Events

Back to School is not just for kids any more! Knitters love to go to “school” to learn a new technique or new skill. We will have several different choices – plan to sit in on two different mini-classes and learn something new.

Do you have a skill you'd like to share, please contact your program team at programchair@seattleknittersguild.org  

Fashion Show! This is the culmination of our 2013 Elizabeth Zimmerman Knit Along. Bring your finished (or nearly so) Elizabeth Zimmerman project – or projects, plural! We can’t wait to see the results of your focused creativity.

Bring a potluck dish to share, and your knitting! – and plan on a fun-filled evening. Exceptionally generous fiber companies have donated wonderful raffle prizes, and your board members have purchased gift cards to all of the LYS that you love to support. All current members eligible for prizes! It will be an evening of fun, good food and great stash enhancement!

The SKG featured speaker for January is Andrea Rangel, a local Seattle designer who has her designs featured in Interweave Knits, Knitty, Knit Magazine and on Ravelry. She not only likes to make the usual sweaters and socks, but likes to make skirts, dresses and YES, pants! You can find her on Ravelry at andreakr or on her website

Doors open at 6:30, meeting begins at 7:00! Don't be late!

February is the month that traditionally we forsake our "First Wednesday" meeting night to take advantage of the talent and inspiration that is on its way to the Madrona Fiber Arts Retreat in Tacoma, and this year is no exception.

Wednesday, February 15 we will welcome Nancy Marchant to our Knitters Guild meeting. She is, as her website (the brioche stitch) proclaims, the Queen of This Brioche Domain. Join us to learn about this interesting and versatile way of knitting with two colors and getting a terrific variety of textures and color patterns.

Ms. Marchant was born in Indiana, but now lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has been published in Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits and Knitters Magazine as well as a number of Dutch knitting magazines. She is the author of Knitting Brioche, the definitive work on the technique of brioche knitting. She is currently working on standardizing the abbreviations used in writing brioche knitting patterns to make them more clear, and easier for knitters to learn this way of combining colors and textures. She is also working on a stitch dictionary for lace brioche knitting.

Susanna has been a member of the Seattle Knitters' Guild since 1988, sharing the story about Bohus Stickning with her home guild.

She has been instrumental in the renaissance of interest in the unique patterned color work Bohus Stickning sweaters and her collection of vintage garments was the centerpiece of a highly successful exhibit at the American Swedish Institute (ASI) in Minneapolis in 2009. That year Susanna also travelled to Japan to give lectures and workshops on Bohus Stickning, and this past summer she was invited to bring her garments to the Knit Nation event in London for a series of workshops.

As part of the guild presentation, there will be a drawing for a Bohus Blue Shimmer wristlet kit as well as a raffle for a Wild Apple Hat & Scarf kit (both kits are donated by Susanna). Raffle tickets will be available at the meeting for $10 and all proceeds will go to Doctors without Borders. The kits are created by Solveig Gustafsson in Sweden and there are many more Bohus designs available in kit form (with instructions in English) for hand knitters everywhere. Solveig's website is www.solsilke.se

In addition to teaching at the national 'Stitches' events, Susanna takes her workshops on the road to guilds, retreats, and shops all over North America. She is a frequent teacher at the annual Nordic Knitting Symposiums, and at the Knitting Conferences organized by the Nordic Heritage Museum here in Seattle. Her work is grounded in her love of technique, detail, history, and culture. She really does love to teach as much as she loves to knit! For more information about Susanna, please visit her website at www.oneofsusannas.com

KG member and teacher, Jeny created Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bindoff, and is the designer for several fun patterns on www.knitty.com. If you are looking for a strikingly interesting sock pattern, check out her Double Heelix. In need of a fun baby gift? You can't go wrong with Duck. (Both are published on www.knitty.com)

Link to her blog post.

A self-described technique freak and a skill junkie, JC Briar can make reading pattern charts as easy as reading a yarn store shelf tag. She also has an extensive knowledge of stitch patterns - what they are, how do to them, and how to choose one for your project.

Link to her website.

