Illustrate over a Knitted Canvas using a Duplicate Stitch with textile artist Shradha Kochhar.
This workshop is designed to be interactive, with time for participants to practice both following a design and creating their own, empowering them to confidently use the duplicate stitch in future projects.
Objective
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Understand the fundamentals of the duplicate stitch technique.
2. Apply duplicate stitch to a pre-knit swatch, using both a pre-designed pattern and, optionally, their own design.
3. Leave with a completed or nearly completed duplicate stitch pattern.
4. Be able to use this technique to customize old sweaters, beanies, socks or other knitted objects.
Duration: 2 hr
Materials (provided in each kit)
Mason jar containing:
- 2 Pre-knit 30 x 30 stitch swatch for each participant - 2 sheets of grid paper:
- 1 with a pre-designed illustration
- 1 blank sheet for creating a unique illustration
- Tapestry needle
- Yarn in a contrasting color to the swatch
About Shradha Kochhar
Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is an artist with a focus in fibre, based in Brooklyn, New York. Best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India, her work is at an intersection of material memory, tactile histories and intergenerational dialogue. Focusing on generating a physical archive of personal and collective south asian narratives linked to women’s work, invisible labor and grief, the work is large scale and exists as sculpture beyond whispers over generations.
Kochhar holds an MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design, New York, and is the 2025 artist fellow at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She is a finalist for both the Dorothy Waxman Textile Excellence Prize and the Van Lier Fellowship and was honored with the John L. Tishman Environment and Design Award for Excellence in 2021.
Her work has been shown at the Melbourne Museum, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Mana Contemporary and New York Public Library. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Crafts Magazine, Selvedge Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and others.
