Hairpin/Broomstick Lace Crochet Wrap, designed by Lisa Daehlin, published in VK Crochet Spring 2013, Photo Credit: Vogue Knitting Crochet 2013, photo by Paul Amato for LVARepresents.com

“The harmony of these techniques flow easily one into the other. Handle of the broom and the hairpin loom, repurposed from the tasks of the home front. … “ (lyrics from Twisted Stitch song cycle, by Lisa Daehlin, set to music by Stefania de Kenessey, world premier at Cornelia Street Cafe happened in January 2013).

My eye and my spirit find great pleasure in these two lace-making techniques. It’s only one reason why I love singing their praises – whether when teaching them in workshops, or including them as subject matter in a cabaret show. Hairpin Lace and Broomstick Lace Crochet allow for a lovely drape in the fabrics they create (drape, a sometimes elusive thing in certain types of crochet). Vogue chose one of my shawls (which combines these techniques in some not-all-that-usual ways) to be included among the fashions in the Spring 2013 Vogue Knitting Crochet Issue. Click here for Preview of the Fashions. Scroll down to the section on “Glamour Girls” for a close up of the Hairpin & Broomstick Shawl.

Designs by Lisa Daehlin as they appear on Ravelry.

All-day workshop in Hairpin and Broomstick Lace Crochet, Newark Museum Studio Arts Workshop, Saturday, July 13, 2013.

Follow my design work (and related teaching) on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-Daehlin-Artist/231292376923366

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Hairpin/Broomstick Lace Crochet Wrap, designed by Lisa Daehlin, published in VK Crochet Spring 2013, Photo Credit: Vogue Knitting Crochet 2013, photo by Paul Amato for LVARepresents.com

Unveiling the Anatomy of the Stitch

Howland Public Library, Beacon, NY

Tunisian Crochet: Exploring a Hybrid Technique

with Lisa Daehlin

Saturday, April 20, 2013; 1:00-3:00pm

The technique of Tunisian Crochet is a Hybrid of Crochet & Knitting, resulting in a fabric with a woven quality. Learn how to make the basic Tunisian Crochet stitches (simple/knit/purl), and expand those skills to incorporate the use of two colors and to create a variation in lace. No preparatory work is required for this workshop, however, you are most welcome to bring a small piece of knitting or crochet (a rectangular swatch approx 5” wide would be a nice size) onto which you could build some additional stitches using the Tunisian Crochet technique. This optional idea of bringing in a pre-made swatch gives an added dimension of incorporating this technique into stitch-work with which you are already familiar. We will also make swatches starting “from scratch” so no worries if you don’t have time/occasion to do any work beforehand.

Materials: crochet hook (size h, i or j) (this can be a Tunisian/afghan hook, but a regular hook without ergonomic or other thick handle would be fine too), 2 small balls of dk or worsted weight yarn (different colors).

Prerequisite: Know how to make a chain and a single crochet.

INSTRUCTOR:

Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. She teaches in venues including the Studio Arts Workshop at Newark Museum, PS122 Gallery and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. A continuing education faculty member at The Cooper Union for seven years, she has the honor of having been the first teacher of knitting and crochet courses at this historic institution. 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, gracing the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Knit Simple and Vogue Knitting magazines as well as featured in Lace Style, Bag Style and The New Tunisian Crochet books published by Interweave Press, and Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Hat Book and Vogue Knitting: Shawls and Wraps by Sixth and Spring Books.  http://www.delisa.us/ & http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/

LOCATION: Howland Public Library, 313 Main St, Beacon, NY – http://beaconlibrary.org/

INFO and to RSVP for this FREE workshop: 845-831-1134

Songs of Renewal & the Spring:  A Concert of Classical Art Song

Lisa Daehlin, soprano;  
Richard Pearson Thomas, pianist

Tuesday, April 2^nd 2013; 6:00pm

Music at St. Paul’s Concert Series
St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, NYC

Performance includes compositions by Gabriel Fauré, Stefania de Kenessey, Edvard Grieg, Amy Beach, Francis Poulenc, Ellen Mandel, Cole Porter, Richard Pearson Thomas.

Songs on this concert feature settings of the poetry of Louise de Vilmorin, e.e. cummings, Charles van Lerberghe, Moira Linehan, Holger Drachmann, Edna St. Vincent Millay. 

