Knit Nights
TKG hosts virtual Knit Nights once a month from October through May. Meetings are free for members and do not require pre-registration. Knit Nights are moderated by members. TKG Knit Nights are scheduled for 7pm to 8:30pm EST on the following dates for 2024-2025. Members should log in to the Membership Hub to access the Knit Night Zoom meeting link.
- Thursday, October 10th 2024
- Wednesday, November 13th 2024
- Tuesday, December 3rd 2024
- Tuesday, January 7th 2025
- Monday, February 3rd 2025
- Wednesday, March 12th 2025
- Thursday, April 10th 2025
- Monday, May 5th, 2025
Monthly Meetings
Monthly meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month from September to June. All meetings will be available as virtual meetings via Zoom, and some will be offered as a hybrid meeting with in-person attendance available as well. Each meeting listing specifies whether the meeting will be a Zoom Webinar or Hybrid. In-person attendance for hybrid meetings will be at Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto. This is an accessible venue – for more details, refer to our FAQ page under About TKG at https://torontoknittersguild.ca/faq/. Meetings are free for members – Find out about TKG MEMBERSHIP
Special Events
The Guild occasionally organizes special events of interest to our members .
Pricing: Participants without an AGO annual membership will need to buy a day pass ($30) .
Our tour guide, Rhonda Katz, is donating her services to the Guild, so no additional fee.
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December – Christopher Walker
December 18, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Speaker: Christopher Walker of cabinboyknits
A History of Knitting in Canada
Christopher Walker is a natural yarn dyer, fibre artist and founder of the label cabinboyknits. Outside of the corporate world, Christopher splits his time between Toronto and his pre-confederation log cabin in Stirling Ontario. His unconventional work is influenced by the environment around him, whether it be from the rugged Canadian landscape, or the vivid colours and graphic designs in Toronto’s tattoo parlours. His work profiles the dichotomy between masculinity and the soft intricate work of knitwear, and has been featured on the runway and at art gallery showings. He frequently teaches knitting and yarn dyeing classes at festivals and at his log cabin.
He will be presenting a talk on the History of Canadian Knitting. He has delivered this lecture in Canada and Europe. In this lecture, Christopher discusses the first evidence of knitting in Canada, the influence of Europeans on knitting in our country and a variety of specific knitting techniques on the East and West coasts. This whirlwind tour of our Canadian knitting heritage will also include discussion of men in knitting and the impact of the World Wars. Finally, Christopher talks about some of our country’s most prominent knitting companies as well as the current state of knitting, popular Canadian brands, Canadian designers, Canadian Mills, as well as popular Canadian fibre.
Vendor: cabinboyknits
Christopher will be selling a lovely selection of his naturally dyed yarn at the meeting. Payment may be made with cash or credit card.
