October Guest Speaker & Vendor 
The Gaynor Homestead

Brendan and Tara Gaynor are the proprietors of The Gaynor Homestead, a small 68 acre farm in Dorchester, Ontario, outside London. The Gaynor Homestead follows a ‘simple, small, slow’ approach to Ontario agriculture traditions and the family works all-year towards producing an annual batch of hand made and locally grown goods. Together with their flock of well-loved Rambouillet sheep (French Merino) and buckfast honeybees, the Gaynor’s produce some of the finest wool grown in Ontario and a delicious assortment of goodies made from the farm.



A word from Brendan and Tara about what they are bringing:
We will be bringing our home grown undyed yarns including: a white worsted weight, fingering weight, and a dyed 2-ply sport weight in a unique multi-colour variety we call Knit-wit. For those who spin their own yarns, we will be bringing our much loved combed tops. And we will also be bringing our honey plus home grown goods including: lip balms, hand creams, vapour rubs, and soaps. All made by us.

We accept cash, Visa, Mastercard and AmEx through our Square terminal.
 

Raffle Teaser: Rib Magazine, Issue 2

Thank you to guild member Eric Lutz, publisher of Rib Magazine for the raffle prize donation. Eric will be our guest speaker in January. Check www.ribmag.com for a list of local stockists where you can get your copy of this current issue.

Watch out for Issue 3, debuting soon.

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• Sell Raffle Tickets at a general meeting
• Assist the Registrar or other board member
• Help plan the Guild’s World-Wide Knit in Public Day event!
• Have your say in whether to re-design the Guild website
• Other small tasks as they come up

• Princess Margaret Cancer Care Centre – Fingerless Mitts, Bed Slippers, Lap blankets, Chemo caps, Scarves & Shawls. These items help to keep inpatients warm and remind patients that someone is thinking about them. Drop off your donated items at any Guild meeting.
• Street Knit Toronto is looking for warm hats, mitts, scarves, and socks, with the highest demand for men's items, although women and children also end up in shelters. Street Knit also donates handmade toys at Christmas. All items are donated to homeless outreach programs. Donations can be dropped off at Knitomatic or The Purple Purl. Or you can stop by any of Street Knit's meetings at the Annette Public Library on the last Tuesday of each month, from 6:15-8:15pm.
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• Street Knit also supports the Street Health Nursing Program. This organization provides client-centred health services and education to homeless and impoverished individuals. If you would like to donate directly to the Street Nurse project, Porch Swing Yarnsomniacs accepts donations.

September Meeting in Review

• Grand River Yarn, Island Worsted - Patricia Galinski
• Queen Anne’s Lace Pattern (Anne Corcoran) &  2 skeins Fantastic Knitting Zephyr - Denise Powell
• Fleece Artist Brenna - Marilyn Brady 
• Badass Yarn, Save Your Sole - Beverley Ambler
• Badass Yarn, Save Your Sole - Jill Cameron 

• Chanel – featured tunics, seam lines delineated (trim, buttons, embroidery). There were ribbed headbands, sleeves differing from the rest of the garment (material, style – some were oversized balloon). Trends included: cables, turtlenecks and funnel/standup necks, and lots of vests.
• Brunello Cicinellli – Soft textures, mohair and metallic, brushed yarns.  There was a baseball jacket with mohair sleeves in contrast to the fabric body, a cape with sleevelets, as well as various funnel necks and turtlenecks.  Items were layered.
• Michael Kors – This designer has very wearable garments – we looked at gathers on the shoulders of his sweaters and rutching on the sleeves. There was a large jacket with a fur collar over a brioche sweater that was cropped. He also used big funnel necks.
• Missoni – Julia noted that this designer formerly sold knitting yarn (no longer). The garments we saw included mismatched stripes on the sleeves, asymmetric patterns, elongated shapes, sleeveless tops, and geometric gloves. There was a bright coloured shearling fun fur vest.
• Edun – Featured cables, asymmetric sweaters.
• Max Mara – Velvet and chenille were popular materials in this collection. There were also vests with oversized cowls and in cable patterns with large turtlenecks.
• Hermes – Provided the only example of a standard vest over a high turtleneck. There were contrasts in textures, for eg. with knit sleeves on fabric jackets.
• Louis Vuitton – This designer had an unusual sweater, which had a front slit below the chest to the bottom hem. This allowed the model to leave half untucked. Stitches were emphasized on the pants and funnel necks were repeated in garments.
• Haider Ackermann – There was a brioche stitch pullover with a funnel neck, and a fabric jacket with large furry arms in contrasting material.
• Burberry – Featured asymmetry, extreme colour changes, and lots of cables in sweaters for men and women. 
• Calvin Klein – This designer had an unusual ribbed sleeve which seemed to pull on over clothing. It may have connected in the back, this was hard to determine.
• Tory Burch – Norwegian and fair isle patterning in bright colours were a recurring theme. One sweater featured an inside out yoke, with the bottom of the sweater in stocking stitch.
• Prada – Julia described this designer as an intellectual, who doesn’t actually sew. She dictates her designs and her staff produce the images. Her clothes are not overtly  “sexy.”  Two dresses were streamlined, with a large bottom rib flounce hem and we saw a large mohair patterned cardigan.

• Prada – Featured a knitted (garter stitch) bra, a scarf with the tails hanging down the back, another with feathers on the end.
• Chanel – This designer made wristlets with a ribbed cuff. Julia noted that Katya Frankel has a similar pattern on Patternfish to make your own for a mere $5.49 with a ball of dk!
• Tory Burch – Used a boiled wool patch on a large oversized cardigan. Julia suggested you could do the same by cutting up an old sweater (after washing and felting) for the patch.
• Michael Kors – Created a sleeve scarf and showed models with long gloves – the cuff reached past the elbow.
• Prada – Created bulky garter stitch scarves. These were long Garter-stitch scarves knit in 2 colours (colour change at the half-way mark), then embellished with Feathers or Fur as the Fringe. $1200-$1400 US!