Marjorie McDonald is to be our Passap person. She is a knitwear designer who
designs and knits by hand and machine. Her garments are unique and fit ...
Info about our demonstrators and vendors Specific class info will be posted later Specific vendors will be posted later Mary Anne Oger, who has demonstrated at many seminars, written patterns, and published Knitwords for years, can be found at http://knitwords.com/home.html this provides the links to Mary Anne's blog and to her listing of what's new with her. Ileen Levy has been teaching machine knitting for many years and is familiar with both brother and Silver Reed machines. She developed a garment designing program called Design-a-Pattern, or DAP.. Ileen Levy's info can be found at www.ileen.com Marjorie McDonald is to be our Passap person. She is a knitwear designer who designs and knits by hand and machine. Her garments are unique and fit beautifully. She designs for girls and ladies from regular to plus size. Marjorie McDonald's info can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8weKjUGtM&feature=related or just go to youbtube.com and search for How To Get Passap Knitting Tutorials by Marjorie McDonald Her website is www.knittingtofit.com Marjorie said she is going to demonstrate cast ons and cast offs on the Passap. Her classes will also include using the same stitch design with different knitting techniques such as tuck, or slip stitch, or pintuck. I told her that some of us (many of us) are beginners on the Passap and need to see the basic things done. She has also promised to bring sample garments to show us how to use these various fabrics. Cathie and Frank Sanders own Northtipton in Tennessee. They have been involved in machine knitting for about 20 years. Cathie prefers to demonstrate on the brother machine. She has written many patterns and published both pattern books and cd's. There are even free patterns on their website. Frank is the one who is mechanically inclined. He repairs knitting machines and garter carriages. If you need a machine worked on, you can make an appointment with Frank before the seminar so that he can bring his equipment and schedule time to work on the machine at the seminar. He is called “Dr. Frank” so you must make a “doctor's appointment.” He has also written at least one book on machine maintainanace. Cathie will be showing Design-a-Knit , also called DAK, at the seminar. She has written some cd's explaining how to use DAK. Their website is www.northtipton.com All of the demonstrators will try to show some things for beginners and other skills or inspirations for the more experienced knitters. We believe our classes will be small enough so the attendees can ask questions of the instructors and get the answers right there in class. We are fairly informal, not tied to our seats, and our classes are only 1 hour long. We will have 30 minute breaks between classes to visit, ask others knitting questions, visit the restroom (can you tell I am a former elementary school teacher??), or shop the patterns, etc. brought by the demonstrators and the vendors.
I am sure all of our demonstrators will be bringing sample garments and various patterns/books/cd's to sell. We will also have vendors to sell us sponge bars and various machine knitting items, maybe even including yarn. We are still contacting people about this.
