Another month, another Vogue Knitting Live! This month, I lined up early morning classes for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. How early? 10 – 12 Eastern time, which is 6 – 8 Alaska time. Plus side I didn’t have to take any time off from work. Minus side – that means getting up at 5:30, which is really, really early for me. So early.
But at least the classes have been interesting so far! Thursday I had Roosimine, which is a way of adding embellishment to knitting that looks like embroidery, but is not.
It may look hard, but it really isn’t, and you wind up with a pretty nifty effect. My Friday class was on Baltic Braids. We went over a number of ways of knitting braids into your projects.
The last two braids – the three color ones – are not technically part of the class. But the teacher showed us examples with three colors, and it looked neat, so I tried it out. And it worked out fine! I had the same teacher for both of these classes, Aleks Byrd. She has a lot of nifty designs, many of which feature these techniques.
Tomorrow’s class is on distitch. What is it? I don’t know yet, though Amazon sure does want to sell me the book. That dang thing pops up every time I am looking at knitting books there. So when I saw the author is teaching an introduction to the technique, I was interested enough to check it out. I’ll let you know what that’s all about tomorrow!
Quite A Yarn 
Pretty! I love stitching on top of knitting. I also love the look of braids. I must find a pattern that incorporates one. I think I read about distitch, or took a Craftsy class on it? Or maybe it was featured on Knit Stars? I don’t recall. hmmm…now I have to go find my notes!
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All nifty techniques so far! I think there are lots of patterns out there with braids. I actually made a cowl with a bunch of different one – the pattern name is braid-o-rama. If was a fun project 🙂
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These all sound interesting. I remember Melissa from Knitting the Stash talking about disstitch and I may be wrong but I think she has a knit along on Ravelry for it.
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That’s cool – I didn’t know anything about it 🙂 It was an interesting class!
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Those look great! I should have taken those classes. I can’t believe you can function that early in the morning.
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You should definitely check out the classes for the next one – they have a really broad range of topics! I couldn’t quite believe it either 🙂 Also, other than knitting I don’t think I would have been up to much!
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One day I will actually sign up for classes.
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Sounds and looks like fun! I love braids.
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It was! I do too – they are such a nifty touch!
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That is amazing and looks really complicated! Love the pink with the gray!
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It does look that way, but both techniques are pretty easy 🙂 I do too! I was just grabbing things of a similar weight out of my scraps bin, and the colors happened to work out 🙂
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Fun braids.
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