Embellish Your Knits

This knitting workshop offers several ways to make your plain knitting fancy! Drawing inspiration from nature, we'll start with elongated fancy stitches that evoke the beauty of flowers, stars, butterflies, and bees. Moving forward, we'll delve into the art of color pooling, a hot technique that is the current darling of indie dyers. To add a finishing touch, we'll discover the art of embellishment, incorporating herringbone and other braids to elevate our knits to new heights. Join us for a creative journey where you'll learn to infuse flair into your knitting, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Michele Lee Bernstein, PDXKnitterati, is a knitting designer and teacher. She loves designing accessories, and uses interesting techniques to make small objects sing. Michele loves teaching knitters to be the boss of their knitting! She teaches for Vogue Knitting Live, guild meetings, retreats, and local shops. Her book, Brioche Knit Love combines her love for teaching and designing. Michele blogs about knitting, food, and music at PDXKnitterati.com.

Yarns for 3 projects:

DK or worsted weight yarns in two contrasting colors for the elongated fancy stitches, and needles appropriate for your yarn weight.

One 100g skein worsted weight yarn dyed for assigned pooling, and needles appropriate for this weight yarn (that gives you a fabric you like).

3 50g skeins of sport or DK weight yarn in coordinating colors, 2 light and one dark, or 2 dark and one light. Needles appropriate for your yarn weight, either DPNs, 2 circulars, or long circular for magic loop knitting.

Stitch markers, row counter.

Handout for elongated fancy stitches

Pooling is a Cinch pattern for assigned pooling

Braided Wristlets pattern