Workshops

KNITTED IMAGES
Designing, Graphing and Knitting Imagery With or Without Repeats
at Maine Fiberarts - 13 Main St. Topsham, Maine
July 9: Designing & Graphing
July 16: Knitting Techniques
Limited to ten participants.
Plan to come both days, 10 a.m.- noon


Learn how to translate imagery into knitted stitches. Techniques covered include simplifying imagery without losing important detail, drawing on graph paper, how to read a graph, working with bobbins, intarsia, fair-isle and duplicate stitching.

Supplies needed:
For Day 1: Image to be knitted (your own drawing or found imagery), tracing paper, knitter’s graph paper (can be downloaded online; just search “Knitter’s graph paper”), colored pencils.
For Day 2: Colored yarns, bobbins (sized appropriately for your yarn), appropriate needle sizes, one large-eye yarn needle, and your completed chart from Day 1. A great way to use up small ends from your existing stash.


Cost: $40/Maine Fiberarts members, $75/nonmembers.
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Self portrait knitted vestSelf-portrait Vest, 1987

I am available to teach a 2 day workshop based on the following prospectus.
It is both a retreat and experiential class looking at how we can consciously create in our lives.

Contact me for more info


From Vision to Reality: Creating As A Way Of Life


Our deepest longings are a gift of Spirit, a call to create. How do we respond to the call?
Much of our education has taught us the skills to adapt, react and conform to the world around us, not the skills needed to vision, choose, build momentum and live in the chaos and mystery necessary to create something that never existed before. We will define, in this workshop, the difference between a reactive/ responsive orientation and a creating orientation. The importance of building structural tension between your vision and current reality. Ways we distort current reality and how that weakens the tension necessary to reach the vision. How to build momentum and how we can use "setbacks" to access points to strengthen the vision. There will be exercises to practice the techniques and discussion of how we each work with the creating process in our lives. Each participant will be encouraged to make a list of choices they would like to manifest in their lives and to choose one as a practice vision to use during the workshop, for beginning the process.



For more of my classes, visit my art & design website: www.rebekahyounger.com