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Girasole (Brooklyn Tweed) and Jared Flood Designs

Girasole, or Brooklyn tweed, is a traditional circular lace shawl, worked in heavy worsted weight yarn makes a unique home accent as a blanket, or, worked in fingering weight wool, an elegant and timeless piece of Shetland lace.

Several of our customers are knitting the design in a cascade patstasa for its stitch definition.

Jared Flood is a New York based knitwear designer and photographer. A Pacific Northwest native, Jared holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and travels the country teaching traditional handknitting technique and garment construction. He has been living and working in Brooklyn since 2005.

His design work and writings have been featured in Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, Knit.1 Magazines, and Spin Off (Interweave Press) as well as various other print and online sources. Jared's photography has been featured in Good Housekeeping, New York Magazine, NY Spaces, NY Living, Vogue Knitting, Knit.1, The Knitter (UK), Debbie Bliss Magazine, and numerous online and book pubications.

Jared is the creator of www.brooklyntweed.net and is the author of Made in Brooklyn - a collection of original handknitting designs with natural fibers, distributed by Classic Elite Yarns.

Sit and knit with us on Tuesday evenings 4:00-7:00 p.m.

10% discount on yarn for the knit-a-long project.

Sit and Stitch

Take a break from your office and eat lunch with us from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons. Our midday knitting group is the perfect escape from a hectic work schedule.