Wish your images came out better? These hands-on digital photography workshops will give you camera confidence and improve your photo skills, taught at the level you’re on right now. We’ll concentrate on yarn, fiber, and finished handmade objects as well as capturing the world around you. The workshops are taught as a combination of illustrated talk, demonstration and plenty of action, photographing inside & outdoors. Learn to really tell the story of your craft visually and make images that will sing online.

Gale Zucker, commerical & editorial photographer, will be at The Yarn MartTM on Sunday, April 15 from 2pm to 5pm to teach a class on using digital photography in your craft life. This class will cover basic concepts in making your digital photography images look great, concentrating on camera use techniques and tricks to photograph fiber & texture. We’ll talk about choosing backgrounds, colors, simple light tips and how to use photography to really tell the story of your craft. Gale Zucker will do a demo of optimizing your images once they’ve out of the camera and into a blog page or website.

Cost: $100 per student
Class Limit: Minimum 6 / Maximum 25
Who is Gale Zucker?:  Gale Zucker is the co-author of the book Craft Activism: People, Projects & Ideas from the New Community of Handmade (PotterCraft 2011), chosen for Best Books of 2011 by both Library Journal and Amazon. She is also the photographer/co-author of Shear Spirit: Ten Farms, Twenty Projects and Miles of Yarn (PotterCraft 2008) and the photographer for Mason Dixon: Knitting Outside the Lines (October 2008).
Supplies: Digital camera (point & shoot or dslr)
Note – Students MUST know how to find the settings on their cameras for exposure and flash

Crochet a Cowl: You asked for it and we were listening. Starting in April, The Yarn MartTM will offer regular crochet classes including Beginning Crochet. Students will learn chain cast-on, single and double crochet and binding off. Betsy Hart is new to teaching at The Yarn MartTM and are excited to have her crochet expertise available to our customers.
When: Tuesday, April 10, 17, 24 from 6pm to 7:30pm
How Much: $45 per student plus supplies
Supplies: Download Convertible Cowl pattern from Ravelry, 210 to 220 yards of Plymouth Baby Alpaca Grande (or other super bulky weight), and 10.0mm (N/P) crochet hook. Yarn must be purchased at The Yarn MartTM
Number of Students: 7 maximum
Instructor: Betsy Hart

No More Single Sock Syndrome: Learn to knit 2 socks at the same time on one long circular needle toe up. You can try them on as you knit them and make adjustments as needed. This class is Intermediate Level (see level descriptions below under Class Policies) and limited to 7 students.
When: Sunday, February 12, 19, and 26 from 2pm to 3:30pm
How Much: $45 per student plus supplies
Supplies: About 350 to 400 yards of Sock Yarn (must be purchased at The Yarn MartTM) wound into 2 semi equal balls
(1) 40" circular needle (size called for on sock yarn ball band)
Copy of Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks by Melissa Morgan-Oakes (available from The Yarn MartTM)
Instructor: Heather Zbinden

Knit Socks on Double Points with Kay:
@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; }.MsoChpDefault { font-family: Arial; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } Wanna learn how to knit socks? Well why not learn from the master! Kay will be teaching her Socks on Double Points class this winter. This class will meet over 3 Saturdays (March 3, 10, and 17) from 9am to 10:30am. Students will learn knitting in the round, the Old Norwegian Cast On, short row shaping, picking up stitches, and the Kitchener weave. Students should be an Advanced Beginner, which means they should know how to knit, purl, and do simple increases and decreases. Class is $45 per person plus supplies (220 yards of worsted weight yarn, US Size 6 double point needles, and store pattern. Class is limited to 5 students and registration must be pre-paid.

1. _To register for a class, you must register at the store and pay in advance for your class. Class fees are non-refundable. Registration will begin as soon as the class is announced.
   
2. All yarn used in class projects must be purchased at the Yarn Mart.
3. Please be mindful of class or project skill level. Instructors are unable to teach additional skills in classes.

            a.    Beginner – can cast on, knit, purl, bind off but needs help remembering cast on                 and bind off.
            b.    Advanced beginner – can cast on, knit, purl, bind off plus do simple increases             (yarn over) and decreases (k2tog).
            c.    Intermediate – Advanced beginner plus has knit in the round and/or has                         experimented with different stitch patterns from cabling to lace.
            d.    Advanced Intermediate – Intermediate plus can work through a complex                     pattern (sweater or complex stitch) with little to no assistance.
            e.    Expert ­– has completed a variety of projects including cabling, fair isle, complex             stitch patterns, and could design their own sweater if needed.

Is there something you have been wanting to learn or an idea you have for a class or knit a long? Well let us know about it and you just might see it in an upcoming course listing. And who knows, you might even win a prize for your suggestion!