Dress up in your Tea hat and come to HKC's Tea Party!

In celebration of

Women's History Month

the

HARLEM KNITTING CIRCLE

presents

A High Tea in Lace

with

Lisa Daehlin

teaching a Crochet Workshop

culminating in a tea party (bring your own supplies, wear your long skirt & Spring/Tea hat, and bring

your favorite teacup!) We’ll learn two forms of crochet:

Hairpin Lace

and

Broomstick Lace

Saturday, March 21

st, 11am-2pm

at the

NYPL Harlem Branch Library

9 West 124th Street

(between 5th Ave. & Lenox Ave.)

INSTRUCTOR:

Lisa Daehlin is a knitting

designer and opera singer. She

teaches at Cooper Union. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan as well as on the pages of

Interweave Knits, Knit 1 and Vogue Knitting

magazines and in Lace Style and Bag Style by Interweave Press.

WORKSHOP:

Hairpin Lace and Broomstick Lace

Crochet are examples of taking tools made for

common everyday tasks and reinterpreting their use to create lovely fabric. Each of these

techniques involves making large loops and joining them in various ways using single or

other crochet stitches.

Supplies:

crochet hook

(f, g, or h), yarn, size 35 or 50 knitting needle

(or cardboard tube), Hairpin Lace Loom (for

sale at Knitty City 212-787-5896)

.

Prerequisite

: Know how to make a chain and

 

single crochet before the workshop

Comments

[B.R. Harris]

It's nice to have a place to come, learn, teach, create, share and be a part of something that's so powerful in it's simplicity. We have ladies from 7 years to probably 80 and sometimes you can't tell the difference.