Day 1 with Feral Knitter

Today was the first day of my color knitting workshop with Janine, a.k.a. Feral Knitter. I meant to write a short post before the trip, but ran out of time. Fortunately we found a great guy to stay at our house and take care of Kelvin and Piper while we are gone, so we can enjoy our trip without worrying about the boys being locked away in cages at a boarding place. It’s all working out for the best.

My first day with Janine exceeded my expectations. The workshop is called “Design Your Fair Isle Garment” and covers a lot of ground in a sensible and practical way to develop color confidence and discover how to tackle color design as it applies to Fair Isle knitting. Today was all about choosing colors for the garment of our choice, starting from a source of inspiration, and then how to swatch in the most effective way to see how those colors interact with each other. Tomorrow we will complete our speed swatches and then choose a pattern or patterns for our projects. The workshop is at Janine’s house and there are only six of us so it’s laid back and cozy and we have access to all of Janine’s designs and swatches, which is great. I’ll take a picture of my speed swatch tomorrow, after I’ve added a few more rows to it. If things work out, I

may also visit Lacis in Berkeley with a local friend. I will try to post about all things knitterly during this trip, but my online time is limited and I may be late replying to emails between now and Sept. 6. Ciao from the Bay Area.

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