Elevate Your Knitting with Texture

with Katrina Geurkink

Saturday, November 1st, 2025

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

Shaker arts and crafts are known for striking, innovative, and functional designs. Textured knitting shares these qualities. It can be used to create beautiful, intriguing fabric with a range of performance features like stretch, breathability, durability, moisture wicking and extra warmth. And your knitting doesn’t have to be complicated to create stunning, textured pieces. It can be as simple as combining knit and purl stitches in unique ways; or employing increases and decreases in repetitive patterns that take your knitting to the next level. In this workshop we will explore a range of knitting stitches and techniques. Most are easy to learn and they all produce fabrics full of beautiful texture. We will begin with work on small pieces, designed to develop skills and best practices. Once learned, you will apply these skills to create a knitted item of your choice. The instructor has designed several textured knitting charts that can be incorporated into your project. You will receive the full collection of knitting charts during the workshop, so you can continue developing your textured knitting skills at home and integrate the charts and stitches into future projects. This workshop is a great opportunity to get an early start on knitted gifts for the holidays.

In the workshop, you will learn:

• Design considerations for textured knitting: how to select the right yarn, needles and color for your texture projects, including advantages and disadvantages of different choices
• Different techniques to create texture in your knitting, including: knit/purl combinations, assigned pooling, lace, combining different fibers, and simple cables
• Combining more than one texture in a project
• Knitting “rhythms” and how they can be used to increase accuracy and reduce “tinking” and “frogging”
• How to read and work with textured knitting charts
• Many tips and tricks throughout the day as well as cameos about Shaker fiber art and crafts.

Workshop participants will need to bring their own knitting needles and other tools (scissors, etc.) and pay the materials fee in advance. This fee covers all the texture charts, yarn, some supplies and handouts for the workshop. Participants will have the option to purchase additional yarn, texture patterns, tools and other supplies on the day of the workshop.

Skill Level: Basic – Intermediate. You do not need textured knitting skills/experience to attend this workshop, but you should have basic to intermediate knitting skills, and enthusiasm and patience for learning new knitting techniques.

Cost:

$75.00 to register for the workshop, plus the materials fee $35. Due at the time of registration.

Please bring your own lunch. Water and light refreshment will be provided.

You will receive more information (including a detailed list of what to bring) via email when you register and pay for the workshop.

Who Is Katrina Geurkink?

Katrina is a consultant, designer and fiber artist living in Lebanon, NH. She has taught, studied and worked with organizations and learning communities for over thirty-seven years. She is a skilled facilitator, consultant, coach, teacher and graphic recorder and has a wonderful way of interweaving these different abilities in her work with clients and other artists. She has traveled to many countries around the world, leading projects, giving presentations at conferences, designing learning experiences and consulting with a variety of organizations and communities.

She first started playing with fiber when she was five years old. She learned how to knit and sew from her mother and grandmother, and occasionally from her older sister. They were strong role models and a constant source of inspiration, demonstrating over and over the incredible things one can create with one’s own hands. She started adapting knitting patterns as a teenager and creating her own knitting, sewing and other designs when she was in her early twenties. She has played with many different disciplines in the realm of fiber arts: knitting, crochet, beading/wire working, sewing, surface design, origami, and visible mending to name a few. She is an artist member at AVA Gallery and is currently developing online courses and a YouTube Channel to help a wider audience learn from demonstrations of fiber art and craft techniques.

Location: North Family Laundry Building – Stone building at 410 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH 03748

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