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The Newsletter of the Ottawa Knitting Guild January 2014 TheTangled Skein Diana’sPattern Scarf Ravellenics Knitting Lace Shelana Fiber Arts sponsorsourmeeting 1 In This Issue 3 Knitting with Kathy 3 Upcoming Meetings 4 Stitch Doctor February 10 4 Advertising Rates 5 February Meeting Sponsor: Shelana Fiber Arts 7:30 PM 5 Meeting Preview: Casting About to Cast On 6 Library Hours & News 6 New Members meeting 6 Tribute: Enid Jones 7 Ravellenics 2014 - TeamOKG2014 Sponsored by 9 Charity Knitting 8 Ottawa Knitting Guild Executive Committee Shelana Fiber Arts 10 Spin In 11 The Practicing Knitter: Group Learning 12 Knitting In Literature 7:00 pm 13 January Meeting Recap: Sally Melville, Knitting to Flatter and Fit Stitch doctor 15 On Why I’m Not A Master Knitter 16 Knitting Lace: A Few Guidelines to Make Your Work Easier 207 WOODROFFE AVENUE 17 Pattern: Diana’s Scarf WOODROFFE UNITED CHURCH 31 The End of the Skein 32 Knitting Workshops with Nancy Bush 32 Registration Information 33 REGISTRATION FORM Happy February! I hope you’re all mentally surviving the winter. I keep telling myself the end is in sight. And then I grab my knitting and a cup of coffee and I feel a bit better. I think I may have discovered some patterns for the Knitting Challenge while working on this month’s newsletter. I’ll have to look in my stash and see what I can come up with. Have you decided what you’re going to make yet? I love making hats -- they’re so quick and gratifying. I have more hats in my house than I know what to do with, and I’m about to make at least one more. I also impatiently cast on my L’Enveloppe, so I’ll have to quickly choose a new pattern for the Ravellenics -- which start tomorrow. “Don’t Panic” comes in handy about now. :) , Newsletter Coordinator Amanda Schwabe The copyright for each article in The Tangled Skein belongs to its respective author. Do not reprint or redistribute anywhere else 2 without the author’s express permission. Kathy’s 2012 Advent Scarf guildKnitting with Kathynews By Kathy McEwen, President Kathy is in Australia! Her regular column will resume in two months, when she returns. In the meantime, enjoy these random pictures. I found them while googling “vintage curling sweaters.” April 14 Upcoming Meetings Nancy Bush Knitting Challenge: Head and Hands entries due February 10 (One week early because of Family Day) May 12 Casting About to Cast On with Laurie Chochinov Knitting Challenge Winners / Annual Meeting March 17 June 16 Mini Topics: “Knitting and the Web” with Belinda Yarn Swap Tully and “How to Not Hate Finishing” with Amanda Schwabe 3 Examples of these will be shown on conventional Stitch Doctor knitted items as well as on Free Form knitting. By Elizabeth Payne Should you have other questions and more Bring some waste yarn and needles, or bring your suggestions for topics, please feel free to ask. knitting and pattern, and come to the Stitch Doctor from 7:00 pm until 7:30 pm (before the Guild meeting) in the Friendship Room, off the main Knit and Learn Group By Elizabeth Payne corridor near the back of the church. If you are having problems and/or you are interested in some Come join us to knit together on the second new, improved ways of doing things, or you have Thursday of each month at the Nepean Museum suggestions for other knitters, come and meet on Rowley Street off Meadowlands, a few blocks informally to enrich your knitting experiences and west of Merivale Road, from 10 am to noon. The gain new confidence to tackle new projects. meetings for this year will be held on February 13, March 13, and April 10. February – The theme of this Stitch Doctor session is how to add special finishes to your knitting by This group provides Guild members, no matter their using embellishments and special edgings to make level of knitting experience, with an opportunity to your work more interesting. Several techniques informally knit together; exchange ideas, knitting will be reviewed including I-Cord, special knitted experiences, and friendship; and has the added stitches to obtain three-dimensional surfaces, and advantage of obtaining information and help from some crochet manipulations to complement the experienced and Master Knitters. knitted surfaces. Advertising Rates Full Year Single Issue Save the Date: Size Member Non-Mem- Size Member Non-Mem- ber ber April 12-14, 2014 Business $60.00 $80.00 Business $7.50 $10.00 card Card Nancy Bush Quarter $120.00 $160.00 Quarter $15.00 $20.00 Page Page Half Page $240.00 $320.00 Half Page $30.00 $40.00 Workshops! Full Page $400.00 $480.00 Full Page $50.00 $60.00 4 February Meeting Sponsor: Shelana Fiber Arts We have an exciting new Sponsor-A-Meeting program! Each month, a sponsor will donate a door prize for our meeting, and we’ll get to learn a little more about them. What a great way for us to support local businesses that we love. This month, our sponsor is Shelana Fiber Arts. Donation Two skeins of Shelana Gloucester in Nightfall, a deep blue with purple accents. Thank you, 80% super wash merino, 20% nylon, 3-ply fingering. Shelana, Shelana Fiber Arts is your local hand-dyed yarn, silk scarf, and handwoven items shop! We offer a variety of hand-dyed yarns from lace weight to for being our worsted, in both superwash and non-superwash repeatable colours. Our yarns are named after Ottawa-area neighbourhoods. meeting sponsor! Canadian and British yarns: All of our BFL-blend yarns are from the UK, and Rockland, our alpaca-blend sock yarn, is from Ontario. New yarn bases Meeting Preview: and colours are coming this spring! Casting About to Cast On Available for knit nights: Since we don’t have a physical shop, we can come to you! To arrange to see all Shelana yarns at your local knitting “Most knitters [cast on using] only the method they were taught when group, contact Natalie through Etsy or at [email protected] they first learned to knit, and are not aware of the number and diversity of cast-on techniques available” (Cap Sease, Cast On, Bind Off). Visit http://shelanafiberarts.etsy.com for a complete listing of available items. Custom orders accepted. Are you one of those knitters? Are you interested in seeing a few of the choices you have when casting on? Join Laurie Chochinov at the next Guild Find Shelana yarns on Ravelry at http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/brands/ meeting (February 10th) to see some of the options that are available. shelana. Laurie will touch upon various casting-on techniques, from the basic loop cast on through provisional to decorative choices. Laurie will show examples of the results and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each group. 5 and Show & Tell. The Show & Tell time is for any and every member Library Hours & News to demonstrate what they’ve been working on. We hope you’ll feel welcome to stand up and share, too, right from your very first meeting. The Ottawa Knitting Guild Library will be open from 7:15 pm until 7:45 To participate, just fill out the little slip of paper at the membership table pm on our meeting nights for returns and “withdrawals.” You can also when you first come in. Then, Kathy (or whoever is chairing the meeting) sign books out during the break. will call you up to the front with a group of other knitters. Suzanne will take a photo of your knitting for the newsletter, and you’ll have a chance The Library will be closed, however, during the program portion of the to share a bit about your project. meeting. We also have a group on Ravelry for chatting and sharing, so feel free A big thank you to our new Library volunteers, especially Jessica, who to join us there if you haven’t already! We’ve recently started using our was first to step and help out! What a difference a pair of extra hands Facebook page more often, too, so be sure to “like” us. makes! The books were shelved in record time, and tidy up of shelved books is well under way. Every spring, the Guild hosts a weekend of workshops with a well-known knitting teacher. This year, our teacher will be Nancy Bush. If you have volunteered, you will be contacted by Kate shortly by email to co-ordinate your volunteer schedule for the balance of 2014. After that, Feel free to ask lots of questions. We’re glad you’re here! we will look to schedule 2014/2015. New Members Tribute: Enid Jones If you’re a new member, welcome! Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect: Enid was a member of our Guild for ten years. She recently The Library is open every meeting except during Vendors’ Night (an event passed away on January 16, we have each October that’s more like a vendors’ fair than a meeting, 2014. You can find her obituary where you can buy local yarns and other knitting goodies). Feel free to at the Ottawa Citizen online. sign out books using your membership card. They’re due back at the next meeting. I first met Enid Jones ten years ago due to her son and my daughter Once our Membership Coordinator has entered you into the database, becoming engaged. They felt that you’ll get a membership card and access to the Members-Only area of Enid and I had a lot in common our website, www.ottawaknittingguild.ca.