Okay, after sweating it and fretting on it for over a week, I finally got my proposal in to a LYS for workshops to teach. And I’m showing up at the store tomorrow to follow up buy yarn for the baby sweaters I’ll be using in the Finishing workshop (yes, sweaters, plural: one that I’ll complete before the class, and one that I’ll leave in pieces to work on during the class). So I can ask the owner what she thinks. And when I can start.

I’m proposing these workshops: Knitting Lace, Knitting from Charts, Finishing, Fixing Knitting Mistakes, and Cables. Outlined what to discuss in each, what I’ll need to bring, what the participants need to bring, and what they’ll do in the class.

Now that I’ve settled on what I want to do and how, I could, theoretically, start hawking these classes to other LYSs in the area. But I guess I’d like a little feedback from the first LYS before I do that. I’m new at this, never done it before, so I really don’t know what’s appropriate and what’s not, just wingin’ it. Oh, I hemmed and hawed about whether I should be using specific projects to teach all these things or whether swatches will do, whether I should ask the store owner if I could go through the patterns and the yarns she carries to pick out projects, and so on. She didn’t say anything about that when I met with her, so I kinda figured she didn’t want to get involved, that she wanted me to handle it on my own. But I don’t know that for a fact.

Oh, well. I’ll find out tomorrow whether I guessed right or not! Next time I’ll know what to ask right up front. There’s no substitute for experience, and everybody’s a dork the first time they do something, right? Just nod, that’s right, thanks.

The stash yarn I used for the baby sweater I’m designing (see last post) is way too dense, not soft at all. Fine for working out the pattern, but not good for a baby’s skin. So I need something else. Something soft. And washable. However, I still haven’t redone the sleeve, and I need to write up the pattern ASAP. Think I’ll go do that now.

In a minute. Just this one more point. There’s a sweater in my mind’s eye that I’ve been wanting to knit for myself, a cardigan. With the Peruvian Tweed Alpaca, with the Dura-Europos stitch pattern (see this July post). I’m looking forward to being able to start swatching for that. I need a cardigan! Actually, I need several more sweaters, I wore the same two over and over last winter. And see, now that I’m making knitting my career, every sweater I design/make for myself is a potentially marketable pattern! Gotta make myself several sweaters this winter. (Gotta write up some of the ones I’ve already designed and made, too.)

Now, off to the baby sweater.