Thank You to the Ladies who took my Dotty Knitting class at Stitches East! Here are some of them, posing with their samples. It was a happy class, where everyone quickly understood how to read the special charts, and many went on to practice charting on their own.
Dotty knitting is a way to knit with color, where you carry only one yarn at a time. It’s a slip stitch color knitting method, often known as mosaic knitting, as it was labeled by Barbara Walker. The difference is the scale of the designs.
Barbara Walker designed many stunning, mostly geometric motifs for this method. In my Dotty Knitting class at Stitches (and elsewhere), participants learn how to knit from the clever charts that Ms. Walker devised. Then they learn to chart Dotty Designs on their own. That opens the design field to things like children’s drawings and motifs with personal meaning.
I’ll be teaching Dotty Knitting again at Stitches West in Santa Clara, California, at the end of February 2009.