I hope to attend your Friday classes. You and Sandy are the women who encourage me to continue my knitting. If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have learned sock and baby sweater knitting! You are a wonderful teacher and your patience is much appreciated. Thank you!
I have been meaning to get online and thank you for your help the night at the Forestry Center to hear the Yarn Harlot speak. You really straightened me out on doing increases and saved my sanity. Doing the yarn overs and then knitting them off, is such a simple way. It is so nice to learn this early in my sock knitting venture.
I just wanted to let you know how much my friend, Julie and I enjoyed the lacy scarf with beads class yesterday. It was fun even with the beads falling on the floor. I am planning to give this as a Christmas gift to my niece. It’s a good thing I am starting now. Right now I am slow but hoping that I will get the technique down and become a little faster.
We are hoping that the Baby Surprise Sweater will be offered again as our summer plates are too full for it now.
Thanks again for being such a supportive instructor.
With all the craziness that is the February Lady Sweater (check it out on Ravelry), I thought I’d throw in my 2 cents re: the buttonhole. The FLS gives a link on the pattern for on-line help for a reversible one-row buttonhole. Well, I went there, got frustrated, and thought I’d just refer to one of Tess’s tutorials on buttonholes. Well, both the online help, and the tutorial were both saying the same thing, but the instructions from Tess were WAY easier to understand and execute. Leave it to an engineer to give you top notch instructions! I highly recommend Tess for a tutorial if you ever run into problems. You will leave with a complete grasp of the issue.
Thanks Tess. My buttonholes are now a breeze!!
Sheryl
#6 by emily foster on September 11, 2008 - 5:59 PM
Hi Tess, I have just started checking out your webpage….it’s great. I am signing up for your class on Mondays at Garden Home….You are the best knitting teacher ever….so patient and so helpful! Emily
Hi Emily! Thanks so much for the compliments! Coming from someone who spends all day with kindergartners (and administration!) that really means a lot!
OK, this is a random comment, but one that needs to be made.
I looked through the classes for the upcoming Madrona retreat, and although they would be fun for the social aspect, I don’t really need to take any, Tess can do all the teaching they are offering right here at home.
I don’t think I say it often enought, but thanks Tess for being such a great teacher!
I have taken every class that I could offered by Tess. Tess understands the structure of knitting – by that I don’t just mean the stitches but the design of garments, complex issues of how to decrease to have a sweater that fits, etc. Because of her deep understanding she is able to explain a stitch, solve a problem in a myriad of ways so as a student you get a deeper understanding and are able to become a more independent knitter. My recommendation is that if you have any real desire to become a knitter take as many courses as you can from her – you will always learn something important and useful.
Hi Tess, I was just wondering.. but I just read a story on Yahoo about the lolcats event and it talked about a woman who was a knitting instructor named Tess Mattos. I don’t know if it’s just concidence but if you are the same Tess from the story then I’d just like to say that your comment was simply hilarious!!! I loved it and it’s absolutely true!lol well anywho here’s a link to the story!good luck with the knitting! http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109791/once-just-a-site-with-funny-cat-pictures-and-now-a-web-empire?mod=career-leadership
oh, yes, that was me. *blush*
I kind of meant that remark to be ironic — seeing as how I was wearing cat ears in public at the time — but I’m not sure that came across so well!
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#1 by Ingrid on January 31, 2008 - 8:48 PM
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Hi Tess,
I hope to attend your Friday classes. You and Sandy are the women who encourage me to continue my knitting. If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have learned sock and baby sweater knitting! You are a wonderful teacher and your patience is much appreciated. Thank you!
Ing
#2 by Mary Ann on May 5, 2008 - 7:51 PM
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Tess,
I have been meaning to get online and thank you for your help the night at the Forestry Center to hear the Yarn Harlot speak. You really straightened me out on doing increases and saved my sanity. Doing the yarn overs and then knitting them off, is such a simple way. It is so nice to learn this early in my sock knitting venture.
Thanks again,
Mary Ann
#3 by Trish Frazier on June 1, 2008 - 4:26 PM
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Tess,
I just wanted to let you know how much my friend, Julie and I enjoyed the lacy scarf with beads class yesterday. It was fun even with the beads falling on the floor. I am planning to give this as a Christmas gift to my niece. It’s a good thing I am starting now. Right now I am slow but hoping that I will get the technique down and become a little faster.
We are hoping that the Baby Surprise Sweater will be offered again as our summer plates are too full for it now.
Thanks again for being such a supportive instructor.
Trish
#4 by TessM on June 3, 2008 - 10:22 AM
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Thank you Trish! that made my day. Maybe my week! TH
#5 by Sheryl on September 2, 2008 - 3:20 PM
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With all the craziness that is the February Lady Sweater (check it out on Ravelry), I thought I’d throw in my 2 cents re: the buttonhole. The FLS gives a link on the pattern for on-line help for a reversible one-row buttonhole. Well, I went there, got frustrated, and thought I’d just refer to one of Tess’s tutorials on buttonholes. Well, both the online help, and the tutorial were both saying the same thing, but the instructions from Tess were WAY easier to understand and execute. Leave it to an engineer to give you top notch instructions! I highly recommend Tess for a tutorial if you ever run into problems. You will leave with a complete grasp of the issue.
Thanks Tess. My buttonholes are now a breeze!!
Sheryl
#6 by emily foster on September 11, 2008 - 5:59 PM
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Hi Tess, I have just started checking out your webpage….it’s great. I am signing up for your class on Mondays at Garden Home….You are the best knitting teacher ever….so patient and so helpful! Emily
#7 by TessM on September 13, 2008 - 7:08 AM
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Hi Emily! Thanks so much for the compliments! Coming from someone who spends all day with kindergartners (and administration!) that really means a lot!
#8 by Charley on October 23, 2008 - 9:35 AM
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Hello Tess
Neat website. Love Ya
Your Bro. Charley
#9 by Sheryl on November 10, 2008 - 1:18 PM
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OK, this is a random comment, but one that needs to be made.
I looked through the classes for the upcoming Madrona retreat, and although they would be fun for the social aspect, I don’t really need to take any, Tess can do all the teaching they are offering right here at home.
I don’t think I say it often enought, but thanks Tess for being such a great teacher!
#10 by fehrs on February 2, 2010 - 3:50 PM
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I have taken every class that I could offered by Tess. Tess understands the structure of knitting – by that I don’t just mean the stitches but the design of garments, complex issues of how to decrease to have a sweater that fits, etc. Because of her deep understanding she is able to explain a stitch, solve a problem in a myriad of ways so as a student you get a deeper understanding and are able to become a more independent knitter. My recommendation is that if you have any real desire to become a knitter take as many courses as you can from her – you will always learn something important and useful.
#11 by TessM on February 4, 2010 - 11:10 AM
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Mary, thank you so much for taking the time to write this! It’s nice to be appreciated!
#12 by Helena on June 15, 2010 - 3:07 PM
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Hi Tess, I was just wondering.. but I just read a story on Yahoo about the lolcats event and it talked about a woman who was a knitting instructor named Tess Mattos. I don’t know if it’s just concidence but if you are the same Tess from the story then I’d just like to say that your comment was simply hilarious!!! I loved it and it’s absolutely true!lol well anywho here’s a link to the story!good luck with the knitting! http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109791/once-just-a-site-with-funny-cat-pictures-and-now-a-web-empire?mod=career-leadership
#13 by TessM on June 15, 2010 - 3:36 PM
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oh, yes, that was me. *blush*
I kind of meant that remark to be ironic — seeing as how I was wearing cat ears in public at the time — but I’m not sure that came across so well!
Thanks for writing!