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The price for a workshop is £40 per day.

 

This includes morning coffee, a buffet lunch and afternoon tea.

 

Limited spaces available so book well in advance.

 

A 50% deposit is required when booking.

 

10% Discount on purchases on the day of the workshop

 

Call the shop to reserve your place

 

 

The Rowan Consultants

 Sarah Hazell
Sarah is a new member of the Mobile Consultant team who enjoys teaching crafts, knitting and crochet. In addition to the full range of Rowan workshops, Sarah has a variety of subjects to offer including ‘Time for Tea’ which looks at gifts and accessories for the home, ‘Exploring Colour’, ‘Luxury and Lace’ and a very successful series of crochet workshops from beginner, to intermediate and advanced.
                                                        
Emma King
Emma is a published author and is based in Derby. Emma has worked for Rowan for many years and teaches the full range of Rowan workshops. Emma is the author of ‘25 Bags to Knit’, ‘Fun and Funky Knitting’ and ‘25 More bags to Knit’. She teaches workshops that specifically support her books and are project based as well as ‘Knitting with Beads and Sequins’ and ‘Festive Knitting’.
                                                            
Erica Pask
Erica is a mobile Consultant based in Northamptonshire. Erica has been a DC for many years, and now works solely as a mobile consultant. She is available to teach all the normal range of workshops, as well as basic, intermediate and advanced crochet.
                                        
Sharon Tyler
Sharon is based in a store two days a week and on her other days she is happy to teach all subjects. However, her speciality is crochet and is one of the few DC’s happy to teach basic, inter-mediate and advanced techniques in crochet.
                                             

 Learn to Crochet
 
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Saturday 28th June        10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Sharon Tyler
 
This project based workshop teaches the basics of crochet including how to hold hook and yarn, basic stitches, how to change colour and how to work an edging. Participants are given ideas for future projects to help develop their new skills.
 

Learn to Knit 1
 
Saturday 5th July        10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Sharon Tyler
 
An introduction for absolute beginners or a refresher for rusty returnees, covering: casting on, knit and purl stitches, simple increasing and decreasing, casting off, tension, basic pattern reading and commonly used terms.
 
Learn to Knit 2
 
Saturday 19th July                10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Erica Pask
 
Moving on from the basics, this course aims to give you more skills and greater confidence, covering: alternative cast-ons, tension, moss stitch and rib, shaping, making a button hole, picking up and knitting, basic garment assembly, intermediate pattern reading
 
Time for Tea
 
Saturday 16th August        10.30am-4.30pm    
Rowan Consultant Sarah Hazel
 
‘Time for Tea’ looks at gifts and accessories for the home,
 
Knitting with & Exploring Colour
 
Saturday 2nd August        10.30am-4.30pm     
Rowan Consultant Sarah Hazel
 
This workshop will help you to have confidence in working with colour. It will be a project based day that will show you all the techniques needed to have beautiful Fairisle and Intarsia work.
 

Luxury & Lace
 
Saturday 6th September        10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Erica Pask
 
This workshop shows you how to knit lace work and techniques for knitting with luxury yarns 
 
Professional
Finishing
Techniques
 
Saturday 13th September        10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Sarah Hazel           
 
This course is about getting a really polished finish which does justice to the weeks spent knitting the garment. It will cover: starting out right – your tension and using the correct cast-on for the project; shaping techniques; professional button holes and picked-up edges, bands, collars etc; short-row shaping and three-needle cast-off for shoulder seams; blocking and pressing; putting in sleeves; sewing up using mattress and back stitch
 
Get Creative
 
Tuesday 16th September        10.30am-4.30pm 
Rowan Consultant Emma King
 
Get Creative looks at techniques and designs used by Emma King to create her distinct and famous style
 
Learn to
Crochet 2
 
Saturday 4th October        10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Sharon Tyler
 
This workshop is for those who can do basic crochet and want to learn the next steps in combining stitches and colours to create pattern work.
 
Knitting with
Texture
 
Saturday 18th October        10.30am-4.30pm 
Rowan Consultant Sharon Tyler         
 
This workshop is linked to current trends and this season’s magazines and demonstrates how different textures can be combined. Participants will complete a project which focuses on techniques such as cabling and lacework.
 
Can’t find it, then design it
 
Saturday 8th November        10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Erica Pask
 
Always searching for that knitting pattern, quite simple but never there when you want it? Then this workshop is for you, we will show you how to make a simple design from an existing garment and have the confidence to make alterations to existing designs.
 
Festive
Knitting
 
Wednesday 13th November        10.30am-4.30pm
Rowan Consultant Emma King
 
As the title of this title suggest this workshop is all about festive knitting with Emma King                     
 

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