January 2014 Meeting

Our meeting this month was all about knitted doilies!  We discussed several methods of casting on and joining the work in the round including one method that uses a crochet hook that Liz is demonstrating below.

 

Patterns were handed out ranging from beginner to advanced.

 

Crochet cotton and sport weight cotton were available so everyone could cast on and start a project!

 

We also discussed methods of blocking and stiffening your finished doily.

 

Happy doily knitting!!

December 2013

Our December meeting of course is a Christmas Party with lots of yummy food, gifts and prizes!

 

We started off the evening with some show and tell

 

To encourage everyone to try the new techniques that we learn each month at guild, your name goes in for a draw when you try these techniques on your own projects.   Linda donated one of the prizes (the Christmas ball) and wrapped it in fun sheep wrapping (thanks Carrie for the artistic design!!)  Our lucky winners were Caitlyn and Cathy!

 

 

 

The rest of the evening was spend snacking and knitting

 

and opening some gifts that Santa had brought.  Apparently he shops at Knit Picks too!!

November 2013

This month our meeting was a fun social knitting night to show off finished projects and have a relaxing night out!

October 2013

The October meeting was all about knitting with beads.  We learned 4 different ways to add beads to our knitting.

 

Everyone chose their hemp yarn and bead colours,

some of the beads were prestrung and others were added with a small crochet hook,

 

and everyone ended up with a fun bracelet as a sample of the different techniques.

September Meeting

Tonight was our first official meeting of the new Knitting year. 

 As usual the show and tell part of the evening was amazing and we saw finished projects and projects still in the works.

 

 

Plans were made for future meetings.  October - bead knitting, November  - learn to spin on a drop spindle, December - Christmas party, January - knit doilies, February - entrelac.

The topic of this month's meeting was learning how to knit backwards.  We had lots of fun with this knit little decorations for Halloween.

We also started making plans for a road trip to the Woodstock Fleece Festival in October.

Carol showed us this great idea of how to keep your yarn clean while you are knitting with it.  I thought it was the bottom of a sleeve but I think she said it was the bottom of a girls legging.  Either way it is a creative idea!

March 2013 - Mystery Project Reveal!

 

Our March 2013 meeting was the reveal of our Mystery Projects!  At each meeting there is always a Stitch of the Month. The idea with the Mystery Projects was to combine as many of these sts as you wanted to use into a project.

It was a lot of fun seeing the creativity that went into these projects.  I was too busy admiring the knitting and didn't get pictures of all the projects but I will share the few that I do have.

 

 

The rest of the evening was spent knitting

 

 

 and visiting with friends!

 

February Meeting - Steeking

Yikes, it is only a few months into the new year and already I am behind on the Knitting Goddesses Blog!

At our February meeting, our topic was steeking and cutting our knitting.  We had so much fun with this.  This was the first time a lot of our group had done this technique and it helps to have the support of other Knitters when you make that first cut!

As you can see in the above and below pictures, we used a contrasting colour and with a crochet hook we single crocheted on either side of where we wanted to cut to secure the sts.

 

 

more careful cutting

 



 and success!