UNVEILING THE ANATOMY OF THE STITCH 4 CLASSES IN WITH LISA DAEHLIN LION BRAND STUDIO – MARCH 2011

1 - & Friday, March 4th 2011; 12-3pm; $60.00 Hairpin and Broomstick Lace Crochet are examples of using tools made for common everyday tasks and reinterpreting their use to create lovely fabric. The harmony of these closely-related techniques easily flows one into the other in the ways they are used to make fabric as well as how they function together in design. PREREQ: know how to make a chain and single crochet stitch.

2 - A LACE SAMPLER Sunday, March 6th 2011; 2-5pm; $60.00 Dissect seemingly complex lace patterns into their simple components. Using the elegant technique of yarn-over increases paired with decreases, learn a sampling of lace patterns which can be used to create a rectangular lace shawl. PREREQ: know how to cast on, knit, purl, bind-off.

3 - KNITTING LACE IN THE ROUND Friday, March 18th 2011; 12-3pm; $60.00 Learn the skills needed to knit a lace circle (or square) from the center outward: knitting flat in the round on double-pointed needles, and the various directional increases/decreases used in yarn- over . PREREQ: know how to cast on, knit, purl, bind- off. Familiarity with dpns is helpful but not required.

4 - KNITTING A TRIANGULAR LACE SHAWL Sunday, March 20th 2011; 2-5pm; $60.00 Create a vision in lace as if an angel’s wings draped about your shoulders. Using the elegant technique of yarn-over increases paired with decreases, learn to knit lace in a triangular shape. The class begins with how to make a garter stitch tab as the cast-on at the nape of the neck and covers the skills (including various ways to incorporate beads) needed to work down to the shaping of the bound-off edge. PREREQ: know how to cast on, knit, purl, bind-off.

INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera singer. A continuing education faculty member at Cooper Union, she has the distinction of being their first-ever teacher of knitting and crochet courses. A sought-after designer of knitted and crocheted fabrics and objects, she free-lances for the fashion industry and retail design. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan, on the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit 1, Vogue Knitting Magazines as well as featured in the Lace Style and Bag Style books published by Interweave Press.

LOCATION: Lion Brand Yarn Studio - 34 W. 15th St. NYC REGISTER: 212. 243.9070 http://lionbrandyarnstudio.com/ INSTRUCTOR: http://www.delisa.us/ and http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/