We're excited to welcome Kristin Spurkland to Blazing Needles for a weekend trunk show, color theory workshop, and Nordic knitting workshop.
- Friday, October 28, 5pm-7pm at Blazing Needles: Meet and welcome Kristin to Salt Lake City for her first visit. The evening will include a trunk show of Kristin's new patterns and book signing of The Knitting Manual. Light appetizers will be served.
- Saturday, October 29, Color Theory, 12pm-4pm at Westminster College: This interactive class is designed to increase your confidence with color, develop your eye, and give you the skills to create your own unique color palettes. Cost $55; reserve your space online now.
- Sunday, October 30, Nordic Knitting with the Heartland Hat, 11am-3pm at Westminster College: Learn the basics of Scandinavian two-color knitting while making a colorful Nordic hat. We will explore 2-color knitting techniques, reading charts, effective color selection and placement, as well as Scandinavian knitting history. Cost $55; reserve your space online now.
If you sign up for both classes, you will get 15% off your pattern and yarn for Sunday's Nordic Knitting workshop.
Color Theory
Ever spent hours staring at the yarn walls at Blazing Needles? If so, this class is for you! Learn how to select color using color theory, inspiration, intuition; and how to use selected colors to maximum effect.
This interactive class is designed to increase your confidence with color, develop your eye, and give you the skills to create your own unique color palettes.
Materials:
No materials required; however, students are welcome to bring any projects for which they would like assistance in selecting colors, or projects in which the colors did not work out as they had hoped.
Reserve your space for Working with Color now.
Nordic Knitting with the Heartland Hat
Learn the basics of Scandinavian two-color knitting while making a colorful Nordic hat. We will explore 2-color knitting techniques, reading charts, effective color selection and placement, as well as Scandinavian knitting history.
Skill level: intermediate and up
Materials:
For learning techniques: stash yarn (students may use anything from sport to light worsted weight) in at least 2 colors, 16" circular needles, appropriate to yarn weight, straight or dpn needles appropriate to yarn weight
For Hat
- Greeenland Hat pattern (see Ravelry)
- Size 2 (2.75mm) circular needles, 16" long
- Size 3 (3.25mm) circular needles, 16" long
- Size 3 (3.25mm) dpn
- Stitch marker
- Tapestry needle
- Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift (or equivalent weight yarn); one skein each in 5 colors
(note: students attending the colorworkshop may want to select their colors there)
Homework
With a 16" circular needle, CO sufficient sts to join the work into the round. Knit or rib until work measures about 1".
Optional
Students who wish to may CO for the Greenland hat and work the 2" of k1, p1 rib that form the border.
Reserve your space for Nordic Knitting with the Heartland Hat now.
Kristin Spurkland Bio
After earning her Apparel Design degree from Bassist College in Portland, OR, in 1998, Kristin chose to pursue a path in knitwear design with a focus on hand knitting.
In addition to her work for knitting magazines and yarn companies, she is the author of four books: Knits From the Heart, Crochet From the Heart, and Blankets, Hats, and Booties (published by Martingale & Company); and The Knitting Man(ual) published by Ten Speed Press in 2007.
Kristin is now focusing on developing her own line of patterns.
When not knitting, Kristin volunteers at House of Dreams Cat Shelter, practices yoga and dance (samba, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Brazilian), and African and Brazilian percussion. She also enjoys reading and cooking, and time spent doing nothing at all.
