FREE Color Work-o-Rama

NO registration needed

Just come on by and enjoy some free demos, raffles & colors!

Friday Aug 20th 2:00 – 5:00 pm

ALL CLASSES AND EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT:
Lion Brand Yarn Studio
34 W. 15th Street New York, NY 10011

Come and…add a little color into your life!

We love color work! This day is all about introducing you to everything you can do with color.  There will be free demos on everything from fair isle to intarsia, to two-color Tunisian crochet, and MORE! We will have free patterns to hand out, raffle drawings and . . .

10% off yarn picked out to make a color work pattern

Free Demos

There will be 14 free demos run in two different locations in the Studio from 2:00 – 5:00 pm.  Check back to this blog for a full schedule.

Raffle Drawings

We will have three raffle drawings throughout the day for prizes. The more free demos you attend the more chances to win!

• Fill out a ticket at each free demo
• Stay for all three drawings
• Must be present to win

Raffle times:

• 2:20 pm
• 3:30 pm
• 4:20 pm

*No purchase necessary to enter raffle drawings.

The Studio staff is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Melissa Leapman and her two Master Classes on January 24th (see the class schedule for details).   She is teaching Colorful Cables and Mosaic Knitting.  (pre order for Melissa’s new Mosaic Knitting book here !).

Most people know what cables are, but we’ve been getting many interested inquiries asking, what is Mosaic Knitting.

If you’ve wanted to explore color work, but want an option to dealing with the bobbins for Intarsia or the complexities of Fair Isle, this is for you!

(THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF MOSAIC KNITTING, NOT SPECIFICALLY WHAT YOU MAKE IN CLASS)

Knit Wiki defines Mosiac Knitting this way:

"Mosaic Knitting , sometimes known as slip stitch knitting, is a knitting method used to add color to patterns without carrying more than one strand of yarn at a time. Each row of knitting is done with only one color, following a chart, while the second color stitches are slipped without being knitted. In order to create the pattern, the knitter follows a chart. Each pattern row consists of two rows of knitting and slipping before changing to a new row of the chart and the other color of yarn. The designs are geometric in nature, with a graphic result similar to dot matrix printing. Charts for 2 color mosaic knitting use black and white squares. The color to be used for each round is indicated by a square in a side box of the chart.

Mosaic knitting charts never have you slip more than two stitches of the other color before knitting in the current color. The floats carried on the back of the work are shorter than in stranded or fair isle knitting techniques. However, because there are floats , the resulting fabric is less stretchy than one color or intarsia knitting patterns. You may knit mosaic charts in stockinette stitch, garter stitch, or a combination. Mosaic knitting worked in garter stitch will look different because of the purl bump texture"

Want to give it a try?  Call 212-243-9070 to book your spot now!