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Show & Tell

Show and Tell: June 19, 2008

June 19, 2008

Terry Villeneuve showed socks that she made on her sock knitter out of 75% bamboo, 25% nylon. She felt this yarn made a sock that was too heavy and drapey. She hand knit fingerless gloves, knitting them at the same time so that they would have matching stripes and use the same amount of yarn. [...]

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March Show and Tell

March 20, 2008

Joan Taylor showed a multi-directional scarf knit out of 2 skeins of the same multi-coloured yarns. It is called a Math Geek scarf and is all garter stitch. Marie Slessor showed two baskets that she made at a basket school in York, England. One basket was made of knotted waxed linen in greens, blues and [...]

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April 19, 2007: Show & Tell

April 19, 2007

Kay Hansen brought an interesting old blanket woven from hand spun wool, the wool coming from sheep raised on her grandmother’s Lindsay, Ontario farm. The green blanket was embroidered with couched and tufted wool in the shapes of colorful leaves and flowers. Jane Gfeller wove a baby blanket in huck weave of 2/8 cotton as [...]

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April 19, 2007: Show & Tell

April 19, 2007

Kay Hansen brought an interesting old blanket woven from hand spun wool, the wool coming from sheep raised on her grandmother’s Lindsay, Ontario farm. The green blanket was embroidered with couched and tufted wool in the shapes of colorful leaves and flowers.

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March 15, 2007: Show & Tell

March 15, 2007

Cindy Lou Ellis wove a green plaid blanket out of acrylic boucle yarn. Jo Anne Ryeburn wore a colorful vest and shawl woven using the Silk Studio’s silk-linen blend. The warp for these was painted in bright gold, wine and green and woven with a blue weft. It was threaded to a two block twill [...]

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