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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September Guild Meeting: Sally Melville “My Life in Knitting”
September 21, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
As we head into the final quarter of our 25 th year as a guild, please join us and welcome Knitwear
Designer Sally Melville. Sally was the first speaker at the first TKG guild meeting 25 years ago. Sally will
present a new lecture called My Life in Knitting: unplanned and unexpected.
MY LIFE IN KNITTING: unplanned and unexpected
Through mistakes and misadventures, Sally found herself with a life she could not have predicted or anticipated. This talk is very personal and tells the tales of these events, the motivation to overcome sometimes questionable choices, and the life lessons learned over 65 years of knitting.
Sally will also launch Fine Yarn Dive, the pattern she has designed to celebrate the Toronto Knitters Guild 25 th Anniversary. TKG members can enjoy a 25% discount using the code KW/TOknitters to purchase the pattern on Ravelry. Start shopping your stash or visit the numerous yarn festivals in your area to plan this lovely sweater.
About Sally
Before the DKC (Downtown Knit Collective), there was the K-W Knitters’ Guild, established by Sally Melville and friends. Toronto knitters would come to K-W for events until they decided to establish a guild of their own. Sally was honoured to be invited as their first guest speaker. For 10 subsequent years—until her move to Ottawa in 2008—she was invited to come once a year and speak. It was always a joy to re-establish her connection with her knitting friends in Toronto.
Over the 40 years of Sally’s knitting career, she wrote seven knitting books—including The Knit Stitch (which sold 300,000 copies) and her last and favourite book, Knitting Pattern Essentials. She also taught extensively, which took her around the world (and to Denver where she put much of her teaching expertise onto the Craftsy platform). Sally retired in 2019, although she still puts the occasional pattern on Ravelry.
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
The Pandemic certainly afforded opportunities to knit—and Sally did her share, including an iconic piece she is wanting to show the Toronto knitters. But after 1000 face masks and scrub caps, she re-discovered a long-lost love of sewing and so is in the process of her 17th “covid quilt!”