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Beginner Knitting


Adult Enrichment / Art, Games & Hobbies -
Fall 2025

Learn the basics of knitting - a relaxing, fun, and portable craft. Leave with a stitch sampler scarf!

Students will need 400-450 yards of a good quality smooth worsted weight yarn and a set of #8 straight bamboo, or wood knitting needles.

The Stitching Coach - Dawn M. Zillich

Instructor

High school librarian by day, crafter for life. Dawn, The Stitching Coach, is an award winning embroider, quilter and knitter. An avid stitcher since 1983, she became a paid instructor in 2014 when a librarian asked her to teach a class. She advises a high school sewing club, volunteers with the Simsbury Chapter of Days for Girls. She is a TKGA, Studio 180 (quilt) Design and BurdaStyle Certified Teacher. She is passionate about all needle arts and ready to pass that along to all generations and skill levels.

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  The Stitching Coach - Dawn M. Zillich


Farmington Community & Senior Center : Lounge
Tuesdays, Oct 21 - Nov 18
6:00 - 8:00 PM

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Min Age   16 yr.