Ladderback Jacquard Colorwork: Zoom Workshop with Jennifer Miller
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Time: 10 am – 12 pm CT
Location Option 1: Zoom from your home
Location Option 2 (in-person group):
Fellowship Hall
Hoover Church of Christ
3248 Lorna Rd
Hoover, AL 35216
Note: This is the same place as our REGULAR meeting space for monthly guild meetings. Lunch will not be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own and eat with friends.
Cost: $30 per person (guild members)
Have you ever struggled with float tension or peek-through colors in stranded colorwork? Do you like trying a new technique? Join us for our Zoom workshop with national teacher Jennifer Miller to learn ladderback jacquard, a colorwork technique that will solve (almost) all your pesky colorwork problems. We’ll practice by knitting a cute hat with hearts and learn how to apply this technique to other colorwork charts.
Our guest teacher, Jennifer Miller, lives in Colorado and will teach us via Zoom. As a student, however, you have TWO options for where to take the workshop. You can either log into our fiber guild Zoom meeting room from your home (log-in info will be sent later) OR you can join other guild members in-person in a big, cheerful, help-each-other group at our usual fiber guild monthly meeting space where we’ll follow along with Jennifer on the big TV.
This workshop assumes you have some familiarity with knitting two-color stranded colorwork, sometimes called fairisle knitting. You do not have to be an expert, but you do need at least a little practical experience with how you personally like to juggle two strands of yarn at one time and how to read colorwork charts.
You can pay the workshop fee the same way that you pay your annual dues. Pay by cash/check at any meeting to our Treasurer. The fee can also be paid using PayPal. Please mark it “friends/family” and NOT “goods/services”. Use this address: paypal.me/GBFiberGuild or use our gmail account gbfiberguild@gmail.com
IMPORTANT NOTE: There is homework for this workshop! But don’t worry, it’s easy!
Supplies:
- Love the Winter hat pattern (free Ravelry download) https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/love-the-winter-hat
- hand-out from Jennifer (forthcoming)
- 2 colors of worsted yarn that you like using for colorwork
- knitting needles (size 8 16-inch circs)
- lots of stitch markers (both removable and regular)
Homework:
- CO 84 stitches
- Do a few rounds of ribbing for the brim
About the Teacher:
Jennifer Miller brings her background in marketing, psychology, counseling, art history, science, and metaphysics to the knitting classroom. A yarn and color designer, Jennifer is the creator of Theodora’s Pearls, internationally-known handpainted and hand-dyed yarns, featuring unusual and luxury fibers. Jennifer is dedicated to promoting creative confidence in every knitter, enhancing knitting skills, and encouraging new and innovative experimentation in yarn! A self-taught artist, sourcing inspiration from the natural world, folk art, and historical textiles, she shares her own creative journey as an example of how you can express yourself through fiber, creating beauty, harmony, and functionality. Jennifer’s popular classes include basic and advanced knitting technique, knitwear design, creativity, lacework, texture, and color design. Jennifer is known for her content-rich classes, chockfull of tips, tricks, shortcuts, and easy tools to enhance the creative process.