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Yarnover April 21–23, 2017 Minneapolis Marriott Northwest 7025 Northland Dr N, Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 MINNESOTA KNITTERS’ GUILD Presents the 31st Annual Minnesota Knit Together Yarnover April 21–23, 2017 Minneapolis Marriott Northwest 7025 Northland Dr N, Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 Friday April 21 Saturday, April 22 Sunday, April 23 Meet the Teachers Dinner Yarnover Classes 10 AM Sunday morning is the and Vendor Market with Key Note Speaker: monthly Minnesota Knitters’ Guild June Hemmons Hiatt 7:45 AM Registration meeting featuring The Shibaguyz, Join us at the Minneapolis Marriott 8 AM Market Opens Shannon & Jason Mullett-Bowlsby Northwest, 7025 Northland Dr. N, 9:15 AM–12:15 PM Morning Classes " Fiber to Fashion to Brooklyn Park, MN 55428, at 12:15–1:30 PM Lunch in dining Photography: a sneak peek 6:00 PM for a delicious buffet dinner. room, included with class registration inside the design studio of The Doors open at 5:30 PM Then stay for 1:30–4:30 PM Afternoon classes; Shibaguyz." “Reviving The Knitting Belt” Continuation of All Day class Cost: Free and open to the public. with June Hemmons Hiatt. Questions 5:30 PM Market close from the audience will be welcome. Cost: $135 for full day or $90 for Cost: $50.00 half day classes for members. For non member pricing add $30 which covers one-year Table of Contents membership dues to the guild. Yarnover Overview .................. 1–3 Yarnover Shawl Contest Instructor Info ......................... 3–6 Rhinebeck may have its fall sweaters, but at Yarnover we see so many Class Schedule ........................... 7 beautiful spring shawls. This year we want to award some of those gorgeous shawls in our Yarnover Shawl Contest. Wear a shawl you knit Class Details ........................ 8–23 to the Meet The Teachers Dinner and have it photographed during the Borderline Personalities social hour before dinner. We will have a slide show of all the shawls during Homework ......................... 25–26 dinner and everyone will get to vote for their favorite. The winning shawl, by popular vote, will win a fabulous knitting prize. Visit the Minnesota Knitters’ Guild group Keep up with the Guild Post your photos! on social media: at Ravelry.com for the latest information The hashtags for Yarnover about Yarnover. You will find information are #yarnover2017 and about Minnesota Knitters’ Guild, including #yarnovershawl2017 membership at Knitters.org. Knitters.org KEYNOTE: Registration information Reviving The Knitting Belt Registration includes morning and/or afternoon classes. Please note that some classes may have Our speaker, June Hemmons Hiatt, author of The a materials fee that is payable to the instructor Principles of Knitting, will be discussing what she at Yarnover. has learned about a very old method of knitting that has been nearly forgotten. Early bird registration for MKG members who have paid their 2017 dues on or before Dec. 31, 2016 A knitting belt is used to support one needle, starts January 07, 2017 at 8:00 AM. Classes will freeing the right hand to manage the yarn. This be assigned on a first come–first served basis. device, and others like it, were once commonly used by professional hand knitters — people who General registration (for members who paid their knit the socks, hats, gloves, and undergarments dues after Dec. 31 and non-members) opens Jan. 14, that everybody wore for hundreds of years. 2017 at 8:00 AM with classes assigned on a first come- first served basis for all remaining open spaces after After the introduction of the knitting machine, hand early bird registration. Advance registration deadline is knitting declined as an occupation, and with it the tools April 14. Walk-in registration for any open classes is and manner of working. Knitting belts are still used welcome, and must be paid by credit card. in Shetland, but have disappeared everywhere else. Refund for cancellation on or before Feb. 11 is June has knit with a belt for over thirty years, 75 percent; after Feb. 11 and before March 25 is and she will talk about how she learned about the 50 percent. No refunds after March 25. method and her recent decision to begin making the belts in an effort to reintroduce them to Payment by credit card or PayPal only. You may add contemporary knitters. a class or dinner at a later date, however any class change or cancellations must be made by contacting Anna Blomster. Anna can be reached at mkg.yo.reg@ gmail.com or 612-867-8125 phone or text. Registration questions? Call or text Anna Blomster at 612-867-8125 or [email protected]. Other questions, contact Shelley Hermanson at 612-867-5032 or [email protected]. Lunch Information Lunches are provided as a courtesy and are not part of your tuition. If you choose not to have the lunch provided, there will be no reimbursement. Make a weekend of it! Since we cannot accommodate all dietary restrictions it is advised that all attendees with Rooms are available at the Marriot Minneapolis strict dietary requirements be responsible for their Yarnover Northwest at a special Yarnover rate. lunch as we may not have a suitable option for you. Call 1-877-303-1681 for hotel reservations Lunches are provided by a vendor and we cannot 2017 and mention the Knitters’ Guild and Yarnover. guarantee that there is no cross contamination. 