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Feeling a bit of ye olde ENTROPY? PULL IT TOGETHER with Knitting and Crochet!

lisadaehlin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:56:31 +0000

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Unveiling the Anatomy of the Stitch with Lisa Daehlin

Cooper Union Continuing Education Knitting and Crochet Spring ‘12

4- and 6-week Evening Courses in February, March, April REGISTER

Experiencing a bit of ENTROPY? Try KNITTING and CROCHET and pull it together!

If your idea of these art/craft forms involves an image along these lines….

or these (see a pattern forming?)

Bonus points to anyone who sees the likeness to Aristide Bruant dans son cabaret – see? lots of entropy…

Turn that CHAOS INTO STRUCTURE. Find out how at The Cooper Union.

CROCHET: An Introduction to the Basics
6 Tuesdays 6:30-9:00pm; Feb 7-Mar 13

KNITTING 1: An Introduction to the Time-Honored Tradition
4 Wednesdays 6:30-9:00pm; Feb 1-22

KNITTING 2: Intermediate and Advanced
6 Wednesdays 6:30-9:00pm; Feb 29-Apr 4

INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera singer. A continuing education faculty member at Cooper Union, she has the distinction of being their first-ever teacher of knitting and crochet courses. She also teaches in the studio arts workshop at the Newark Museum.A sought-after designer of knitted and crocheted fabrics and objects, she free-lances for the fashion industry and retail design. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan, on the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Vogue Knitting Magazines as well as featured in the Lace Style and Bag Style books and in an upcoming book on Tunisian Crochet published by Interweave Press.

LOCATION: Cooper Union – 30 Cooper Square, NYC – REGISTER: 212.353.4195 http://cooper.edu
INSTRUCTOR: http://www.delisa.us/ and http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/

check out this article by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Why we need things”

http://llk.media.mit.edu/courses/mas714/fall02/csik-things.pdf

I found it cathartic (and it served as the inspiration for the photo shoot of the yarn and tools in the attached poster for classes)

“In terms of WHY WE MAKE (and GIVE) things BY HAND, here’s one quote that struck me “When things are necessary to prove dominance and superiority, human costs start to escalate very quickly. It is striking to note in comparison how inexpensive things that stand for kinship and relatedness tend to be. TOKENS OF REMEMBRANCE, RESPECT, AND LOVE TYPICALLY HAVE TRIVIAL INTRINSIC VALUE, AND THE LABOR INVESTED IN THEM IS USUALLY VOLUNTARY.” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1993, p. 28)

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in sweet music is such art… to dream, remember, and slumber

lisadaehlin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:41:03 +0000

You are most cordially invited to:

IN SWEET MUSIC IS SUCH ART… TO DREAM, REMEMBER AND SLUMBER

a concert of arias and art song

Lisa Daehlin and Jacqueline Quirk, sopranos

Richard Pearson Thomas, pianist

Saturday, January 14th, 2012, 4pm

Milbank Chapel, Teachers College, Columbia University

525 West 120th Street, NYC, NY 10027 (1 train to 116th, walk uptown to 120th, turn right, entrance is 1/2 block on the uptown side of street, between broadway and amsterdam avenues)

free admission [ donations gratefully accepted ]

Artist websites: Lisa Daehlin, Jacqueline Quirk, Richard Pearson Thomas

Studio Arts Class at Newark Museum – Creating Knitted Lace: Organic Design within Geometric Shapes

lisadaehlin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:23:48 +0000

Studio Arts Workshop at the Newark Museum
Creating Knitted Lace: Organic Design within Geometric Shapes
Sunday, November 20, 2011; 10am-4pm

Knitting in lace is an exploration of positive/negative space. The sinewy lines created when using relatively simple knitting maneuvers (yarn-over increases paired with different types of decreases) lead the yarn (and your eye) through the landscape of a fabric composed of lines, holes, shapes, motifs — both organic and geometric. In this workshop learn how to: make these various paired increases/decreases; knit (and how to read, in words and charts) some specific stitch patterns designed to focus on the various elements of knitted lace; incorporate beads into the stitches; knit an edging and how to attach it to a non-bound-off edge; create the formulas for using this decorative (yarn-over) increase to create rectangular, circular, and triangular shapes – the building blocks of shawls, hats, pillows, purses, objects.

Prerequisite: Know how to cast-on, knit, purl, bind-off, and have familiarity working with double-pointed needles (those participants who aren’t yet comfortable with dpns will find circles an added challenge and perhaps might opt to not make that one shape).

