MINNESOTA KNITTERS’ GUILD Presents the 34th Annual Minnesota Knit Together April 24–26, 2020 Crowne Plaza in Plymouth 3131 Campus Drive, Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 Friday April 24 Saturday, April 25 Sunday, April 26 Yarnover Dinner with Keynote Yarnover Classes Monthly Minnesota Speaker: Franklin Habit and Vendor Market Knitters’ Guild meeting Join us at the Crowne Plaza, for a 8:00AM Registration opens “The time is Now!” delicious buffet dinner. Then stay with Susanna Hansson 8:00 AM–5:30 PM Marketplace, free for “Impractical Magic: Oddities 10:00 AM–12:00 PM and Curiosities from Weldon’s 9:00AM–12:00 PM Morning Classes Practical Needlework” with Franklin What does knitting mean to us? Habit. Beginning in the 1880s, and 12:00–2:00 PM Lunch Is it a passion, a purpose, or is it for decades thereafter, the editors included with 3 hour or "just" a way to pass time? of Weldon’s Practical Needlework all day classes Process or product knitting — provided an enormous audience of 2:00 PM–5:00 PM Afternoon Classes; does it matter? Do we value amateur craftswomen with patterns Continuation of All Day Classes. our knitting time? How is that for garments designed to be warm, reflected in what we do? strong, long-lived and, well, practical. 7:30 PM–9:30 PM Yarn Bingo. But Weldon’s had another side, too. Free to attend, cash bar available. There are no right or wrong A side that proposed the knitting of Cost: $180 for full day or $90 for answers but I hope all of you will covers for tennis balls, of knitting half day classes for members. be willing to engage in thinking whips for children, and of covering * about and sharing your thoughts open flames with crinkled tissue * Anyone wishing to attend the paper. In this funny, informative, around some of these questions. dinner on Friday and/or classes on lavishly illustrated talk–not for the Saturday must first become a 2020 Cost: Free and open to the public. faint of heart–we’ll take a look at Guild member at the cost of $30. what our great-great-grandmothers got up to after they’d already knit a sufficiency of Socks for Invalids. Warning: May induce seizures in Yarnover Shawl Contest persons with good taste. Wear a shawl that you knit to the Yarnover Dinner and have it photo- graphed during the cocktail hour. We will have a slide show of all the 5:30–6:30 PM Cocktail Hour shawls during dinner and everyone will get to vote for their favorites. 6:30–8:00 PM Dinner This year we will be giving three prizes: one for favorite colorwork, 8:00–9:00 PM Keynote one for favorite lace or texture, and one random drawing. Please Cost: $50.00,* cash bar available do not enter a shawl you entered in the 2017, 2018 or 2019 contests. Note: We consider a shawl anything you wear over your shoulders, so capes, caplets, ponchos and shawlettes are also welcome. Yarnover Overview 1–2 • Instructor Info 3–6 • Class Schedule 7–8 • Class Details 9–26 Make a weekend of it! Registration information On line booking link for Yarnover at the Registration includes morning and/or afternoon Crowne Plaza. Or call 1-877-270-1393 to make classes. Please note some classes may have reservations by phone by asking for the MN homework and/or a materials fee, payable to the Knitter’s Guild Room Block or group code Z91. Yarnover instructor at the beginning of the class. Online reservations at the group rate Early bird registration for MKG members who have are available here. paid their 2020 dues on or before Dec. 31, 2019 starts January 11, 2020 at 8:00 AM. Classes will be assigned on a first come–first served basis. General registration (for people who paid MKG dues 2020 Yarnover Committee after Dec. 31) opens Jan. 18, 2020 at 8:00 AM with Jess Dahlberg classes assigned on a first come-first served basis for all remaining open spaces after early bird registration. Shelley Hermanson Advance registration deadline is April 15. Walk-in Becky Huerta registration for any class with space available is Kathy Lewinski welcome on April 25, 2020, and must be paid by Barb Lind credit card that day. Caitlin Maier Refund for cancellation on or before February 16 is 75%; after February 17th and on or before Diane Mountford March 29th is 50%; no refunds after March 30th. Sue Traczyk Payment by credit card or PayPal only. You may add If you encounter any of these volunteers during a class or dinner via the website, however any class Yarnover, please take time to express your change or cancellations must be made by contacting appreciation for their time and talents. Becky Huerta at [email protected] or 763-535-2918. Registration questions? Call or email Becky Huerta at 763-535-2918 or [email protected]. Welcome to the Other