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2/7/2022 0 Comments Support Fibres West's futureThe Pandemic has been very difficult for small businesses, some of which were hit quite hard at the very beginning of the pandemic and have since not qualified for government assistance. Penelope Fibre Arts (owner /operator: Brenda Alexander) in White Rock, BC, which organizes BC's popular annual fibre arts show, Fibres West, was one of them. 2020 would have been the 12th year for this unique event which has over 70 (weaving, spinning, knitting etc.. ) vendors, classes, and free lectures as well as hundreds of excited customers. On March 13, 2020, when the provincial health officials issued an order to shut down all public events, Fibres West was given ½ hr notice to close their event. Fibres West was ready to open its doors the following morning. The production company had finished setting up all the booths and electrical. Many of the vendors had already finished the set up for their booths. Due to the timing of the order, the show incurred significant unrecoverable costs, while generating no revenue. The show had to pay the production company for the setup and takedown, and there were many other expenses such as advertising, rentals, and wages for set up crew. Most of the vendors had kindly put their booth fees forward to 2021, and then 2022, but now with yet another postponement due to Omicron, Fibres West would like to re-imburse these vendors so they can all move forward with a clean financial slate and plan for a successful Fibres West 2023. We need your help. If you were planning to attend Fibres West in 2020, and/or are planning to attend it in the future, please consider donating $10, $20, or any amount that might fit your budget in these difficult times. If a donation is not possible, please help us by spreading the word. Let’s pull together to save our popular fibre show so that we can greet each other with happy smiles in Spring 2023 when we can all meet again. www.fibreswest.com (This fundraiser is organized by Yoriko Oki. The above text is hers.) 1/22/2022 0 Comments Caroline Dick's Royal Icing Shawl1/16/2022 0 Comments Knit City VirtualAs a new knitter in 2002 I wasn't aware of the many different approaches to knitting knit stitches and purl stitches. But when I did eventually learn about continental knitting and saw how much faster it is than throwing I tried to switch several times over many years, to no avail. The learning curve was too steep for my already well established muscle memory.
But in 2011 Melissa at Miso Crafty Knits mentioned she was using Portuguese Knitting and I gave it a shot. A quick Andrea Wong Youtube video later and I was purling Portuguese style flawlessly. My purling hasn't changed since, and it's even faster than my throwing knit stitch. So, I'll knit stockinette stitch items which are knit in the round inside out so I can purl all stitches. I've just published a demonstration of my two colourwork purling methods. The first method uses a combination of throwing and Portuguese-style purling to knit two colours, and the second method abandons throwing and introduces a paper clip pin to purl two colours in Portuguese-style. When I knit the right side of colourwork I usually don't employ Portuguese knitting techniques, I throw as per this video: https://youtu.be/Lt_Fcx2KOGk Would you try this method of purling? Find the Everlea Fingering yarns which appear in this video here: www.everleayarn.ca/collections/everlea-yarn Janna Maria 12/6/2021 0 Comments Boostani Holiday sale |
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