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supplement your knitting with sailing instructions, Captain Walker invites guests to take their
hand at the helm, raise and lower the sail, swab decks, or peel carrots.
THE KNITTY GRITTY
Here are a couple other knitting retreats worth mentioning:
Princess Cruises.
Stitch Diva Studios, described as offering “knitting and crochet
patterns for hipsters,” has teamed with Princess Cruises to such exotic crochet and
knitting cruises as “Knit and Stitch through the Glaciers” aboard the
Dawn Princess
in September and “Pirates of the Caribbean” on the
Sun Princess
in April. Both fea-
ture 24 hours of knitting classes, knitting events, and trunk shows by the instruct-
ors. The ten-day cruises range from $1,130 to $2,245, and the knitting classes add
$300. The cruises can be booked through Princess's website, www.princess.com, or
through local travel agencies.
Rip Van Winkle Knitting Retreats.
Countrywool, a retail outlet in Hudson, New
York, sponsors weekend knitting retreats in the Catskill Mountains several times
a year. Claudia Krisniski, owner of Countrywool, teaches everything from how to
make a Nordic sweater to how to shear an angora bunny. The retreats are $150. The
Catskill retreats are hosted by the Winter Clove Inn, which offer three meals a day
with your room rental. In late March, Countrywool also presents a knitting work-
shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the Cape Ann Motor Inn ($200, meals not in-
cluded), and it will also customize a spinning class for guilds and groups of up to 30
guests for $2,000 at the Winter Clove.
Countrywool, 59 Spring Road, Hudson, NY
12534, 518-828-4554, www.countrywool.com.
