Events

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!! The first Wednesday of July is the 4th - Independence Day. Have a picnic or a party or not, watch fireworks or not, and join us two weeks later, on the 18th. We'll meet outside (if our warm, dry weather chants work) and have an ice cream social.

Keep on looking ahead to September, when we all go back to school with the ever-popular mini class evening. We have quite a few ideas of techniques that we think would be fun to learn - let us know if you have something you especially want to learn!

Come one, Come All!!

Seattle Knitters Guild will hold its annual Fiber Frenzy on May 4th. Knitters can add to their stash and let a little go, depending on their desire. Any paid up member of the Seattle Knitters Guild can sell their knitterly related items: yarn, tools, books, etc. The buying of such items is open to anyone. The terms of sale are determined by the individual seller so please bring your cash in case the beautiful skein of yarn you must have is a cash only prospect.

The doors will open at 6:15 for you to set up your for sell items. No selling can or will take place until after announcements are made at 7:00 pm. Tables will be set up for fellowship and knitting so please come even if you are not in the market for new items.

Making Time to Knit: How Eating, Sleeping and Childrearing are Overrated by Society

Discover ways to fit more knitting into your life with Mary Scott Huff, author of The New Stranded Colorwork.

Web link: maryscotthuff

Do you use Ravelry? You really should. It's an amazing tool for any yarn-fancier. Part database, part social network, Ravelry brings the world of knit and crochet together to share information and ideas. Programming co-chair, Jessica Rose, a Ravelry user since April 2007, will walk you through getting started and show you some of the great tools available. Manage your stash, know your needles, get inspired and get organized.

Jessica
www.rose-kim.com

The Seattle Knitters Guild will be celebrating their 25th anniversary on August 3rd. The Guild will be providing pulled pork sliders, a blue cheese slaw, chips and a cake. Please come join in the festivities. Bring your stories and reminiscences to share with the membership.

Our guest will be Franklin Habit. He is a writer, illustrator, photographer and author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008). He is the proprietor of The Panopticon, one of the most popular knitting blogs on Internet. www.the-panopticon.blogspot.com On an average day, upwards of 2,500 readers worldwide drop in for a mix of essays, cartoons, and the continuing adventures of Dolores the Sheep. Franklin's other publishing experience in the fiber world includes contributions to Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, Cast On: A Podcast for Knitters, Twist Collective, and a regular column on historic knitting patterns for Knitty.com

Designer Marnie Maclean will bring us a fall trunk show from Twist Collective (www.twistcollective.com), an innovative online knitting magazine that has raised the bar of knitwear design.

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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