Posts Tagged ‘swatch’

January 29th, 2010
Lingo Swatch Challenge
by
rox

Lingo has called out to be a skirt ever since we started this line. Years ago Artfibers had a linen blend that worked very nicely for “pattern evolution shaping”. Lingo, being 100% linen seemed even more ideal for this technique, so I began experimenting with stitch patterns. What is “pattern evolution shaping”, you might ask. [...]

September 30th, 2009
Knitting Outside the Rules
by
nyle

Baruch Gould taught a Freeform Knitting workshop last weekend at the Artfibers studio in Pinole.  It was a special privilege to be there.   All chairs were filled with an enthusiastic group, who seemed to share two things:  advanced fiber skills, and a keen desire to experiment. Baruch had just returned from a conference on a [...]