Archive for September, 2005
Read, Learn -- and Knit! The Advanced Beginner
MKG Cable Gram - Volume 21, Number 2
How do you think about your knitting? Is it a hobby, is it strictly for fun? Do you use the same favorite patterns over and over again? Or do you approach knitting like a student, eager to progress in your skills and make more difficult pieces, because you love a challenge? I’m trying to find some middle ground, especially now that I realize I haven’t picked up any knitting in almost a month (horrors! Don’t tell the knitting police, or they’ll hunt me down and revoke my license to call myself a knitter). This is really the first time I’ve taken a break for longer than a few days since I started knitting two years ago. The back panel of my dear husband’s sweater is languishing on the couch in my office. I’m in the middle of that subtle herringbone pattern I mentioned in the last column, and although I love how it looks, it’s not very relaxing to knit, and even with stitch markers I really have to concentrate to keep track of where I am. I am missing the feel of knitting in my hands, but I feel like I would be wimping out if I started another easier project just to have something fun to work on that doesn’t take a lot of concentration.
There's A Local Harvest Of Yarn At Gale Woods Farm
MKG Cable Gram - Volume 21, Number 2
Are you looking for yarn produced with locally-grown wool? Gale Woods Farm is now selling yarn! This yarn offers you a new opportunity to support your local farms and farmers.
Gale Woods Farm, a working educational farm in Minnetrista operated by Three RiversPark District, raises Border Leicester, Finn, and Clun Forest sheep. Following aspring shearing, a dedicated group of Girl Scouts spent a full day skirting fleecesto prepare them for washing and spinning. Bartlettyarns, in Harmony Maine, returned the 270 pounds of wool as 37 colors of beautiful yarn.
A Knitter's Tour
MKG Cable Gram - Volume 21, Number 2
A Sheepy Yarn Shoppe
The Place: Autumn is an ideal time to laze away an afternoon at the art galleries, gift shops, and restaurants of downtown White Bear Lake. And nestled among all the bear-themed businesses (Bear Town Lounge, Bear Patch Quilting, Bear City Stylists, Sunbear Spa...) knitters will be delighted to discover the town’s lone sheep: A Sheepy Yarn Shoppe. It’s easy to see why this friendly place, opened in 1991, attracts 3,000 knitters a year. Owner Marj IntVeld keeps her 1,200-square-foot shop brightly lit, well-organized, and tranquil. No jangling cell phones will intrude on your knitting pleasure here; they’re banned from the premises.
'Glorious Knits' Author To Speak At Gala Event
MKG Cable Gram - Volume 21, Number 2
Don't miss the chance to see a legend in person as Kaffe Fassett comes to the Textile Centeron Friday, October 7, starting at 6 pm. Tickets for the gala event (it includes a receptionand book-signing as well as a talk by Fassett) are not cheap, but all proceeds go to benefit the Textile Center library. Advance tickets, which are selling at a brisk pace, are $50 - call 612-436-0464 and be ready to use your credit card or to send a check pronto - because tickets at the door, if there are any left, will be $75. The auditorium will seat about 250 people, and as of this writing we’ve sold about 180 tickets. Kaffe Fassett, the California-born textile designer who made an indelible mark as a designer for knitters for the British company Rowan Yarns in the 1980s and 1990s, is returning to his London roots with a new book, Kaffe Fassett’s Museum Quilts: Designs Inspired by the Victoria & Albert Museum (published by Taunton Press and released September 6). He is on tour to promote this new book.
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