Backstitch Gathering #2: Looping and unraveling history
January 17 | 6:30-8:30pm
$10-20 suggested | More Info & Event Calendar

This session, co-led with Jo Bell, will focus on unraveling. Joanna will share her knowledge of knitting and consider the rich metaphors within this practice of tension and release. Just as yarn might be pulled and quickly unraveled from its knitted form, we’ll share ways as artists we can look back on the past (tension) to go forward into the future (release) while learning to sit in the gratitude of the present. This practice can exercise which knots we hope to hold fast and which knots we wish to let go of.  Joanna will teach how careful knotting and knitting of yarn can secure beautiful, intricate forms that serve as a gesture towards care across interwoven societal and environmental threads. 

Sewing + fiber art skills you’ll learn:

• Looping

• Knotting

• Braiding

• Hand sewing