The event is different from most other events I have attended as it has so many classes. I think there were well over 100 classes as well as demonstrations and lectures. The classes covered just about every subject you could imagine and possibly several more! From socks, shaping and seams to the enigmatic ten things your mother never told you (about knitting).


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s well as being thoroughly immersed in knitting in the day, there were events


in the evening. On the Saturday evening there was a gala dinner with a presentation from the wonderful Alice Starmore which was thoroughly inspiring. So imagine my joy when I got to meet her and, in fact in a surreal twist to the following evening, squashed into a stretch limo with some of my heroes - Alice Starmore, Cirilia Rose, Josh Bennett, Trisha Malcolm and Carol Sucolski along with 9 other people!


As wonderful as it is to meet up with so many other designers, I am just as inspired if not more so by the wonderfully enthusiastic participants and, even struggling with the jet lag, my students were also so lovely I couldn’t help to feel energised.


Trisha Malcolm, Editor in Chief of Vogue Knitting, says “We were thrilled with the turnout and energy at this year’s show. We know that knitters love getting together at yarn stores to learn new techniques, compare projects, and hear from top designers, we’ve simply taken that to the next level by creating the largest live gathering of knitters in New York”. And here’s to more similarly minded events worldwide I say!


February 2012 - 7


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