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Crafting Stronger - Crafting Longer: Terri Rowan, RMT, on posture, pain, and maintaining strength for fibre arts

Alexis Hoy

This is a guest post by Terri Rowan, a registered massage therapist in Guelph, who had the Yarn Club up on our feet and trying exercises at the April meeting that will strengthen our knitting/crocheting/spinning/weaving/felting muscles and keep us doing what we love for longer.  She has kindly put together these notes and resources to accompany her talk.  I know many people were interested to talk to Terri further about their own specific areas of concern: you can contact her through her website, or email her at tlrowanrmt@gmail.com.  Take it away Terri! Thanks again for coming out to Yarn Club to...

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Yarn Club's Ravelry Groove, Pt. 1.1

Alexis Hoy

This month's Ravelry homework is to play around with the newly created Yarn Club Ravelry Group.  To get you started, the Ravelry wiki entry about groups is here.  Within our own group, we have a set of forums (under the "discussion" tab), we can share info ("pages"), we can share our projects & stash, and keep an eye on the next meeting dates with group events ("upcoming events" box in the right hand column). Kris ("Kristoemily" on Ravelry) has started a Show & Share thread in the group's forums where we can post about the items we bring to meetings and...

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April 2016 Yarn Club Show & Share

Alexis Hoy

Here are the details of the fantastic stuff being shown off at Yarn Club this month! Owlet by Kate Davies - Jo finished this little sweater in cream-coloured Cascade Eco+  Vivido by Carol Feller - Alison finished her Vivido in Knit Picks Billow The colour is "cornmeal" Bamboo Wedding Shawl by Purl Soho - Judy brought in her WIP with her custom-dyed yarn by Yarn Indulgences  Glasgow Rose Shawl by Lucy Hague - Kris brought in her shawl complete with the outfit she'll wear to a wedding: Kris made her shawl with Auraucania Huasco/Botany Lace  Roxann, our resident (and dare I say...

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Cottoning On: Reading (and Understanding) the Label on Your Cotton Goods

Alexis Hoy

In honour of "Spring" (note the sarcastic punctuation - here in Guelph we had snow and freezing rain just yesterday), I thought it would be thematic to talk about warm-weather fibres this month.  Little did I know we'd still all be wrapped in our woolens in April.  But hey, who are knitters to complain about a little extra sweater weather?  The time for plants and their fibres isn't that far away...*jinx* I decided to focus on cotton because it is the most common plant fibre (THE most common natural fibre in fact), and went on a little fact-finding mission with...

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Finding your Ravelry groove, Pt. 1

Alexis Hoy

A friend and I were recently sharing our surprise that there are still knitters and crocheters out there who haven't heard of Ravelry. What? I know, but it's true. It's possible these people have also been living in isolation in the wilds of some internet-strangled island nation for the last 9 years.  I don't usually ask about that, because I'm busy marvelling that they haven't heard of Ravelry. All joking aside: Ravelry is a big, big deal, and you probably have heard of it, but how well do you know it? And are you using it to your full potential?  I say "your"...

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