Block Island Workshops
Block Island Knitwear Design Workshop – Spring 2024
Bringing friends back together to learn, share and expand our design skills
Designer One Group – Block Island Workshop
May 7-10 2024
Taking Classic Sweaters into the Future!
Are you familiar with the roots of your knitting craft? Here is a hands-on design survey of all the classic sweaters of the world! Learn how you can adapt these classic garment — and update them for your own designing! A 4-day, 3 night, workshop will make you an expert on these iconic knitted garments and how to use them in your own design work, both garments and accessories. We will also look at how mainstream fashion has borrowed their shapes, details and patterning.
Block Island Knitwear Designer Plus Workshop – Spring 2024
Bringing friends back together to learn, share and expand our design skills
Designer Plus – Block Island Workshop
April 24-27, 2024
Unique Sweater Shaping andHighlighting with Pattern Stitches
Over the years in our studies, we have all admired knitted garments that have unique shaping, and also those that feature pattern stitches that accent that shaping. As a group we share admiration for unexpected pattern touches at the edges of sweaters! Let’s try working with these concepts, in-depth! Also, let’s explore using the sweater, or accessory, as a landscape for displaying pattern stitches in unique ways!