6-Part Workshop

Date: Thursdays, November 6 -December 18, 2025 (note, no class on Thursday November 27)

Time: 6pm-9pm

Description: Expand your knitting skills and go dimensional with socks!!!!

Sock knitting is a wonderfully portable craft that you can carry with you amidst travel, daily commutes, time in waiting rooms, meetings, sporting events, etc etc !

In this series, students will learn basic skills of knitting socks, from project planning through finishing! Sam will guide students through a full process of taking measurements, knitting a cuff, determining an ankle length, turning a heel, knitting the foot and shaping the toe. Yes, you will create a bespoke sock just for you!

Knitting socks can provide some welcomed challenge, and Sam is wonderfully calm guide for the task. If you know how to cast on and make a knit stitch and a purl stitch, you can knit socks!!! Sam explains that socks can be simple; it is just a way of using your skills in a planned way!

If you know how to cast-on, knit, and purl, and have completed a couple beginner level projects, you are ready for socks. It is especially helpful if you have tried “knitting in the round” before.

If you are not sure if you are a “sock ready” knitter, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Jamie, Fibers Program Manager; they will be happy to talk with you about the experience of knitting socks with Sam! (Jamie just completed knitting their very first pair of socks under Sam’s guidance!) Jamie’s email address is jboyle@contemporarycraft.org

Tuition: $270 + $25 materials

Materials: Tools and Materials will be provided!

Note: We really want you to join us in the studio! Full and partial tuition scholarships are available to offset some of the financial burden of attending a class.

Please fill out the application here! You can expect to hear from someone on the CC staff within 2 weeks.

If you have any questions, email Jamie Boyle, Fibers Program Manager, at jboyle@contemporarycraft.org, or leave a voice message for them at 412-465-1639.

Location: Contemporary Craft, TImmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201). Note, this workshop will take place in the Fleischner Family Fibers Loft, which is on the second floor of the building.

There are 2 entrances to the Timmons Studios.

• One entrance is facing Butler Street. To access the Fibers Loft from the Butler Street facing entrance, there are a total of 32 stairs to ascend.

• One entrance is facing 57th Street. This entrance is accessible by ramp, with no stairs to ascend. There is a lift inside the building to access the second floor.

We strive to create a welcoming experience. If there are accessibility accommodations we can provide, or if there is anything you would like us to know before you arrive, please leave a message for Jamie Boyle at 412-465-1639 or by email jboyle@contemporarycraft.org.

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded through Eventbrite, or you may leave your workshop fee in your Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

About the artist

sam adioetomo (she/they) is a knitter, spinner, dyer, and weaver who grew up surrounded by crafters. her grandmother taught her to knit at age seven, and her mother is a sewist, quilter, singer, and stained-glass artist. her grandfather was a stained-glass artist and musician. sam learned to make yarn on a drop spindle in 2003 at a local yarn shop in bloomington, indiana, where she attended university. then, during the pandemic, she purchased a spinning wheel and picked up spinning techniques from jillian eve’s extensive online resources. with an ever-growing stash of handspun, sam taught herself to weave on a rigid heddle loom and then learned to weave on a floor loom from jamie boyle. in her professional life, sam works as a writer and spent most of her career in indonesia before moving to pittsburgh in 2021. now, she lives in edgewood with her husband, three cats from java, and a tiny little dog.