The Downtown Knit Collective
Upcoming meetings - Everyone is welcome!
**Starting in September the Downtown Knit Collective Monthly Meetings will be held at Innis College, 2 Sussex Avenue. Follow link for map of area.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Skills Exchange Mini-Workshops
We continue our tradition of having short skill-building sessions as our February meeting. You have the opportunity to learn two or three new skills in short (under 15 minutes) sessions taught by guild members. Learn a skill, move on to the next table, learn another!
The topics include:
Mary Pat McDonald - Picking up stitches - please bring a small swatch, suitable needles and extra yarn, perhaps in a contrasting colour
Gloria Williams - Easy, almost invisible seam for garter stitch - Gloria will bring swatches for practise, but if you want to take a sample home, bring two garter stitch swatches (or swatches with garter edges) to seam, plus a yarn needle and yarn for seaming.
Robyn Hunter - Centre Out cast on techniques - Bring needles and two colours of yarn.
Diane Martin - One row buttonhole - Bring a small swatch still on the needles.
Denise Powell - Continental knitting - Cast on about 20 stitches and knit a few rows in preparation.
Carole Adams - Needle felting - bring a small wool or other animal fibre stockinette swatch for embellishment.
Swatches are usually best done in a light to medium colour (no black!) in DK or worsted weight wool. Bring usual knitting tools - yarn needle, crochet hook, small scissors, spare yarn, and so on.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Dye-Version
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Denise Powell - A Knitter Visits Peru
In October of 2009 Denise had the pleasure of visiting Peru on a textile focussed tour.
Peru has a long and very rich tradition of textiles created in many techniques. This will be a presentation about the history of textiles, design elements, techniques, and current state of various types of textile production in Peru. Denise will also bring examples of Peruvian knitting, backstrap weaving, braiding, and machine embroidery.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Robin Hunter - The Barbie Factor
Robin will be talking about the body image as it relates to our knitting projects, why so many Knitters hate to knit garments for themselves and how to change that. Robin is a member of the Downtown Knit Collective and has a number of patterns available on Patternfish.com.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Kirk Dunn
Interested in seeing what subjects and speakers we have had at previous meetings, please visit our Meeting Archive page.