I had an all-day (6 hours) Latvian Mittens class with Beth Brown-Reinsel.  There were about 20 of us in the class, 3 to a table.  Beth took us through a two-colour cast on and half-braid, a lace scallop, and fringe in the morning session.  I hated doing the fringe.  Turns out my yarn was the wrong type.  I had brought 4 different colours of Lorne's Lace Shepherd Sport, a slippy superwash wool when I should have used a stickier wool yarn.  Everyone who had a sticky yarn like Vuorelma Satakieli loved knitting the fringe and its look.  Everyone with a slippery yarn hated knitting the fringe. You can see in the photo how badly my fringe came out - uneven loops, wrong facing loops, etc.

In the afternoon session, Beth took us through a herringbone braid and the various ways to hold and knit with 3 colours in one row.  She had 6 people at a time come up and look over her shoulders while she demonstrated the various ways.  I practiced a couple and decided I like two colours in my right hand and one in my left hand for 3 colour knitting.

As class was ending, the woman sitting next to me showed me a different way to do a SSK and I practiced that on my sampler.  (Usually a SSK is slipping a stitch as if to purl, slipping another stitch as if to purl, and then knitting the two stitches together.  She showed me slipping the first stitch as if to knit, slipping the second stitch as if to purl, and then knitting the two stitches together.  This results in an SSK decrease that more closely mirrors a K2Tog decrease.)

I had dinner that evening at the Bite Restaurant on the 4th floor of the Hotel Murano with my roommate and two other knitters we ran into in the waiting line.

All-in-all a very enjoyable day packed with learning.