Fiber Fool

As I mentioned on Friday I wanted to share a bit of my stranded colorwork workshop with you last week, but time just ran away from me. Up top there is just a small smattering of the examples of colorwork I brought to My Sister Knits for the students to paw through. I also included some examples of different treatments for a top-down crown. The table was full up with samples and my library of various colorwork-centric books. For all day workshops like this one I like to have lots of samples and books to be perused when students need to take a break so I schlep a bankers box full of stuff to be sure there is something to inspire everyone.

For this workshop I start the morning off with knitting the crown of the A la Carte Hat. We took a break for lunch which we ordered in from a local sub shop. Over lunch I answered questions and we talked a little bit about color theory and choosing your main and contrast colors for colorwork. Then after lunch it was on to two handed colorwork, each student choosing which of the included 8 stitch patterns they wished to try.

There were some fantastic color combos being used in class that day. I’ve shown only half of them here (I’m still trying to get accustomed to my P&S camera and many of the shots taken were not of good quality). But everyone headed home with about an inch or so of their colorwork done and well on their way to a finished hat. A few opted to head out a little early due to the long drive home they had ahead of them (2/3 of the students were from out of town).

It was a long day, but very fun and inspiring! I had to fight with all my might to not go home and cast on another colorwork hat of my own. But I was good and stuck to my current designs in progress.