CLASS: Ladderback Jacquard Hat with guest Cori Eichelberger SATURDAY 11/14/26

Ladderback Jacquard Hat with guest Cori Eichelberger of @irocknits

Instructor: Cori Eichelberger

Cost: $40 plus Materials (includes $8 pattern)

Dates: Saturday, November 14, 1:30-3:30pm

Level: Intermediate. Prior to this class, you need to be able to cast on, knit, purl, bind off, knit in the round, decrease, read a pattern, and have at least some prior experience with two color stranded knitting. This class is for participants age 16+.

*NOTE: This class will require some prework - you will need to cast on and knit the brim and first several rows of the hat prior to class. We will jump right into the ladderback jacquard technique at the start of class.

Skills: You will learn how to read a chart for LBJ, set up ladders for carrying long floats, resolve a ladder, and place ladders in future patterns. You will not finish this project in class.

Pattern: Little Bright Jasmines (LBJ) Hat and Cowl by Cori Eichelberger - $8.00 (included in class fee). This is a brand new pattern that has not been released yet! We will add it to your Ravelry library as soon as Cori makes it available. Please bring a printed copy of the pattern to class.

Materials: 10% off with class purchase. Please purchase class yarn at Rose Yarn Co.

• Yarn: 2 skeins of Light Worsted or Heavy DK
  One skein Main Color: Light
  One skein Contrast Color: Dark or Bright
  A few suggestions:
  - Malabrigo Rios or Seis Cabos
  - Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok
  - Cascade 220 SW Merino or MeriKash
  - Knitting for Olive Heavy Merino
  - Berroco Ultra Alpaca
  - Palmer Nylon DK
  
• Needles: US 7 (4.5mm) 16" circular AND longer circular or DPNs for decreases at top 
  
• Ring Stitch Markers
• Notebook and pen/pencil

About the Instructor: Cori Eichelberger is a former high school English teacher for at-risk students, who she also taught to knit. She has over 20 years’ experience teaching beginning knitting and technique classes and her workshops are popular at yarn shops and retreats throughout the United States.

She co-authored the book Minnesota 52: 16 Knits Inspired by the Road in 2017. And in the Fall of 2020, published Knitwords: 8 Patterns and 10 Musings that Celebrate the Knitter.

Cori produces a bi-weekly YouTube podcast – “Irocknits” – where she inspires knitters to make beautiful sweaters and shawls while providing Tips and Tricks and a touch of humor.