Stories in the Making

It was a lovely roundup of knitted beauties this month. Yarn Club members turned out in droves (with a few new members and guests!) for the talk on fixing your knitting mistakes, and you brought some delightful finished projects to share. Jo brought in her Veronika Cardigan, by Shannon Cook, knit in Berroco Ultra Alpaca (she used colour number 62176). Veronika Cardigan, photo via K Good Photography, Ravelry Bogna shared a heavy shawl, Decemberist by Melanie Berg. She made her version in Mary Maxim Northland (which is a discontinued yarn, sorry). Decemberist, photo via bogworks, Ravelry Cindy shared her BlueSand...

Our March meeting was a talk all about fixing your own knitting mistakes, or starting down the path to understanding what's going on with your knitting oopsies. This discussion cannot happen without some knowledge of how to read your knitting. Alexis covered this topic nicely last year, and summarized her notes in a handy blog post - check it out here. This post references another great resource which I used when creating my talk this month, a great series of blog posts from Telana Winters: Reading Your Knitting Part 1 Reading Your Knitting Part 2 Reading Your Knitting Part 3...

Alexis shared her recently completed set of three hooded cardigans for her boys (and none of them have outgrown them yet!). The pattern is Sibling Revelry by Meghan Jones, published in Little NutMeg Productions. She used Patons DK Superwash (in colours selected by the kiddos) for the body of each sweater, with a coordinating variegated yarn for the hood from Kat's Riverside Studio. Sibling Revelry, photo via Meghan Jones, Ravelry Roxann let us know that the newest issue of Piecework magazine (January/February 2018) has a great feature about socks. This is the magazine's historical knitting issue, and the article focuses...

You did not disappoint me in early January, Yarn Clubbies. First of all, I wasn't expecting such a great turnout for our January 4th meeting, while many folks were still lounging in PJs and enjoying some time off work. And second, you hadn't given away all your lovely recently finished objects over Christmas, so you were able to bring them to Yarn Club. Thank you on both counts. Sue brought her Benon Headband, designed by Hazel Tindall. Her version was knit in Brooklyn Tweed Loft. Benon Headband, photo via Hazel Tindall, Ravelry Gillian shared her Advent MKAL 2017, which is...

As promised, we carried on from the December introduction to Ravelry with a more in-depth view on some features of everyone's favourite yarn and pattern database. Catherine started us off with some demonstrations of more advanced search features on the Patterns tab. Do you find yourself searching by the same criteria again and again in your pattern searches? For example, you're always scrolling down the page to check off the 5-star rating criteria, so your search results will only include the highest reviewed patterns? Well, stop scrolling! You can click and drag the search attribute boxes in a new order....