Sally Melville workshop today!

I attended a 2 part workshop today with Sallly Melville. SUPER FUN!

The morning was about designing & flattering fit. I found many of her tips, techniques, etc. very interesting and I am going to play around with the different elements to see if I can find my most flatter styles.

For the afternoon, we worked on stranded knitting. It was fun to see both 'throwers' and 'pickers' having to try each other's method and then all of us combine the two 2 color knitting. I learned that for me, a color in each hand works best. If I go to 3 colors, it would be 2 in the left and 1 in the right.

We also learned about stranding while purling back (if doing Fair Isle flat). I guess it is how South American knitters do ALL their patterned knitting. The method we were taught has you wrap one or more of the yarn colors around your neck. From there you don't hold the yarn near the needles, you have yarn around middle finger on right had for tension, both arms in front of you so the yarn coming down from the neck is taught. Insert needle as if to purl, lift up yarn color you want with left thumb grab with right needle and pull back through loop. This was amazingly simple, fast and the only weird part was that the stranding was on the side facing you.

All in all it was a very enjoyable day! For tonight I am going to try to get to bed early so I am somewhat 'with it' for work tomorrow morning at 6am. My projects test lead has moved on, so my work load has increased - UGH!

Happy Birthday to my brother Corey! 39?