Distract, Deploy, Dilute – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Interesting for all levels, but students should be able to cast on, cast off, knit, purl, execute a simple chart and slip a stitch.
Duration: 3 hours | Capacity: 22
Location: Level 2 – Spruce Room
Students must supply these materials:
- Your regular knitting supplies, smooth handpainted/variegated yarn (the wilder the better) and circular needles to match. You can bring any weight of yarn, but please avoid bulky and lace. Fingering, sport, DK and worsted are ideal. You’ll also need small balls of two other yarns in the same weight – one a contrasting yarn that is NOT a colour in your handpaint (a neutral works well here, black or white, for example, assuming there’s no black or white in your skein) and a yarn that IS in your handpaint. (For example, if your yarn is pink, bright pink and white, you’ll need a yarn that matches one of those three.) Please have the yarn wound into balls, and please make sure your yarn is variegated, NOT self striping.
Do you love handpainted or variegated yarns, but find that too often they are unpredictable, don’t work with the pattern, pool, puddle, flash or end up looking like a rainbow got caught in a blender? Me too. In this fun class, we’ll look at strategies to make the most of these compelling yarns and manipulate them so that what you loved in the knitted thing is closer to what you loved in the skein, and reduce the element of surprise.
In this workshop, you will learn:
- How to tell how a yarn was dyed and what that means about how it will behave
- How to choose a pattern or stitch that works with your yarn
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, a knitting instructor and a New York Times Bestselling author of eight books, seven of which have a lot to do with knitting. She’s been knitting for more than fifty years, and is also the author of the popular and long lived blog “Yarn Harlot” and part of the …
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