Welcome Mary Jane Mucklestone!

Meet Mary Jane

Mary Jane Mucklestone is a knitwear designer, teacher, and author of five books, specializing in colorwork knitting. Her newest book Fair Isle Weekend (Laine Publishing), was released in October 2020. Most recently she is an editor at Vogue Knitting Magazine now helmed by Norah Gaughan.

Mary Jane feels lucky to be invited to teach all over the world, eager to share her knitting knowledge. She aims to give students the courage to try something new! She loves the intersection where history, craft, fashion, and location meet. Visit Mary's website at MaryJaneMucklestone.com.

Friday Classes: Mary's two part Fresh Fair Isle Class (making wristlets)

Saturday Class: Fair Isle Sock (making a tiny sock)

Photo by Greta Rybus

Join us April 7-10, 2022

Come experience the glorious New Hampshire mountains at the Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield NH. This beautiful, historic property has a working farm on the premises. There will be plenty of time to visit the sheep, alpacas and the other sweet animals.

Mary Jane will be teaching Fresh Fair Isle ( a six hour two part class on Friday) and a Fair Isle Socks class Saturday morning. As you may know, Mary Jane is knitwear designer, specializing in Fair Isle knitting, also called stranded knitting. She travels around the world connecting with the amazing and diverse fiber community by teaching handknitting classes.

Cost of the Retreat--$1025 (hotel accommodations are not included and booked separately with our room block at a special price, please book by calling 855.837.2100 )

Included:

All meals and planned activities (activities TBD)

All Knitting classes (some supplies required, the typical knitting notions etc)

Morning Yoga each morning

An amazing swag bag (we have wonderful swag!)

Learning, laughing, new friends and community

Registration is open! Stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter for updates!

Mountain View Grand Farm

Classes

Fresh Fair Isle

Fresh Fair Isle - 6 hours
Liven up your Fair Isle knitting by exploring fresh new colorways. Color is the big fun – yet a big fear for many. This course will introduce the basics of color theory and how you can use its principals to guide your color choices. We will learn about the use of color over the years in traditional Fair Isle Knitting, and move beyond, developing our own new color schemes. Knitting a simple stranded wristlet will quickly illustrate these concepts. A classroom situation is the best possible learning experience, we will learn as much studying the color choices of our classmates as from our own selections. An exciting day of color experiments await you!
Prerequisites/Experience: Knitters should be comfortable with knitting in the round on double pointed needles, some colorwork experience essential.

Fair Isle Socks

Fair Isle Socks - 3 hours
So you’ve knit a pair of socks or two and you’ve done some stranded colorwork. How about having a bit more fun and combine the two? You’ll start work on a pair of fair isle socks, stranding while picking up tips and techniques. We’ll learn to read charts, make a simple heel that makes fair isle work easy and uninterrupted, learn what to do with those pesky ends, explore methods of choosing and combining colors, we’ll even do a bit of design.Follow the pattern Mary Jane provides or plunge in and design your own custom pair. Come ready for colorful fun and adventure.
Prerequisites/Experience: Knitters should be comfortable with knitting in the round on double pointed and circular needles, some colorwork experience essential.

Treat yourself to the best time of the year. Your time.

Welcome Mary Jane Mucklestone!

Meet Mary Jane

Join us April 7-10, 2022

Classes

Fresh Fair Isle

Fair Isle Socks

Photo Gallery

Treat yourself to the best time of the year. Your time.

Welcome Mary Jane Mucklestone!

Meet Mary Jane

Join us April 7-10, 2022

Classes

Fresh Fair Isle

Fair Isle Socks

Photo Gallery

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