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Knitting - Intro to Lace
Knowing how to knit lace work opens up so many possibilities - gorgeous shawls, edges, lace panels.
Teacher: Ophelie Lechat
Workshop Duration: Full Day
Description: Learn to knit beautiful lace projects in this full-day workshop. We will create a lace cowl/scarf, perfect for those still-chilly days just before summer.
Students will learn to work a provisional cast-on, read a lace knitting chart, work yarn-overs and directional decreases, and select a fibre and yarn for their next projects.
Materials: 50g of heavy laceweight yarn (Shibui Cima is highly recommended, available at Sunspun and Woolarium), a set of 3mm 100cm Addi Lace circular needles (Addi Lace is mandatory, as other needles aren’t as well suited to working with fine yarn and lace patterns).
Takeaway: By the end of the workshop, students will be confident with lace knitting techniques, and will have started work on their own lace project.
Level: Advanced Beginner/Intermediate. Students should be confident with knitting basics: knitting, purling, decreases, following a written pattern.
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.