Saturday, March 13th, Sunday, March 14th and Saturday, March 20th, 3-5pm:\u00a0Stitches at Home<\/strong>:\u00a0Design your own Double-knit Hat<\/a>\u00a0(3 2-hour sessions) (yes, this starts tomorrow so get in now if you want to!)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n BuildingBlox workshops<\/strong>\u00a0(3 hr sessions) Virtual Knitting Live<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2 hr sessions) Presentations<\/strong> A few items of note: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Double-knitting Entrelac<\/a> is the highly-sought-after 2-session workshop that I almost never get to teach. This will be my first time teaching it in the virtual environment, so I hope it’ll be a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marling with Double-knitting<\/a> is a brand-new workshop which I have taught for Stitches but never to “my own” audience. It’s an intermediate-level workshop which is easily done having only taken the intro class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patrons of the Extreme tier of my Patreon<\/a> now get their choice of one BuildingBlox workshop<\/a> per month (alongside all the other perks), so keep that in mind if you’re interested in taking a number of my workshops!<\/p>\n\n\n\n By a coincidence, both of these patterns are based on the classic Falling Blocks<\/a> hat from 2010. One is a pattern I designed in 2013 for the Willow Colorwork Club; the other is a new design which is a simpler rendition of that pattern. They are both “new” (in quotes) because one was previously available through Willow Yarns but I have reformatted and updated the pattern slightly; the other is merely a derivative pattern of an even older one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Falling Blocks Redux<\/a> simplifies the two patterns of the Falling Blocks hat to two colors rather than three. It occurred to me, while I was doing a workshop on two-pattern double-knitting, that all of the samples I had to show in two colors used lettering to show off the two-pattern properties of the fabric. I have three-color patterns that use two-pattern concepts for more complex patterning, but not in two colors. So Falling Blocks Redux fills a gap in the world of two-pattern projects — and is a great place to start for people who loved the Falling Blocks hat but didn’t want to deal with three colors. The crown on this is just stunning, so have a look at its pattern page<\/a> on my website. Thank you to Holli Rossum for knitting up the sample!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shadow Boxes<\/a> further simplifies the tumbling blocks pattern; there is no second pattern on the other layer — it’s just standard double-knitting — and I’ve removed every other diagonal strip of cubes to create this shadow effect. Due to Covid and the shortage of available models, I’m making a rare selfie appearance in this pattern. 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Saturday, April 17th, 10am-5pm:\u00a0Double-knitting Entrelac<\/a>
Saturday, April 24th, 1-4pm:\u00a0Marling with Double-knitting<\/a>
Sunday, April 25th, 2-5pm:\u00a0Intro to Double-knitting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thursday, March 18th, 7-9pm: Intro to Double-knitting
Friday, March 19th, 7-9pm: Multi-color Double-knitting
Saturday, March 20th, 7-9pm: Intro to Double-knitting
Sunday, March 21st, 2-4pm: Two-pattern Double-knitting<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday, March 19th, 4:30pm:\u00a0Swatch What Happens Live at VKL<\/a>\u00a0with Lucy Neatby and Josh Bennett!
Tuesday, April 6th, 7pm:\u00a0London (Ontario) District Weavers & Spinners Guild<\/a>
Wednesday, April 14th, 8pm:\u00a0Fox Valley Knitters Guild<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nNow, to the patterns!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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