First Person
Knit to This: Cecelia Campochiaro on Fruity Knitting
Dear Ann,
Taking Cecelia Campochiaro’s Sequence Knitting class on Knit Stars (season 3, aka the season we are in) was one of the most eye-opening experiences of my knitting life. In the role of teacher, Cecelia’s background in science and teaching comes shining through, with clarity and bountiful good humor. Her video class changed my thinking about what a knitting class could be. I thought I knew sequence knitting—after all, Cecelia did a Field Guide with us on the topic, and I’ve done a ton of sequence knitting since then—but the light bulbs really started popping in my brain while listening to Cecelia teach in (virtual) person. She knows how to turn on the light in a knitter’s brain.
Cecelia has a new topic these days. Her latest book, Making Marls, lets her knitterly genius out to romp around in a whole new playground. As with sequence knitting, Cecelia has taken something knitters were already doing—in this case, combining different strands of yarn and knitting them together into marled fabrics—and fully explored it, while at the same time giving us mesmerizingly beautiful fabrics that knit up almost effortlessly.
Thrillingly, Cecelia is a guest on a recent edition of Fruity Knitting, a video podcast that goes deep in its interviews with designers and knitters of note. So deep, in fact, that they will feature two interviews with Cecelia, one on sequence knitting, and a second one (to come), on Making Marls.
Part 1 of the Fruity Knitting interview of Cecelia starts at minute 55:40 of the video link up top.
Enjoy!
Love,
Kay
It’s always a treat to hear/learn from Cecelia. Thanks so much for posting.
I watched this last week, so also got a full dose of Fruity Knitting, as I did not have the benefit of you time marker. You are so right, she is a light bulb moment type of teacher. In a mere minute, she brings whole new clarity to serpentine sequence method. I find that I am loving Knitting my Corrugated Shawl even more!
Me too! I still enjoyed the rest of the podcast, but they saved the best for last!
The interview with Cecilia was wonderful. She explains the patterns so succinctly. And I did not know about Fruity Knitting, another treasure. Thank you for sharing this.
Watched it this week thanks to my knitting group. Very good. FN has certainly upped their game since I last watched.
Even tho I’ve had Steph’s one row scarf in my queue since it’s creation, I never really wanted to knit it until Cecelia showed hers. Now I’m on a stash dive mission.
One row scarf?
Have knit one of her pieces from MDK Field Guide and my favorite knit ever. Next up Parallelogram. Thanks for letting us know about Fruity Knitting interview.
I was introduced to Fruity Knitting during the pandemic season thanks to the Knit Stars session Ann and Kay did, which allowed us to watch several other episodes. Andrea and Andrew are doing a great job introducing a wide variety of “makers” via their interviews, everything from those who raise the animals to those who are making the mill machines work, to those who design and knit. I think they may also be documenting some areas of local craft that may not survive. I recommend looking through other episodes. And even though I’m likely not going to knit the items they are talking about, it’s been fun to hear about their learning curves and triumphs. Nice knitting armchair travel all the way around.
It was fun to see Cecelia pop up in this Fruity Knitting episode–and to already know about her thanks to MDK. Full circle.