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2007
Schedule
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| June
3- June 17 |
Knitting,
a Sculptural Skill
Haystack Mountain School of Craft
Deer Isle, ME
www.haystack-mtn.org
This workshop will explore the expressive potentials
of knitting with an emphasis on shape making. A
group of core skills will be investigated, focusing
on how these techniques may be used three dimensionally.
We will deal with the body as an armature as well
as looking at other support possibilities and solutions
for our knitting. The group will investigate the
geometry of knitting and adapt this to the forms
they wish to make. Each student will knit smaller
studies as well as planning and beginning one larger
more formal project. We will experiment with a
variety of materials, discuss questions, and critique
our own and other’s work.
This class, given the labor-intensive nature of
knitting, stresses design and process, not completed
products.
Participants must be comfortable with basic knitting
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| July
15-21 |
Knitting,
a Different Slant
Split Rock Arts Program, Center for Continuing
Education, University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
www.cce.umn.edu/splitrock
Knitting can be a sculptural technique. It builds
shape as it makes fabric. This hands-on workshop
will explore the expressive potentials of Diagonal
Knitting with an emphasis on making seamless
shapes and clothing. Understanding better how
knitting works can enable and encourage students
to plan and complete their own projects.
Diagonal Knitting constructs seamless two and
three dimensional shapes with rows that lie on
the bias. Orienting the rows diagonally can enliven
our work and improve the drape of our material.
Knitters at different levels of expertise can
learn how to incorporate and adapt what they
already know in a different slant.
We will experiment with some different materials,
discuss, share, and critique our own and other’s
work. The class will spend a large part of the
day working together, and some time separately
on solo work. Participants will be expected to
knit practice pieces, to plan and begin at least
one larger project. However, a class of this
length will stress design and process, not completed
products.
Participants should be comfortable with basic
knitting skills.
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Knitting is
a sculptural skill. I teach design, with a focus on three dimensional
construction and techniques. My classes are about building a sweater,
a vest, a cape, a bird or a boat. See the sculpture
and clothing areas of this site for
examples of what I teach.
My own knitting
expertise is the result of identifying and solving spacial
problems, simply how and where to make shapes bigger
or smaller. And as knitters, at the same time that we can plan and
make shapes, we must incorporate texture, and make our material.
I
do not need to teach you creativity, but I hope to encourage it.
When we make our own plans, rather than following directions we
will be better able to knit how and what we choose.
My goal is to make knitting clear, and to encourage us to knit in
creative ways .Simple geometry coupled with know-why
and know-how, can give us knitting anwers. Once you
understand the differenece between “k2t” and “ssk”,
you will know where and why and how to use each of them. And,
if you can think of a large drinking straw, you know what a “tube”
is, so ...no math or geometry phobias, please.
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| Katharine
"out on a limb". |
| Contact
me for classes in sculptural knitting, either solo or group
classes in Cushing, or for group sessions elsewhere.
If you
have questions about classes, please email me at kcobey@midcoast.com.
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