What's Coming Up!

Please join me at one of the following workshops!

January 8-14,

John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC 28902

Knit Anything: Not Clothing

By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry, participants will experiment with knitting fundamentals to learn ‘think knit’. We will explore the use of non-traditional materials and cover a range of dimensional techniques to help create shape and stability, also exploring protrusions and bulges, short rowing, random pickups, ruffles, knit painting, and tubular structures. Primarily a process oriented workshop, a slide show will be included and participants will come away with a broad range of approaches to use in future sculptural projects (or even creative garment design).

January 24 - 29

Playing with the Knit Muse: A Sculptural Approach to Knitting

North Country Studio Workshops

Bennington College, Vermont

Learn to 'think knit' by experimenting with knitting fundamentals and solving knitting geometry. Explore non-traditional materials and a range of techniques to help create shape and stability when working in three dimensions in this process-oriented workshop.  A slide show of current knit artists will help guide and inspire the work.  Participants must be proficient in basic knitting techniques; knowledge of crochet helpful

Feb 11-12

Metalwerx

Waltham, MA

Knitting on the Rocks

Expand your knit horizons and get wired!  Learn new ways to successfully knit with wire while also exploring tubular structures and how to encapsulate objects within knitting.   With basic knit skills, this hands-on workshop will get students hooked on creating interesting   jewelry and small sculptures with wire.   Using a flexible copper wire in a beautiful range of colors, students will have the opportunity to design and execute unique pieces while we also cover resources, materials and further design ideas. Previous wire or   jewelry experience not required but basic knit skills necessary.     For knit fanatics who want to cover everything they see with knit.    Bring your own rocks.

Columbia Fiber Arts Guild

Portland OR

March 14, 2012 lecture

March 17/18 workshop

Knit Anything: Not Clothing

March 29-April 4

IDENTITY: CONTEXT AND REFLECTION

Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association 
Philadelphia, PA

Knit Anything: Not Clothing

Explore contemporary knitting and expand your vision of what a little knitting can do.  Over the course of this class, participants will develop a personal language of forms by experimenting with knitting fundamentals to uncover the enormous possibilities of three dimensional knit.   By manipulating stitches and solving knitting geometry, participants will learn to ‘think knit’.   We will explore the use of non-traditional materials and cover a range of dimensional techniques to help create shape and stability while also taking advantage of knit’s natural tendencies.  Techniques for creating protrusions and bulges as well as short rowing, random pickups, ruffles, knit painting, and tubular structures will be introduced.  A slide show of artists who use knitting techniques as a means of creative expression will be shown for inspiration.  We will also address the ways in which knitting has recently exploded into the public space through the current international wave of guerrilla and graffiti knitting.   This will primarily be a process oriented workshop, with one on one instructor time to discuss future sculptural projects. This new knitting vocabulary is also applicable to those interested in wearable art.

April 15

Lion Brand Yarn Studio

NYC, NY

Knitting on the Rocks

May 5-6

Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

Knit Anything: Not Clothing

June 3-8

John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC 28902

Knitting Wired: Wandering the garden of the knit muse

Covering a variety of approaches to creating stitches as well as resources and materials, students will problem solve and manipulate stitches adding beads or other found objects as they integrate their ideas and designs in an array of jewelry and small sculptures.   Participants will later work with heavier gauge wire in a larger sculptural format.  A slide show of artists who use wire knitting techniques as a means of creative expression will be shown for inspiration. 

July 8-14,

Arrowmont School of Craft

Gatlinburg, TN

Knit Anything; Not Clothing