LILY CHIN
Bias Knitting Without Prejudice
Thursday October 15, 2009
9:00am-4:30pm
Cost: $150
Class Size: 25
Proficiency Level: At least advanced-beginner or anyone who can increase and decrease stitches with ease.
Description: Learn this diverse method of knitting that creates different, dynamic, directional lines easily and its applications. Get the angle on your pieces, try various colors and textures for head-turning work. Mix and match several effects simultaneously. Ideas for trims, accents, and even whole garments will be discussed.
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Custom Fitting Existing Patterns
Friday October 16, 2009
9:00am-4:30pm
Cost: $150
Class Size: 25
Proficiency Level: At least advanced-intermediate, anyone who has an idea about very basics of pattern drafting or anyone who’s altered existing patterns successfully.
Description: There are many patterns from yarn companies, magazines and books avaiable, but you want to change the neckline, lengthen the sleeves, etc. In this class you’ll find out how to successfully personalize the fit of a pattern and cater it to yourselves or those you knit for. See how small alterations can make a garment hang better. Learn accessible alternatives for drop shoulders. You’ll learn simple refinements and easy modifications that don’t require extensive pattern re-writes, but will produce great results. Please note that this is not a “change the pattern to be another size” class.
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Knitting Tips and Tricks
Saturday October 17, 2009
9:00am-12 noon
Cost: $75
Class size - 25 Students
Experience level: Advanced-Beginner
Learn all the little secrets to make knitting life easier and better. Find out how to cast on in 2-tail method without running out of the second tail. Join a new skein of yarn or a new color without losing that first stitch. See ways of attaching buttons as you work. Create invisible circular bind offs on a neck where the beginning and end are absolutely imperceptible. Weave in those little ends that are too short to pull through a darning needle. Take away lots of small "fix-its" and improve those details.
Pre-class Preparation ( homework):
With worsted/aran wt yarn and appropriate sized double-pointed or short (12 or 16) circular needles, cast on enough sts to go circs or minimal amount of sts on dpn's (maybe 12). Join, being careful not to twist. Work in 1 x 1 rib circularly for about 1, begin to bind off leaving last 2 or 3 sts unbound, leave on needles to be completed in class.
With worsted/aran wt yarn and appropriate sized needles, cast on about 8 sts, work for about 1 in any st, leave on needles to be completed in class.
With worsted wt yarn and appropriate sized needles, make a swatch of about 3 x 3 in stockinette, end ready to work a knit row, do not bind off, leave stitches on stitch holder.
Familiarize yourself with what is called the long tail cast-on. That is, there are two ends of yarns utilized in this cast-on.
Familiarize yourself with what is known as a left-slanting decrease or ssk.
Get to know how to do a basic chain with the crochet hook.
Students should bring to class:
All homework.
Extra dpns, crochet hooks of various sizes, tapestry needles, extra circular needles, worsted wt. yarn of various light colors, maybe a shank button, dental floss (4", waxed preferred).
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Crocheted Tips, Tricks and Hints
Saturday October 17, 2009
1:00pm-4:30pm
Cost: $75
Class Size: 25
Proficiency Level: Advanced-Beginner.
Description: Learn all the little secrets to make crocheting life easier and better. Find out how to work a foundation chain that is not too tight. Join a new skein of yarn or a new color without losing that first stitch. See ways of attaching buttons as you work. Create invisible circular joins where the beginning and end are absolutely imperceptible. Weave in those little ends that are too short to put through a darning needle. Take away lots of small “fix-its” and improve those details.
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Sunday October 18, 2009
9:00am-12 noon
Cost: $75
Class Size: 25
Description: Borders and edgings differ from trims in that they are very often worked separately, usually in a different direction. The main knitting is then picked up from this border or edging and worked upwards. This separation means more possibilities for variations of materials, gauge, stitch, etc. Then there's the problem of how to join the same border or edging along vertical sides, curved edges, and garment tops. Get to know more possibilities for adding interest to knit garments or even "dressing up" store bought items with bits of knitting. Also included are novelty add-ons.
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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)
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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