questions, contact Shelley Hermanson at Minnesota Knitters’ Guild 612-867-5032 or [email protected]. If you like to knit, you’re one of us, no matter where Emails and phone calls will be answered within 48 hours. you live, newbie or expert! We promote interest and appreciation for the art of knitting, and knitting education, and fellowship (socializing!). We come Lunch Information together formally every month in Minneapolis. Lunch is provided as a courtesy and is not part of Informally, we gather in coffee shops, bars, and the registration fee. If you choose not to have the on knitting retreats. There’s always room for you! lunch provided, there will be no reimbursement. Visit Knitters.org to find out more about the best Since we cannot accommodate all dietary knitting association in Minnesota. Yarnover restrictions, we advise all attendees with strict dietary requirements to be responsible for their Visit the Minnesota Knitters’ Guild group at Ravelry. 2020 lunch as we may not have a suitable option for com for the latest information about Yarnover. You will 2 — Page you. If we are able to offer lunch options such as find information about Minnesota Knitters’ Guild, vegetarian or gluten-free, you will be contacted including membership at Knitters.org. closer to Yarnover dates with the choices. Yarnover Instructors Olga Buraya-Kefelian Growing up in Belarus, Olga Alissa Barton Buraya-Kefelian has learned knitting from her seamstress Alissa’s more than 30 years of mother at a very young age. It teaching experience make the wasn’t until her mid-twenties that “Knitting Fairy” the go to person to her knitting developed beyond a learn all of the tips and tricks for hobby, and a distraction from the everything from cast on to bind hardships of military life, into a career in knitwear off... From Accessories to design. She has created her own brand of knitwear Sweaters. Nothing thrills Alissa patterns, olgajazzy, that are sold via her website and more than finding a new technique or stitch. One of the authored several publications. But you can also see original instructors for DFW Fiber Fest, Alissa is her designs in numerous publications in print as well considered a “secret weapon” by many in the fiber as online. Make sure to check her recent book, community who know that they can rely on her to share Capsule, published by Brooklyn Tweed. Currently her knowledge and skills across multiple crafts at a residing in Alexandria, Virginia she continues work on moment’s notice. Her Knitting Fairy patterns have been her brand and numerous collaborations while teaching published in a variety of magazines and many are classes and workshops nationwide as well as available on Ravelry. internationally. Find her work at olgajazzy.com and Alissa has taught classes at guilds, workshops, retreats across most social media platforms. and stores all around the US since 1990. You can find her on Ravelry, Facebook and Twitter as Jeane deCoster KnittingFairy and as TheKnittingFairy on Instagram. Long-retired model, fashion designer, and never-retired yarn Michele Lee Bernstein and knitting junky, Jeane deCoster started her yarn company I love designing accessories, (Elemental Affects) over a decade especially if they use one or two ago. She tells people that she just skeins of very special yarn. I’m fond wanted to make a better yarn, but of texture (brioche, lace, entrelac, she secretly wants to convert every sock knitter to a elongated stitches) and how garment knitter and loves sharing her experience of interesting techniques can be used how a sweater that fits properly can flatter any figure. to make small objects sing. To do this, she has developed several techniques that I teach at local yarn shops, fiber festivals (Madrona make it easy to be confident that you CAN knit (and Fiber Arts Festival, Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, assemble) a sweater that fits and flatters. Red Alder Fiber Arts Retreat, Vogue Knitting Live), and guild retreats. I blog about knitting, food, and music at PDXKnitterati. com. You can also find me on Instagram, Facebook, Ravelry, and Twitter; I’m PDXKnitterati on all platforms. Yarnover Yarnover 2020 — Page 3 — Page Mary Lou Egan been a popular member of the faculties of such festivals as Vogue Knitting Live!, STITCHES Events, the Madrona Mary Lou has been teaching knitting Fiber Arts Winter Retreat, Squam Arts Workshops, Sock and designing for a long, long, time. Summit, and the Taos Wool Festival. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, she Franklin’s varied experience in the fiber world includes teaches regularly at the Yarnery in contributions of writing and design to Vogue Knitting, St.