Baby, You've Got Class(es)

Thing One: For my intrepid Stranded With Mary adventurers, I have an update: The first of our five sessions for the second group starts on May 23! The deadline for ordering your yarn kit for the exclusive Victoriana sweater (offered in FOUR colorways!) is May 15. If you’d like to join us for some serious concierge knitting, do keep that in mind. The yarns for your kits are being custom-dyed just for you, so there’s a bit of lead time required for our yarn artist. I can’t wait to share this workshop with you - I learned so much from the first group and I think I can say with confidence that you’ll be wowed by the experience. The information I’m sharing will serve you in all your other steeked colowork endeavors, going forward. To register, click HERE.

Victoriana in the “Winter” colorway

Victoriana “Spring” palette

Victoriana “Summer” palette

Victoriana “Autumn” Palette

Thing 2: Also happening on May 15 is my fun and famous Selbuvotter class, hosted by For Yarns Sake, where we explore the tradition and mysteries of traditional Norwegian mittens. In addition to the class, you’ll also receive a kit containing my Nordica pattern and the authentic Norwegian yarn preferred for these very special mittens. Come and join us for all the mitten-ey goodness! Register HERE

The unique construction of Selbuvotter is both elegant and delightfully comfortable.

Thing 3: On May 16, I’ll be teaching the inaugural session of my newest class, “Feeling Edgy”! This is a unique offering for me, because it’s entirely technique-based. You’ll be watching my hands and knitting along with me as I demonstrate three different edging techniques you might not have tried before: The Knitted Hem, Latvian Braid, and most exciting, a technique I’ve never seen taught anywhere else: The Two-Sided Pickup for Bands. There’s a teesy bit of easy homework for this one, so don’t dilly-dally if you’re planning to join in. I can’t wait to see which of you join me for this maiden voyage! Register HERE

One of about a million ways to use knitted hems

Latvian Braid is a showstopper, wherever it goes.

Need to bind a cut steek edge, then continue knitting away from it (collars, hoods, plackets)…? This is one BOSS trick!

Being with you online, Gentle Readers, is the balm for my soul. At a time when we need each other’s company more than ever, technology has come through for us. Come and join in the fun, won’t you?

Stranded With Mary

“Victoriana” by Mary Scott Huff, a Bazaar Girls exclusive design

Did you know, Gentle Readers, that I offer an intensive workshop called “Stranded With Mary”? Probably not. That’s for a very good reason. You didn’t know about it because up until this year, it’s only been a suitable offering for a very few select venues. The time, space, electricity and everything else required to hold in-person knitting classes is difficult enough to manage for a simple three-hour class. This one is TWENTY hours.

That’s right: Twenty Hours. Now, before you run screaming from the blog (as if that were the scariest thing I’ve ever told you here), let me explain how my pivot from teaching in person to teaching online is allowing me to offer my most in-depth class offering to more of you than ever before…

Stranded With Mary is the only experience of its kind that I know of, and I created it especially for thrill-seeking knitters like me. This is the class I would have signed up for in a heartbeat, had it existed when I needed it. It’s a tour-de-force of stranded colorwork immersion. I guide a limited number of students through the entire process of creating their very own masterpiece, from soup to nuts. I intentionally limit the class size in order to provide more personal attention to each student. There are five different sessions, separated by about a month each. We meet for class, I share what I know, and we learn from each other. Then we set some goals, part ways, and return to our knitting in order to work toward the next session. In the interim, I’m available to students for questions in a dedicated Ravelry group, for as close as I can get to round-the-clock support. Not only am I the dedicated personal coach for the entire time, my students have access to each other in the Ravelry group, which is where even more magic happens. Just as in class, when one student has a question, it’s likely that others do, too, and that’s how I get to take a deep dive with them all. Now, more than ever, we knitters are starved for community. Fortunately, we’ve known for a while how to find each other online, and that skill is serving us well in uncertain times.

Last March, when I taught personally for the Bazaar Girls Yarn Shop in Port Townsend, WA, I recognized the knitting community there as just the sort who might like to get Stranded With Mary. We hatched a cunning plan involving an exclusive design, some very special yarn, and all manner of excitement mounted.

When we realized that in-person classes were not going to be in the cards, the Bazaar Girls and I put on our handknit thinking caps and sorted out a way to make it happen anyway. Which brings us to today, Gentle Readers, when I am pleased to announce that the exclusive nature of my workshop is no longer subject to the constraints of physical teaching.

While the Port Townsend gang has mostly taken up the limited number of spaces in the upcoming workshop, I’m happy to report that three available slots remain.

Before I give you the rest of the details, I’m going to tell you my favorite part of these shenanigans: Students will be working with the Victoriana design, which will only be available to participants. It is without a doubt my most ambitious project as a designer, not because it’s more technically difficult (don’t worry; it isn’t), but because the students will choose from kits which I have designed in not one, but FOUR colorways:

Included in each package are a custom-sized yarn kit in the color of your choice, the Victoriana pattern, and an exclusive class workbook which contains information not published anywhere else in my work. Due to the limited class size, I’m able to work with each student to personalize all of the sizing and design elements. Prefer a different neckline? Easy. Want short, long, or no sleeves? No problem. Have your own ideas about closures, edge treatments and other finishing elements? Bring ‘em. My goal is for every participant complete the experience with exactly the version of my design that they want, with help at each point in their decision-making and execution. This is my idea of Concierge Teaching, Gentle Readers.

But why, you may ask, would I go to all the trouble of posting such dreamy stuff about a super-fabulous knitting event if only three spaces remain? That’s not even nice, Mary Scott Huff! Nope, it’s downright unfair, which is why I’m happy to tell you that I’ve convinced the Bazaar Girls to create a waitlist for A SECOND WORKSHOP SESSION. Yep. I hear and obey, Gentle Readers. Just one more service I provide.

CLICK HERE for all the details. I can’t wait to share this with you!