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MISSION

The Fort Vancouver Knitters Guild is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide education to guild members to further skills in knitting, broaden their understanding of the craft, and to serve the community through services and donations.

WELCOME

All are welcome regardless of age, skin color, nationality, religion, gender identity or disability. We dedicate ourselves to the goal of a diverse, inclusive and spirited knitting community free from inequality, racism and injustice.


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Upcoming
 Events

Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events

The next monthly meeting will be:
August 7, 2025

Barberton Grange.

9400 NE 72nd Ave
Vancouver, WA 98665 (Map)


OUR GUILD VALUES

COMMUNITY

GIVING THROUGH KNITTING
EDUCATION

Community

June

* Projects completed by our members *

 

yarn

Mary Crichton:

These are my gnomes. They are from the Year of Gnomes I joined in January by Sarah Schira, a Canadian Designer. Her Imagined Landscapes site is a ton of fun to peruse. She also designs other things than gnomes, too. I've really gotten hooked on these little guys/gals and I learn new stuff every time I make one.

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Sue Kuzma:

I showed the white market bag for the food pantry. The free

pattern is available on Ravelry. String Market Bag #228 by Bernat Design Studio. I used a worsted weight cotton yarn. This is crocheted. If I can crochet it, anyone can do it!

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Lisa Quimby:

Conifer Beanie by Seth Richardson in Juniper Moon Farm, Patagonia Merino, in Juniper Green and

Woodwrae Cowl in Brooklyn Tweed Imbue Sport in Orchid

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Lisa Quimby:

in Juniper Green & Woodwrae Cowl in Brooklyn Tweed Imbue Sport in Orchid.

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Velda Madison: Lalo Illusion shawl, had a hidden batman design.

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Sandy Peterson:

Artisan Top in silk merino

Jasmine

Jasmine Huether:

Luminous Tee

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Lida Dekker:

This sweater was made for my next door neighbor, Mary. She chose the color, texture of yarn, and general design. The pattern is a composite of ideas. I miscalculated yardage at the beginning of the project and have a pound of yarn leftover!. Mary likes her sweater, and more importantly, it fits!

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Knitting News

Clark County Fair

Greetings, Ft. Vancouver Guild Knitters!

The fun time has come for us to pick up our needles and yarn, put on our best smiles, and promote knitting, fiber, and craft at the Clark County Fair. We will have 2 sessions, from 9:30am-1:30pm and from 1:00pm-5:30pm. This year, the fair opens at 10:00am. You will receive a fair entrance ticket and a free parking ticket before the fair, which runs from August 1st-10th.

We need two volunteers for each shift. If you are inviting someone to join you, please me that person’s name and contact information. In addition, if you suddenly can’t fulfill the commitment, please try to find someone to replace you and let me know who that will be and their contact information. I might know of someone who could step in as well, but don’t count on it (I’ve been in that spot. Left on your own can be seriously challenging). This year, the guild decided that our goal is to inform and model, not teach, knitting.

Please sign up! We need help. Please feel free to bring your hand-knit works but take them home with you at the end of the shift for safety.

I just signed up for "Clark County Fair Guild Sign Up 10/1-10" and you can too!
Sign Up Here!!

Thanks, Terri Hjelm,
Clark County Fair Coordinator
360-600-5607


A Note from Vera

Dear Knitters—
You will find a section in the Newsletter discussing a member survey. In addition, later this month, you will receive an email and a link to access the survey. A committee and our webmaster (all volunteers) have worked hard to put together some thought-provoking questions and develop a short survey. Page 1 consists mostly of multiple choice questions. Page 2 is a fill-in-the-blank section. You will need to answer all of the questions in order to submit your survey responses. I respectfully request, and strongly encourage, you to take 10 to 15 minutes of your time to complete the survey. We truly want your feedback as the board intends to use the survey results as a road map for the guild to try to meet your expectations as a member and our mission as a guild.

The Clark County Fair and Vancouver Art & Music Festival. Both of these events occur in early
August. This year, the Vancouver Art & Music Festival had far more booth applications than spaces. Since we had requested a free space again this year, we were wait listed and did not receive an invitation to participate. We will only be participating in the Clark County Fair this year. This means we need volunteers to cover 2 shifts per day for 10 days. with 2 people scheduled for each shift (that’s 80 total if my math is correct). Plus we will need people to help set-up and tear down the booth. Terri Hjelm has graciously agreed to be the chair person or coordinator for the event. Please support her and help promote the FVKG by signing up for a shift (or two, if you are available). As a volunteer, you will receive an entrance ticket and free parking for the day you are scheduled to work. Finally, I received a message from someone referred to our guild by Hook & Needle.

