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Leather Mittens

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CREATIVE DESIGN SCHOOL

Lessons available three ways:

1. Get a one-year subscription (6 issues) for $29.99 (less than $5 per lesson)
2. Order only the lessons you want for $6.50 per lesson (postage free in US).
3. Get a teacher's pack to use in your knitting classroom.

Want to learn new knitting techniques such as one-row buttonholes, and designing original cables using graph paper, or could you use some help with foolproof finishing techniques?

Subscribe now to receive a new Creative Design School knitting lesson every two months mailed right to your home and receive a FREE copy of The Knitter's Diary, a $7.50 value.

Each lesson gives you step-by-step instructions along with clear easy-to-follow illustrations describing everything in details. Plus, each lesson also includes a pattern designed for you to use in your "homework" assignment, a great way to practice what you have just learned.

Lessons are four pages long, printed in two colors on quality paper, and three-hole punched to make it easy for you to store them neatly in one binder.

VIEW SAMPLE PAGE (need Acrobat viewer) The lesson goes on from there for three more pages to instruct on how to create more advanced cables, and includes a pattern where a portion of the project requires the student to design and insert their original cable pattern.

Here are some lessons to be included in the coming months (not in specific order):

• Charting cables
• Sock heel and toes techniques
  
• Charting lace
  
• Where to look for and find design inspiration
  
• Estimating yarn quantities, and more
  
• All about fibers, what they are, best uses, how to care for them
  
• How to take accurate body measurements and standard size charts
  
• Design sleeves in all shapes and fit
  
• Edges and trims: endless possibilities
  
• All about pockets
  
• Ins and outs of colorwork
• Decreases
  
• Increases
  
• Learn to color rib
  
• And much, much more!

If you've been frustrated by not being able to attend faraway conventions, or by not having a local yarn shop that offers classes, this is an affordable and easy solution!

A one-year subscription (6 lessons), plus FREE copy of The Knitter's Diary, is available for $29.99 (that's less than $5 per lesson AND includes a pattern). You can subscribe online using a credit card, Paypal, by mail using a check (no mail order credit card order can be taken at this time).

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LESSONS

NOW AVAILABLE! Buy only the lessons you want!

• Draw a basic cable step-by-step and understand the technique of using symbols on graph paper to create unique cables.
• Analyze a more complex cable, following row by row written instructions and matching to the graphed version.
• Follow the exercise for the lesson by experimenting with your own charting of various cables.
• Put your design to practice by incorporating it in the Easy Shoulder Bag project pattern included.
• Get three more complex charted cables to dissect and learn from, and use in your next projects.
• Learn about Aran knit history and basics, plus other useful information about cables.

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TEACHER'S PACK NEW!

As a shop owner, prodiving classes to your customer is a way to increase traffic in your shop and build some excitement about knitting. Creating lesson plans and handouts is time consuming and often tedious. Using Teacher's Packs is a timesaving and affordable solution.

Teacher's Packs provides you with:

• 10 copies of each lesson for you to distribute to your students. Each 4-page lesson (as described previously) is ready to distribute to your students. Priced at $25 per pack, you can pass your cost, plus your markup, on to your students.
• A useful materials and teaching aid list to help you and your students best prepare for the lesson.
• The lessons are printed in black with illustrations in light blue ink making them unsuitable for photocopying.

About your teacher

Hélène Rush has been a knitwear designer for almost 20 years. She has authored several books published by Down East Books and Interweave Press, including an all-time favorite for many knitters, "Maine Woods Woolies." She is a former editor of McCall's Needlework and Crafts magazine, and of The Knitting Gazette, and has contributed thousands of designs to publications such as Knitters, Interweave Knits, Better Homes and Gardens, Knitting Digest, Knitting World, Knitting Digest, Vogue Knitting, Family Circle Knitting, Knit'n Style, and many more. She has worked as technical editor for the Monsanto Designs for America program, McCall's Needlework magazine, Taunton Press, K1C2 company, Bond America, Down East Books, and others. She is a past featured designer for a TKGA convention. She is also past online editor for a large dot com crafts company.

She is an experienced graphic designer and illustrator.

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