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Announcing: Knit Hello Virtual Workshop with Rüdiger Schlömer!
I bet some of you saw this coming. Today we are thrilled to announce that on March 6, we’ll be hosting a virtual workshop with Rüdiger Schlömer, the creator of the first typeface designed for knitters. Read on, lovers of text and type and knitting and fun!
Say Hello to Knit Hello
We’re wild about Swiss graphic designer Rüdiger Schlömer’s new knittable typeface: Knit Hello.
As a work of design, it’s just so dang cool. A real live typeface that is available to graphic designers for use in print and web applications, Knit Hello is unique in this incredible way: it is designed to be knit! In the Line Grid and Knit Grid versions of the font, each letter and symbol appears as a chart, ready to knit. Amazing!
With the Knit Hello Specimanual as your guide, you can knit all the letters, numbers, symbols, and accent marks—you can make up words and phrases, and knit the dictionary if you want. The Specimanual includes detailed instructions on how to make the incredibly tidy edging.
Kay is here to testify: once you get the Knit Hello bug, it’s the most exhilarating, addictive knitting, the kind you do for the sheer joy of it. Kay knit all the placecards for a big Thanksgiving gathering—that was a good start, followed by festive holiday garlands with names and seasonal phrases. She shared the font with other knitters, who immediately set about making their own names, words, and phrases.
Last December, Kelley Dew went to the head of the class; Jan Quarles looked on.
The learning curve is short, but guidance really helps. So we invited Rüdiger to teach this virtual workshop, and were thrilled that he said yes!
What We’ll Learn
In this two-and-a-half hour session, Rüdiger will set us on the path to knitted loquaciousness.
First, before knitting letters, we’ll cast on and learn how the font’s underlying framework—garter-stitch stripes and slipped-stitch edges—works.
Then, we’ll learn how to read Knit Hello’s simple charts, and how to work them. Each letter is only 7 stitches wide, and the logic is simple. Once you’ve knit the word HI or HELLO using a Knit Grid chart, you’ll understand how to knit letters from the simplified Line Grid charts that are included in the Specimanual.
By the conclusion of class, you’ll have knit HI, HELLO, and even your name! Put your other knitting on hold for a little while—you’ll be busy cranking out words! The possibilities are endless, from simple name tags to birthday banners to baby blankets.
Our Workshop Leader
Based in Switzerland, Rüdiger Schlömer is a graphic designer, knitter and author, working in the field of exhibition design, publications and typography/type design. With Typeknitting he explores the typographic potential of hand knitting techniques. This results in knitting patterns, typefaces and a book, all empowering knitters to include messages, and graphic designers to try out needlework.
Join Us on March 6!
For all the details and to sign up, go here. And if you’re an MDK Society member, remember to use your membership coupon code for 10% off!
Ciao!
Wow!! He is not what I expected. It would be worth taking the class just to feast my eyes on the teacher
Yangit – that’s a combination of “yay” and “dang it” – heavy on te dang it! I just purchased the e-book yesterday so I could use this for our knitting group’s yarn bombing project. Gathering Place where the installation will be is highlighting Route 66 so I was going to do “signage” along a gray yarn highway. So the “yay” part is I’ll find out how to decipher the chart. The “dang it” part is our submissions are due March 6th. I’m still game to play so I will have this arrow in my quiver for next year.
I love knitting these! I made Christmas ornaments with pets’ names on them for my daughters this past holiday.
They’re so fun to knit! Thanks.
Can’t stop, won’t stop.
Totally off topic. Kelley Dew, would you please tell us about your gorgeous skirt in the above photo?
Her skirt is a beautiful version of a Natalie Chanin design at her School of Making.
So glad to see this workshop! Signed up right away and now thinking of soooo many ways to use Rüdiger’s typeface charts.
Loving it! Though I would appreciate yarn ideas for best showing off the messages
Hi Maureen! Heavier yarn, tighter gauge, and high contrast yarn! Atlas would be perfect, of course.
I knit my first Hello on vacation with sport or DK and US 2 needles, and not contrasty enough yarn. Meh. Came home and knit Aloha and nametags for our ancient Christmas stockings with Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride leftovers from the stockings, maybe a US 7 needle? I can’t remember and didn’t write it down.
Thanks Michelle. I played around with some yarns I had in my stash. Love the process. I will look into Atlas to really showcase the text. Much appreciated!
So excited for this!
I love this! So much fun. I’m intrigued by his 3 lines of words; we could knit poetry!