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2020 is almost over, and I’ve settled into the virtual workshop space where I should have been comfortably situated months ago. I’ve reworked many of my workshops and will be able to offer more of them in the 2-hour windows used by the big virtual shows like Stitches and Vogue. But I’m continuing to run my standalone workshops as well, under the BuildingBlox<\/a> name again. Because I don’t need to share the fees with anyone else, I can afford to make these workshops less expensive (although they are pay-what-you-want above a modest minimum), with a smaller number of students and a longer 3-hour format. I also get to choose which workshops I run, so you’ll be more likely to see the advanced workshops in the BuildingBlox format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a quick view of what’s coming up, always check my calendar<\/a>! But if you want to focus specifically on the BuildingBlox workshops, you can visit their page<\/a> — and if you’re looking for the next time I’m teaching a specific workshop, you can visit each workshop page<\/a> for a workshop-specific calendar. Keep reading for a list of the January workshops, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have two exciting workshop-related announcements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. It’s been a long while since I released a new workshop, so if you’ve been waiting for something that’s not quite the same as the others I’ve run before, you’re in luck. I’m offering my new workshop “Marling with Double-knitting” to the Vogue Virtual Knitting Live<\/a> show in January (normally I would release a new workshop to my followers first, but I needed to offer them an alternative to what they really wanted which was my two-pattern workshop).<\/li>
  2. My two-pattern workshop has been the hardest of all my workshops to execute in the virtual space, primarily because it requires a pencil and paper for the worksheet, and in this day and age I cannot guarantee that everyone has access to a printer. So I needed to come up with an online option that would maintain the interactive element that is the key to this workshop. Enter George, a programmer and knitter who offered to write the software that will let me run this workshop again! I wanted to offer this to my folks first to make sure everything is working before I let the big shows jump on it.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Without further ado, here are the workshops I am teaching so far in 2021. All times are in EST\/EDT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n