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Knit a Wrap with Sleeves Weekend
3 days from £535pp
Your Tour Includes
- 2 days tuition with Mandy Cameron, pattern included
- 2 nights full-board accommodation, from dinner on Friday to lunch on Sunday
- Tea/coffee during workshops
- Complimentary Wi-Fi
- Services of an experienced Retreat Manager
Experts
Holiday Overview
There’ll be lots to learn from our expert, Mandy Cameron, as you knit a stylish wrap with sleeves in the relaxing surroundings of Blunsdon House Hotel. Techniques covered include creating texture with stitches, various methods of increasing and decreasing, reading and understanding lace charts, using markers and lifelines, and creating a picot point edging.
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Itinerary
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Skill Level: Easy. You should be able to knit and purl proficiently.
Requirements List: Yarn (type and quantity to be confirmed), 4mm, 5mm and 6mm knitting needles (straight or circular), scissors, stitch markers, yarn sewing needle, notepad and pen.
Check in to your room from 3pm. Get to know your expert, Retreat Manager and fellow crafters over dinner this evening.
Included Meals
- Dinner
Today, we’ll look at reading and understanding lace charts, calculating the number of stitches for the cuffs while maintaining continuity in the lace pattern, choosing an appropriate cast-on for double rib cuffs, and using stitches to create texture.
Included Meals
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
Highlights
- Workshop
Today, we’ll begin working on our lace pattern, using markers and lifelines to help avoid any mishaps. We’ll explore different methods of increasing to create eyelets, as well as how to decrease, slanting left and right to maintain symmetry of pattern. Finally, we’ll look at how to create a picot point edge while keeping the side edges neat, straight, and weighted.
Included Meals
- Breakfast
- Lunch
Highlights
- Workshop
Tour Notes: Although there are no mobility requirements for this tour, please note that you will need to be able to make your own way between our workshop rooms, your bedroom and the restaurant, which could involve walks of up to 5 minutes. If you require full disabled access, please check with us before booking.
Accommodation
You will stay for two nights at the 4-star Blunsdon House Hotel.
Blunsdon House Hotel
Set in 30 acres of beautiful countryside, the 4-star Blunsdon House Hotel is situated in the village of Broad Blunsdon. All the individually decorated bedrooms have flat screen televisions, a safety deposit box, telephone, hairdryer and tea and coffee making facilities. There are two restaurants and three bars to relax and enjoy a drink after a day of exploring or alternatively take a swim in the hotels indoor heated swimming pool (charge applies) or take a walk around the beautiful grounds of the hotel.
Hotel Facilities
- Guest Lounge
- Restaurant
- Indoor Swimming Pool
- Lift
- Disabled Rooms Available
- Ground Floor Rooms on Request
- Gym
- Free Car Parking
Room Facilities
- TV
- Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
- Hairdryer
- Safe Box
- Free Wifi
- Ensuite Facilities
Single Supplement from £80.00
Hotel
Blunsdon House Hotel is located in the village of Broad Blunsdon, approximately 5 miles from Swindon railway station. If you are travelling by car the hotel is a 25 minute drive from junction 15 of the M4 or 40 minutes drive from junction 11a of the M5. Ample car parking on site free of charge. There are also 4 EV Charging points.
