Wednesday, September 24, 1 – 4 pm
Alla Hale
Learn to design and create your own bespoke sweater! Explore the fundamentals of sweater design, including how to complete gauge swatches and draft your own sweater pattern based on your measurements. Learn about yarn selection, sweater construction, and techniques for prototyping and iterating your designs. This workshop is aimed at intermediate or advanced knitters. Prerequisite skills: cast on, bind off, standard increases and decreases, comfort knitting flat and in the round, ability to read a knitting pattern.
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Instructor Bio:
Alla Hale (she/her) is a knitter based in St. Paul, Minnesota who uses fiber art to live into her core values of creativity and connection. Each piece she creates speak to the profound beauty of working with her hands, transforming raw materials into something functional, beautiful, or otherwise meaningful.
Alla sources her materials locally, partnering with local shepherds and foraging for dye plants in the Minnesota landscape. This practice roots her work in the community and the land, fostering a deep sense of connection to both. Teaching fiber art classes privately and with the Textile Center around the Twin Cities is an extension of this connection. Through her classes she share the skills and joy of knitting and other fiber arts, and occasionally painting, helping others discover the expressive power of fiber art.
As a practicing data scientist, Alla is captivated by the intricate designs that emerge from seemingly simple elements. The combinations of each stitch, stroke, data point, and raw material tells complex and harmonious stories.
Her work celebrates the interconnectedness of community, nature, and pattern seeking. It is her hope that each piece she creates and every class she teaches resonate with a sense of place and belonging, reflecting the rich tapestry of our shared human experience. @HarvestedHues on Instagram and Ravelry
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