Psycho-geography is about seeing your local environment in a new light: bike lanes, paths worn by human feet, and old forgotten rivers. It is about wandering about your home town and looking closer at things you pass every day.
This workshop will be an exploration of how to express your memories and thoughts of a specific place using knitting as a medium. Knitwear designer Karie Westermann will talk about her own experiences designing knitwear inspired by specific landscapes, from shawls mimicking submerged beaches to hats taking visual cues from her Glasgow cityscape.
Then, together, you will begin to explore your own landscapes on the needles. What is the fabric of your own place? How can you translate the way you navigate the city into a wearable piece of knitwear? Karie will guide you in thinking about textures, stitch patterns and colours – and make you look at familiar streets in a new way.
Skills and experience Beginner & up. If you can cast on/off and knit & purl, this class is fine.
Materials You will need to bring yarn that you associate with the place you want to explore. Scraps are great, bring a selection! You will also need to bring appropriate sized needles for the yarn
All other materials will be provided
Tutor Karie Westermann does things with wool & words. She is a designer, teacher & general wool enthusiast. Her work combines her love of storytelling, art and woolly yarns as she is a big believer in knitting never being “just knitting”.
Karie relaxes by doing pub quizzes, biking around Glasgow on her red bike, and dabbling in dress-making. Her latest project, This Thing of Paper, a knitting book inspired by medieval manuscripts and books, was released in November 2017.
To book onto Karie’s workshop visit our website here. All workshops include entrance into the Yarningham marketplace on the day of the workshop.
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