INSTRUCTOR: LISA DAEHLIN is a knitting designer and opera singer. A continuing education faculty member at Cooper Union, she has the distinction of being their first-ever teacher of knitting and crochet courses. A sought-after designer of knitted and crocheted fabrics and objects, she free-lances for the fashion industry and retail design. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan, on the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit 1, Vogue Knitting Vogue Knitting Magazines as well as featured in the Lace Style and Bag Style books published by Interweave Press.

LOCATION: Newark Art Museum – 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
REGISTER: 973.596.6607 http://www.newarkmuseum.org/ArtsWorkshop.html
INSTRUCTOR: http://www.delisa.us/

Lace at the Library (maybe the Lions will knit too… but something tells me they’re more suited to hairpin… such LOCKS!)

lisadaehlin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:18:53 +0000

Hand-Made Crafternoon: October 15, 2011

Join crafty librarian Jessica Pigza of the Rare Book Division and Crafternoon author Maura Madden for a free DIY day at the Library. Our special guest will be the crochet and knit designer (and opera singer) Lisa Daehlin, who will share her knowledge of–and love for–knitted and crocheted lace designs (hairpin, broomstick, and Tunisian lace crochet, as well as yarn-over lace knitting). She will demonstrate some beginners’ techniques for making knitted and crocheted lace. We’ll have a limited amount of supplies and tools to share and try out that day, but if you have the following please bring: DK or heavier weight yarn, a size G or H crochet hook, size 50 knitting needles, and a hairpin loom. And as usual, we’ll have a selection of books on lace from the Library’s collection for browsing too.

Here are the details on this event:

This is a FREE event, but reservations are welcomebecause we have room for just 96 crafters. To reserve your spot, please write to handmade@nypl.org with your name and the date of this event.
What to bring: We’ll have some supplies and tools to share and try out that day, but if you have the following please bring: a ball of DK or heavier weight yarn, a size G or H crochet hook, size 50 knitting needles, and a hairpin loom
Where: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (on the Second Floor, Room 227)
When: Saturday, October 15, from 2:00 to 4:00pm (doors open at 1:30pm)
Check Hand-Made at NYPL for additional details as the event nears.

[ images from NYPL website ]

help us to dig water wells _ benefit concert for Water is Life Kenya

lisadaehlin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:26:54 +0000

Join us for a the 3rd Annual Benefit Concert for Water is Life Kenya. Money raised helps to dig/build water wells in Kenya. Less time spent by the villagers walking miles and miles for water means more time spent on quality of life such as getting an education and spending time with family.

Water Is Life – Kenya [501(c)3]

Benefit Concert: Music, Water & Life “Everyone Can Help Anyone”

Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church, Murray Hill/Gramercy East Side – Manhattan. 7pm; $25 at the door, Children under 10, free. Not to be missed!

Pianist Noby Ishida will accompany stellar NYC-based performers including Noah Racey (Broadway: Follies, Curtains, Never Gonna Dance, & Thoroughly Modern Millie), Jason Yudoff (from Jason Yudoff & The New Hotness as seen at The Highline, Rockwood Music Hall & Maxwell’s), and vocal talents of half a dozen professional Classical Singers. Dancers from The Keen Dance Theater of NYC and Women’s Percussion & Vocal Ensemble, Grace Drums, will also perform. Money raised will be sent to help drill Deep & Shallow Water Wells in Kenya – currently working in the Olepolos Community in the Mt. Kilimanajaro highlands. Proceeds will also go to WILK toward helping to develop sustainable water resources in areas of need, provide sanitation & hygiene education and workshops for stimulate improved livestock keeping practices. WILK has now helped over 20,000 people and over 100,000 of their livestock now have access to clean water! Kenyan jewelry sales, a raffle & a light reception will follow the concert. To learn more about WILK, go to www.kenyawaterislife.com.

not just for squares: lovely granny crochet & knitting triangular lace

lisadaehlin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:44:58 +0000

Unveiling the Anatomy of the Stitch
Knitting & Crochet Classes with Lisa Daehlin
during the month of September at Knitty City Yarn Shop, NYC

Not Just for Squares: Lovely Granny Crochet - Saturday, September 17^th 2011; 2-5pm- This lovely crochet technique is used for triangles, circles and other geometric shapes—the building blocks of an infinite number of projects. Techniques covered: Join chain to form a ring, working into the center of the ring, building corner motifs, connecting pieces to each other to create larger fabrics, garments or objects. Supplies: Crochet hook (size G or H) and two colors of dk or worsted weight yarn. Prereq: know how to make a chain, single and double crochet stitches.

