SHELL: DAY TO EVENING



Back view: in the round knit from the bottom up.

Front View: with a cable twist.

Just finished -  Karabella Yarns Silk Organznia Hand Painted

TUNISIAN CROCHET RE-INVENTED



Bulky Cowl

Tunisian crochet is on the rise again, this time novel techniques such as lace patterns and working in the round are allowing for a greater variation in designs. The test piece for this class is a two colored cowl, worked in the round, using a hand crafted oversized Tunisian crochet hook with a long flexible cord. Participants will get an insight into the possibilities of using Tunisian crochet as design elements in knitting projects.

Techniques covered: casting on, estimating size, Tunisian simple stitch, Tunisian purl stitch, seed stitch pattern, working in the round with one or two colors, increases, decreases and binding off.

Ragga (raggaknits on Ravelry) is an Icelandic knitting instructor, designer, entrepreneur and the CEO of KNITTING ICELAND.  Ragga’s classes are creative and fun and enlightening. Her firm belief is that knowledge liberates you and enables her/him to think outside the charts and beyond the patterns.

Tunisian crochet hook with a long flexible cord

Materials:  Knitting Iceland has recently put on the market an oversized hook for Tunisian crochet. Mr. Jumbo is both suitable for working on flat pieces and in the round and opens up many exciting possibilities for fiber enthusiasts.

Dates:  June 22nd 6:30-9:30 pm  Wednesday evening.

Material not included in the class fee: tool $28.00 yarn cost is separate.

EXPLORING YOUR PERSONAL COlOR PALETTE



Lana Grossa Ibiza Cotton Blend Ribbon

When you walk into a yarn shop these days the yarns sometimes call to you before you can decide on your next creation. All the pure, bright and clear colors reach in and pull on the pleasure strings drawing on memories from your past. Have you ever considrered why you like or choose a color.

Traditionally we all have our own personal color pallette, if you look though your yarn stash and seperate each yarn by color group you will find that within your stash each color might have an intimate relationship with the next. Why does this mean anything to you, well that would be up to you what are you going to make with the yarn in your basket full hanks or scraps that are leftover. First seperate by gauge and then by color this is an opportunity to see what yarns you own, it is also fun.

Sarah's Rambling Rows Blanket

What do you have and what will you be able to make think about how you can create a new fabric. Will you put two or three strands of yarn together creating a larger gauge and a tweedy texture for a chunky cowl or will you stripe a group of colors together for a neckdown button up?    My friend Sarah made a beautiful Rambling Rows baby blanket out of scrap yarns left over from a few years of earlier knit and crochet projects.  Rambling Rows is a modular knit, no sewing knit one square at a time all attached as you go.  Worked in five color and all mapped out -- you can create the palette using as many colors as you like and wherever you see the colors fitting in.
Sarah makes many baby gifts, however after gifting the blanket she later told me that she wished she had kept that one.

Susan's Rambling Rows in Zitron Opus 1

The gem tones that Sarah chooses with each project somehow came together to create a lovely piece of comfort for a beautiful baby. When I saw it each little parcel of color worked to enhance another Sarah was the designer. This is whereyou come in, the secret is that you have already begon the design process when you chose your colors.

Neckdown Stripes.

When I choose the yarn for Stitch Therapy I sometimes hold my head because it is the most nerve racking thing that I have to do. Selecting color involves so many elements come it is not just the colors that are in my personal palette I have to envision how the colors that I don't like enhance the ones that I do like. Then I have to remember the colors that you like and the colors that you pair together. And last do I have a full range from yellow to black.

Crocheted Stripes.

  All you have to do is choose the colors you like!

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KNIT ALONG CONTINUES ---

Wollack from Ravelry.com

Kaffekaren from Ravelry.com

Lovely photo!

The Mystery is still growing while a number of blankets are being complete.

This stitch-along will continue throughout the summer and beyond.  The true stitch names are still a mystery so join in.

SHAWL KNIT-ALONG - WITH DESIGNER BETH HAHN



Join Beth Hahn in June for a Shawl Knit-Along.  The designer will guide and advise you through The Seance Shawl Saturday June 4, 11, and 18th 1:30pm - 3:00pm. Take one or all three sessions.

 Pattern is available in Volume 1, Chapter III - The Adventures of Miss Flitt or by single sheet pattern - http://www.missflitt.com/

Yarn must be purchased from Stitch Therapy.

June 4, 11, & 18th get started with one or attend all three.



I.R.T BERET - NOW AVAILABLE at RAVELRY.COM



Double knit ribbing and Traveling Vine lace stitch.

 The first in a series of new hat patterns is now available for download from Stitch Therapy via Ravelry.com.
Designed by Maxcine DeGouttes, owner of Stitch Therapy, a fine yarn shop in Park Slope Brooklyn, New York the I. R. T. Beret is a quick knit that is perfect for a day when a sweet little chapeau is all you need.

Individual pattern price is $5.00

JAPANESE CHART READING

Make this cowl or you select the project - Mieko has designed the cowl to teach you how to knit while reading a Japanese knitting chart.  Nice a lofty this piece is knit in the round with Granite by Loop-d-Loop on a size 17 US knitting needle.  Or pick your ouwn project - The Japanese book shop Kinokuniya locatedat 1073 Avenue of the Americas (212) 869-1700 has a selection of knitting books.

 Pick a knitting project and our instructor will help you translate the chart to help you through the project.

Teacher - Mieko Takahashi; Date: January 9, 16, and 23, 2011; Time: 2:30-4:30 pm; Cost: $75.00

Prerequisites: Must knit & purl independently