For the first year, and I hope not the last, Iwannaknit ReTreat (formerly Camp Iwannaknit), sponsored by Knitting Today, met at the Sylvan Springs Center in Rome City, northern Indiana. What an interesting place! Here’s the outside; inside pictures later.
I joined the participants in my first workshop, Color Composure, going through magazines, looking for purple, orange, and red to make into collages. I was surprised at the number of red/turquoise/aqua/black pieces I found.
Mary H. got busy hand-knitting a sample based on her orange/brown/green collage. Ann Y. had so many pieces of purple paper (she started collecting at home), it took her a long time to sort them all into color families. She settled on a combination of “Easter egg colors,†for her sample, which she quickly knitted on her machine. Here’s her sample.
I will be teaching a six-hour version of Color Composure at the Taos Wool Festival in October. See my sidebar for links.
The afternoon’s Particolor Party class, where we played with variegated yarns, was so sociable, I forgot to take pictures.
After supper, many of us knitters, crocheters and spinners, sat in the big livingroom, to listen to the talk and work. I sewed crochet trim on the wall hanging I posted last time. Wow! A person can get a lot done, when she can sit down for three uninterrupted hours!
Tune in next post for part 2 of the ReTreat Review.