Admission is free and open to the public.

Children are welcome to all MSP concerts.

DIRECTIONS TO VENUE: 1 train to 116th and Broadway. Walk East on the main mall of Columbia University. Turn left and walk up the steps towards statue of Alma Mater. Veer to the right. Walk North on that pathway towards St. Paul’s Chapel.   MAP TO LOCATION OF THE CHAPEL

www.columbia.edu/cu/earl/

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www.richardpearsonthomas.com

Unveiling the Anatomy of the Stitch

Improvisational Intarsia in Lace Knitting with Lisa Daehlin
Saturday, March 23, 2013; 2:00-5:00pm – Knitty City Yarn Shop

The sinewy lines created by the increases and decreases of Lace Knitting provide a canvas on which one can explore the interaction of larger fields of color and the more delicate lines coursing through them. Using a pattern of lace and blending it with intarsia color technique, this “guided improv” knitting exploration focuses on making choices in transitioning elegantly (or dramatically) from one area of color into the next, informed by the ridges and textures of the lace. Let the fabric speak to you as you knit and the work you create will be uniquely yours!
Materials: worsted or dk weight yarn (1 ball each of 2 or 3 solid-colors, fairly smooth texture), knitting needles (size appropriate to your chosen yarn), 3 or 4 bobbins, moveable stitch markers. Prerequisite: Familiarity and Ease with Basic Lace Charts & a willingness to Take a Leap with your knitting.

[ related article on improv intarsia, as exhibited at Newark Museum ]

Instructor:  Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. She teaches in venues including the Studio Arts Workshop at Newark Museum, PS122 Gallery and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. A continuing education faculty member at The Cooper Union for seven years, she has the honor of having been the first teacher of knitting and crochet courses at this historic institution. 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, gracing the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Knit Simple and Vogue Knitting magazines as well as featured in Lace Style, Bag Style and The New Tunisian Crochet books published by Interweave Press, and Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Hat Book and Vogue Knitting: Shawls and Wraps by Sixth and Spring Books. http://www.delisa.us/ & http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/

 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/

Newark Art Museum Studio Arts Workshop
Tapestry Crochet
Saturday, March 16, 2013; 10am-4pm

Create graphic images in your fabric using the single crochet stitch and working with two or more colors at the same time. Techniques covered include using a formula of increases to make a flat circle which you can use to design your own personal mandala or alter the shape to create a vessel, hat or purse.  Prerequisite: Know how to make a chain and single crochet stitch.  Supplies: crochet hook (size G or H), two balls of worsted weight yarn (different colors).

Instructor:
Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. She teaches in venues including the Studio Arts Workshop at Newark Museum, PS122 Gallery and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. A continuing education faculty member at The Cooper Union for seven years, she has the honor of having been the first teacher of knitting and crochet courses at this historic institution. 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, gracing the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Knit Simple and Vogue Knitting magazines as well as featured in Lace Style, Bag Style and The New Tunisian Crochet books published by Interweave Press, and Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Hat Book and Vogue Knitting: Shawls and Wraps by Sixth and Spring Books. http://www.delisa.us/ & http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/

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

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Unveiling the Anatomy of the Stitch

 Tunisian Crochet with Lisa Daehlin
Sunday, February 24, 2013; 1:00-4:00pm – Knitty City Yarn Shop

“I’d like to thank the Academy…” Learn a new technique in the afternoon & whip up something award-worthy while watching the oscars later that evening.
The technique of Tunisian Crochet is a Hybrid of Crochet & Knitting, resulting in a fabric with a woven quality. Learn how to make the basic Tunisian Crochet stitches (simple/knit/purl), and expand those skills to incorporate the use of two colors and to create a variation in lace.   Materials: crochet hook (size h, i or j), 2 small balls of dk or worsted weight yarn (different colors).  Prerequisite: Know how to make a chain and a single crochet.

