WORKSHOPS
All our Workshops will be hosted by Di Gilpin with Sheila Greenwell and will be worked around a specific project. The workshops aim to be fun, friendly and creative in our studio at Comielaw Farm with visits to Kellie Castle a short walk away.
Latest Available Workshops
Saturday 7th June 2025 - 10:00am - 1:30 pm - Spaces still available!
An Introduction to Design
Join us for a special class, learning how to create the correct tension for your design. We will be testing different weights and types of yarn to explore their behavior. With this knowledge we then discuss how to create your own design, or modify an existing design to your unique fit.
Specifically, the class will include:
How to identify to proper tension for your design.
How to use tension to design or change any pattern to fit yourself.
How to modify shaping using needle size changes
How to choose your own colours to suit yourself when knitting in colour.
The workshop will be from 10.00am to 1.30pm. Coffee and Cake will be served!
Saturday 5th July 2025 - 10:00am to 1.30pm - Spaces still available!.
Colour Cabling: A very special and unique painterly Technique
In this masterclass we will be exploring my special colour cabling technique!
Working on small samplers to explore how colour works with both Fair Isle and Cable. Everyone will then go home with the Schiehallion Hat pattern! All yarn for sampling provided.
The Schiehallion hat celebrates the paintings of the Artist Dora Carrington (Bloomsbury Group). This was originally a hand knitting piece using cable and colour to create a painterly knitted canvas showing the landscape and geology of Andalucia. Dora Carrington stayed in Yegen ( a remote village in the Sierra Nevada mountains Southern Spain) with the writer Gerald Brennan (The Face of Spain) and Lytton Strachey at Brennan’s house for some time in March 1920( ninety nine years ago). `She found it a ‘unique arcadia’ and had ‘seldom been so happy continuously day after day’. Her incredible painting of the mountains towards Almeria has been an all time favourite of mine. Her reading of the landscape and colour of this extraordinary part of Spain is deep, rich and evocative. I have tried to approach the design of Schiehallion in the same way….bringing a richness to the pattern and to the colour using our own Yarns, to reflect the magical colours of the Scottish Mountain Landscape.
We will be supplying all yarn for the sampling! A great way to explore colour and cable, learning a lot of new techniques to create your very own colour palate and a great project.
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