2010 Workshop with Gwen Bortner
After a successful corporate career, Gwen founded Knitability in 2001. She has teacher and designer accreditation from the Association of Knitwear Designers and is the author of a book on Entrelac to be published later this year.
The workshop will be
Saturday and Sunday, April 17-18, 2010
Location: Clarion Inn & Suites, 2200 South IH-35
Phone: 512 444 0561
Reservations: 1 800 434 7378 (there are rooms reserved for the workshop at $89/night plus tax.)
Time: Class begins at 9:00 am; continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 am. Lunch (an hour and a half) is on your own.
Cost: $165. This includes the kit fee for Saturday's workshop.
A $50 deposit is required to register.
PLEASE NOTE the two registration steps:
1. Checks may be mailed to: Knitter's and Crocheter's Guild of Austin, PO Box 4643, Austin, TX 78765-4643.
2. Email Carol Martin and indicate whether you are new to entrelac or an experienced entrelac knitter so I can order the appropriate project kit for you.
2009 Workshop with Janet Szabo
Janet Szabo wrote Cables, Volume 1: The Basics, Aran Sweater Design, and The "I Hate to Finish Sweaters" Guide. She publishes the Twists and Turns newsletter. This workshop was enormously informative.
2008 Workshop with Susanna Hansson
Color played an important part in both classes. Throughout, Susanna taught swatching (knitted and otherwise) to assure that similarly valued colors retained prominence.
Participants learned the Fibonacci method to create appealing stripes. We swatched several Fibonacci sequences using either colored paper or pencils then knit swatches from our sequences. Susanna showed how to make 'jogless' jogs when knitting stripes in the round.
Domino Knitting, based on Vivian Hoxbro's method, taught how to create elegant scarves using mitered diamonds. Again, we swatched with color pencils until happy with our color arrangement. We knit diamonds and edge triangles with practice yarn until ready to begin.