02/15/2026 Sunday 12pm-3pm Intermediate Knitting Workshop: Melt the ICE Red Knit Hats

INTERMEDIATE KNITTING WORKSHOP: Melt the ICE Red Knit Hats

Sunday February 15th from 12pm to 3pm

Intermediate Level Class*

Age 14+ (minors must accompany an adult)

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*Intermediate class — Designed for students with a good grasp on basic knitting techniques, but suitable for those new to hat making and knitting in the round. Students should already be comfortable with casting on and off, knit and purl stitches and working both knits and purls in the same row.

This make + take knitting workshop will focus on creating red beanie-style caps topped with a braided tassel, using the “Melt the ICE” pattern published by Needle & Skein.

Inspired by a 1940’s Norwegian pattern, these red knit hats were worn to protest Nazi occupation. For Norwegians, the hat was meant to be "distinctively non-violent". To quote Mats Tangestuen, director of the Resistance Museum in Oslo, "It was used in the period of the war where everything looked very dark - the main purpose of it was just to keep up morale, keep up hope, and not descend into hopelessness and apathy."

Minneapolis-based knitter Paul Neary, created this updated pattern. Inspired by the original Norwegian “nisselue” hats, these are meant to be worn as a symbol of resistance and solidarity. All proceeds from his pattern sales are being donated to nonprofits focused on housing support for immigrants in Minnesota. Additionally, POST will donate a portion of workshop fees to Detroit-based nonprofits actively working to support our local immigrant community. 

POST will provide each attendee:

• Melt the ICE pattern
• Red wool yarn
• tapestry needles

Attendees must provide their own:

• Size 8 circular needles (16”, or longer length if magic loop preferred)
• Size 8 needles for preferred method of small-circumference knitting, such as double-pointed needles or circular needles for the magic loop technique
• Stitch markers 

About the instructor:

Julia Cardi is a knitter and crocheter based in Detroit. Her love for knitting began as a solitary hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic (the scarf of dubious quality she made from a kit as a nine-year-old notwithstanding), but what hooked her is the community fiber arts naturally creates, and the respite it provides from her day job.