Susan Strawn and Pat Brunner, both members of the Guild will give an informal discussion on traditional styles of knitted garments from different regions of Norway and show photographs and examples of both historic and modern interpretations of mittens, socks, shawls and sweaters.

NOTE THE DATE CHANGE!! Since the first Wednesday of July is the 4th - Independence Day; we've changed our meeting date.

And to make it worth your while to come on a different night – there will be ice cream!  And socializing!  It will be – an ICE CREAM SOCIAL!
 
Bring your chair – we'll gather in the yard next to the church.  Unless it rains, in which case we will gather in our usual room inside the church. 
 
And there will be YARN-O!  (Think BINGO, but with yarn stuff instead of numbers.)  The caller:  "Y, Merino.  Under the Y, Merino.  N, Socks.  Under the N, Socks."  And if you are the first to yell out – you guessed it! YARNO! – there will be prizes!
 
So don't forget – JULY 18.  Ice Cream Social.  YARN-O.  Prizes.  Socializing.
 
FUN!!

Cirilia Rose, newly hired by Skacel Fiber Arts to be their Creative Director will be our August 1st speaker. Cirilia who used to design with Norah Gaughan on the east coast, has just returned from Iceland where she orchestrated a photo shoot with designs by Steven West and her with some of Skacel's popular yarns. She'll be highlighting what a Creative Director does, share some of her designs by bringing finished pieces, and,of course, share photos of her recent trip to Iceland.

Join us on September 5 for Back to School, knitter-style – Mini Classes!  Classes will begin at 7:15 and at 8:00, and will last 20-30 minutes.  Read through the descriptions and have some idea of which you would like – note that some have homework!  Download a pdf with class details here.

We will have sign up sheets for two sessions for each class.  Maximum in any class is TEN, so when they are full, they are full.  All of these classes will be interesting and applicable to what we do, so having back-up choices will be easy.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact your program team at programchair@seattleknittersguild.org        

November 7 is Knit-A-Long Fashion night!

Bring your wonderful Bohus knitting projects for our annual KAL fashion show. We can't wait to see what you have made!

Following the KAL show, we will have our normal snow 'n' tell – which is also exciting since it's been a couple of months since we have been able to do that. If time allows, the rest of the evening will be devoted to social knitting.

See you on November 7! Doors open at 6:30 meeting begins at 7:00.

Join your fellow knitters – members and guests – at our annual Guild Holiday Party! There will be FOOD! There will be Knitterly PRIZES! There will be a GIFT EXCHANGE!

First the food – it's a POTLUCK! Please bring a dish to share – be it appetizer, entrée, side or dessert – your choice. (Don't forget serving pieces!) A label with main ingredients and any potential allergens would be nice. Drinks (tea, water, cider) will be provided.

To make this as low waste an event as possible, please bring your own utensils and mug. Don't worry if you are coming straight from work, or if you forget – we will have some available. But it would be nice to minimize the trash.

And a Gift Exchange! If you would like to participate in the gift exchange, please bring a wrapped gift ($15 value MAX) and place it on the table with the other gifts. At the appropriate time, everyone who brought a gift to exchange will gather 'round the table to select a gift to take home.

And PRIZES! All current members will be entered into a drawing when you arrive at the party. After food has been consumed and gifts exchanged, we will draw names for great prizes donated by local yarn companies. We have gifts of yarn from Sundara Yarns, Toots le Blanc, Berrocco, Blue Sky Alpacas and many more! We have patterns from Churchmouse!  And we have books from Martingale Press!

And your Guild has purchased gift cards from your favorite LYS's - who have also given us gifts of yarn and patterns!

It's going to be a BLAST of Knitting FUN! THE social event of the season! A not to be missed opportunity!

Meetings every first Wednesday of the month, 7:00 PM
(unless otherwise noted)
Wedgwood Presbyterian Church
8008 - 35th Ave. NE, Seattle

Parking available in the lot behind the church
or
across from the south side of the church on 80th Street
Dues: $22 per year, $11 after July 1.

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