Classes

Welcome to our list of upcoming classes! Please read the description of your chosen class thoroughly to make sure it’s right for you. Once you have chosen your class, click on the appropriate link which will take you to our online shop where you can register. Check out the same way as if you were buying yarn, and once we have received your registration, we will send along an email confirmation the next business day. If you are unsure if the class is a good fit for your skill level, please ask and we’ll be happy to guide you towards the best class for you.

All classes are in-store unless otherwise specified.

The minimum registration for our classes is two students and maximum is 6 people for most workshops; if the minimum is not met, the class will automatically become a private lesson for one hour and a partial refund of class fee will be given, where applicable.

Class fees must be paid in advance or a credit card number can be provided to hold your place. You can provide your payment information either in person, online or over the phone. If you need to cancel your lesson or class registration, you must do so at least 24 hours in advance or your class fee will still be collected. Class fees that have been paid up front can be transferred to other classes or can be refunded as store credit.

Parents note: these classes are aimed at people 16 or older. If you are looking to register a child, please see the private class information below. We are always happy to work with young people!

Private Classes
Don’t see a class that is right for you? Let us know! We can offer classes on a large variety of topics, far beyond the ones currently on the schedule. If there is a technique you’ve been waiting to try or a specific project you need assistance with, we would be happy to put you in touch with an experienced instructor. $40 an hour for one person, $30 each if multiple students are taught in one lesson. The $30 per person semi-private lessons are a fantastic way to learn with a friend, child, or significant other!

Knitting Classes

Knitting 101

Cost: $62 for 2 hours including materials
Teacher: Alison
Dates: Friday May 1st from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Saturday May 16th from 9 to 11am
Tuesday May 26th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Monday June 8th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Saturday June 27th from 9 to 11am
Tuesday July 14th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Wednesday July 29th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Tuesday August 11th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Monday August 24th from 6:30 to 8:30pm

Get yourself off to the right start, with this motivating two-hour workshop that will prepare you to make your first project. This class teaches students how to cast on, to perform both the knit and purl stitch, and how to bind off. With these skills in hand you can complete a variety of simple projects such as rectangular scarves, head bands, coffee cozies, and more.

Materials for your first project are included in the registration price: one skein of Estelle Chunky in your chosen colour and a matching set of wood circular needles.

Skill Level: Absolute Beginner
Materials Required: Needles and yarn included

The Clinic

Cost: $22/hr or $30 for two hours
Teacher: Alison
Dates: Sunday April 19th
Sunday May 3rd
Sunday May 24th
Sunday June 14th
Sunday June 28th
Sunday July 12th
Sunday July 26th
Sunday August 16th
Sunday August 30th

We are always happy to help our customers with their knitting and crochet projects, but sometimes the question is more involved than we can tackle during a regular shift, yet not complicated enough for a full private lesson. Enter The Clinic!

Got a question that takes more than 10 minutes but less than 60 to answer? Want to work on a new technique with an experienced safety net nearby? Our clinic is the perfect time to hone a skill or get over a particularly frustrating hurdle.

How it works: the clinic runs every two weeks on alternating days. Choose the date and time that suits your schedule best and register by checking out here on the shop, or by phone, email or in person. One hour of help is $22, two hours is $30.

If you’re not sure if your question is suitable for The Clinic, feel free to send us an email at info@yarnsuntangled.com or give us a call.

Registration remains open until 48 hours in advance of the clinic (unless someone else has already registered in which case, it will remain open).

*Please note: this clinic is not designed to teach knitting or crochet from the beginning. If you are looking to learn for the first time, check out our Knitting 101 and Crochet 101 schedules.

Skill Level: Any level
Materials Required: Bring whatever you're working on!

My First Knitting Project

Cost: $95 for 4 hours
Teacher: Alison
Dates: Tuesdays June 9th and 16th from 6:30 to 8:30pm

New to knitting and want to make your first project? Ready to move from knitting back and forth and try knitting in the round? In this class, we’ll make a simple, super-bulky hat and have a chance to practice the techniques that will set you up for the next steps on your knitting journey! We’ll cover casting on and working in the round, practice combining knit and purl stitches, and use decreases to shape the crown of the hat. This class is ideal for newer knitters who want to put their skills to work and come out with a finished project, as well as those who have been practicing their knitting on rectangular projects and are looking for some guidance as they embark on a project in the round.