2 — Page Online reservations at the group rate are available here. Yarnover Instructors Janine Bajus is obsessed with the interplay of color in Fair Isle knitting! She loves to teach others how to design their own Welcome to the projects. Janine is the Minnesota Knitters’ Guild author of The Joy of Color: Fair Isle Knitting If you like to knit, you’re one of us, no matter where Your Way (2016) and has you live, newbie or expert! We promote interest published many Fair Isle and appreciation for the art of knitting, and knitting designs as Feralknitter education, and fellowship (socializing!). We come on Ravelry. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, her dachshund together formally every month in Minneapolis and Mason, and hundreds of books. She sells Shetland Duluth, Minnesota. Informally, we gather in coffee yarns, color tools, and patterns through her store Feral shops, bars, and on knitting retreats. There’s always Knitter (www.feralknitter.com). room for you! Visit Knitters.org to find out more about the best knitting association in Minnesota. JC Briar A self-confessed “technique freak” and “skill junkie,” JC dabbles in all kinds of knitting, but has a special fondness for 2017 Yarnover Committee textured knitting and novel construction Anna Blomster techniques. If it involves Shelley Hermanson lace, cables, or seamless construction, it’s sure to catch her eye. She shares her enthusiasm by teaching Susanna Johns at shops and fiber festivals, online at Craftsy, and through her book Charts Made Simple. Her latest Kathy Lewinski venture is Stitch-Maps.com, a website for viewing Barb Lind and creating grid-free charts of unparalleled fluidity, authenticity, and beauty. Diane Mountford Sue Traczyk Lily Chin, named a “Master Knitter” Shari O’Flanagan by Vogue Knitting International, has If you encounter any of the people listed above designed knitwear for during Yarnover, please take the time to express magazines and yarn your appreciation for their work. companies for nearly Yarnover 25 years, and she has worked with designers 2017 Ralph Lauren, Vera 3 — Page Wang, Diane von Furstenberg, and Isaac Mizrahi. Her work has been on the backs of celebrities and super models, from Racquel Welch and Vanna White to Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. Sivia Harding Patty Lyons is a has worked with fiber nationally recognized and art since she can knitting teacher, designer remember. Obsessed and writer. She teaches since youth, by adulthood nationally at guilds & she had dabbled in knitting shows around the weaving, spinning, and country and her popular dyeing among other classes can also be activities, and came to found online and on DVD knitting in the year 2000. at Interweave, Annie’s Almost immediately, she and Craftsy where her began to design. She “Improve Your Knitting is known mainly for her Class” was named Craftsy’s most popular class of 2013! exceptional lace and bead designs. Her patterns also Patty’s designs and knitting skill articles have include accessories, garments, and imaginative Moebius been published in Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits, creations. She has been widely published in books and Knit Purl, Knitter’s Magazine, Cast On, Knit Style, and collections, including Jared Flood’s Wool People series, Creative Knitting magazines, where she also writes a online magazines such as Twist Collective and Knitty, knitter’s advice column called “Patty’s Purls of Wisdom”. and on Ravelry as Sivia Harding Knit Design. Patty’s designs have also been included in pattern collections from Classic Elite, Noro, Cascade, Tahki June Stacy Charles and Kollage Yarns. Hemmons Hiatt, author of The Joan Principles of Knitting, McGowan- grew up near Chicago Michael is the and spent her twenties founder of White Lies in New York City. She Designs knitting patterns then settled in the SF and the author of Knitting Bay Area where she met Lingerie Style (STC- her husband, Robert A. 2007). The thread that Hiatt, a physician who runs through all of Joan’s does medical research. work is the celebration of After completing a degree in history at the University of romance and the feminine California, Berkeley, June began work on the first edition form. She believes that all of her book, published in 1990; the completely rewritten women are beautiful no and revised second edition appeared in 2012. She then matter what their size and strives to help enhance that decided to revive interest in the “knitting belt”, a very old beauty through the clothing she designs.
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