Join Us on the Tour

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A few seats are still available for the day trip to Buffalo, WY to tour the Mountain Meadow Woolen Mill.

What: Tour of the Woolen Mill - Buffalo, WY

When:  September 16, 2017 (all day)

Transportation:  WRTA bus - leaving from the Riverton City Hall parking lot at 7:30 AM on the day of the trip. We will return that evening

Cost:  $20 for non-guild members and $10 for guild members (guild members usually get a discount on classes and trips)

Lunch: on your own - we will stop at a local eatery

Additional stops:  Fiber House (yarn shop) in Sheridan, WY

Need more information? Send an email to the address in the upper right column

Podcast - Dora Ohrenstein, Crochet Designer

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Dora Ohrenstein is a designer of fashion crochet, author of 6 books, and a writer specializing in crochet history and international traditions. Dora’s designs appear in all the major print and digital crochet publications. Given her avid interest in advancing the skills of the crochet community, she includes lots of in-depth technical information in all of her books. She also teaches crochet at Vogue Knitting Live, on Craftsy, and in yarn shops across the country.

Listen to Ms. Ohrenstein talk about her craft on Power Purls Podcast - episode #47

Video Quilting Tutorials

If you learn best by seeing a technique demonstrated, check out the informative step-by-step videos of tools and techniques on Connecting Threads, and take your learning to the next level.

Note that there are three pages of videos available

Weaving Podcast Episode

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This episode of Power Purls Podcast is about all things weaving with special guest, Liz Gipson, known as Yarnworker in the yarn universe! They go beyond knitting and crochet and explore the influence that weaving has had in the yarn crafting world over the past several years. Liz shares her experiences, passion and knowledge as an expert weaver, editor, author and teacher. Liz writes a popular weaving for knitters column for Knitty and regularly contributes to blogs and fiber-related publications. She’s the author of A Weaver’s Guide to Swatching and has had numerous appearances on PBS, DIY and HGTV networks, where she introduced weaving and spinning to the yarn world.

Listen to this episode here. 

Eleanor Roosevelt - a Knitter

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Knitty magazine (Winter 2009) featured a vintage mitten pattern reworked by Franklin Habit. The original pattern was in Eleanor Roosevelt's handwriting.

Mrs. Roosevelt was an avid knitter and carried her knitting with her everywhere. In her autobiography, Mrs. Roosevelt writes that when she was five or six, her nurse cut holes into the socks she had knit so that she would learn how to darn heels properly.

The article and pattern can be found here.

Other information about Mrs. Roosevelt's knitting can be found in this Interweave post.

Yarn Organization

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Finding it difficult to identify scrap yarn because the ball bands have been misplaced? Kathleen Berlew has a solution you might find helpful: printable yarn organizer cards. Her design is nothing fancy, but it does have space for all the information you might want to keep on file about the yarn in your stash--name, color, fiber content, weight/yardage, needle/hook size, and yarn weight (4 for worsted, 6 for super-bulky, etc).

Her free, printable organizer cards can be found here.

Joining Crochet

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Cherry Heart Crochet Corner shares four methods of joining crochet unit together. The links can be found here.