In this course, you'll learn to knit or crochet fingerless mitts, full, fold-over, and thrummed mittens with rare breed wool listed on The Livestock Conservancy's Conservation Priority List.
This course includes
- 5 recorded Facebook Live sessions with Deb Robson (all 45-60 minutes on helpful topics with a Q&A session at the end). Sessions include best breeds to use, needles, yarn gauges, patterns, techniques, and pre-recorded Q & A.
- 32 beginners-intermediate knit and crochet patterns
- 2 files including Breed Selection for Mittens and Gap Control for Thumbs
Thank you for supporting the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em Initiative and those who raise rare breed sheep and make products from their fiber! Your support helps save heritage breed sheep from extinction.
Learn more about the Shave 'Em to Save 'Em Initiative at RareWool.org
Your Instructor
Deborah Robson is a fiber generalist who specializes in spinning, knitting, and weaving, although she experiments with all aspects of textiles. She is the fiber author of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook and of The Field Guide to Fleece, in collaboration with livestock expert Carol Ekarius. For fourteen years she served as an editor at Interweave Press, including twelve years as editor-in-chief of Spin-Off: The Magazine for Hand Spinners.
At Interweave she initiated the Save the Sheep project and the book Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools. She also edited Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, has worked in trade, literary, and scholarly publishing, and has written for many publications, including Piece Work, Interweave Knits, Spin-Off, and The Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, as well as several fiber-related anthologies. Her textile designs have appeared in several magazines and collections.
She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and of the Colorado Authors’ League, and served two terms on the board of directors of The Livestock Conservancy (then the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy).
Her current research focuses on the millennia of alliances between fiber animals and humans, in one project using Shetland sheep as an example of how the relationships have evolved, and she is publishing monographs on fiber-related topics. Her website is independentstitch.com.
Course Curriculum
-
StartWelcome! We're glad you're here! (2:00)
-
StartBest Breeds for Making Mittens Video (10:18)
-
StartNeedles, Yarn Gauges, and Patterns Video (53:27)
-
StartFabric Structures: Plain, Rib, Lace, Colorwork Video (62:52)
-
StartTop Down and Bottom Up Techniques Video (45:49)
-
StartAsk Me Anything About Mittens: Question and Answer Video (64:43)
-
StartThank you!