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2020 Virtual Show and Tell

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  • Annette Gauthier
  • Nancy Lee Turcott
  • Terry Prehara
  • Laurie Stockford
  • Susan Lloyd
  • Dianne Keir
  • Marisa Lentz
The members of the Needlemania knitting group in Kamloops each knit a shawl in memory of Janet Payne. The shawl is called Gold Dust. The shawls were knit between January and Easter of 2020. 
  • A fun knit in July last year. I used 2 skeins of MadTosh Best Day of the Year and 1 skein of Bluesteau which I introduced early when I realized I didn’t have enough 🧶
  • This was my first yarn I dyed with Susan. I called the yarn Monique because it reminded me of Monique from the Kootenays. The pattern is Maryanne’s Shawl. I won at Yarn Chicken with 30 inches to spare!!!
Shelly Ehbrecht
  • Lucy Neatby’s Star of the Seas Double Knit Blanket!
Kathy Chapman
  • Songbird Mittens
  • Shetland Hap
Both of these projects are knit from Jamieson and Smith Supreme Jumper Weight in natural sheep colours – Myriam Dostert
  • This shawl is based on a Ruana pattern by Cheryl Oberle.
     Each row is a different shade (break yarn at end of each row – this forms the fringe)

Phyllis Beardsley
  • This is one of my COVID 19 projects. The pattern is Glenallen by Dee O’Keefe. The yarn is 4 balls of Scheepjes Metropolis Fingering. This project took 1 month to knit. I love the Art Deco design.
Rosemary Best
  • The V-Back Tee. Made with leftover and stash fingering merino. The pattern was purchased on Ravelry. Three of the yarns are from Riverstone Yarns. The others I have had for a number of years. This is one top down sweater I will make again.
Patti Roberts
  • Be the Butterfly mitten kits were supposed to be making their debut at Fibres West this spring.  With all of the fibre festival cancellations, I decided to list the pattern for free on Ravelry for everyone to enjoy.   This is an original pattern by me knit with hand dyed yarn. 
Susan Chamberlain
Pattern link: Be the Butterfly
  • Pattern is Top of the Heat by Suz Ryan, and the reddish variegated stripe in the sweater is the yarn I dyed in Susan Chamberlain’s workshop last year. 
Mo Klettl
  • Thistle – by Heidi Reszies of FolkCity Studio – one of several projects completed in Covid isolation. Yarns include Riverstone MCN sock and Sandnes Alpaca. 
  • Muriel by Bees Crafty Designs- OK MKAL 2019 – I used a variety yarns from my stash and enjoyed the different patterns in each section. 
Joanne Pettigrew
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The 20th Annual Okanagan Knitting Retreat

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The 20th annual retreat featured four weekend workshops as well as two pre-retreat sessions on the Friday.

 

Pre-retreat:

  • Playing with Dyes and Yarns – Susan Chamberlain of Riverstone Yarns
  • What the Patterns Don’t Tell You – Anne Hearnden

Weekend workshops:

  • Double Trouble: The Magic of Double-Knitting – Janet Armstrong
  • The Shape of Things to Come (Shawls) – Kathy Chapman and Myriam Dostert
  • Invisible Knitting – Anne Hearnden
  • Introduction to Brioche – Rebecca Henry and Marsha Ibuki

Photo gallery

 

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Select 2018 patterns

Celebration wristlet pattern
Celebration Wristlets

Celebration Wristlets – Designed by Myriam Dostert for the 20th annual Okanagan Knitting Retreat to be knit with Riverstone Yarn’s minis of Superwash Merino sock yarn in the Skywalker colourway.

Download the pattern.

2018 Celebration Baby Toque
Celebration Baby Toque

Celebration Baby Toque – Designed by Myriam Dostert for the 20th annual Okanagan Knitting Retreat to be knit with a Riverstone Yarns mini of Superwash Merino sock yarn in the Skywalker colourway.

Download the pattern.