We are so excited to bring a little more zen to your knitting! We are giving our typical Sweater Club Weekend an upgrade and adding a series of yoga classes to help make a relaxing, restorative, creative weekend even better.
✨ Knitting
Get personalized, hands-on support tailored to your projects.
Choose from a flexible schedule of breakout sessions, including:
Understanding gauge
Seaming & finishing
Blocking techniques
Picking up stitches
Cabling (no cable needle!)
Brioche, short rows & steeking
Colorwork
You’ll also have access to 1:1 guidance all weekend long—so whether you’re stuck, learning something new, or refining your skills, we’ve got you covered.
🙏 Yoga & Wellness with Jane Fitts
Throughout the weekend, Jane will offer a mix of gentle practices designed specifically with knitters and makers in mind:
Morning Zen — Gentle 60-minute practices focusing on the hips, lower body, back, shoulders, and upper body to ease travel aches and tension from long knitting sessions.
Movement Breaks — Short chair yoga and therapy ball sessions focused on the hands, wrists, arms, feet, and other hardworking parts of our bodies.
Yin Yoga — A slow, restful practice to release tension and settle into the weekend.
Mindful Makers — A relaxed combination of gentle movement, crafting, conversation, journaling, seasonal tea, and simple practices for bringing more ease to your creative life.
Restorative Yoga + Sound Bath — A deeply restful practice with sound bath savasana to close out the weekend.
Evening Zen — A gentle calming practice to help everyone arrive, settle in and wind down.
All sessions are optional, and the weekend is designed to give you plenty of time to knit, relax, socialize, or simply do whatever feels good.
Meet Jane Fitts
Jane Fitts is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 500) specializing in restorative yoga, yin, myofascial release, and mindful practices that support the nervous system. She completed her 500-hour training through YogaWorks and the Asheville Yoga Center and has pursued additional study in Yoga Remedy and Ayurveda.
A lifelong knitter and yoga practitioner, Jane has been knitting and practicing yoga since the age of seven, learning both from her grandmother and mother. She loves helping makers care for their bodies so they can continue doing what they love, sharing practical techniques that release tension and bring more ease to the creative process.
Jane's approach is warm, practical, and welcoming to every body. Through knitting, yoga, journaling, and mindfulness, she explores the connection between a calmer body and a more joyful creative life.
We have changed the way you register for this retreat! Please read the retreat listing carefully before adding to cart!
Click here to learn more information about this retreat!
Please read the entire listing as the registration process has changed!
The accommodations are broken up into room and room type now, so when you sign up you are choosing a bed in a particular room. Each room with an en suite bathroom is noted, and if a room doesn’t say it has an en suite bathroom it has access to a shared bathroom near your room. Full price list is below.
Full Room Breakdown:
Room 1 (en suite bathroom): 1 king bed and 1 twin bed
Room 2 (en suite bathroom): 1 king bed and 1 twin bed
Room 4: 1 king bed
Room 5: 1 king bed and 1 twin bed
Room 6: 2 twin beds
Room 7 (en suite bathroom): 1 king bed and 2 twin beds
Room 8 (en suite bathroom): 1 king bed and 1 twin bed
Room 10: 1 king bed
Room 11 (en suite bathroom): 1 king bed and 2 twin beds
Full Accommodation Pricing Breakdown:
$1800 - A king bed in a two person room with private bathroom
$1800 - A king bed in a single room with shared bathroom
$1600 - A king bed in a three person room with private bathroom
$1600 - A king bed in a two person room with shared bathroom
$1400 - A twin bed in a two person room with a private bathroom
$1200 - A twin bed in a two room with a shared bathroom
$1200 - A twin bed in a three person room with a private bathroom
You can pay in full or you can choose to pay a deposit of 25% of your total retreat fee. You will be charged half of your remaining balance 1 month later, and your final payment will be made 1 month after that. Deposits are nonrefundable. If you choose to pay in full and need to cancel more than 1 month before the retreat, we will refund you 75% of your payment - 10% administration fee.
If you have questions please don’t hesitate to email hello@lauraallyson.com!
Learn More About Our Retreat Weekends
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Certified yoke instructor Jane Fitts leading yoga and other mindfulness classes all weekend long
Laura & Allyson, experienced knitting teachers, on hand to answer all your questions all weekend long
Three nights luxury accommodation, including spacious indoor and outdoor spaces, hot tubs, theater room, and fire pit!
Two full days of knitting classes and optional one on one classes
If necessary, transportation to the retreat space from downtown Chicago, leaving Friday at 12pm CST and returning to downtown Chicago at 11am CST
Catered dinners from local chefs Friday and Sunday night
Wood-fired pizza party Saturday night
Three family style breakfasts and two lunches
Plentiful snacks, handmade cocktails, wine, beer, coffee, and tea
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OUR WEEKEND SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
3pm: Guests can start arriving and settling in
3-7pm: Happy hour drinks and snacks, sewing set up
7pm: Dinner from a local caterer
8-10pm: Craft & chill!
8:30 PM — Evening Zen with Jane: A gentle calming practice to help everyone arrive, settle in and wind down.
SATURDAY
7-10am: A la cart breakfast
Morning Zen with Jane: 60-minute gentle yoga practice with a focus on the hips and lower body including myofascial release and therapy balls, helping ease travel aches and settle into the weekend.
9-12pm: Knitting classes
11-1pm: A la cart lunch
12-5pm: Knitting classes
Midday Movement Break: A short chair yoga and therapy ball session focused on wrists, arms, and hands—the hardworking parts of our bodies that knitters know all too well.
Late Afternoon — REST FEST Yin Yoga: A slow, gentle, restful practice designed to release tension and help you wind down.
5-7pm: Happy hour drinks and snacks
7pm: Pizza party from South Shore Ovenworks
8-10pm: Craft & chill!
SUNDAY
7-10am: A la cart breakfast
Morning Zen with Jane: 60-minute practice focused on the lower back, shoulders, and upper body, with particular attention to areas that can get tired during long knitting sessions, including myofascial release and therapy balls.
9-12pm: Knitting classes
11-1pm: A la cart lunch
12-5pm: Knitting classes
Midday Makers' Break: We'll choose the afternoon's activity based on the group's mood: a therapeutic chair yoga session with therapy balls for the feet, or Mindful Makers, a relaxed combination of crafting, conversation, journaling prompts, seasonal tea, and simple practices for bringing more ease into our creative lives.
Late Afternoon — REST FEST Restorative Yoga + Sound Bath:
A deeply restful practice followed by a sound bath savasana—the perfect way to close out the weekend.5-6pm: Happy hour drinks and snacks
6pm: Dinner from a local caterer
8-10pm: Knit night!
MONDAY
7-9am: A la cart breakfast
10am: Check out and head back home!
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations made up to 1 month prior to the retreat are eligible for a balance payment refund minus a 10% administration fee. Deposits are non-refundable.
Because of the potential for a dramatic Michigan weather event, if there is a blizzard and we have to cancel the retreat you will get a full refund.