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The Tangled Skein The Newsletter of The Ottawa Knitting Guild Natalie Servant September 2012 Blocking Treasurer's Report June's Show & Tell Pattern: Impunity and more! The Tangled Skein September 2012 Welcome to another year at the Ottawa Knitting Guild! We have many exciting events coming up this year, including workshops with Melissa Leapman, an all-new knitting challenge, Vendors' Night, great monthly speakers, and more. Read on for more details. Monthly meetings I'm the new Newsletter Coordinator, and I'm really looking are held at forward to publishing your content this year. The Tangled Woodroffe United Skein would be nothing without your submissions, so please Church, 207 don't be shy. I know that we all would like to hear what our fellow knitters are up to, and I am personally thrilled to be in Woodroffe Avenue. the company of so many skilled knitters and so many The banquet hall enthusiastic learning knitters. I really hope to learn a lot opens at 7pm, and from all of you this year. the formal program Your submissions to the newsletter can be emailed to me at begins at 7:30pm. [email protected]. You can expect your Renew your copy of The Tangled Skein to be emailed to you ten days before each meeting, or available for pick-up at each membership for $35 meeting, if you've requested a hard copy. (Any copies not at our first meeting picked up will be mailed the next day.) on September 10 th . Happy knitting! Amanda Schwabe In This Issue 11 Jana's Gems 3 Knitting with Kathy 14 Knit and Crochet Show - TKGA 4 Meeting Preview 16 The Future of Patterns 5 Vendors' Night 18 Treasurer's Report & Financial 5 Advertising Rates Statements for 2011/2012 6 2012 Workshop: Melissa Leapman! 20 Show and Tell 7 2012 Knitting Challenge 26 Pattern: Impunity 7 Ask a Knitter 28 WIPs: the last page 8 Blocking and Care of Hand Knits, Part 1 2 The Tangled Skein September 2012 OKG Executive Committee President Kathy McEwen Treasurer Laurie Chochinov Secretary Sheila Weinfurter Special Events Valerie McLaughlin Program Coordinator Anne Goodwin Newsletter Coordinator Knitting with Kathy Amanda Schwabe Librarian By Kathy McEwen Julie Thur Membership Coordinator Kathy is the President of the OKG. Jeannie Grundy Welcome back, everyone, to a new and exciting year with the Member at Large Ottawa Knitting Guild. I'm Kathy, and I am your new Dara Greenberg President. This is my first attempt at a monthly column, and Member at Large I will admit I am not sure yet what form my column will take. Nancy Onlock Webmaster Emilie Poncelet I hope everyone had a wonderful summer as I did: filled with Past President family, friends, fun, and knitting (and Olympics). Each Jana Dinelle summer for the last four years, I have endeavoured to learn something new about knitting. The first year, I taught myself to knit socks two at a time on circular needles. Year FibreFest in Almonte two saw me learning entrelac. Last year, I conquered September 8 th & 9 th double knitting. This summer, I decided I would try my hand at dyeing my own wool. I ordered dyes and plain wool from Don't forget to stop by the Knit Picks, and I was set. This seemed like a cottage project OKG booth while you're to me, so I did my first dyeing on a sunny July day at my there, scrunching delicious cottage. yarns and petting the (cont'd on next page) alpacas. http://mvtm.ca/museum/? page_id=1267 3 The Tangled Skein September 2012 (cont'd from previous page) September 10 I soaked and then boiled my yarn in a large pot on my Natalie Servant talks about barbecue, and then I hung the dyed yarn on wood between designing adirondack chairs. October 15 Vendors' Night I handpainted yarn on a picnic table on my sundeck. I dyed November 19 two skeins of sock yarn (solid red and variegated blue) and Laurie Chochinov talks two of worsted weight (blue and green) and had a lot of fun about Master Knitting doing it. I knit the red yarn into socks for my mother's December 17 birthday in July. To be announced January 21 This summer I also participated in my first Ravellenic Games To be announced (formerly the Ravelympics) and enjoyed knitting a scarf and February 11 two hats while watching a lot of the Olympics. The scarf is To be announced a Wingspan (my third this year; I love that pattern) and one March 18 of the hats is a colourwork hat with bicycles on it for my To be announced husband. I will bring them to Show and Tell in September. April: 15 Melissa Leapman I am looking forward to seeing summer knitting from lots of Design challenge entries our members at Show and Tell at our September meeting. ᘒᘒᘒ due May 20 Meeting Preview Annual Meeting Design challenge winners September 10 announced Natalie Servant June 17 