Trunk Show and Lecture with Ragga and Steven West
In this two hour program Ragga and Stephen share their experience of working as a design team on their collection, to be released in fall 2013. Samples will be shown and photographs +videos from photo shoots shared.
Stephen and Ragga created the collection in 2012 and 13 in Ragga’s Reykjavík studio and Stephen’s Amsterdam studio under great influence of the Icelandic music scene and the music of bands such as Hjaltalín, GusGus, Sigurrós and Retro Stefson. Photos were shot on two different occasions in Reykjavík with musicians as models. The book is due to be released in October 2013 as a part of the Iceland Airwaves music festival.
Instructor Bio:
Stephen West is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. After moving to the Chicago area, he caught the knitting bug and started designing patterns while epic amounts of wool infiltrated into his life. There was no looking back. He now lives in Amsterdam and travels frequently teaching knitting workshops throughout the United States and Europe.
Ragnheiður Eiríksdóttir is the nurse who couldn’t stop knitting. I worked for over a decade in sales and marketing in the pharma industry and alongside as a sexuality educator, author and lecturer. My publications so far include a knitting book Prjóniprjón and an instructional knitting DVDs (Prjónum saman and Lopapeysa knitting (Icelandic and English)). Some of my designs are published directly on Ravelry or in compilation books such as Prjónaperlur and Kúr og lúr. I developed the Icelandic handdyed yarn label, Nammi, which is currently sold and produced by Knitting Iceland. Right now I work full time as a knitting instructor, designer, author and the general manager of Knitting Iceland.
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