16th Annual Knitter's Weekend 2007 Friday, September 28th to Sunday, September 30, 2007 Putney, Vermont The weekend is fully booked but if you would like to be on our waiting list please fill out the sign up form. We will contact you in order if sign up if any spaces become available.

Our weekend begins Friday evening with dinner featuring locally grown produce. On Saturday and Sunday we will explore knitting techniques with designer Kate Gilbert.

Kate fell in love with knitting at the age of 16, and she hasn’t put her needles down since. Throughout her years at the State University of New York at Buffalo (where she earned a degree in graphic design) and her time in New York City (where she earned a paycheck coming up with logos, magazine layouts, and web sites, among other pretty things) Kate was constantly knitting one-of-a-kind gifts for friends and family.

In 2001, Kate moved to Paris, where she embarked on her new career as a professional knitwear designer. Now in Montréal, she teaches knitting, has taken up spinning, and continues to come up with unique designs when she’s not chasing her toddler around. Kate’s original patterns have been featured in Interweave Knits (most recently Syncopated Caps and Wing Top) and Knitty.com (remember the Clapotis Wrap?) and are available in select yarn stores and online at kategilbert.com. There, you’ll also find her blog, “Needles on Fire” where she dishes about the ups and downs of knitting and purling.

WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Workshop sessions, evening meals and Friday’s session will be held
at the Putney Cares Barn, conveniently located in Putney Village,
.2 miles west of the General Store.

FRIDAY EVENING (5:30 – 9:00 p.m.) Gathering, dinner, introductions.

SATURDAY (9 - 3:30 p.m.) 2 toe-up socks on 1 circular needle at 1 time:
Learn to knit two socks from the toe up to the cuff at the same time on one long, circular needle. We’ll be making small “technique” socks in order to learn all of the techniques – casting on, short rows, stretchy bind offs. Skills used: knitting in the round, knitting and purling, increases.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON (3:30 – 5:30 p.m.) Tours of Green Mountain Spinnery. Free time to relax, knit, shop, and explore Putney and the surrounding area.

SATURDAY EVENING (5:30 p.m.) We will meet for dinner and afterwards a presentation by Margaret Klein Wilson, designer, dyer and owner of Mostly Merino. Margaret will talk with us about keeping a knitting journal.

SUNDAY MORNING (9 - Noon) Design your own custom-fit top-down raglan:
Come to the workshop with a swatch and an idea and walk away with instructions for a top-down raglan designed to fit you! Skills used: cast on, knitting in the round, increases, decreases.

REGISTRATION

The fee for the weekend is $300 per person, $285 with paid registration before August 6, 2007. You may pay by VISA or Master Card or send us a check by mail. The registration fee includes all workshop sessions and materials plus Friday dinner and Saturday lunch and dinner. Cancellations before September 10th will be refunded, after September 10th refunds will be made only if there is a replacement. Other details of the weekend and directions to the Spinnery will be sent to you in early September.

Recommended Accommodations. We suggest you reserve space ASAP.

• The Putney Inn (right across from the Spinnery) -- 802.387.5517
• Hickory Ridge B & B (2 miles west of Putney) -- 802.387.5709
• Ranney Crawford House B & B (5 miles west of Putney) -- 802.387.4150
• Hampton Inn Brattleboro (6 miles south of Putney)
• Holiday Inn Express Brattleboro (8 miles south of Putney) – 802.257.2400