Valerie HobbsDesigner
United States
I have been knitting off and on since I was a child. With a lifelong interest in the fiber arts, including working in costume construction and design for the theatre, sewing, crocheting, quilting, and cross-stitching, I rediscovered the joys of knitting eleven or twelve years ago, and it has since become my obsession. Until recently, I had worked for more than thirty years at a well-known university as a furniture consultant and interior designer. Now I happily have the free time to devote to designing!
My designs feature classic lines and textured fabrics, with an interesting detail or two. I try to design clothing and accessories that I would be comfortable wearing - and that I would pull out of my closet again and again.
- Knitting21 Skills
Knitting: Forever
21 Skills
- Cast on & bind off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Lace Work
- Knitting in the round
- Turn a heel
- Stranded knitting
- I-cord
- Three needle cast off
- Ribbed
- Twined knitting
- Short rows
- Garter
- Modular knitting
- Kitchener
- Stocking
- Moebius
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Provisional cast on
