6-Week Workshop

Date: Thursdays, July 15 -August 19, 2025

Time: 6pm-9pm

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

In this series, students will learn basics of knitting socks. Sam will guide students through the full process of taking measurements, knitting a cuff, determining an ankle length, turning a heel, knitting the foot and shaping the toe. And, the coolest thing is that students will go through the process with Sam twice, as they lead everyone through the process a second time for a second sock!!!

Sam will share the basic skills of sock knitting that you need to measure, design and knit pair after pair!

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!

PS- Community Programs Manager, Margaret Dugger, predicts that if you take this class you will be knitting at least 5 pairs of socks, you will love it so much!

If you would like to learn how to mend your socks, please join Sam for Darn Socks! Workshop on Tuesday August 27 from 6-9PM!!!!!

Tuition: $270 + $20 materials

Materials: Tools and Materials will be provided!

Location: Contemporary Craft, TImmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201). Note, this workshop will take place in the 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.