Instructor:  Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. She teaches in venues including the Studio Arts Workshop at Newark Museum, PS122 Gallery and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. A continuing education faculty member at The Cooper Union for seven years, she has the honor of having been the first teacher of knitting and crochet courses at this historic institution. 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, gracing the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Knit Simple and Vogue Knitting magazines as well as featured in Lace Style, Bag Style and The New Tunisian Crochet books published by Interweave Press, and Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Hat Book and Vogue Knitting: Shawls and Wraps by Sixth and Spring Books. http://www.delisa.us/ & http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/

 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/

Lisa Daehlin teaching Improvisational Intarsia Lace Knitting and Tunisian Lace Crochet at Madrona Fiber Festival

Madrona Fiber Arts Retreat, Hotel Murano, Tacoma, WA

February 14-17, 2013

workshops with Lisa Daehlin

IMPROVISATIONAL INTARSIA IN KNITTED LACE

The sinewy lines created by the increases and decreases of lace knitting provide a canvas on which one can explore the interaction of larger fields of color and the more delicate lines coursing through them.  Using various lace and other stitch patterns, and blending them with intarsia color technique, this “guided improv” knitting exploration focuses on making choices in how to combine the various stitches as well as how to transition elegantly (or dramatically) from one stitch pattern or area of color into the next. The ridges and textures of the fabric help to inform those choices. Let the fabric speak to you as you knit and the work you create will be uniquely yours! The resulting fabric sampler serves as a palette of new ideas for maneuvering through combinations of texture, line, and color.

TUNISIAN LACE CROCHET

A hybrid of knitting and crochet, the technique of Tunisian Crochet results in a fabric with a woven quality in its more traditional version and a lace-like quality when using openwork techniques.  In this introductory class, learn how to make the basic Tunisian Crochet stitches (simple/knit/purl), and then expand upon those skills to include color changing (stripes and cross-hatching) as well as some basic lace and textural stitches. By the end of class, participants will have swatched a variety of options of color and texture, ready to use them for any number of patterns and designs.

INSTRUCTOR

Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. She teaches in venues including the Studio Arts Workshop at Newark Museum, PS122 Gallery and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. A continuing education faculty member at The Cooper Union for seven years, she has the honor of having been the first teacher of knitting and crochet courses at this historic institution. 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, gracing the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Knit Simple and Vogue Knitting magazines as well as featured in Lace Style, Bag Style and The New Tunisian Crochet books published by Interweave Press, and Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Hat Book and Vogue Knitting: Shawls and Wraps by Sixth and Spring Books.  http://www.delisa.us/ & http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/

Looking at Lace: Outlining the Space in Between_Lisa Daehlin Presenting at BAKG – Big Apple Knitters’ Guild_9february2013

NOTE:  

THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO THE BLIZZARD. WE ARE RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 11TH, 2013.   SEE MY ONLINE SCHEDULE AND THE BAKG WEBSITE FOR UPDATES.

Lisa Daehlin presenting at BAKG (Big Apple Knitters’ Guild), NYC
Saturday, February 9^th, 2013

Looking at Lace: Knitting and Crochet Outlining the Space in Between

An examination of various types of knitted and crocheted lace, some crossing over and challenging those categories. How are the fabrics made, keeping that careful balance between structure and drape, functionality and design.

Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. She teaches in venues including the Studio Arts Workshop at Newark Museum, PS122 Gallery and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. A continuing education faculty member at The Cooper Union for seven years, she has the honor of having been the first teacher of knitting and crochet courses at this historic institution. 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, gracing the pages of Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Knit Simple and Vogue Knitting magazines as well as featured in Lace Style, Bag Style and The New Tunisian Crochet books published by Interweave Press, and Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Hat Book and Vogue Knitting: Shawls and Wraps by Sixth and Spring Books. http://www.delisa.us/ and http://lisadaehlin.wordpress.com/

Lisa Daehlin_Twisted Stitch – Songs of Love and Knitting_Cornelia Street Cafe_29January2013_8:30pm

Soprano and knitting wizard Lisa Daehlin, accompanied by the renowned pianist Richard Pearson Thomas, undulate from classical to cabaret in an evening of comfort, virtuosity, and psychosis. Inspired by Schubert’s Winterreise, the program takes us on a romp through the mountains of Norway to the streets and subways of Manhattan with a few detours through the land of psychotic spinners and knitting. Songs spanning two centuries include the Haugtussa by Edvard Grieg, December Songs by Maury Yeston, and works by Richard Pearson Thomas, Franz Schubert, and Cole Porter. Featuring the world premier of a song cycle exposing the seamy underbelly of the knitterly arts (who knew?) entitled Twisted Stitch by New York City composer Stefania de Kenessey.

