River Colors Studion is presenting a weekend of activities focusing on color, January 9 - 11, 2009. I'm teaching two of the sessions.
Friday, January 9, 6pm - 8pm: Magic Ball Social.
The magic ball is back by popular demand! I taught this workshop at River Colors five or six years ago, and it's a ton of fun. We'll lead you in a fun night of creating a unique ball of mixed yarns. You'll use a postcard, picture, or varigated yarn with your favorite colors as inspiration. You'll then pick yarns in those colors (either from your stash or from others in the class who will share) and create your own unique magic ball.
Saturday, January 10, 9am - noon: Scarf Confections.
This knitting workshop will help you mix and match colors, textures, and weight to design a one of a kind scarf. We'll use a free pattern by Jane Thornely as a starting point for the freeform technique she developed.
Friday, November 21, 2008
December shows - save the dates
Artist Review Today is planning some shows during December.
On December 11 - 12 we'll have a wearables show in the Galleria. It will feature handknit wearable items (shawls, scarves, purses, coats, etc.) as well as jewelry.
On December 18 you'll find us in the Rotunda at City Hall. This show includes a cross section of Artist Review Today artists.
More details to follow.
On December 11 - 12 we'll have a wearables show in the Galleria. It will feature handknit wearable items (shawls, scarves, purses, coats, etc.) as well as jewelry.
On December 18 you'll find us in the Rotunda at City Hall. This show includes a cross section of Artist Review Today artists.
More details to follow.
Erika & Friends Show on November 23
River Colors Studio is presenting the second annual Erika & Friends Jewelry and Accessory Trunk Show on Sunday, November 23. I'm please to be a part of it again this year, as well as Erika Gadomski, Elise Anderson, Heidi Massingill, and Maureen Michaels. The event is from noon - 4pm.
I'll have some my jewelry and selected handknit scarves and purses, including some of my new freeform scarf/necklaces.
I'll have some my jewelry and selected handknit scarves and purses, including some of my new freeform scarf/necklaces.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Babette Blanket
Well, after many years, I started a crochet project! It's the Babette Blanket, a pattern available for download from Knitting Daily. It's a simple granny square, knit in different sizes. Heidi at Stitch Cleveland in Lakewood taught a two-day workshop and I've been crocheting squares ever since. What fun!
I decided to use up some stash so I'm using Koigu, Jitterbug, some 4-ply Rowan, and Silky Wool, in about twenty different colors, including a bunch of varigateds. Each square is a color study -- you use about two to six colors in each square.
I'm totally hooked (no pun intended), these squares are totally addicting.
I may put my squares together in a wrap or large scarf, instead of a blanket. We'll see. I think I may be making a few of these.
Washing your woolens - Eucalan
I'm now offering Eucalan for sale at Artist Review Today.
It's a wonderful natural, biodegradable, no rinse wool wash. I knit with wool, mohair, ribbon, silk, cashmere, and other natual fibers and use Eucalan to wash all my handknits and anything else I care about.
As many of you may have discovered, wool shrinks if you wash it in hot water or if you agitate it when you wash it. With Eucalan, you just fill your tub with warm water, soak the item for 30 - 45 minutes, and then spin. No need to rinse.
It's available in four scents: Eucalyptus, Grapefruit, Lavendar, and Natural Unscented. I love them all, but Eucalyptus is my favorite.
Color Magic
On Thursday and Friday I attended a color workshop with Lois Bryant, a terrific teacher and weaver from Ann Arbor. The workshop was wonderful. It was independent of technique, so it was just fun to relax and play with crayons, colored pencils and paper. While I've studied much of the material before, she presented traditional color concepts in a fresh, inviting, fun way.
Lois is a great teacher -- talented, supportive, helpful, attentive. In addition, she's a down-to-earth, fun person. The workshop was structured so that there was a good mix of presentation and hands-on exercises. Her PowerPoint presentations are wonderful -- the examples are set to music and simply are awesome. I especially enjoyed the examples of everyday things (the sidewalk, an oil slick, lettuce, etc) -- a real eye-opener. Then she re-enforced and expanded on many of these examples.
The exercises were meant to be fun -- non-threatening but quite instructive. I thought the music CDs added another dimension to the workshop. It's always great to have music. She put a lot of thought into the music accompanying the presentations, and she played music with colors in the lyrics, which added a nice touch as background while we worked on the exercises.
Lois is a great teacher -- talented, supportive, helpful, attentive. In addition, she's a down-to-earth, fun person. The workshop was structured so that there was a good mix of presentation and hands-on exercises. Her PowerPoint presentations are wonderful -- the examples are set to music and simply are awesome. I especially enjoyed the examples of everyday things (the sidewalk, an oil slick, lettuce, etc) -- a real eye-opener. Then she re-enforced and expanded on many of these examples.
The exercises were meant to be fun -- non-threatening but quite instructive. I thought the music CDs added another dimension to the workshop. It's always great to have music. She put a lot of thought into the music accompanying the presentations, and she played music with colors in the lyrics, which added a nice touch as background while we worked on the exercises.
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