Knitting a Triangular Lace Shawl - Saturday, September 24^th 2011; 2-5pm - Create a vision in lace as if an angel’s wings draped about your shoulders. Using the elegant technique of yarn-over increases paired with decreases, learn to knit lace in a triangular shape. The class begins with how to make a garter stitch tab as the cast-on at the nape of the neck and covers the skills (including various ways to incorporate beads) needed to work down to the shaping of the bound-off edge. Practice chart reading by working on a stitch pattern which could be incorporated into the shaping of your triangular shawl. Supplies: circular knitting needles (size 7 or 8), one ball of dk or worsted weight yarn (light colored and non-fuzzy), movable stitch markers. Prereq: know how to cast on, knit, purl, bind off.

INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera singer. A continuing education faculty member at Cooper Union, she has the distinction of being their first-ever teacher of knitting and crochet courses. She teaches in the Studio Arts Workshop at the Newark Art Museum. A sought-after designer of knitted and crocheted fabrics and objects, she free-lances for the fashion industry and retail design. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan, on the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit 1, Vogue Knitting Magazines as well as featured in the Lace Style and Bag Style books published by Interweave Press. http://www.delisa.us/

LOCATION: Knitty City – 208 W. 79th St. (Broadway/Amsterdam) Upper West Side of NYC

REGISTRATIONS: 212. PURL-TWO (212.787.5896)
http://www.knittycity.com/

my soul leaps to their fire – a concert of american art song

lisadaehlin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:16:25 +0000

Lisa Daehlin and Richard Pearson Thomas

A Concert of American Art Song

MY SOUL LEAPS TO THEIR FIRE

25th august 2011, 7pm, free admission

Milbank Chapel, Teachers College, Columbia University

525 west 120th street, new york, ny

lisadaehlin.com

Studio Arts Workshop at Newark Art Museum – Mitred Squares and Hairpin Laces

lisadaehlin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:37:17 +0000

Mitred-Square Knitting and Crochet (with Hairpin Lace Crochet Decoration)

Description of Workshop: Mitred corners are familiar to woodworkers when building a corner, making a frame or cutting edging. The knitting and crochet world makes use of this same structural element and builds upon it in a decorative fashion. In this workshop, for both knitters and crocheters, learn to make this shape within the fabric and explore various ways of using the resulting, sometimes bold, sometimes understated, design element for finished knitted or crochet objects. Additionally there will be instruction in the technique of hairpin lace crochet and participants can explore how it may be used to embellish objects. At the completion of this one-day workshop, people can expect to have completed one, or possibly two, small projects (picture frame, book cover, purse, pillow cover) and, perhaps, be on their way to a larger finished object as well as have new ideas about how to embellish that object in ways functional, decorative or a combination of both.

Pre-requisite: Knitters: know how to cast on, knit, purl, bind off; Crocheters: know how to make a chain stitch, single crochet.

When: Saturday, July 9, 10 am − 4 pm

Tuition: Member: $81, Non-member: $90, Materials: $20

TO REGISTER: call 973.596.6607

Instructor: Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera singer. A continuing education faculty member at Cooper Union, she has the distinction of being their first-ever teacher of knitting and crochet courses. A sought-after designer of knitted and crocheted fabrics and objects, she free-lances for the fashion industry and retail design. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan, on the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit 1, Vogue Knitting Magazines as well as featured in the Lace Style and Bag Style books published by Interweave Press.

Online Catalog of Summer 2011 Studio Arts Workshops

windmills of your mind _ un fleur de Lisa for Harlem Needle Arts exhibition

lisadaehlin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:44:41 +0000

Harlem Needle Arts is at it again! The Second Annual Blossom of Fiber Exhibition is underway this weekend. Take the B/C Train to 135th, emerge upon a scene of floral loveliness created by fiber artists whose blooms grow forth from quilting, knitting, crochet, beading, etc-ing. There’ll be some music too, as the exhibition location in St. Nicholas Park hosts one of the pianos scattered about the city for people to play, make music and celebrate beauty in life!

l'eau dream sable, crochet tendrils for terra cotta pot _ Blossom of Fiber Exhibition

Anyone who creates work with their hands can tell you that there is a meditative aspect to it. As we work with repetitive movement, we can enter a realm of such focus that our thoughts become engrained into and burned onto our memories. It’s a beautiful by-product of knitting, crocheting, meditation of any kind, but it also acts the part of a CAUTIONARY TALE: be careful of that upon which you focus your thoughts as you work the magic of meditative repetition, lest unexpected thoughts become cemented in the windmills of your mind.

