The Knitting Sleuth

Predictions, Investigations and Sock Design! We will spend the day reverse engineering my collection of mysterious, challenging texture swatches. As you decipher swatches and attempt to reproduce them, your understanding of knitting and ability to navigate unfamiliar territory will grow exponentially. To maximize the rewards, I’ll guide you to record not only the instructions for each swatch, but also to describe how each element alters the behavior of neighboring elements, to map out promising variations, to measure elasticity, to consider both sides and whether or not partial reversal might be worth trying, as well as other useful details.  As the day progresses, you’ll begin to notice common characteristics or behaviors among the swatches, and as you record those insights and ponder them and explore them on the needles, you’ll be working your way toward creative fluency with these elements.  By afternoon, when the room is bursting with mapped out realizations and variations, we’ll combine our knowledge to draw some conclusions, embed our discoveries in sock design, and point in promising directions for later explorations.  My goal is that this workshop kindles a life-long passion for sleuthing and recording your way through the infinite variations of knitting, and that over time you will build a personal library of investigations, swatches, and designs.

Cat Bordhi