Oh my, how things grow! Last year, in a moment of madness, I decided I was going to knit a Christmas Santa sack each day throughout advent. Eleven months on I’ve improved and added to them, published them as a pattern collection and now I’m absolutely delighted to tell you that I’m running some Christmas knitting workshops on them at the Woolly Beader in Okehampton.
One of the aspirations I had for the patterns when I put them together as a collection, was that as well as being fun for experienced knitters, that the simplest Santa sack could be used to learn to knit from, and that the collection could be used to build knitting skills. The three workshops I’m running are based around this idea.
Thursday 9th November: Textured Santa Sacks (Suitable for Beginners and Improvers):
Learn to knit, or to improve newly learnt or rusty knitting skills, through knitting a simple textured Santa sack.
Thursday 16th November: Picture Santa Sacks using the Intarsia Technique (Suitable for improvers and more experienced knitters):
Explore the intarsia knitting technique to knit one of the 20 adorable picture Santa sacks.
Thursday 30th November: Colour work Santa Sacks (Suitable for improvers and more experienced knitters):
Learn to knit stranded colour work/ fair isle or to improve your stranded knitting technique through knitting a festive Santa sack. Areas discussed will include tension issues in stranded colour work, knitting in the round, two handed colour work and avoiding the ‘jog’.
If you’re in interested you’ll need to sign up by contacting The Woolly Beader.
And finally, a BIG thank you to all my lovely regular readers who’ve cheered me on with this project since the first mad moment when I decided I was going to knit a Santa sack each day throughout advent last year.
Dartmoor Creative 
Hope it all goes well. Xx
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Thank you! xx
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Woo-hoo! How wonderful and exciting! I’ll bet you make it a funtastic experience!
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Thank you. Will do my best 🙂 xx
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Congratulations! They all look fabulous. I hope it goes well for you.
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Thank you 🙂
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Awesome job, well done! Here’s hoping the teaching goes well 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Hope it goes well, I keep telling fellow knitters about hese!
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Thank you! And thanks for sharing the word about them. Much appreciated 🙂
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Good for you Bekki, I hope all the workshops go well and everyone goes on to make a whole advent-ful set of their own!
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Thank you. That would be lovely, but I’m not sure about everyone making a whole set 🙂
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Best of luck to you and all your participants.
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Thank you. have to get some participants yet!
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Wonderful. All the very best. 🙂
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Thank you! xx
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what fun! Wish I was close enough to join in.
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I wish you were too. We really should live A LOT closer!
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What a wonderful idea 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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