Knitting Classes

Sign up for real-life knitting classes with Amanda Schwabe in Ottawa and Kemptville, Ontario, Canada! Learn new techniques, get knitting help, and take your knitting to the next level. Enjoy knitting in a friendly group setting.

Experience

Amanda has been teaching multiple weekly knitting classes since 2014 and publishing knitting patterns and tutorials since 2007. She has also taught retreat workshops and even a birthday party!

Expertise

• fixing mistakes, even in advanced techniques like brioche and lace knitting
• modifying patterns
• sewing things up
• creating your own designs
• cast on methods & which to use when
• bind off methods & choosing the right one
• brioche knitting
• reversible slip-stitch knitting (developed by me and used in my Inverse Reverse shawl patterns)
• mosaic knitting
• stranded knitting methods: two-handed, Fair Isle, and ladderback jacquard, etc.
• double knitting
• cables and travelling stitches
• garment, sock, shawl, and accessory architecture
• lace knitting
• sock knitting, including all the heels and toes imaginable, in every direction
• gloves and mittens
• entrelac
• English & continental knitting, levered knitting, knitting back, Norwegian purl, Eastern knitting

Looking for a knitting teacher for an event or workshop? Contact me to request a menu of courses available.

Sign up for a class today!