Here’s the message:
I have several bags of roving in different colors that I had hoped to wet felt but it does not seem to be working. Do you know anyone who could spin this into yarn for me so that I could knit or crochet with it? And do you have any idea of the cost? It is definitely wool but not sure what kind. I have alpaca and it is too rough for that. I read that depending on how the wool is dyed it can affect the ability to wet felt. But I am new to wet felting and have only made hats and purses with alpaca that I carded myself. My friend’s aunt died and she had a lot of this wool roving in her craft room so she sent it to me thinking I could wet felt it. But it needs to be spun I think. I am at a loss. Thank you so much for your help! Sally Loveland / 918-409-5805 / sallylove582@gmail.com

Happy 4th of July!
~ Vera Rasmussen, FVKG President



If you haven’t already, take a few minutes to watch Visible Mending, a charming and award-winning stop action short documentary film, about the power of knitting, in all its different aspects. It will be the loveliest 8.43 minutes you spend today. Guaranteed.

Emily Lymm, a Portland-based natural dyer, spoke with FVKG in April, 2024. She just posted an update on new plant-based colors and a video showing her dying process. Check out her “The Chemistry of Color” story and see the vibrant natural colors she’s creating in her lab and working into yarn skeins.

Finally, give a look at GoSadi - a new website and platform for knitting and crochet design and designers that promise to streamline pattern search and management. Sign up to become a Beta User to help improve the site.

—Linda Frederiksen
The Vancouver Arts and Music Festival is thrilled to announce an open call for entries to the Juried Art Exhibit at the 2025 festival, taking place July 31-Aug. 3 in Esther Short Park. We invite artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to showcase their creativity and vision in this preview event celebrating art, music and culture.

The Juried Art Exhibit will be held across the street from the park, in the Hilton Vancouver. The exhibit will award five (5) monetary prizes, with opportunities for participating artists to take advantage of future benefits such as exhibits, mentorship and more.

Any medium; art must not exceed 48 x 60 inches, including framing
Entries for the Juried Arts Exhibit portion of the festival are being accepted until June 7. Learn more about that opportunity on our website.

A free workshop will be offered in May to navigate the application process and to share best practices for applying to exhibits.
From Laurel

Hey FVKG knitters!!
Who needs a new yarn and fiber source?? I'm pretty sure the answer is ALL OF US!! Some of you may already know that The Woolery, which is a brick and mortar store in Frankfort, Kentucky, is also online! Now you can support FVKG and buy your yarn and fiber at the same time--what could be better??

The Woolery is a family-owned store, and the perfect place for weaving, spinning, felting, dyeing, rug hooking, needle punch, knitting, and crocheting. 

In addition to being a great resource for us, it can also help the Guild out with a cash back program. FVKG has enrolled in The Woolery Guild Rewards Program (WGRP) where The Woolery donates five percent of all purchases made when the member first clicks on the WGRP link. Then place your order as usual. Note, please, that you must use the link to ensure the rewards go to FVKG.

https://woolery.com?aff=458

Questions?
Contact Laurel at
treasurer@ftvancouverknittersguild. org

--Laurel Prager, Treasurer
A Note From Sue and Geri

Thanks to one and all for your continued support and contributions to our charity knitting
projects. Your efforts are very much appreciated. Please continue to knit items for our various
charities - there are several projects to choose from, or try one of each!

July will be our last call for market bags. Please bring them to the July picnic!! Sue and Geri will
not be at the June meeting as previously planned. If you are not going to be at the picnic contact
Sue or Geri to arrange a pick up, please.

We are still knitting hats for the food bank to be delivered just before Thanksgiving and fingerless
mitts for the nuns for Christmas.

Happy knitting to all,
Sue and Geri



Knitterly Reads from Linda Frederiksen 

To paraphrase Martha and the Vandellas, summer’s here, and the time is right for reading at the beach. Or the deck. Or the pool. Or the park. Or an air-conditioned room. What’s needed is something light and entertaining, a book that’s both pick-up-able and put-down-able, with a cast of interesting and clever characters, and an easy-to-follow plot. If it happens to be yarn-adjacent, even better.

Two new books that tick all those boxes are by a best-selling German author, Leonie Swann. The concept in both is to skewer the murder mystery genre by taking an animal’s point of view. In Three Bags Full (translated from German by Anthea Bell, Soho Crime Press, 2025), a flock of sheep in Glennkill, western Ireland, find their shepherd, George, quite dead. The behavior of the local humans is incomprehensible to the sheep, which include Miss Maple, a very clever sheep, Sir Ritchfield, the aging lead ram, Othello, a Hebridean ram with a mysterious past, and Mopple the Whale, a merino with a good memory. It soon falls to the sheep to solve the mystery of George’s death.

