Phew! The mortgage article is 99% done! Yes, it took another 3 am nite to do it, but I am excited about sharing it with ya'll. Just need to sleep on it and maybe tweak the ending a bit.
HOWEVER...
This top-heavy (read: 27 1/2 wks pregnant) mom of 2 active little boys has been tapped to do a knitting class for the parish American Heritage Girls group. I knew I should have kept my mouth shut about my husband's sweater!
I've never taught a class before. I have some ideas, but if anyone has done this or knows of a quickie online resource for teaching tips, I'm all ears! I don't know how old the girls are...I was asked to just teach them to make something simple, like a scarf.
Thanks!
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i don't have any resources, but just wanted to encourage you in this -- a great skill to teach young ladies and something they may not embrace right away, but later on in life.
cool :)
you can also have good chats while you knit!
i recommend any scarf pattern with simple knit & purl stitches, big bulky needles and their progress will appear in no time, which encourages many a knitter, young and old...
good luck and keep us posted - this may be something i take to my parish because we don't do enough with the young teens. you have me thinking, here :)
I'm looking on the internet for something you can print out, but I haven't found anything great, yet. What cast on do you plan to use?
http://www.learntoknit.com/instructions_kn.php3
The above site has some good pictures, but it uses the knitted cast on, which is definately not one of my favorites. (I use the long tail.)
When are you teaching the class? I've got an old "learn to knit" book with great pictures that I've copied and used to teach people. If it's not for a week or so, I could run you a copy and mail it to you (if you're comfortable with that).
ETA; I have to argue with m2 and advise against big needles and bulky yarn. Even now, after knitting many years, I still hate knitting with those. I'd reccommend worsted weight yarn and size 8 needles.
Amanda
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Yes, please don't start arguing ladies! LOL. I've since been told that there are up to 19 girls (!) in the group, more than half in first grade, and we have an hour to do this. Yikes...
However, I will have 3 unit leaders to help and I'm thinking about having the younger group do the knit-a-rope-on-your-hand thing since I don't think they could even hold the needles very well, and the object is to have fun and produce something useful.
The biggers can learn the knit stitch...but I was going to skip teaching them the cast-on. There are so many types, and it can be so confusing to learn that I'm afraid it would discourage them and take too much time when what I really want them to be able to do is to learn the knit stitch and then just go to town. I will be picking out the supplies, and I could just do the cast on part myself before I even get there. Once they know how to knit, something like the knitted cast-on wouldn't faze them at all.
Then once they've produced a square or rectangle of any size, they can sew it up into a hat, hood, purse, pillow, or bag--or even continue on to make it a scarf. I'm going to buy some fun yarn at Wal-Mart and the lady in charge says she wants the kids to be able to take everything home, so they'll reimburse me on supplies.
Amanda...I'm touched. I might even have that book. I agree smaller needles for smaller hands. With bigger gals, tho, it would be fun to use the bulkier stuff. However...it's more expensive...~m2~ what a great idea. I have no experience teaching, so don't consider that an impediment to you doing the same thing.
Go to HappyCatholic. She is a knitter and on her sidbar info on knitters
I taught many from our homeschool group to knit. I used worsted cotton yarn and size 7 or 8 needles (no bigger than 14 inches long.)
I had them make a simple garter stitch dishcloth. It is a small and useful project and if they made a mistake, well, it is just a dishcloth!
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