Skill Level: Should be comfortable with knit, purl, cast on, and cast off
Materials Required: Circular needles, yarn and pattern for your project

Knitting 102

Cost: $55 for 2 hours
Teacher: Alison
Dates: Wednesday June 3rd from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Tuesday August 4th from 6:30 to 8:30pm

This class is for when you have practiced the basic knit and purl stitches, and you are ready to try something new and more interesting! With assistance from your instructor, you can explore making non-rectangular shapes, playing with texture, and more! Learn to follow a simple written pattern, perform a variety of increases and decreases, and begin to make a more ambitious project with guidance.

Skill Level: Should be comfortable with knit, purl, cast on, and cast off
Materials Required: Student should bring medium-sized needles and matching yarn (such as 5mm and worsted weight), available in store

Continental Knitting

Cost: $75 for two hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Thursday January 22nd from 6 to 8pm

Want to knit faster? Are you ready to tackle colourwork? Knitting continental style – with the yarn in your left hand rather than right – is the key to speed, and also helps you enormously with colorwork. It’s also useful for knitters who want to manage and minimize hand-strain. We’ll also demonstrate a magical technique for working ribbing and seed stitch without moving the yarn.

Skill Level: Late beginner – must be comfortable with knit, purl, casting on and off
Materials Required: Scrap medium-weight yarn (included in fee) and 4.5mm/US #7 needles (straight or circular).

Steeking

Cost: $75 for 2 hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Tuesday April 28th from 6 to 8pm

It may well be the scariest thing you can do with your knitting… taking a pair of scissors to it! Steeking – cutting a piece of knitting – is on many knitters’ “bucket lists”, and this class is any easy way to take the fear out of it. We’ll talk about the hows and whys, discussing different methods of reinforcement, edging and finishing. Whether you’re a keen colorwork knitter looking to take your skills to the next level, or just curious what the fuss is about, this class explains it all!

Skill Level: Intermediate; colorwork and garment experience helpful but not required.
Materials Required: Homework required. Instructions will be sent along with your registration confirmation.

Brioche Knitting

Cost: $75 for 2 hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Tuesday February 24th from 6 to 8pm

Brioche knitting uses a simple and clever technique to create beautiful fabrics – deep ribs and fascinating colourwork. It’s particularly effectively in two colours, and is an excellent way to tame a busy variegated yarn. This class covers the skills for working brioche patterns, including reading the sometimes-complicated instructions, and fixing mistakes. Knitters will leave with a one-of-a-kind shawl or scarf project well underway.

Skill Level: Intermediate: no specific skills required, but knitters must be confident with increasing and decreasing
Materials Required: A 16-20" (40-50cm) circular 4mm/US #6 needle and 2 strongly contrasting colours of scrap worsted weight yarn; 250-300 yards of each: recommend one variegated, one solid colour. Newer knitters should bring DK or worsted; more experienced knitters can bring fingering or sport but if you do so, please adjust your needle size accordingly.

Brioche Deep Dive

Cost: $75 for 2 hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Thursday March 19th from 6 to 8pm

You’ve wrapped your mind around brioche knitting, well done! It’s now time to expand your skills with Brioche Deep Dive.

For knitters with a little bit of experience with Brioche knitting, this class will build skills and explore new variations on the technique: syncopated brioche, standard and reversible increases and decreases, more complex stitch patterns, and working from charts. We’ll also address fixing mistakes, so you don’t want to miss this!. Students will leave with a pattern for a brioche sampler scarf/shawl that allows them to practise and dip their toes into design.

Skill Level: Intermediate: must have at least a little bit of brioche experience.
Materials Required: A 16-20" (40-50cm) circular 4.5mm/US #7 needle and 2 strongly contrasting colours of scrap worsted or aran weight yarn; 250-300 yards of each: recommend one variegated, one solid colour.

Knitting Project Class

Cost: $155 for 8 hours
Teacher: Alison
Dates: Tuesdays Aug 18, 25, Sept 1 and 8 - 6:30 to 8:30pm

Our Project Class is a four-week course designed to help you with whatever you’d like to learn. It’s the perfect opportunity to begin that sweater you’ve always wanted to make, try out knitting in the round for the first time, seaming and finishing skills, or anything else that you are working on. Some knitters bring a different project each week, some will take this opportunity to undertake a big pattern or a skill they’ve previously found daunting. The course is aimed at a variety of levels; much can be learned by working nearby other knitters undertaking different skills! With a small class size of maximum six people, there will be opportunities for one-on-one guidance from a skilled instructor and demonstrations of techniques or tips that are common across multiple projects.

We recommend picking out your project(s) and materials in advance to maximize class time; our staff are here to guide you if need be.

