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Welcome to the 2012 Interweave Knitting Labs!
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| Interweave Knitting Lab is a new, four-day knitting event that explores every facet of the knitting craft. Enjoy small technique and project-based classes, provocative panel discussions and fascinating lectures presented by knitting luminaries. Special evening sessions and the Knitters' Market round out this exciting event—unlike any other the yarn world has experienced! |
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New England Classes
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Instructor: Nancy Bush
Many interesting embellishments have been created by Estonian knitters to decorate their knitting. In this workshop we will create wristers beginning with a braided cast on and advancing on to different ways to make lateral braids, adding in a unique 'button' or bobble-like technique as we go. This class is packed with interesting traditional techniques which can be used in many modern applications. Learn more and register now!
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California Classes
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Knitting with Wire
Instructor: Annie Modesitt
In this class we'll cover the basics of casting on, knitting and binding off using 26-30 gauge wire. We'll cover topics such as adding beads to a knitted wire piece, finishing wire pieces and adding findings as we create a simple knit necklace. Jewelry making skill not required, students should know how to knit and purl. For this class we will work in the Combination Method where possible as that creates less stress on the wire and leads to less breakage. Learn more and register now!
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Instructor: Rose Ann Hunter
Needlework takes you back to another time and place. Let Rose Ann Hunter take you back to 1790 to the folk art tradition of recycling woolen fabrics and fibers into utilitarian rugs. Several techniques will be discussed that are knitted, crocheted or sewn techniques with lots of reproductions samples that are Knitted startbursts, confetti, hit and miss, and also yarn sewn and standing wools. Ideas of how you can combine these principles into designing your own heirloom rugs will be presented bringing them to present day. Learn more and register now!
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Color Outside the Lines: Tam
Instructor: Janine Bajus
Working from a pre-defined colorway (8 colors purchased as a kit), students will learn how color is traditionally used in Fair Isle designs by coloring in the provided classic tam pattern using a step-by-step process. The kit includes enough yarn to knit three tams—each tam will be unique! This workshop is ideal for those who want to explore Fair Isle design but are hesitant about starting from scratch. Learn more and register now!
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Instructors: Kate Gagnon Osborn & Courtney Kelley
In this class, we will focus on a number of ways to add color to your knitting. Techniques to be covered include Fair Isle/Color work and Bohus knitting, Roositud inlay, Intarsia and Embroidery. We will go over the history and common uses/applications, differences and similarities, and how to work each technique. Additionally, we will talk about designing, common design applications, best uses and ways to incorporate each technique into original designs. Learn more and register now!
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New Adventures in Double-Knitting with Three Colors
Instructor: Alasdair Post-Quinn
This workshop will get you comfortable with some of the most useful and interesting multi-color "extreme" double-knitting techniques that I have developed. In a single swatch, you'll learn three-color single-pattern and two-pattern double-knitting and three-color cables. You'll also learn how to integrate multiple colors into a really clean double-knit edge and work a really interesting decorative bind-off. Learn more and register now!
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Instructor: Gayle Roehm
There’s a fad in Japan for making “room shoes,” which are slippers to be worn indoors on tatami mat floors. These are a fun variation for your crocheting. We’ll use a free online pattern, with permission, as a basis to practice crochet stitches and understand the construction of the slippers. This class will introduce you to the conventions of Japanese charted crochet patterns, which use international crochet symbols. Learn more and register now!
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Exploring Vertically Stranded Color Work
Instructor: Lorilee Beltman
Explore various ways that color can be added when contrast stitches climb vertically from round to round. Always working in the round, we'll play with simple zigs and zags, intersecting lines for diagonal plaid, lines between lace, and purl-only columns that look like caterpillars. We'll explore its sketchy history- it is used in Rovaniemi knitting, as a substitute for duplicate stitch in argyle, and it even appears in a Japanese stitch dictionary. Learn more and register now!
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View all Knitting Lab New England
Classes & Lectures Now!
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View all Knitting Lab California
Classes & Lectures Now!
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Introducing the 2012 Keynote Speakers:
Barbara Walker
Speaking at Interweave Knitting Lab New England
June Hiatt
Speaking at Interweave Knitting Lab California
The 2012 Interweave Knitting Lab Events are Sponsored By:
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