I live in Glasgow, Scotland but am originally from Denmark, a small Scandinavian country.
I usually describe my day job as ‘doing things with wool and words’!
I am a knitwear designer and also teach knitting/crochet classes anywhere all over Europe and the UK.
It is such a privilege to be a small part of other people’s making lives: every time I see someone excited about a new technique or wearing one of my designs, I feel so honoured.
A less visible part of my job is that I support other knitting professionals as a copy editor and a mentor.
I also write articles for magazines and provide professional hand-knitting advice for museums, universities and other institutions.
Both workshops will be in english.
Workshop 1:
Design your own shawl
With experienced designer & shawl enthusiast Karie Westermann, learn how to design and calculate your own shawls in just a few hours!
Together you will look at how shawls are constructed, learn how to insert stitch patterns into shawls and figure out how to think outside the box. You will be looking at how to go from idea to finished design and how to calculate projects. Karie will guide you through your design process – armed with humour and experience – and give you hands-on advice regarding construction methods, shaping, and how to avoid the most common shawl design mistakes.
Skills focus:
How to design your own shawl from scratch
How to calculate stitch counts
How to construct shapes
How to insert lace repeats into a shawl
Understanding how to trouble-shoot shawl designs
Skills needed:
Knit, purl, working a yarnover and doing at least one decrease
How to read an easy lace chart
Must have knitted at least two shawls
Materials to bring:
1 ball of 4ply (at least 50% natural fibres)
1 pair of 4mm needles (straight or circular – if circular, then 24” preferred)
Selection of stitch markers
Pencil, graph paper, calculator and eraser
Tapestry needle
Workshop 1
20 Teilnehmer
13 - 16 Uhr
70,00 € inklusive Abendkarte
Sometimes a little effort is rewarded by great effect. Mock cables, twisted stitches, and Japanese mini-cables all look complex, but are surprisingly easy to work once you learn the secrets. We'll play with textures and techniques as we knit wrist warmers together.
With designer and author Karie Westermann at your side, you will learn about how to mimic cables using lace techniques, twisted stitches, and elegant Japanese slipped stitches. Together you will work on a wrist warmer that will enable you to work on projects that look like cables – but without the bulk and the risk of dropped stitches!
Skills focus:
How to work twisted stitches
How to work mini-cables and twists without a cable needle
How to use lace techniques to create the illusion of cables
Skills needed:
Knit, purl, working a yarnover and doing at least one decrease
How to read an easy chart
Working in the round
Materials to bring:
1 ball of DK
1 pair of 4mm needles (whichever you use to work a small circumference in the round)
1 pair of 4mm needles (whichever you use to work straight)
Selection of stitch markers
Pen and paper
Tapestry needle
Workshop 2
20 Teilnehmer
19 - 22 Uhr
70,00 € inklusive Abendkarte