NANCY MARCHANT
 
Nancy Marchant Nancy Marchant was born in Indiana in the USA, but now lives and works as a graphic designer, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has written articles for Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits, as well as a number of Dutch knitting magazines, and is the author of Knitting Brioche, which is is the first and only knitting book devoted exclusively to the brioche stitch. She maintains a web site on the subject at www.briochestitch.com and teaches the craftsy.com class Explorations in Brioche Knitting.
   
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WORKSHOPS
The Basic Brioche Stitch
Learn to "bark" (brioche knit) and "burp" (brioche purl) into a world of unending stitch possibilities from the "queen of brioche," Nancy Marchant. Learn the one-color brioche method of making increases and decreases and explore stitch variations by making a sampler in class.

A Joy Ride with Brioche Stitches
Share in the joy of the brioche stitch. Learn how to work the 2-color Brioche Stitch which creates a fabric with strong vertical columns in two different colors. Then go on to work interesting design elements by splitting the columns with increases or squeezing them together with decreases. What happens when the columns are crossed or worked into a cable? Explore the incredible variety of shifting/manipulating/moving these columns of stitches around to create wonderful new stitch patterns that will work beautifully for your next project.

LECTURES
 Knitting Scene in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has about 780,000 inhabitants, 180 different nationalities and 880,000 bicycles. This is a town where living is cozy and small, where it rains a lot and where it is very trendy to knit. The Netherlands is home to Miriam Tegels, the world's fastest knitter, to Stephen West, designer extrordinaire and Loret Karman, who dyes yarns in the colors of Van Gogh paintings. Nancy has been knitting in Amsterdam for more than 35 years and has seen the culture, the fashion and the knitting scene change. Experience historical Dutch knitting, Dutch textile design and follow the Amsterdam knitting trends from the last 35 years up to the 21st century.

 
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