After 25 years as a sweater designer, selling designs to such brands as Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis and Armani AX, Helen Sharp is putting her expertise and studio to a new use. Fashion designers, fiber artists and home knitters can come together for hands-on classes in machine knitting. The Knitting School™ offers four-week sessions covering the basics of machine knitting through advanced garment design and construction. Students will learn the basic machine knitting techniques, many advanced techniques plus how to follow a design and construct professional garments using a domestic knitting machine and linker.
The Center for Machine Knitting Launches
Needle Felting Workshop in August
Remember that old sweater you got at Goodwill because it was such a gorgeous color and it was pure 100% cashmere and only $4.99? Then you got it home and found the moth-holes. It is time to pull it out of the back of the closet and work some needle-felting magic on it. Come to our three-hour workshop and learn the gentle (and sometimes painful!) art of needle-felting. You will learn how to make three-dimensional shapes and attach them to knitwear, and also how to draw two-dimensional “paintings” right on to a sweater. Bring that old moth-ridden piece, another sweater you would like to resuscitate or practice on our cashmere scraps. If embellished sweaters are not your thing, bring a scarf to decorate, or just make a needle felted brooch to attach to clothing when you're feeling festive.
Date: August 19, 2008
Time: 6 - 9 pm
Cost: $35, plus $15 for materials Fiber and felting needles supplied at class.
RSVP: Call 206.324.2334 to reserve your place
Fill out registration form and mail in with payment.
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