Michele Lee Bernstein presents: Design Process: Accessories!

What do you do with one or two skeins of beautiful yarn? Knit accessories! Michele Lee Bernstein, PDXKnitterati, will describe her design process (what comes first, yarn or idea?). She’ll show you how she uses simple techniques to make your accessories sing.

Bio:

Michele Lee Bernstein, PDXKnitterati, designs and teaches from her home base in Portland, Oregon. She loves designing accessories as a canvas for playing with interesting techniques. She’s especially fond of knitted textures (brioche, lace, entrelac, elongated stitches, assigned pooling). Her patterns are available through Ravelry and Payhip.  Michele loves teaching knitters to be the boss of their knitting! She teaches at fiber festivals (Vogue Knitting Live, Red Alder Fiber Arts Festival, Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival), guild meetings, retreats, and local yarn shops. Her book, Brioche Knit Love: 21 Skill Building Projects from Simple to Sublime combines her love for teaching and designing, using simple accessories to take knitters from the easiest one color brioche through more complex brioche techniques. 

Michele blogs about knitting, food, and music at PDXKnitterati.com. You can also find her on Instagram, Facebook, Ravelry, YouTube, Threads, and Bluesky; she’s PDXKnitterati on all platforms.

Coupon code for 20% off patterns in my Ravelry store will be shared at the meeting and is valid for the month of November 2026; please use it for guild members/attendees only. My Ravelry store link is: https://www.ravelry.com/stores/michele-bernstein-designs