Join us for a Spring Yarn Tasting! Featuring Silk and Plant Fibers

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Join us for a Spring Yarn Tasting! We'll be exploring vegetal and silk yarns for spring and summer stitching. In this special tasting, we'll be sampling yarns made from plant-based fibers - linen, pineapple leaves, lyocell, silk, raffia, and so much more! Learn more about the fiber and construction of each new yarn, as well […]

Event Series Stitch in Space

Stitch in Space

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Join us in our second floor lounge space on Thursday evenings "after work" to stitch with others from our community! Grab a work in progress, get help from our yarnistas and meet other knitters and crocheters for our late night. We are open until 9 pm.

Fair Isle Taster Workshop with Gudrun Johnston

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Join Shetland born designer Gudrun Johnston for an introduction to Shetland wool and its suitability to stranded knitting. Shetland wool included in class fee. In this class, we will dip our toes into the world of Fair-Isle knitting! We will look at choosing colors, color dominance, stranding the yarn, speed swatching in the round, and […]

Shetland Lace Explored with Gudrun Johnston

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Join Shetland-born knitwear designer Gudrun Johnston to learn Shetland lace knitting techniques! In this class, we will explore the techniques and patterns that pertain to Shetland Lace knitting. We will practice knitting the more complex lace patterns, where motifs are worked on both the RS and WS of the work. We will also look at […]

Event Series Stitch in Space

Stitch in Space

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Join us in our second floor lounge space on Thursday evenings "after work" to stitch with others from our community! Grab a work in progress, get help from our yarnistas and meet other knitters and crocheters for our late night. We are open until 9 pm.

Cut It Up! Conquer Steeking with Gudrun Johnston

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Join Shetland-born knitwear designer Gudrun Johnston for a focused steeking technique workshop! During this workshop, we will examine the various methods for steeking your knitting. Working from a swatch, we will primarily focus on the crocheted reinforcement method, but other methods will also be discussed and demonstrated. If you’re brave enough, you can even try […]

Trypophobia Shawl Workshop with Xandy Peters

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

There are many ways to form large holes or in your knitting. My least favorite way to achieve holes is MOTHS! The Trypophobia Shawl uses my favorite technique to create big holes. We will be combining some clever increases and decreases to create openwork motifs in the shawl project. Students will have the opportunity to […]

Stitch by Color Workshop with Xandy Peters

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Join designer Xandy Peters to experiment with multicolored yarn in a new and creative way! Have you ever struggled to find project ideas for multicolored yarn? In this class, we will create colorwork, texture, or lace using variegated yarn as our guide. In plain stockinette or garter stitch, multicolor yarns create linear patterns. You can […]

Fascination Wrap Workshop with Xandy Peters

fibre space 1319 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

  Join designer Xandy Peters to learn his amazing colorful wrap pattern! In this class, students will start a stacked stitch project and learn this exciting technique in a way that is tailored to fit the mindset of a lace or stranded colorwork knitter. Stacked stitches are a type of increase and decrease used to […]