Due to the ongoing pandemic, the guild met by video call this month for show and tell.
Karen started us off by telling us about the hats she has been knitting for her grandson Ayden, including a Yoda hat and a pumpkin hat with cables. She's also discovered an adorable pattern for knit bats and offered to share information about these patterns with anyone in the group who is interested.
Karen also showed us a basket she eco-printed with indigo that she'll be gifting to Dawn, a needlecase that she traded with Laura, and a handwoven dishcloth she bought from a Yarnwinder's Club member. She's also been working on writing up the pattern for a new basket design.
Mary has been knitting many hats! She's working from a free pattern called Katie's Kep that was part of Shetland Wool Week and with wool yarn that she bought from Severs Island. She's also been busy at the loom and sewing machine.
Last week she also finished two Halloween aprons for her grand daughters and one for their dolls as well as a number of stuffies to play with.
Denise has also been busy sewing and weaving. She finished this lovely basket from Poppy's class.
She also finished up her branch weaving. The white yarn is thick and thin handspun wool. The red and blue yarns are Brown Sheep wool/mohair blend and there are blue glass beads woven into the blue section.
Denise also finished a machine-pieced and quilted t-shirt quilt that she made for her daughter Bethany from her high school athletic and dance t-shirts.
Kathie has been taking an online Interweave class focused on color in warp and weft. She is making several mug rugs as a way to learn about color. It is a free 3 week class that might still be open if anyone is interested in registering.
Phyllis showed off her finished checkerboard rug made with jersey material from her former student's clothing business. The rug is lovely, but she is lamenting her decision to save the ends to be woven in last as she now has hundreds of them to weave. She also showed us some lovely handknit gloves that she received as a gift from her friend Desiree.
Jimalee has mostly been making soap under her label Jones on Smith Ave. As for fiber, she's recently finished knitting some lovely grey colorwork mittens. Since she was calling in from home she was also able to show off some of her collection of ash baskets purchased from Winnebago basket weavers in Wisconsin where she grew up.
Lois has been dyeing with purple carrots and cabbage, though she was disappointed with the outcome of the carrot dye bath and did not enjoy the smell of cabbage cooking in her kitchen.
Clare has mostly been knitting recently, finishing up some projects that have been languishing on her needles. She finished off a colorwork hat that is a replacement for a favorite hat lost several years ago. She tracked down a kit in the same colorway from Peace Fleece and it looks almost exactly the same. The pattern is the Beaded Braided Hat by Peace Fleece. 
She also completed a Christmas stocking for her husband as they'll be celebrating the holidays in the UP, far away from family for the first time. The pattern is the Midnight Clear Stocking and the yarn is all from stash, primarily Harrisville Designs worsted weight. She recommends a simple technique she learned recently for weaving in ends while knitting instead of saving them all until the end: Weavin' Stephen. She also finished up a toddler-sized Flax Light sweater by Tin Can Knits with yarn she bought in Helsinki last year (Tuku Wool) and some from Calumet-based dyer Camelot Dye Works. 
We plan to continue with meeting by Zoom until it is safe to meet in person. Next month we hope to combine a presentation with show and tell. Stay tuned and take care, everyone!
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