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Wellington Fibres Donna Hancock the founder of Wellington Fibres, will be our guest speaker. Donna is on the faculty of the University of Guelph and is the founder and owner of a working farm raising mohair goats. Wellington Fibres also operates a spinning mill which produces exquisite mohair yarns from the farm’s goats.
A fun, informative, and social night. The executive presented answers to questions received regarding the guild, introduced the executive, newsletter committee members and webmaster. Opportunity to meet and mingle with other members at a social in the café.
Robin Hunter will be speaking about knitting with Hand-Dyed Yarns.
The TKG annual fashion show features items hand-crafted by our members, with commentators to speak about the features of each modeled item. We encourage every member to participate and show off your handiwork, whether you are celebrating your first knit or your first 1000th knit! How to Participate If you are interested in participating, please […]
Skills Exchange Mini Workshops A great opportunity to learn a number of useful new techniques in short 15-minute sessions. It will be a fun and social evening, with many valuable skills being shared by our volunteer teachers. If you have a technique or skill you would like to share, please email Debra -- programme@torontoknittersguild.ca. Sadly, […]
HOSIERY HISTORY -- When a fashion trend debuts it can be shocking or at least unsettling to the common view of what constitutes appropriate attire. If however, the look in question resonates with the contemporary thinking, the trend becomes acceptable and widely adopted. Take tights for example. A glimpse of stocking was once, as Cole […]
Carol Milne Carol Milne is the lone pioneer in the field of knitted glass. Pushing the limits of her material through persistent and relentless experimentation, she developed a variation of the lost wax casting process to cast knitted work in glass. Combining her passion for knitting with her love for cast glass sculpture, her knitted […]
An inspirational look at the popularity of knitting and how it has impacted our pattern choices, pop culture, home fashions and the art world.
Jennifer & Becky of the Upper Canada Fibreshed will speak about yarn and fibre available locally and of production systems within a 250 mile radius of Toronto that span from farm to fashion. UpperCanadaFibreshed.ca.
Designer, teacher and technical editor Kate Atherley will be speaking on the topic of Math for Knitters. She'll be sharing tips and techniques for handling the numbers problems that come up in knitting: from yarn requirements to buttonhole spacing and instructions like "increase 12 sts evenly across", to questions of and issues around gauge. And […]
