free shipping for one product category?

Not, but you can set it ( shipping class ) to all products within a certain category.

I made a shipping class called free with no cost. The cart still applies the 10.95 base cost for flat rate.
I set flat rate to apply only to taxable items and set the ones I want free to none (they are not taxable). The cart shows no shipping cost but when I go to checkout it wants me to choose 10.95 or in store pick up.

I do not see how to restrict the free shipping method to anything but countries.

we have the 10.95 cost in flat rate and a No Shipping Class cost of 2.00 * qty so it will charge our base of 12.95 for one item and increment 2.00 for each additional item.

ideas?

Yes, so in your Free price settings enter a negative number. So if your flat rate is $10.00, then in the Free price setting, set it to -10.

VERY strange! I did that yesterday and it subtracted the 10.95 from the item cost at checkout.

NOW it works!

Thanks