Skill Level: Late beginners and up! If you are looking to learn to knit from the beginning, check out our Knitting 101 schedule
Materials Required: Materials will be unique to each knitter. We are always here to help you to pick out gear and yarn for your projects.

Short Row Savvy

Cost: $75 for 2 hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Thursday April 16th from 6 to 8pm

“Wrap & Turn” is not a dance move, it’s a fabulous way to create shapes with your knitting. Short rows are used in some sock heels, in shawls to create curves and in garments for bust shaping. In this class we’ll discuss five common methods of working short rows (and hiding them, just as important!): wrap and turn, yarnover, Japanese, German, and Shadow. We’ll also touch on how to change one method for another in a pattern.

Skill Level: Intermediate; suitable for knitters just starting with short rows or those looking for a refresher
Materials Required: Scrap light-colored medium-weight yarn and 4-5mm/US #6-8 needles, 8 removable stitch markers or small safety pins

Fixing Mistakes

Cost: $55 for 2 hours
Teacher: Alison
Dates: Monday April 27th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Monday July 6th from 6:30 to 8:30pm

Is your knitting mysteriously growing on the edges? Do you have strange holes in your fabric? Perhaps you’re losing stitches and can’t figure out how or where. Fixing Mistakes is the perfect class for knitters who have become somewhat comfortable with the craft and are looking to learn more about the fabric, it’s construction and how to repair several of the most common errors. We’ll take you through dropped stitches, accidental yarnovers, mystery holes, twisted stitches and discuss our favourite “tinking” methods.

Skill Level: late beginner. Students should be quite comfortable with knit and purl and have several projects under their belt.
Materials Required: Homework: using worsted weight scrap yarn in a light colour and 4.5mm or 5mm needles, cast on 15 stitches and work about 15 rows in stocking stitch (knitting on one side, purling on the other). Leave the stitches on your needles and bring the swatch with you to the class.

DPNs, Magic Loop & Two Circulars: Options for Working in the Round

Cost: $70 for 2 hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Thursday March 27th from 6 to 8pm

Circular knitting or “knitting in the round” is a wonderful way to work. Excellent for hats, socks, sleeves, sweaters and more, it’s an indispensable skill that will open up many new options for patterns and types of projects.

There are many different ways to knit in the round: on double-pointed needles (“DPNs”), circular needles, with magic loop, two circular needles and the newer Flexi-Flips and bent DPNs. This class will demonstrate the techniques, and provide opportunities to practice all of them. We’ll share tips, techniques for knitting in the round on any style of needles, and for any project, including easy ways to join and a magic trick for fixing a twisted round. Whether you’re new to working in the round, or have tried it with difficulties, this class is for you!

Skill Level: Advanced beginner/intermediate - knitters must be comfortable with knit and purl.
Materials Required: Light-coloured medium weight scrap yarn
A set of 4-5mm (US #6-8) double pointed needles and/or 40cm circular needles, and/or 100cm circular needles. We will have some available to experiment with, but please bring at least one or more of the above.

Cables 101

Cost: $70 for 2 hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Thursday March 13th from 6 to 8pm

Cables are a versatile way to level up your knitting, and are featured in a wide variety of knitting styles. In this class, you will learn the knitter’s dirtiest secret – cables are easy! We’ll address not only how to work cables, but also how to read charts and patterns, and we’ll share expert tips on how to manage the knitting of a complex cable design.

Skill Level: Advanced beginner - knitters need to be proficient with knit, purl
Materials Required: Scrap yarn in a light color, included in class fee; Please bring 4.5mm or 5mm needles and a cable needle, or purchase in-store.

Fearless Finishing

Cost: $75 for 2 hours
Teacher: Kate
Dates: Tuesday March 17th from 6 to 8pm

Many knitters avoid a lot of garment patterns because of the finishing work required, and even the most experienced knitters often have holes in their finishing knowledge – or simply lack confidence about them. The reason is simple: information in books and patterns is often very weak in this area, leaving knitters to try to figure it out themselves. This hands-on workshop teaches practical, useful and sensible finishing skills. Along the way we’ll dispel a lot of common myths, break down some common sources of confusion, and show you short-cuts that make the finishing task easier and improve the finished project. We’ll cover the three key seaming methods – reviewing how to do them and where to use them, including how to set in a sleeve. We’ll practice two key skills that cause problems for knitters of all experience levels: grafting (Kitchener stitch) and picking up stitches – how and where to pick them up, how to handle large numbers of picked up stitches, and what to do if you can’t match the number the pattern calls for. We’ll discuss blocking, weaving in ends and how the proper cast-ons and bind offs can make your finishing work easier – and improve the finished result.

