Lorilee happily sees no end to where knitting curiosity can take you, so she loves to help knitters make new discoveries. For the past fifteen years she has enjoyed her students at over one hundred national events, and she looks forward to meeting you in class! Lorilee is patient with every student and packs her classes with content and lots of extra tips you can really use. She’s taught on knitting tours in Iceland, Norway, Canada, Latvia, and Estonia.
Her articles and designs have been published in books, magazines, and online mags. She is a 2018 Knit Star teacher, the former techniques columnist at Knitty, and instructor at Modern Daily Knitting, Interweave, and Craftsy where her classes are consistent best-sellers.
Tent-camping with her family has brought Lorilee to over twenty National Parks. She grew up in Pittsburgh, spent thirty years in west Michigan, and now calls Edmonds, Washington home where she gardens and plays pickleball as much as possible.
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CLASSES AND PROJECTS
Lorilee will be offering us a simple, bus-knitting-friendly one skein pattern on the first night.
On Day 3, we will join Lorilee in our Moroccan classroom, as she guides us on a journey of stranding color vertically in our knitting! This method of knitting offers new possibilities, where many colors of yarn can be worked at once.
In class, learn how to introduce strands of contrasting color to your work, how to work with them so that they are user friendly, and how to adequately anchor the stitches without overdoing it. Once you learn the tricks in class, the technique is easy to execute and repeat, making it suitable for an advanced beginner to an advanced knitter.
During our relaxed pace time together, we’ll make a swatch to learn the technique. This will also serve as a gauge swatch so that we can be ready to cast on the included pattern project. We’ll participate in group knitting time throughout our tour of Morocco, so that we can watch each other progress with our pattern.
Students must be comfortable knitting flat, back and forth with basic skill of cast on, knit, purl, increases, and decreases. All the rest of the skills needed will be taught in class.
Day 7 will see us in a classroom in the Sahara Desert! Here, we will listen to Lorilee teach us New Beginnings with the Magic Cast On.
In this techniques class, you’ll learn many unexpected uses for the magic cast on that you’ll use often in your knitting. Hems, tubular cast on, and provisional cast on can all be accomplished without waste yarn and crochet hooks. Wait until you see all the uses Lorilee has up her sleeves for this technique!
Susan/Wild Onion will lead us through some embroidery stitches on Day 5, so that we can produce an elegant patch to add to a tote, hat, or sweater. On Day 7, we will also dye a sock blank, using colors inspired by our favorite photos.