Jun 9, 10:00am-12:00pm CDT
Get familiar with the symbols and formats used in the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible with translator/knitter Gayle Roehm. Join her and gain experience and insight into those complex charts and symbols as you knit this lacy cabled hat from the book.
Gayle Roehm is a former management consultant who has traveled throughout the world and lived in Japan. She speaks Japanese and loves knitting Japanese patterns and designs. She is best-known in our world as the translator of many Japanese knit and crochet books into English.
Gayle now devotes herself to knitting and other fiber arts. She teaches nationally for knitting events, guilds, and yarn shops. Her designs have been featured in Knitter's, Interweave Knits, A Gathering of Lace, and other publications. She also sells her work at a fiber arts gallery.
She published the first information in English about Japanese patterns in 1997, she prepared the Japanese section for the book Knitting Languages, and she has translated patterns for Diakeito Yarns/Sunrise Fibers.
