Want to learn more about machine knitting? No experience necessary! Learn the basics from Susan Fowler and Karen Brinker and MACHINE KNIT A HAT! Plus lunch & other goodies!! Join us at the Treasure Goddess Barn Studio for a day of FUN!
Saturday, June 28, 2025 8:30am-2:00pm Central Time at Treasure Goddess Barn Studio just outside Spring Hill, KS (address sent once purchased)
No machine knitting experience needed! These two experts will lead our group through an overview lecture, show examples of what you can create with knitting machines and provide details of what machines are recommended for beginners, moderates, etc. Then we will each KNIT A HAT on a machine with the help of our experts! (I'm SO SO SO excited about this!)
Machine Knitting 101 Workshop Includes:
Meet the teachers! Susan and Karen share a mission to create and feed passion in others for hand and machine knitting. Hopefully their classes will pass along some encouragement and motivation to you!
Susan Fowler has been a machine knitter since 1996. She tried hand knitting but decided there had to be a faster way. Being an industrial engineer, she searched for a machine and purchased her first machine in Aurora, CO. She has been an instructor at the KnitCraft machine knitting seminars in Kansas City and has published patterns. She especially likes machine knitting because there seems to be no end to the different looks one can create. Susan spends every free minute concocting or knitting the next project. Susan uses her machines to knit almost everything. But she mostly knits socks, blankets, slippers, and sweaters of her own design. She recently retired from Hallmark Cards and now spends half of her time in Tucson, AZ where her son lives, and the other half in Kansas City where her daughter lives.
Karen Brinker learned to hand knit from her 2nd grade teacher and has been hand knitting ever since. She became interested in machine knitting in 2003 when she got her first machine. Even though she also worked for Hallmark Cards as a technology strategist at the same time Susan worked there, she didn’t meet Susan until they were at the same machine knitting seminar. She uses her machines to make hats for a homeless charity as well as garments and blankets for her family. She is retired and lives in the Kansas City area where her 2 sons and 4 grandchildren are close by.
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