Laura Ricketts
Rochester, IN
Laura loves to play with color and design, and the knitting of the Sámi peoples in northern Scandinavia fits that bill while exciting her historically and culturally. She knits, crochets, spins and quilts. Lately, she has lectured and taught at Finnfest, Vesterheim Norwegian-American museum, ASI, and the Nordic Knitting Conference in Seattle. In between writing articles and patterns, she chases her three school-age kids, shuttles them about town, and tries to attend all their events.
Current Courses Offered by Laura Ricketts
1 Day
The Red and the Black: Swedish Sami Mittens by Skaite-Maria
Instructors:
Laura Ricketts
Skaite-Maria was a Sami lady in northern Sweden who created her own, easily recognizable knitting about a hundred years ago. In this class, we will be recreating a historically accurate, Swedish Sami knitted mitten based on the instructor's article in PieceWork magazine, written together with Erika Nordvall-Falck. Together we will…
Mon, Feb 17th, 2020
9am-5pm
9am-5pm
Instructor:
Laura Ricketts
0.5 Days
Twined Knitting Intro: Let's Get Twisted
Instructors:
Laura Ricketts
Dive into the special Swedish knitting technique of tvåändstickning, also called twined knitting or two-ended knitting. With this technique, the knitter works with two strands of yarn at the same time, traditionally from both ends of the same ball of yarn, twisting them between every stitch. While this type of…
Sat, Feb 15th, 2020
9am-noon
9am-noon
Instructor:
Laura Ricketts
0.5 Days
Twined Knitting, Advanced: Squared Off
Instructors:
Laura Ricketts
Twined knitting, also known as the Swedish specialty knitting technique tvåändstickning, produces a lovely, dense, flexible cloth. After a knitter is comfortable with the basics of twined knitting, join Laura in this class for a few concentrated hours of experimenting with two of twined knitting’s specialty stitches – Crook stitch,…
Sat, Feb 15th, 2020
1pm-4pm
1pm-4pm
Instructor:
Laura Ricketts
1 Day
Winter Winds Hat
Instructors:
Laura Ricketts
The Winter Winds Hat is a clever little sampler that allows an individual to experiment with what could be an intimidating technique in an unintimidating format: tvåändstickning, also called twined knitting or two-ended knitting. With this Swedish technique the knitter works with two strands of yarn at the same time,…
Sun, Feb 16th, 2020
9am-5pm
9am-5pm
Instructor:
Laura Ricketts
Past Courses Offered by Laura Ricketts
Advanced Sámi Knitting Techniques
Karesuando Mittens: Swedish Sámi Mittens from the Far North
Quilting the North Woods: A Seasonal Block of the Month Quilt
Sámi Knitting Techniques
Sámi Knitting Traditions- Skolt Sámi Sampler
Sami Knitting Traditions: Kautokeino Child's Mittens
Sami Knitting Traditions: Skolt Mittens
Skolt Sami Inspired Hat
