Explore your own knitting interests in a collaborative process, including investigative techniques, demonstrations, hands-on experiences, and research. Guided by your instructor, students visit the National Museum of the American Indian to see examples of colorful stranded work. Start a project, get help on a project-in-progress, and learn tips to improve your knitting skills, or request a topic you’d like the instructor to address. There is no set curriculum; instead, students themselves decide what techniques they would like to learn about and practice.
Participants must have completed a knitting class for beginners or must have comparable skills, including the ability to cast on, knit, purl, and bind off.
Instructor Ann Richards is a certified knitting teacher through the Craft Yarn Council of America.
8 sessions, 2 hours each
About the Instructor
Ann Richards, M.A., is a Certified Knitting Instructor through the Craft Yarn Council of America, and has taught knitting at the Smithsonian Institution since 2001. Her articles have appeared in Knitty magazine, and she was the editor of The Conscientious Knitter newsletter 2005-2009. Her fiber art has appeared at the Iron Gate Gallery at Touchstone Center for Craft. More..
Smithsonian Connections
The Smithsonian has a number of hand-knitted items in its collections, from all around the world and made from a variety of techniques. An example includes “Poetry Mittens”, found at the Museum of American History.