In Big Bad Wool (translated from German by Amy Bojang, Soho Crime Press, 2025), the sheep find themselves transported to a chateau in France, under the care of their new shepherdess, Rebecca. All is not as it seems with high jinx and mischief around every corner. With the help of some neighboring goats, the flock use sheep logic, courage, and the willpower of wool-power to save the day. Both books are available in print from the Fort Vancouver Regional Library.


—Linda Frederiksen
Thought for the Day

“My firm stance is that if a thing is fixable, and the knitting is still on the needles, why
not fix it? That’s not perfectionism - it’s workmanship. Do the thing as well as you can
As Elizabeth Zimmermann said in such situations, this is just an opportunity to do
more of my favorite hobby—hurrah! I’m getting twice the knitting fun out of those
skeins...”

—Kay Gardner, Modern Daily Knitting, May 8, 2025

Giving Through Knitting

Education

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"And, don’t forget the hat machine!"

Here’s a picture of a few of the hats I produced on our Guild hat machine last year, both for the Guild
project and for a gift exchange I was going to. The ombre and self-striping yarns produce such a pretty
product, and in short order!

—Sarah Kerridge
Hook and Needle
June Class Schedule

Hello, Knitters!

We have lots of classes coming up. Here’s our June lineup:
• Introduction to Drop Spindle with Carol Combelic - June 7th, 2025 at 1pm
• Tunisian Crochet 101 with Zeb Walter - June 14th, 2025 at 10am
• Fixing Common Knitting Mistakes - June 15th, 2025 at 10am
• Next Steps Knitting - June 21st, 2025 at 11am
• Beginning Lace - June 22nd, 2025 at 10am
• Knit Companion 101 - June 28th, 2025 at 10am
• Tunisian Crochet 102 - June 28th, 2025 at 1pm
• Knit Companion 102 - June 29th, 2025 at 10am

Check out the class descriptions and register online at:
https://www.hookandneedlefiber.com/shop/classes/14
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Submitted by Julie Patterson

Used with permission and with thanks to KnitPicks


Community

OUR BUSINESS MEMBERS


FVKG IS VERY HAPPY TO WELCOME NEW BUSINESS MEMBER TO LOVE AND DYE! 🌠
To Love and Dye hand dyes has vibrantly colored itch-free yarn in Vancouver, WA.

BROOKLYN TWEED: 🌠
Portland, Oregon yarn and knitwear design company, Brooklyn Tweed, connects hand-knitters to their materials by creating timeless wool yarns and patterns that support textile production in the United States. Each skein of Brooklyn Tweed yarn represents an American story. 

HOOK AND NEEDLE: 
🌠

Now stocking Brooklyn Tweedyarns, Hook and Needle Fiber Shop features a huge array of classes for knitters and crocheters of all levels. Now offering private crochet and knitting lessons as well!.  Don't forget Open Craft Night, Wednesdays 4-7 pm, and Crafternoon, Sundays noon to 4 pm. Watch Hook and Needle's instagram page for Feature Fridays! 

 

WHITE OAK ALPACAS SHEARED-DELIGHTS BOUTIQUE STORE:🌠

is packed with Alpaca Yarns and Roving from White Oak Alpacas, Alpaca apparel, plus unique and handmade Gifts. Shop online at White Oak Alpacas Sheared-Delights, or call (360) 841-7276 to make an appointment to visit the farm shop. Farm tours are available on Fridays and Saturdays.


NOBLE QUILL STUDIO (FORMERLY LETTERS WITH JOY): 🌠  

Armed with a dip pen and ink, this calligrapher re-creates the italic hand first used during the renaissance period. Add this deeply personal touch to special event envelope addresses, vows, name tags, certificate fill-ins. Email for samples, questions and requests to Joy@noblequillstudio.com

 

THIS ICON 🌠 DESIGNATES A GUILD BUSINESS SPONSOR

 





Frequently Asked Questions



About Newsletters and Speakers


If you, as a member, did not receive your email with the monthly newsletter and details about our speaker for this month:

-Please click Document Library and look under Newsletters For 2024.

-You will find it there.


About Zoom Link for Meetings

If you, as a member, did not receive your email with the Zoom link:

-Please click Document Library.
-Look under Zoom Invite Link for Meeting.
-You will find the link there.





Ft. Vancouver Knitters Guild
Email: FVKG@ftvancouverknittersguild.org
Instagram: fvknittersguild

Webmaster: Patricia Freedman
Email: webmaster@ftvancouverknittersguild.org
Last Update 07/15/25


 

 



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