2025 Week 4 - Knitting, Circles. and Stories Adult (19+)
With Dr. Sylvia Olsen
August 11 - 16, 2025
What do knitting, circles and stories have in common? They are antidotes to busyness, chaos and the unsettled feelings we struggle to calm. They are a renewed and radical approach to finding peace. Sylvia Olsen will lead a course in knitting a mandala that will become a beautiful art piece to hang or a table centerpiece. The course will include instructions on several knitting techniques including pinhole cast on, no-strand colour work, three-stitch cast-off and an amended version of making a pi circle. We will take time to tell and time to listen to each other’s stories and as a group we will discuss the meaning and importance of circles, of pulling together and coming together, in our lives.
About the Leader
Dr. Sylvia Olsen
Dr. Sylvia Olsen is a historian, storyteller, award-winning author, knitter, knitting designer, housing specialist, teacher… She has been privileged to live long enough to have a very long bio. These days she still dabbles in all her past adventures as well as running the Saturna Lodge on beautiful Saturna Island with her husband, Tex, their […]
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