Black Sheep Knitting Guild

        April                  Meeting WOW!! This was a FUN filled night!  The meeting started with the new kits for our charity knitting. The recipients will be babies at the Hutzel/DMC Hospital neonatal and preemie unit. Special thanks to Judith and Kate for putting the patterns together and a huge shout out to Judith for gathering all the yarn and putting together all the kits.  Great work!  If you picked up a kit/kits, all finished items are due at the October meeting (or before if you have them finished).  We had a large group of about 60 people at the meeting. The excitement was in the air for this year's Sneaky Sheep Swap! Forty people participated in the Cowl swap. They were ALL so beautiful. Everyone left happy. Many thanks to Kim and Tanya for creating, organizing, communicating, photographing, and encouraging the entire project.  For more ...

  ♣ ♣ ♣ March Madness!! ♣ ♣ ♣ The group this month was smaller but lively! Guest speaker was Julia Vesper, the owner of Knitterly Things. She explained how she hand dyes quality  yarns and fibers. The picture shows examples of her sock yarn colors. No two seemed to be alike! Julia talked about dying the yarns in her home, all the while handling a family with young children and running her online business.   She started dying in 2005 and has created over 100 color ways in 10 years.  As she explained, she uses three colors: a bright, a light, and a medium. She was right that this combination always creates a "pop". Julia held up a sample of a Rainbow sock and the room burst into "ooohhs" of appreciation. She has dyed 400 skeins in two weeks, and she talked about stretching the yarns across her house as she dyed and dried. Julia's samples for Tuesday night included socks and mittens created from her hand dyed yarns. ...