Drawing with yarn 

When: November 5th, 2026

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Where: 435 south 5th street, Brooklyn New York 11211 - Studio 1

In this workshop Shradha will teach you to illustrate over knits using a duplicate knit stitch, a meditative, beautiful embroidery technique that lets you “draw” right onto a knitted surface.

Perfect for beginners, seasoned fiber nerds, or anyone looking for a slow, mindful ritual. Come, relax and ease into this meditative workshop for an evening of connecting heart, body and hand.

What’s included:

• Full workshop kit to take home, including tapestry needle, yarn, pre-knit swatches, and my illustration templates plus space to create your own
• Step-by-step demo and guidance
• A tote bag to customize with your drawings 

Your teacher:

Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Best known for her innovative use of home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India’. Her work delves into material memory, regeneration, and intergenerational dialogue, researching indigenous cotton varieties in India and the US to explore cotton legacies across time and space. Kochhar’s large-scale sculptures serve as tangible archives of South Asian women's stories, revealing the often-overlooked aspects of invisible labor and collective grief.

Kochhar received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design, New York. She was awarded the John L. Tishman Environment and Design Award for Excellence in 2021 and has since been an Artist in Residence Fellow at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, an Artist in Residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the 2027 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Artist in Residence. She was also a finalist for the 2022 Dorothy Waxman Textile Excellence Prize and the 2023 Van Lier Fellowship. Her work has been shown at the New York Historical, the Crafts Museum, the Melbourne Museum, and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, among others. It has been featured in PAPER magazine, the New York Times, Times of India, British Vogue, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Crafts Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and others.

The Fifth Room 

An embodied, sensory event series. Designed to give grief somewhere to go and the nervous system a place to rest.

This fall, Sustain Frame and Calyx Studios are collaborating on a workshop series called The Fifth Room, bringing together instructors, artists, and community to explore transforming grief through ritual and craft-based practices.

Drawing on John Coltrane's The Coltrane Circle, the mathematics of jazz, and Five Element theory, the series explores the alchemical theme of Solve et Coagula — to dissolve and reform. We believe grief works in a spiral, leading us through transformation but never quite back to the place where we started.