As I was embroidering the numbers onto the short-row knitted face of this flower/clock, I was watching an episode of 30 Rock. You know the one where Jack Donaghy discovers that his college job of recording words from the dictionary has had the unexpected and long-lasting result of his voice being used as the giver of info on kitchen appliances, computer programs, etc. Good episode. I give it a thumbs and, YES, I would SO very much like to see Liz UNHINGE HER JAW AND SHOT-GUN THAT PIZZA.

Not only does it bring to mind the oil on canvas stylings of Edvard Munch, but it leads me back to the vicinity of my point (what was my point again…?) … slices of pizza… Ah yes! slices of pizza are reminiscent of the building blocks of short-row shaping of a knitted circular whatever (such as a clock face). And to bring us FULL circle in these twirly whirly windmills of the “i’m going blind crocheting with black yarn at 3am, what in the NAME of hairpin lace looms WAS I thinking!?” (editor’s note: completely gratuitous tossing in of “hairpin lace loom” courtesy of paying attention to my blog stats… it get me hits. Meanwhile, back at the ranch…) the choice of exactly where to place the 6 short strokes of black yarn that comprise the number 12 on the clock face is forever wedded to the sound of Jack Donaghy’s voice over the microwave telling him “stop, finished, over” Kind of like this blog post. Catch you on the flipside.

Oh! one more thing… If you are not yet familiar with the Bergman, Bergman, Legrand song Windmills of Your Mind which was used in the extraordinary 1968 Thomas Crowne Affair get thee to youtube and expand votre horizons. (If you already ARE familiar with it… never hurts to pay a visit).

Lines from that song which I used as inspiration for the work created for the Blossom of Fiber Arts Exhibition include: “like a circle in a spiral… like a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning, on an ever spinning wheel… like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes on it’s face… like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind … half forgotten dream … ripples from a pebble … in a stream … footprints in the sand… fragment of this song … as the images unwind, like the circles that you find, in the Windmills of Your Mind”

Swing on by the park on Sunday. I’m bringing my Legrand songbook and some hand sanitizer for that keyboard.

we don’t always get to see the underside, the backside, the are-you-calling-me-the-seedy-underbelly of the “wrong” side of crochet. I think it’s beautiful in a way that the “right” side is incapable of being… or perhaps it’s ‘differently-abled’ at being… quite simply: it’s different, and different is good! get it? it’s the FLIP SIDE.

broomstick, hook & loom – Lace Month at Knitty City in June

lisadaehlin — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:59:45 +0000

Unveiling the Anatomy of the Stitch Lace Classes (Knitting & Crochet) with Lisa Daehlin as part of “June is Lace Month” at Knitty City, NYC

Hairpin Lace & Broomstick Lace Crochet - Saturday, June 4th 2011; 2-5pm; $60.
Hairpin lace and broomstick lace crochet are examples of using tools made for common everyday tasks and reinterpreting their use to create lovely fabric. The harmony of these closely-related techniques easily flows one into the other in the ways they are used to make fabric as well as how they function together in design.

Knitting a Triangular Lace Shawl - Saturday, June 18th 2011; 2-5pm; $60.
Create a vision in lace as if an angel’s wings draped about your shoulders. Using the elegant technique of yarn-over increases paired with decreases, learn to knit lace in a triangular shape. The class begins with how to make a garter stitch tab as the cast-on at the nape of the neck and covers the skills (including various ways to incorporate beads) needed to work down to the shaping of the bound-off edge. Practice chart reading by working on a stitch pattern which could be incorporated into the shaping of your triangular shawl.

Tunisian Lace Crochet - Saturday, June 25th 2011; 2-5pm; $60.
The technique of Tunisian Crochet is a hybrid of crochet and knitting, resulting in a fabric with a woven quality. Learn how to make the basic Tunisian Crochet stitches (knit/purl), and expand those skills to create variations in lace (netting, fan-shaped motifs, 2-color openwork).

INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera singer. A continuing education faculty member at Cooper Union, she has the distinction of being their first-ever teacher of knitting and crochet courses. She teaches in the studio arts workshop at Newark Art Museum. A sought-after designer of knitted and crocheted fabrics and objects, she free-lances for the fashion industry and retail design. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan, on the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit 1, Vogue Knitting Magazines as well as featured in the Lace Style and Bag Style books published by Interweave Press.

LOCATION: Knitty City – 208 W. 79th St. (Broadway/Amsterdam)  Upper West Side of NYC
REGISTRATION: 212. PURL-TWO (212.787.5896) http://www.knittycity.com/