Saturday
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
February 22, 2025
(one session workshop)
or
Sunday
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
February 23, 2025
(one session workshop)
Gudrun Johnston, guest instructor
$175 registration fee
Registration for this workshop includes all materials, plus refreshments.
No refunds for this event on cancellations made after February 14, 2025.
Sweet deal: Lunch is on us if you register for both Saturday workshops (Fair Isle Taster Saturday 2/22 & Shetland Hap Saturday 2/22)! Catering provided by Due Foccaceria. Lunch available only to those participating in both workshops.
In this class we will dip our toes into the world of Fair Isle knitting! We will look at choosing colors, color dominance, stranding the yarn, speed swatching in the round and we will even do some steeking (cutting into our knitting)! We will be working with a tried-and-true product, 100% Shetland yarn, traditionally used for Fair Isle knitting. This class is intended as an introduction to Shetland wool and its suitability to stranded knitting. You can be a beginner or seasoned colorwork knitter.
Class kit included in registration includes 6 balls of Shetland Spindrift by Jamieson's of Shetland, and a muslin project bag.
You’ll need US 4 (3.5 mm) or US 3 (3.25 mm) 24-inch circular needle (if you are a loose knitter use the smaller size needle), 2 stitch markers, and scissors
Gudrun Johnston was born in Shetland in the 70's when her mother was running the successful knitwear design company, The Shetland Trader. She spent her early years in Shetland and the rest of her childhood on mainland Scotland in various locations. Now living in the U.S, she has followed in her mother's footsteps by reviving the Shetland Trader name, and has made a niche for herself in the knitwear design industry. Gudrun often includes aspects of her heritage in her work. Her most recent book of knitwear was published in 2023 with Laine Publishing and co-authored with Mary Jane Mucklestone.
Gudrun frequently travels back to Shetland where her father and brother currently live. She has attended and taught at Wool Week many times and was the Wool Week patron in 2017. She is also now the Brand Director for Simply Shetland, the US distributor of Jamieson’s yarn (made down the road from her dad’s house in Shetland)!
