Mini-Series: Introduction to Knitting (Washcloths!) with Sam Adioetomo

Mini-Series: Four 3-Hour Workshops

Date: Tuesdays, May 13, 20, 27, and June 3

Time: 6pm-9pm

Description: Have you always wanted to pick up knitting needles and try making cloth, but you haven't been sure where to start?

Has it been a while since you picked up needles, and could use a refresher?

Are you looking for a sweet and supportive fibers community?

This mini-series is for you!

With their three decades of knitting experience, Sam will guide you through the whole process of creating a finished knitted object–a washcloth!- from the very very beginning of learning to hold your knitting needles all the way through to finishing and blocking your piece! Skills learned will be: casting on, knit stitch, purl stitch, shaping (increasing and decreasing stitches), blocking and finsihing. With those skills, you will unlock the possibilities of knitting so many many things!!!!!

Tuition: $180 + $15 materials fee

Materials: All materials will be provided.

Location: Contemporary Craft - Timmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201)

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded by check, to your credit card, or Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

If you require accessibility accommodations, please let us know by calling 412.261.7003 and we are happy to assist you.

About the artist

sam adioetomo (she/they) is a knitter, spinner, dyer, and weaver who grew up surrounded by crafters. her grandmother taught her to knit at age seven, and her mother is a sewist, quilter, singer, and stained-glass artist. her grandfather was a stained-glass artist and musician. sam learned to make yarn on a drop spindle in 2003 at a local yarn shop in bloomington, indiana, where she attended university. then, during the pandemic, she purchased a spinning wheel and picked up spinning techniques from jillian eve's extensive online resources. with an ever-growing stash of handspun, sam taught herself to weave on a rigid heddle loom and then learned to weave on a floor loom from jamie boyle. in her professional life, sam works as a writer and spent most of her career in indonesia before moving to pittsburgh in 2021. now, she lives in edgewood with her husband, three cats from java, and a tiny little dog.