Wednesday, August 20th - 2:00pm - 5:00pm 

Time to play hooky from work, y'all!  Aleks is coming through town and we figured we'd try out a weekday afternoon class 🤞🏼

Roosimine is an Estonian inlay technique that creates the appearance of embroidery through intentional floats in contrasting yarn on the right side of your knitting. It’s the perfect technique to add some embellishment to your knitting that is easier than intarsia. The name Roosimine translates to “decorating with roses”, which comes from a style of short stitch embroidery done on the Estonian island of Muhu. Students will knit a small swatch in the round.

Students should be comfortable to knit and purl in the round, cast-on, and bind-off.

Materials To Bring:

• US 6 / 4mm needles for knitting small circumference (DPNs or circular needles for magic loop)
• Stitch markers
• Tapestry / darning needle
• DK-weight yarn (preferably nothing slippery—think yarn you would use for colorwork) in the following approx. amounts:
  • MC (main color) 20g
  • CC1 (contrast color 1) 10g
  • CC2 (contrast color 2) 10g

Make sure all yarn is easy to pull from both ends of the ball (for working with two strands at a time)

We are excited to welcome Aleks Byrd to PortFiber! 

Aleks is a knitwear designer with roots in Estonia, Canada, and the USA. Aleks’ passion is creating modern patterns with a connection to the past using little-known traditional techniques for unique, wearable designs that are fun and rewarding to knit for all levels of knitters. Her portfolio of designs includes individual patterns as well as those published in The Knitter magazine and Laine Magazine. Her latest book Traditions Revisited – Modern Estonian Knits brings together her designs and teaching as an introduction to Estonian knitting, both traditional and traditional-inspired.