You MUST be registered to attend even if you have renewed your membership.
Robbie Laughlin is joining us to speak about self-publishing, collaborating in the yarn industry, and giving us a sneak peek at his upcoming book, Beyond the Needles!
Robbie self-published his first book, Architexture: Shape and Surface, in 2018, and has published patterns with companies such as Estelle Yarns, Rib Magazine, Eweknit and more!
We thank you so much for continuing to support and show interest in our Knitters’ Fair.
We genuinely enjoy being able to provide a safe and friendly setting for everyone to get together and show off all the beautiful fibres and creative items offered by our vendors.
Since we are unable to guarantee a safe environment for this year’s fair, due to the unpredictability of circumstances surrounding Covid-19, it is with heavy hearts that we must cancel this year’s Knitters’ Fair.
Rest assured, we still plan on holding a Fair next year on Saturday, September 11, 2021. For our prospective and returning vendors, we will open vendor applications at the usual time, in Spring 2021. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us here on Facebook, or using the intake at https://www.kwknittersguild.ca/contact/
Thank you for all your continued support, and we hope that you stay safe and healthy.
K-W Knitters’ Fair Coordinators
K-W Knitters’ Guild
Thank you for your interest in joining us as a member or returning member of the K-W Knitters’ Guild!
This year, we are able to accept payment electronically by Interac e-transfer, through Square, or by cheque.
New members, please complete the registration form at https://www.kwknittersguild.ca/member/register/ then proceed to one of the payment instructions, below.
Payment option 1. Interac e-transfer
Payment option 2. Credit Card via Square
Payment option 3. Cheque
Mail to: Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters’ Guild
P.O. Box 40010
75 King St. S
Waterloo, ON N2J 4V1
Back to the member registration page: https://www.kwknittersguild.ca/member/register/
Hold your breath, let’s steek! Guild member Victoria Lewin will talk about the ins and outs of taking a pair of scissors to your knitting (yes, you read that correctly). Steeking allows you to knit a piece in the round, and worry about making openings for your arms or a cardigan front later. New to steeking? Never heard of it? No worries! Victoria will share her experiences with steeking and hopefully encourage you to give it a try. She will cover the basics of yarn selection for best results, reinforcing your stitches before the big cut, and neat and tidy ways to finish the freshly snipped edge. Come learn about this often-feared, but really not so scary skill.
Our Vice-President, Kathryn, will talk about crocheting beyond stabilizing a steek, making a provisional cast-on or seaming a blanket. Crochet makes an excellent edging and decorative element for many types of knitting and is a beautiful craft on its own. Bring your hooks and some appropriate yarn to work along with Kathryn.Posted on March 11, 2018, 5:18 a.m. by
Again this year, the K-W Knitters’ Guild will run a bus to the Toronto Knitters Frolic on Saturday, April 29th, 2017.
See the event listing for full details and sign up information: https://www.kwknittersguild.ca/events/37/
Galt House of Yarn is a full-service Local Yarn Store (or LYS, in common knitter’s parlance) located in beautiful and historic downtown Galt, Cambridge, Ontario.
The Galt House of Yarn aims to create a positive, encouraging, and community-based retail experience for both their local and online customers. Welcoming all crafters of all abilities and tastes, their staff motto is: “Yes, we can help you make that”.
They participated in our knit-a-long, have knit-a-longs of their own, and host knitting gatherings on Wednesdays during the day and Thursdays in the evening.
They offer classes and have an online store that offers what they have in there brick and mortar store. They are a great addition to the local yarn store list and we are so happy to have them in, talking about their store and how it came to be.
Check out them out on their website, instagram and Facebook.
Wendy Bauer of Oakridge Farm joins us to talk about ideal yarn choices for your projects. She will go over why to choose different yarn weights, plies and fibre content for strength and utility. She has Suri alpacas and Shetland sheep, but mills fibre into yarn for many local farms. Wendy will bring different yarns for sale, as well as raw and prepared fibre, from local Ontario yarn sources — everything that she normally has in her barn store!
Come learn about yarn composition and its effect on your projects!
Our second meeting of the year is October 10, and we’ll be exploring the world of Slow Fashion.
What is Slow Fashion October? “A celebration of the small-batch, handmade, second-hand, well-loved, long-worn, known-origins wardrobe.”
This month we’ll be exploring ideas around slow fashion, such as:
Join us starting at 6:30 p.m. for knitting and socializing. The programme starts at 7:30 p.m. and we usually end around 9:15 p.m. Some of our evening highlights include our charity table, yarn table, library, and our vaunted show and tell session! Bring your stories and your projects and show them off…
See you there!
We hope you will join us on Saturday, September 9th, 2017, at the Kitchener Aud. This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fair, and the 31st anniversary of the K-W Knitters’ Guild.
More Information can be found on the Fair site
Our speaker at the January 10th guild meeting is Patrick Madden from Signature Yarns.
Patrick will be lecturing on the pros and cons of knitting with man-made fibures, how they are produced and the variety available to knitters in today’s marketplace. He will also have yarns and kits available for sale at the meeting.
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