• Doo Dads and Finishing in Knitting
• Knit Surface with Entrelacs Shapes - SOLD OUT
• (You might be interested in Modular Knitting with Annie Modesitt - click here)
• Using Fresh Twist  Energy to Create New Knit Surfaces
• A short biography of Kathryn Alexander 
  

Doo dads and finishing in knitting

Kathryn Alexander Designs

Thursday October 15, 2009
9:00AM - 4:30 pm
Class Fee - $180 Includes Materials Fee
Class Size - 15 Students

In this all day class participants will learn how to knit and attach short row shapes, over lapping layers of squares, triangles and icord variations using 12 colors of hand dyed yarns. Whimsy and color become the focal point in this class adding a new breadth and depth to the end of a project.

Teacher will supply, directions with color graphics, 18 colors of hand dyed yarns, darning needle on knitted cord to wear around your neck, post cards of work.

Materials list - Students should bring with them to class:

• Double pointed needles, sizes 2, 3, and, 8" and bamboo work great for these samples, they have sharp points, great for picking up stitches, and the work will not slide off them.

Experience level: Students should be able to cast on and knit and purl efficiently.

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Knit Surface with Entrelacs Shapes - SOLD OUT

(You might be interested in Modular Knitting with Annie Modesitt- click here)
 

Kathryn Alexander Designs

Friday October 16, 2009
9:00AM - 4:30 pm
Class Fee - $180 Includes Materials Fee
Class Size - 15 Students

Entrelac in its traditional form-rows of rectangles knit on opposing bias - is a fun and engaging surface to knit. But why not make it impossible to put down by using endless amounts of color, re-arranging the rows of rectangles, squares and triangles, stack these shapes in new ways, make them three dimensional, change their size, the choices are never ending, intriguing and playful all at once. This session lets you learn the traditional surface as well as some of the more whimsical surfaces.

Students should bring to class:

• # 3 and # 4 double pinted 8 inch long knitting needles. I like bamboo, the points are really "pointy" and it is easier to pick up stitches with these. Also, the work does not slide off these needles.

Instructor will supply :

• 18 colors of hand dyed wool yarns
• Booklet with color graphics and directions
• Post cards of my work for inspiration

Experience level : Students should be able to knit, purl and cast on efficiently.

Using Fresh Twist Energy to Create New Knit Surface

Kathryn Alexander Designs

Saturday October 17, 2009
9:00AM - 4:30PM
Class Fee - $180Includes Materials Fee
Class Size - 15 Students

Yarn constructions of every kind begin by spinning a single yarn. I feel this is where our knowledge of yarns and the physics behind them should originate. When we understand the energy we introduce into a single yarn, we can begin to reshape how we think about all yarns, as well as the cloth we make from those yarns. It becomes possible to direct the yarns energy along predetermined paths, releasing it into knit-purl stitch combinations allowing traditional works to take on new dimensions. The energy in the yarn can actually determine the surface designs of the cloth.

In this class we will begin by spinning singles using  medium staple wool tops. These yarns will not be finished - rather we will knit with this yarn while it is still on our spinning wheel bobbins. The yarn will be full of visible energy which we will use to change the shape of knitting as we have known it with balanced yarns. We will start our knitting samples with traditional knit and purl stitch combinations watching the stitches lean, turning ribbing into tumbling blocks and garter stitch in to a chain mail kind of double cloth. The energy changes these traditional surfaces as we have known them, but the cloth itself will not bias.

The class is a good choice for beginners and experienced spinners alike. It is a good foundation for new spinners while enhancing an experienced spinners body of knowledge in an area that will offer up new and exciting ways to think about yarns.

Students should bring to class:

• Spinning wheel with at least 4 bobbins and lazy kate.
• Knitting needles, Double point size  4, 5 and 8. I like bamboo in the 8 inch length for this.The points are really "pointy" for ease of picking up stitches as we knit.

Instructor will supply:

• Wool tops to spin
• Booklet with color graphics and directions, with lots of helpful hints
• Postcards of my work for inspiration 

Experience level : Beginning knowledge of spinning is needed. Student should also be able to knit, purl and cast on efficiently.

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Bio:

Kathryn Alexander is an internationally known textile artist - a spinner, weaver, dyer and knitter whose work is characterized by an abundance of color, richly textured surfaces, and whimsical designs. She and her work have been featured in several magazines, including Fiberarts, Surface Design, Ornament, Spin Off and Knits, and in a number of books, including Knitting in America, Fiberarts Design Book 7, Memory on Cloth, Design!, and Knitting Memories.

When not spinning, weaving, dyeing and knitting (or traveling the country teaching the same), Kathryn can be found working in her flower and vegetable gardens or riding her horses through the fields and woods that surround her small farm in upstate New York.