Two at a Time Fingerless Gloves. With Mary Crosby. Sunday, March 23, 2025. 1-4 PM. $50.00. $20.00 deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Learn to knit two at a time fingerless gloves with the Magic Loop method! We will use the Churchmouse Fingerless Glove pattern and learn how to cast on and knit two gloves at a time. This method is applicable to socks too! For adventurous beginner to intermediate knitters who want to learn some new tricks. We will be using DK weight yarn and 40 inch circulars, sizes 4 and 5.

Beginning Crochet: Churchmouse Sampler Scarf or Handwarmers.  With Dayna Mankowski.  Thursday, March 20, 2025. 6:30- 8:30 PM.  $35.00.  $10.00 deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Learn how to crochet three different stitches and make a lovely scarf and/or hand warmers!  You will learn three stitches; single crochet, half double crochet, and double crochet.  Perfect for adventurous beginners, or those who have some crochet experience. 

Join us for a daytime Stitching session, also solving the big problems and providing help for fiber issues. Free, everyone welcome!

Join us for knitting, spinning, crochet, and solving the world's big problems every Tuesday from 6-9 PM. 

 Slow Stitch Mug Rug Workshop.  With Kathy Johnson.  Saturday, March 15, 2025.  12 PM-3 PM.  $95.00.  Includes all materials.  $25.00 deposit holds your space.  Call 203-245-5921 to register.   

What’s a Mug Rug?  

It’s a hand-stitched fabric coaster (6" x 9") designed to hold your favorite mug of tea, coffee, or cocoa—with space for a cookie or two! No sewing machine required—this is all about the meditative art of slow-stitching by hand. 

You’ll work with a selection of fabrics from my stash that contains repurposed clothing, household linens, hand-dyed textiles, and thrift stores and flea markets treasures. Fabric color to choose from include: yellow, blue, purple, green, pink, red, gray, and turquoise—along with rust-dyed and indigo-dyed fabrics, plus plenty of lace and trim to embellish your design. 

In class, we’ll start by arranging fabric pieces on a base layer, and I’ll guide you through several creative ways to use the running stitch to achieve a variety of looks. You’ll start stitching your Mug Rug in class and finish it at home. Before we wrap up, I’ll demonstrate the finishing steps and provide written instructions to take with you—plus a bonus biscotti recipe.   

I’ll also share my techniques for tea-staining and paint-staining fabrics and thread, that can be used for your future creations.

Bring your favorite mug and we’ll enjoy tea and cookies while we stitch together.  

All supplies included. Class kit contains: 2 skeins of white cotton embroidery floss, fabric pieces, 6.5 x 9.5 fabric for the stitching base, 6.5 x 9.5 fabric for the back, needle, and needle threader.  During class you’ll have access to: Scissors, rotary cutter, rulers, additional colors of embroidery floss, fabric marking pens, circle templates, and quilting straight pins.

Thursday Night Knitters: The Lana Vest. with Mary Crosby. 4 Sessions: Thursdays: January 30, February 20, March 13, and March 27, 2025. 6:30-8:30 PM. $125.00. $50.00. deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Let’s learn to do cables on this very wearable vest! We will be making Irene Lin’s ‘Lana’ Vest- https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lana-vest-2 , made from heavy worsted- bulky weight yarns, with the amount of ease to suit your style (form fitting or oversized). This vest has interesting construction details, and you will follow written instructions while following a chart. This is a great skill builder- plus no sleeves!

Join us for a daytime Stitching session, also solving the big problems and providing help for fiber issues. Free, everyone welcome!

Beginning Crochet: Churchmouse Sampler Scarf or Handwarmers.  With Dayna Mankowski.  Wednesday, March 12, 2025. 6:30- 8:30 PM.  $35.00.  $10.00 deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Learn how to crochet three different stitches and make a lovely scarf and/or hand warmers!  You will learn three stitches; single crochet, half double crochet, and double crochet.  Perfect for adventurous beginners, or those who have some crochet experience. 

Join us for knitting, spinning, crochet, and solving the world's big problems every Tuesday from 6-9 PM. 

