Are you a knitter looking to join a low key knit night? Do you want to find a knitting group that only meets every other week giving you time to participate in other activities The Fredericksburg Podcaster Sit-n-Knit takes place every other Thursday at the Barns and Noble located in Central Park. Come join Lesley host […]
SKEIN, GARMENT and FIBER ARTS COMPETITIONS AND DISPLAY It’s time to start planning to enter the 2013 Skein, Garment and Fiber Arts Competition! This year’s competition has 23 Adult categories, and 4 Youth divisions with 2 age groups. Over 60 ribbons will be awarded and we’ll present over 25 prizes from vendors at the Festival! […]
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2013 – 3:00pm Place: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, HISTORY OF KNITTING presentation In honor of National Craft Month, we will be joined by Deb Fuller for a lecture about the history of knitting. Deb Fuller is a costume historian who can honestly say that she has “over 2000 years of […]
For the February 2013 guild presentation, Jennifer Price set up her antique sock knitting machine for a demonstration. In addition to watching how the machine worked, Jennifer also shared the history behind the machine, what to look for when thinking of purchasing a machine, and some neat peculiarities that her particular sock machine has. Machine […]