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Barbara Walker

Barbara Walker  (Note from Steph: Yes. That Barbara Walker.)  is the author of the four Treasuries of Knitting Patterns, plus “Knitting from the Top,” “Mosaic Knitting,” “Barbara Walker’s Learn-To-Knit Afghan Book,” twelve other books on various subjects, and numerous magazine articles.  Her paintings are featured in “The Barbara Walker Tarot Deck” and the card deck she designed for “The I Ching of the Goddess.”  Her “Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets” was named Book of the Year by the London Times.  She has received the Humanist Heroine of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association, the Women Making Herstory Award from New Jersey NOW, and the Olympia Brown Award from the Unitarian Universalist Association.  She is also listed in that prestigious publication, “Who’s Who in Hell.”

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Barbara has worked as a journalist, dance teacher, professional knitwear designer, artist, and women’s group leader.  She currently lives in Florida and serves as secretary to the local mineral club (she is an enthusiastic collector) and is an active member of the Gulf Coast Humanists and the Unitarian congregation, for whom she has presented more than thirty sermons. She is at work on a new collection of essays.

Mosaic knitting is the non-stranding, slip-stitch technique for making patterns in contrasting colors, developed and named by Barbara Walker, who has created (and published) more original stitch patterns than any other single person known to history. This class will show you how to create your own original, never-before-seen designs in color knitting, applicable to socks or any other knitwear.

Barbara Walker became a knitter at the relatively advanced age of thirty-five and within two years published the most complete compendium of stitch patterns yet seen in the United States. Three more “Treasuries of Knitting Patterns” followed, including two featuring her own original method of charting directions, and never-before-seen patterns of her own creation. Then she published “Knitting from the Top,” “Mosaic Knitting,” and “Barbara Walker’s Learn-To-Knit Afghan Book.” In addition to designing for yarn companies, over the course of fifteen years she has created more than 300 garments, fifty afghans, wall hangings, bedspreads, etc., plus one-of-a-kind fantasy garments for her collection of over 400 fashion dolls, and all the swatches for her books.