Join us for a daytime Stitching session, also solving the big problems and providing help for fiber issues. Free, everyone welcome!

Join us for knitting, spinning, crochet, and solving the world's big problems every Tuesday from 6-9 PM. 

Beginning Handspinning Intensive.   Sunday, March 2,  2025.   12-5 PM.  $100.00 includes fiber and drop spindle. With Dayna Mankowski and Mary Crosby .  $25.00 deposit holds your space.  Maximum- 4 students.   

If you would like to learn how to create unique yarn for your knitting or fiber projects, this class is for you. This workshop will teach: why wool spins into yarn, how to prepare wool for spinning, how to spin on a drop spindle and a spinning wheel.  Many types of wheels are available to try, and you will learn which type is right for you

Part 1: Will teach the basics of fiber preparation, drafting and spinning on a drop spindle

Part 2: will teach basic spinning on a spinning wheel, the types of spinning wheel (Scotch tension vs Irish tension, Single vs Double treadle, etc).   If you have your own wheel, please bring it. 

Unwind & Knit.  First Saturday of the Month: September 7, October 5, November 2, December 7, 2024, January 4, 2025, February 1, 2025, March 1, 2025 and April 5, 2025. .   2:00-4:30 PM.   $40.00 includes knitting/crochet guidance, yoga, tea, and chair massage .  $10.00 deposit holds your space.  Call 203-245-5921 to register.   

Combine knitting / crochet and yoga for a fun and relaxing afternoon!   Bring a project to work on (or find something new!), then work out the kinks and knots in your body and mind with a chair massage and gentle yoga.   

Beginning Crochet: Churchmouse Sampler Scarf or Handwarmers.  With Dayna Mankowski.  Thursday, February 27, 2025. 6:30- 8:30 PM.  $35.00.  $10.00 deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Learn how to crochet three different stitches and make a lovely scarf and/or hand warmers!  You will learn three stitches; single crochet, half double crochet, and double crochet.  Perfect for adventurous beginners, or those who have some crochet experience. 

Join us for a daytime Stitching session, also solving the big problems and providing help for fiber issues. Free, everyone welcome!

Join us for knitting, spinning, crochet, and solving the world's big problems every Tuesday from 6-9 PM. 

Crochet 102: Basic Granny Square Construction. With Dayna Mankowski. Sunday, February 23, 2025. 4-6 PM. $35.00. $10.00 deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Get started on your granny square journey! This is a great next step after learning basic crochet stitches. You will learn how to make a basic granny square , and learn how to change colors and weave in your ends. You can continue with this square to make a large throw, or make several squares that you can use to make bigger projects. Basic crochet skills required.

Fixing Mistakes and Reading your Knitting. With Mary Crosby. SATURDAY, February 22, 2025 1-3 PM. $35.00 ($10 holds your space). Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Become the boss of your knitting by learning how to "read" your stitches. With this class and a little practice, you will soon be able to figure out where you are in a pattern and to recognize and correct errors. You’ll spend less time running to the yarn shop for help and more time working on your projects.

What we will learn: The first portion of the class will be devoted to studying the way stitches sit on the needle and what a knit stitch and purl stitch as well as common increases and decreases look like. The second part will be devoted to practical skills. You will learn how to count rows in one color and multi-color knitting, find your place in a stitch pattern, and keep track of increases and decreases during shaping. You’ll also learn to find and correct errors.

Finally, if you have a project on the needles, especially if you are in trouble, bring it and put your new skills to work ! What to bring: Two colors of smooth, light to medium colored yarn. Should be worsted weight or heavier. Needles appropriate for the yarn – straight or circular. We will be knitting swatches back and forth . Locking stitch markers and other notions.

Thursday Night Knitters: The Lana Vest. with Mary Crosby. 4 Sessions: Thursdays: January 30, February 20, March 13, and March 27, 2025. 6:30-8:30 PM. $125.00. $50.00. deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Let’s learn to do cables on this very wearable vest! We will be making Irene Lin’s ‘Lana’ Vest- https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lana-vest-2 , made from heavy worsted- bulky weight yarns, with the amount of ease to suit your style (form fitting or oversized). This vest has interesting construction details, and you will follow written instructions while following a chart. This is a great skill builder- plus no sleeves!