CALL FOR A RESERVATION – 212.989.9319

LISA DAEHLIN leads the dual life of an opera chanteuse and knitting designer. Her creations can be seen walking the streets and runways of Manhattan and gracing the pages of several books and magazines, including Vogue Knitting and Interweave Knits. Teaching credits include Cooper Union, PS122 Gallery, American Folk Art Museum and Newark Museum Arts Studio Workshop. In the world of opera, she has performed numerous operatic roles including Amelia (Un Ballo in Maschera), Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Angelica (Suor Angelica), Madame Lidoine (Dialogues of the Carmelites), First Lady (Magic Flute) and the High Priestess (Aida). Maestro Richard Woitach cast her to sing the role of Wellgunde (Das Rhinegold), and as his soprano in the concert Woitach and Friends 3-1/2.

In New York City, she is a frequent performer at The Players Club. Most recent programs include: December Songs and Transcending Exotic: Embracing Familiar. Her concert repertoire has focused extensively on Norwegian, French and American Chanson, Cabaret and Art Songs. She produced and directed OperaKnit Cabaret at Performance Space 122 (PS122, NYC) with Flash Rosenberg and Louis Menendez.

Though known for her rendition of I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Lisa is no stranger to the cabaret stage, having performed incarnations of her show From Classical to Cabaret: The songs of Poulenc, Porter, Weill and Satie in venues ranging from underground clubs to major concert halls. She has sung Dorothy Parker songs in the Algonquin’s Oak Room. She has performed the music of Stefania de Kenessey at City Center and with the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater at Lincoln Center. The recording project for that company is now used in the performance repertoire.

As an invited Resident Artist at the Bolzano music festival, she gave several concerts in that enchanting Italian city. Her German debut included concerts at the castles of Wolfshagen and Ludwigslust, performing music by Verdi, Weill and Wolf.

Recently awarded a Masters Degree in Music and Music Education from the Teachers College of Columbia University, Lisa operates a private voice studio in New York City.

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RICHARD PEARSON THOMAS, composer and pianist, has had works performed by the Boston Pops, Covent Garden Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Portland Opera, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Banff Centre, Skylight Opera Theatre, and Riverside Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. His songs have been sung in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Joe’s Pub, and before the U.S. Congress. His work Race for the Sky, which was commissioned as a commemoration of the events of 9/11, has been performed by the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra and in recitals nationwide.

Mr. Thomas’ musical Parallel Lives was produced Off-Off Broadway by the Riverside Opera Ensemble. His musical Golden Gate, winner of the Michael Stewart Foundation Award, was performed in concert by the Monmouth Civic Chorus. He is a frequent collaborator with Mirror Visions Ensemble in the United States and Europe.

Mr. Thomas is on faculty at Teachers College/Columbia University and has taught at Yale and the University of Central Florida. His work with children as composer-in-residence of the Gold Opera Project was featured on CBS’ “The Early Show,” and singled out for praise by President Clinton.

Additionally, Mr. Thomas concertizes with singers worldwide. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California, and is a native of Montana.

For more info visit: richardpearsonthomas.com

Tunisian Crochet (also, know as Shepherd’s Knitting, Afghan Crochet, Crochet Tunisienne, among a few other names) is a hybrid of knitting and crochet, as is the tool used to make it. It’s also the title of one of the songs in the “Twisted Stitch: Songs of Love and Knitting” performance I’m slated to give (with Richard Pearson Thomas at the keys) at Cornelia Street Cafe on Tuesday, January 29th, 8:30pm. Stefania de Kenessey has composed a cycle of songs, each one waxing on about different knitting and crochet techniques. Check us out live in concert for this world premiere event. And check out Dora’s book. Here’s a photo of the sampler quilt/afghan I designed and stitched for the book…..

Tunisian Crochet Sampler Quilt Afghan design by Lisa Daehlin for The New Tunisian Crochet Book_Interweave Image_from Interweave’s Blog Post_January 10, 2013

Tunisian Crochet Sampler Quilt Afghan design by Lisa Daehlin for The New Tunisian Crochet Book_Interweave Image_including text from Interweave’s Blog Post_January 10, 2013

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