Tips & Tricks with Mary Lou Egan

Even the most accomplished knitter can learn a few new tips and tricks. This class will have tips for casting on and binding off, increasing and decreasing and which techniques to use where, keeping track of increases and decreases, counting rows, mastering the lying gauge swatch, simple seams, neater edges, (Why is my last stitch always loose?) sewing on buttons, stitch holder substitutions, and lots more! Plus, participants always have a trick up their nicely knitted sleeves to astound and amaze. 

Mary Lou has been teaching knitting and designing for a long, long, time. She teaches regularly at The Yarnery in St. Paul, when there isn't a pandemic, as well as other shops and fiber festivals nationwide. As a teacher, she likes class to be fun, and the knitting not stressful. The insight gained from teaching plus working knitting clinic has given her insight in ways to address the challenges knitters face, and the chance to practice tips and tricks on unsuspecting knitters. The title of her last book “Drop Dead Easy Knits” pretty much sums up her knitting preferences. She has a day job in community development, a Norwegian Fjord horse, and big garden. You can follow MLEganDesign on Instagram and find her designs on Ravelry, where her username is mlegan.

Virtual Trunk Show

We're also going to have our third virtual trunk show! Jeannette – Sun Valley Fibers - will be joining us. The trunk show will start at 6:30 pm so be sure to sign in early! (Regular meeting programming will start at 7:00pm)

Sun Valley Fibers is a family business, located in Mount Horeb, WI and longtime Yarnover vendor. We’re sure you’ve been drawn to their kaleidoscope of color booth each year! We know we have been!   Sun Valley Fibers loves coming up with new colors and bringing you yarns dyed in saturated, gorgeous colors to inspire your creative side!   Dyeing all of the colors of the rainbow since 2007. 

Meeting Logistics:

This meeting will be virtual via Zoom and you will need to pre-register:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tcOmpqz0jHdCYT43go8mHgf9JL6xQQRvY

You should receive an email from Zoom immediately with your access link as well as a reminder email from Zoom the day of the meeting.

You can use either a smartphone, tablet, laptop computer, or desktop computer to join the meeting.

A couple of Zoom housekeeping notes:

• Please make sure your Zoom username is your first and last name if you'd like to be eligible for the member door prize drawing.
• If you join the meeting using a laptop or desktop and don't have a camera, you will not be visible to others.
• The larger the device, the more people you'll be able to see at once and the easier it will be to see the chat function.
• When you log on, you can choose to be visible or not (but we'd love to see your faces! :))
• To minimize background noise, you will be muted when you join. Only the speaker will be audible.
• You will be able to mute and unmute yourself but please stay respectful of our speakers. We will mute you if your background noise is distracting.
• We will have a brief breakout session between the business portion of the meeting and the speaker. This way we can connect and socialize in smaller groups.
• Make yourselves at home, literally! Grab a drink, grab a snack, grab your knitting, and kick back.
• The meeting will still be social, just in a different way. There is a chat feature, and we encourage you to use it!
• We will be recording our meetings and posting them (when applicable) to the members-only section of our website.
• We will have designated "tech support" to assist you via private chat for any tech issues that you may face. Just type "help" in the chat function to let us know you'd like assistance.

We hope to see you there!

This meeting is free and open to the public, but we encourage you to
Join the Guild
so we can continue to offer programs like this.