 2315 Buchanan Dr, Ames, IA 50010 Deadline for registration is January 14, 2009
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Class Reservation Form Please indicate your preferences for class time with 1, 2, 3. Also please indicate if one of the times will NOT work for you (because you are arriving later or leaving early.) Knowing how to knit cables is a prerequisite for the Basic Viking Knits class. If you need to learn or need a refresher please sign up for a Cable Basics class which you can attend before the Basic Viking Knits.
Friend attending with you ______________________________________________________ So we can better prepare for you to enjoy the retreat, please, circle the other classes you are most interested in at this time. This is not a commitment; you can change your mind at any time. Except for Basic Viking Knits, you may attend any of the other classes more than once. Beginning Knitters may like to attend the Faroese Shawl or Clinic on Sunday. ___ Nålbinding ___ Crochet ___ Beginning Knitting ___ Faroese Shawls
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