Lorraine Ehrlinger
Cleveland Hts., OH USA
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Specialty |
My day job is as a dressmaker/alteration specialist. I have my won shop with employees. I have training is fitting and pattern drafting which I use with my clients. Knitting is not really a part of this job, but I knit when people change clothes and at lunch. I also repair and alter knit garments.
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| Contact Information: |
3046 E, Derbyshire Rd. Cleveland Hts., OH USA
LEhrlinger@aol.com
Fig Leaves
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| Favorite Knitting Book |
Barbara Walker's Treasuries
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| Favorite knitting reference |
Vogue Knitting book and The Big book of Knitting
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| Classes |
The most popular class is finishing, called Blue ribbon Finishing because I have won blue ribbons in every fair I have entered. I also teach Socks 101, cables, entrelac, fitting knits, color work, and others including tow up socks.
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| Biography |
I have been sewing since I was about 5 and don't remember when I learned to knit. My mother was not a knitter, so I probably learned from my paternal grandmother. I have been knitting steadily since I was in high school, back in the age of the dinosaurs. I have 6 grown children and 7 1/2 grandchildren. I have knit for all of them at one time or another.
My first published design is in the XRX book, Socks, Socks, Socks. I have also had a design in the Kids book, Cast On, and been published by House of White Birches.
I seem to have been teaching all my life, starting as a teen in Girl Scouts and continuing as an adult trainer in both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. I started teaching knitting for a local store, and expanded into conferences in the local area. The largest venue I have taught in is TKGA's National Convention in 2002.
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| What is your knitting mantra? |
Swatch, Swatch, Swatch
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| What inspires you? |
Mainly I like to work with texture. I have been getting more ideas about working with unusual materials.
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| Confess - when it comes to hiding your yarn, what are your secrets? |
I keep most of my yarn in boxes from computer paper. Each is numbered and I have index cards that tell me what is where. There are still things I don't know where to find. I know that they are here somewhere.
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| What is your idea of knitting heaven? |
Lots of time, lots of money to buy yarn, good friends to chat with.
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| How many UFO's (Unfinished Objects)do you have going at once? |
I usually only have 2-3 projects going at once. I lose my place if I have too many differnt projects.
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| What knitting commandment do you most like to break? |
Don't tie knots. I do take them out later when I weave in the ends.
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| What is your most dog-eared knitting reference? |
Barbara Walker's first Treasury
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| What is the most unusual place you've ever knitted? |
My knitting goes where I go, football games, car races, etc. My husband knows that I will go anywhere if I can take my knitting.
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| How long can you last without knitting? |
Not long, I have to be doing something with my hands.
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| If you were stranded on a deserted island, what one yarn, book, or gizmo would you want along? |
My 2 sets of Boy interchangable needles. With 2 sets, I could knit anything.
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| Who would you like to greet you in knitting heaven? |
Elizabeth Zimmermann
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