Join us for knitting, spinning, crochet, and solving the world's big problems every Tuesday from 6-9 PM. 

Beginning Crochet: Churchmouse Sampler Scarf or Handwarmers.  With Dayna Mankowski.  Thursday, January 16, 2025. 6:30- 8:30 PM.  $35.00.  $10.00 deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Learn how to crochet three different stitches and make a lovely scarf and/or hand warmers!  You will learn three stitches; single crochet, half double crochet, and double crochet.  Perfect for adventurous beginners, or those who have some crochet experience that want to brush up on techniques. . 

Join us for a daytime Stitching session, also solving the big problems and providing help for fiber issues. Free, everyone welcome!

Join us for knitting, spinning, crochet, and solving the world's big problems every Tuesday from 6-9 PM. 

Punch and Hook Club:  Amish Toothbrush Rag Rug.  With Deana David of www.ribboncandyhooking.com.  Saturday, February 8, 2025  1-4 PM.  $95.00.  $25.00 deposit holds your space.  Price includes all materials.   Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Are you ready to get raggy? Raggy enough to start this fun, traditional rug making craft called Amish Toothbrush? This is a simple technique that involves stitching with ripped up rags (in this case cotton) and building your rug in rows with the same, simple stitch.  

Remember how toothbrushes used to come with a hole in the bottom? Women would cut of the handle, dull it to a point, and thread rags through the hole to create these colorful and practical rugs. 

This class will come with the hardwood Amish Toothbrush tool, and a bag of colorful long quarters of hand-dyed cottons to get you ripping and 'toothbrushing'. You can choose between an oval or a circle rug. Get the hard part done in class, and finish at your leisure. 

Join us for a daytime Stitching session, also solving the big problems and providing help for fiber issues. Free, everyone welcome!

Join us for knitting, spinning, crochet, and solving the world's big problems every Tuesday from 6-9 PM. 

Beginning Handspinning Intensive.   Sunday, February 2,  2025.   12-5 PM.  $100.00 includes fiber and drop spindle. With Dayna Mankowski and Mary Crosby .  $25.00 deposit holds your space.  Maximum- 4 students.   

If you would like to learn how to create unique yarn for your knitting or fiber projects, this class is for you. This workshop will teach: why wool spins into yarn, how to prepare wool for spinning, how to spin on a drop spindle and a spinning wheel.  Many types of wheels are available to try, and you will learn which type is right for you

Part 1: Will teach the basics of fiber preparation, drafting and spinning on a drop spindle

Part 2: will teach basic spinning on a spinning wheel, the types of spinning wheel (Scotch tension vs Irish tension, Single vs Double treadle, etc).   If you have your own wheel, please bring it. 

Unwind & Knit.  First Saturday of the Month: September 7, October 5, November 2, December 7, 2024, January 4, 2025, February 1, 2025, March 1, 2025 and April 5, 2025. .   2:00-4:30 PM.   $40.00 includes knitting/crochet guidance, yoga, tea, and chair massage .  $10.00 deposit holds your space.  Call 203-245-5921 to register.   

Combine knitting / crochet and yoga for a fun and relaxing afternoon!   Bring a project to work on (or find something new!), then work out the kinks and knots in your body and mind with a chair massage and gentle yoga.   

Thursday Night Knitters: The Lana Vest. with Mary Crosby. 4 Sessions: Thursdays: January 30, February 20, March 13, and March 27, 2025. 6:30-8:30 PM. $125.00. $50.00. deposit holds your space. Call 203-245-5921 to register.

Let’s learn to do cables on this very wearable vest! We will be making Irene Lin’s ‘Lana’ Vest- https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lana-vest-2 , made from heavy worsted- bulky weight yarns, with the amount of ease to suit your style (form fitting or oversized). This vest has interesting construction details, and you will follow written instructions while following a chart. This is a great skill builder- plus no sleeves!

Join us for a daytime Stitching session, also solving the big problems and providing help for fiber issues. Free, everyone welcome!