Skill Level: All levels welcome!
Materials Required: Students should bring any projects that need finishing, the swatches below, and a blunt-tipped darning needle.

PLEASE NOTE: This class requires homework! Using 4.5mm needles and medium-weight yarn in a light colour, make the following squares: 2 4 x 4 in squares in stocking stitch, 1 4 x 4 in square in garter stitch, 1 in 4 x 4 in squares (k1, p1) ribbing; 2 20-stitch swatches of stockinette stitch – work 10 rows and leave the stitches on holders.

Crochet Classes

Crochet 101

Cost: $62 for 2 hours, including materials
Teacher: Annabel
Dates: Thursday April 2nd from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Monday April 13th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Thursday April 30th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Tuesday May 12th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Saturday May 30th from 9 to 11am

For those who are uninitiated, crochet is faster than knitting, boasts extremely versatile design possibilities, and is so rich in texture. This workshop, aimed at absolute beginners, is a perfect way to learn the basics of crochet. Learn to make a chain, single crochet, double crochet, and more advanced techniques as time allows.

Materials for your first project are included in the registration price: one skein of Estelle Chunky in your chosen colour and a matching hook.

Skill Level: Absolute Beginner
Materials Required: Hook and yarn included

The Clinic

Cost: $22/hr or $30 for two hours
Teacher: Alison
Dates: Sunday April 19th
Sunday May 3rd
Sunday May 24th
Sunday June 14th
Sunday June 28th
Sunday July 12th
Sunday July 26th
Sunday August 16th
Sunday August 30th

If you’re not sure if your question is suitable for The Clinic, feel free to send us an email at info@yarnsuntangled.com or give us a call.

Registration remains open until 48 hours in advance of the clinic (unless someone else has already registered in which case, it will remain open).

*Please note: this clinic is not designed to teach knitting or crochet from the beginning. If you are looking to learn for the first time, check out our Knitting 101 and Crochet 101 schedules.

Skill Level: Any level
Materials Required: Bring whatever you're working on!

Granny Squares 101

Cost: $57 for 2 hours
Teacher: Annabel
Dates: Wednesday April 8th from 6:30 to 8:30pm
Monday May 4th from 6:30 to 8:30pm

Get ready to live your coziest life with granny squares! This simple and easy to learn technique is the building block of many crocheted patterns. Blankets of course, but also bags, sweaters, hats, toys and accessories galore!

We will introduce you to crocheting in the round, clustered stitches, and how to start your square. A perfect class for newer crocheters who are comfortable with chain stitch, single and double crochet. We will also give an introduction to pattern reading, a useful skill that you will need to go forward!

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner, crocheters must be comfortable with chain, single and double crochet
Materials Required: Medium weight yarn in two colours included in your registration fee. Please bring a crochet hook in either 6mm, 6.5mm or 7mm

Granny Squares 102

Cost: $55 for 2 hours
Teacher: Annabel
Dates: Monday June 1st from 6:30 to 8:30pm

Have a pile of finished granny squares and no idea of how to join them? Want to refine your technique to create a more polished look? This class is for you!

Your teacher will take you through a few of our favourite ways to sew and crochet your squares together, to create both visible and invisible seams. We’ll also cover the nifty join-as-you-go method to eliminate the need for seams altogether! Along the way we’ll talk about some tips and tricks to take your granny squares to the next level, using techniques such as the magic ring, standing stitches and the invisible join.

This is a fast-paced class and is aimed at the advanced beginner who is already very comfortable with making a basic granny square, completing a square in 20-30 minutes. If you’ve never made a granny square before then please join us in Granny Squares 101.

Skill Level: Intermediate, crocheters must be comfortable with basic granny squares
Materials Required: Homework: using bulky or worsted weight yarn, please make and bring with you three granny squares with four rounds in each. We will send more detailed instructions upon registration.

Please bring along your homework and some more yarn as well as the hook you used to make your squares

Classes

Knitting Classes

Knitting 101

The Clinic

My First Knitting Project

Knitting 102

Continental Knitting

Steeking

Brioche Knitting

Brioche Deep Dive

Knitting Project Class

Short Row Savvy

Fixing Mistakes

DPNs, Magic Loop & Two Circulars: Options for Working in the Round

Cables 101

Fearless Finishing

Crochet Classes

Crochet 101

The Clinic

Granny Squares 101

Granny Squares 102

Fibre Arts Classes