Bohemian Bluestocking

I got a great little teaching gig going right now. It's pretty exciting.....at the local art school in the Berkshires -- IS 183 -- and of course I am teaching knitting. I am just finishing up a 3 session learn to knit class, and will start, if I have enough participants, a 2-month long nordic knitting class. The learn to knit class will run again in January, and then I added a Hats, Mittens & Socks class for February & March. They also want to run a one-day intensive Learn to Knit in January just before the Hats....et al class starts to get a leg up for that class.

The classes have been great. I'd say most already know how to knit, but no-one ever taught them how to cast on, or bind off, or purl. It was all a matter of "oh let me do that for you....." by someone mother or aunt or friend. Many of these women (and it's all women...) do like their hands held.

In the end, the pay is good (they'll even pay me for  my prep time before and after class), it's a great way to increase the knitting universe, and maybe I'll sell a little knitting in the process.