www.natalieservant.ca To be announced Design: from inspiration to publication became addicted to knitting Natalie will be talking about her design process, starting with the inspiration and going right through to selling the patterns. lace. In 2006 she began She'll be sharing what has worked for her and some things developing her own pattern that haven't worked at all. ideas and is now self- publishing her own patterns. Natalie has also Natalie had a rough introduction to knitting in Brownies had a pattern in Knitty and where being left-handed wasn't a good thing. She only is working on several started knitting in earnest as a poor sweater-loving designs for upcoming engineering student. A book-taught knitter, she quickly books. ᘒᘒᘒ 4 The Tangled Skein September 2012 Advertising Rates Single Issue Size Member Non- Member Business $7.50 $10.00 Card Quarter $15.00 $20.00 Page Half $30.00 $40.00 Page Full Page $50.00 $60.00 October 15 Full Year Vendors' Night Size Member Non- Confirmed vendors so far: Yarn Forward, Wool'N Things, Member Just Knitting, Sheeps Ahoy, and Rose Haven. Business $60.00 $80.00 IIIndieIndie dyers needed for Vendors' Night card By Valerie McLaughlin Quarter $120.00 $160.00 Page It will surely be a night of mingling and fibery love as the Half $240.00 $320.00 Guild holds its annual Vendors' Night on October 15. Page Full Page $400.00 $480.00 This evening is an opportunity for members to purchase and stock up on books, needles, shawl pins, stitch markers, and, of course, yarn. We all know our members are talented in many aspects of knitting and fibre arts, including dyeing. The guild is putting out a call to independent dyers who are interested in showing off their wares to participate in vendors' night. If you are an indie dyer or an emerging indie dyer, this night is an opportunity to strut your stuff and introduce yourself to (cont'd on next page) 5 The Tangled Skein September 2012 (cont'd from previous page) Newsletter submissions the local knitting community. A few new dyers have already are due 17 days before booked tables for the event. If you are interested in securing each meeting, but can be a table for the evening, please contact member at large emailed to Nancy Onlock at [email protected] or newsletter@ottawaknittin special events co-ordinator Valerie McLaughlin at gguild.ca at any time. The [email protected] . ᘒᘒᘒ October issue's deadline is September 28 th . 2012 Workshop: Melissa Leapman Mark you calendars for the April 13 th weekend! Knitting Excerpt taken from Melissa author and teacher Melissa Leapman will be in town. She'll Leapman's designer page at be teaching workshops all weekend (topics to be Ravelry.com. announced), then speaking at our Guild meeting on Monday, April 15 th . A widely-published designer, Melissa Leapman has published patterns in every premier needlecrafts publication in the country. Melissa is the author of several bestselling knitting and crocheting books. Recent titles are Cables Untangled, Continuous Cables , Color Knitting the Easy Way, Mastering Color Knitting , and Stashbuster Knits . Her most recent book is Knitting the Perfect Fit , published by Random House/Potter Craft in August 2012. It is a Photo from designer’s exploration of how to use fully-fashioned shaping www.facebook.com/pages/ to create figure flattering sweaters. Melissa-Leapman/ As a freelance designer, she’s worked with leading ready-to- wear manufacturers and design houses in NYC. In addition, most American yarn companies commission Melissa to create designs to promote their new and existing yarns each season. She’s been a featured guest on numerous television shows, is a popular guest blogger, and is the host of several Leisure Arts knitting and crocheting DVD’s. Nationally, her workshops are popular with crafters of all levels. ᘒᘒᘒ 6 The Tangled Skein September 2012 2012 Knitting Challenge: Shawls This year, the OKG Executive is excited to announce that our knitting challenge theme will be shawls and shawlettes. Just about every knitter seems to have a shawl of some sort on their needles lately, and we couldn't help but jump on the bandwagon. The categories for the challenge will be announced later, but suffice it to say that there will likely be something to suit everyone's tastes. So make this the year to complete that gorgeous pattern that you've had your eye on. ᘒᘒᘒ NEW! Ask a Knitter Did you ever wonder how to keep from getting ladders between your needles when you're working in the round? Or how to adjust the tension in stranded knitting? Do you need help learning cables, or reading lace charts? Well, our guild is home to many accomplished knitters, and they can after they've been worked.
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