LILY CHIN
Weaving Techniques As Applied To Knits 
Thursday October 14, 2010
9:00am-4:30pm
Cost: $ 125
Class Size: 25
Proficiency Level: Intermediate, can execute two-handed, stranded, Fair-Isle type color knitting.
Description: By combining another yarn to your knitting via methods borrowed from weaving, many aesthetic possibilities become apparent, certain problems may be solved, and a new technique is added to your oeuvre. Textures are easily obtainable, colors may be taken more advantage of, and patterning is more accessible. Novelty yarns are handled better, less yarn might be used, gorgeous but uncomfortable fibers need not touch your skin, and stretching can be minimized. Learn: * The the "up/down" method of applying a separate yarn onto knits, * The "in/out" method of applying a separate yarn onto knits, * The slip stitch method of the same yarn as a "weft" thread, * Vertical weaves, color weaves, smocking weaves, and much more.
The applications of these techniques include: * What kinds of yarns are best suited for these fabrics, * What kinds of garments are best suited for these fabrics, * How to chart these weaves so you'll know what you'll be getting beforehand.
By the end of this workshop, you will have a sampler of knitted "woven" fabrics plus enough ideas to keep you in stitches for a very long, long time.
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More Reversible Cables
Friday October 15, 2010
9:00am-4:30pm
Cost: $ 125
Class Size: 25
Proficiency Level: Advanced, must be familiar with my regular Reversible Cables already.
Description: Learn Lily’s latest methods of creating cables on both sides of a fabric. These include fully moving and expanding cables across whole surfaces (i.e. not just the same old vertical rope cables). These are similar to “traveling stitches” and each side need not be the same! Then become familiar with a unique, 2-colored, vertically pinstriped reversible cable effect. You must experience them to believe them.
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Shaping Up With Short Rows
Saturday October 16, 2010
9:00am-12 noon
Cost: $ 75
Class size - 25 Students
Proficiency Level: Intermediate, anyone who's comfortable with the "stepped" decreases of a shoulder slope or neckline.
Description: Short Rows are smooth solutions to slants and curves. Instead of the "stepped" bind offs at shoulders and necks, short rows (sometimes referred to as partialknitting) create a continuous line. This makes seaming and picking up stitches much easier. The tremendous capabilites for invisibly sculpting knits within the fabric will also be explored. Learn a horizontal bust dart, a side-to-side yoke, a seamless hat on 2 needles instead of 4, entrelacs, a sock heel...... Other possibilities include unusualtextures and no-bobbin intarsias.
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Computer Aided Design
Saturday October 16, 2010
1:00pm-4:30pm
Cost: $ 75
Class Size: 25
Proficiency Level: Open to all
Description: Even if you are computer-illiterate, you may want to know what all the fuss is about and what the possibilites are that computers offer. Computers have been given a lot of attention lately. Deemed the key to the future, see how designers and fiberartists can use electronic media as a very useful tool to aid the creative process.
See a demonstration at work. Get a broad overview of realistic achievements and what you can expect to get out of the computer. Even discuss the pro’s and con’s of different systems (IBM-compatibles vs. Mac’s). Sample some of the various software available.
“CAD” has been a new and exciting way for me to “visualize” my work beforehand. It has allowed me to experiment a whole lot more without a whole lot of extra investment in materials and time. Covered also will be down-to-earth information on price, peripherals, on-line help services, and the dreaded “learning curve.”
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Sunday October 17, 2010
9:00am-12 noon
Cost: $ 75
Class Size: 25
Proficiency Level: Open to all
Description: Have you ever wondered where ideas come from? Where do designers draw their inspiration from? How do they interpret their ideas into reality? What problems arise? What challenges are posed? What details do they specifically look for? What special tools are involve? See the many examples of source and result in this show-and-tell lecture.
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Lily Chin will also be signing books at the festival this year. Please click here to learn more!
Biography:
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Lily M. Chin is an internationally famous knitter and crocheter who has worked in the
yarn industry for over 25 years, as a designer, instructor, and author of four books on knitting and crochet. She was the first American knitwear designer to create a line of fashion yarns under her own name, The Lily Chin Signature Collection, launched in 2005 with CNS Yarns.
She has created couture crochet for the New York Fashion Week runway collections of designers Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, Diane von Furstenberg, and Isaac Mizrahi, and her work has been on the backs of celebrities and super models, from Racquel Welch and Vanna White to Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell.
In the 1990s she was named a Master Knitter by Vogue Knitting International. In her career she has designed some outrageous garments, including an Absolut Vodka cozy for an international marketing campaign, a string bikini for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, and ready-to-wear for the Gap. She is regularly cited in media across the U.S., including Time, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and New York Daily News, for redefining the image of today's knitter and crocheter.
Most recently, she's hosted the high-fashion knitting show, Stitchcraft, on the Oh! Oxygen network. Her other television credits include the Late Show with David Letterman, Martha, CBS Morning News, ESPN's Cold Pizza, Fox & Friends, The Jane Pauley Show, CNN, HGTV, and more.
Chin is the official spokesperson for the Orphan Foundation of America Red Scarf Project, which collect handmade scarves to send warmth and encouragement to America's college-bound foster youth each year in Valentine's Day Care Packages. Web site: www.orphan.org
Lily Chin has lived in New York City all her life and has been involved in some aspect of the fashion industry since age 13. She was trained at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Queens College, City University of New York, and The Bronx High School of Science.
Web site: www.lily-chin.com
Books:
- Couture Crochet Workshop: Mastering Fit, Fashion and Finesse (Interweave Press, 2007)
- Expressions – a Lily Chin Signature Collection pattern book (CNS Yarns, 2006)
- Knit and Crochet with Beads (Interweave Press, 2004)
- The Urban Knitter (Berkley Pub Group, 2002)
- Mosaic Magic: Afghans Made Easy (Oxmoor House, 1999)
- Lily Chin's Best Knitting Tips and Tricks (Potter, 2009)
- Lily Chin's Best Crocheting Tips and Tricks (Potter, 2009)
- Power Cables, the Ultimate Guide to Knitting Inventive Cables (Interweave Press, 2010)
Awards:
- Named a Master Knitter by Vogue Knitting International
- Became the CYCA/BHKC official fastest crochet in the world in 2002 and defended the title in 2004
- Recipient of the TNNA Jubilee Award in 2005 for contributions to the needlearts industry
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