Stories in the Making

Our March meeting was a talk all about fixing your own knitting mistakes, or starting down the path to understanding what's going on with your knitting oopsies. This discussion cannot happen without some knowledge of how to read your knitting. Alexis covered this topic nicely last year, and summarized her notes in a handy blog post - check it out here. This post references another great resource which I used when creating my talk this month, a great series of blog posts from Telana Winters: Reading Your Knitting Part 1 Reading Your Knitting Part 2 Reading Your Knitting Part 3...

Alexis shared her recently completed set of three hooded cardigans for her boys (and none of them have outgrown them yet!). The pattern is Sibling Revelry by Meghan Jones, published in Little NutMeg Productions. She used Patons DK Superwash (in colours selected by the kiddos) for the body of each sweater, with a coordinating variegated yarn for the hood from Kat's Riverside Studio. Sibling Revelry, photo via Meghan Jones, Ravelry Roxann let us know that the newest issue of Piecework magazine (January/February 2018) has a great feature about socks. This is the magazine's historical knitting issue, and the article focuses...

You did not disappoint me in early January, Yarn Clubbies. First of all, I wasn't expecting such a great turnout for our January 4th meeting, while many folks were still lounging in PJs and enjoying some time off work. And second, you hadn't given away all your lovely recently finished objects over Christmas, so you were able to bring them to Yarn Club. Thank you on both counts. Sue brought her Benon Headband, designed by Hazel Tindall. Her version was knit in Brooklyn Tweed Loft. Benon Headband, photo via Hazel Tindall, Ravelry Gillian shared her Advent MKAL 2017, which is...

As promised, we carried on from the December introduction to Ravelry with a more in-depth view on some features of everyone's favourite yarn and pattern database. Catherine started us off with some demonstrations of more advanced search features on the Patterns tab. Do you find yourself searching by the same criteria again and again in your pattern searches? For example, you're always scrolling down the page to check off the 5-star rating criteria, so your search results will only include the highest reviewed patterns? Well, stop scrolling! You can click and drag the search attribute boxes in a new order....

The Show and Share slips for the last two months got shuffled together, so forgive us for combining them into one summary post. It still means you can find the patterns and yarn details for all those lovely things you saw at Yarn Club, so I'm calling this a win. Catherine shared some challenges she encountered while using up yarn scraps to make a pair of mittens. Something didn't sound quite right about a mitten that is only 5" long, but it works for her as she has very dainty hands. The pattern is The World's Simplest Mittens by Tin...