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.

Upcoming Calendar Events

Membership Meeting

September Program: Lisa Shroyer

Lisa

Lisa Shroyer learned to knit at age eight, and it’s been consuming her life ever since. Over the course of her career, she has worked on knitting magazines, written knitting books, produced knitting television shows, and served as Head of Video at Craftsy. Today, she is the owner and CEO of Stitchcraft Marketing, a marketing agency dedicated to the craft industry, where she gets to work with yarn shops, craft brands, and creative businesses every day. Lisa is still an avid knitter and shares her own knitting, projects, and adventures in making on social media. She loves traditional knitting styles such as Fair Isle.

Join us for a fun and informative presentation on color theory, using the color wheel, and choosing the right colors for fair isle and other knitting projects.

Our September Membership Meeting is:

- Thursday, September 6th.

- Location: Barberton Grange | 9400 NE 72nd Ave, Vancouver (Map)

- Time: 6 pm Social Knitting

Zoom in if you can't make the meeting.

- Click Here to Join the Zoom Meeting!

- Or copy and paste the link below in your web browser.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89922433465?pwd=XR0hTkdSkVK7oXiLRPnDS2LxwEHJsQ.1

- Log in: 6:15 pm

- Meeting ID: 899 2243 3465

- Passcode: 523608

Local Events!

Save the Date!!
October 28th!!
>> Knitting at the Liberty!<<

Guild members, let's go!
Bring a friend!
The Movie is...Mama Mia!
$10 Ticket at the Door

Now we're on Youtube!!

Visit our page and subscribe!

for all the latest at FVKG!!

White Oak Alpacas | Fleece & Fiber Sale
(Members Only Event)

Saturday September 12th, 2026
11 am - 4 pm
Bring a chair, snack, spend the day on the ranch with fiber friends.

The 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month
5-7 pm

At Bookish
3533 NE Everett Street
Camas, WA 98607

Bring your own craft project, and enjoy crafting together!

From Our Friends at Hook and Needle

1.) We're moving all of our yarn and goodies to a new location in Uptown Village!

New Location: 1902 Main St. Vancouver, WA 98660

Soft Reopening: September 5th

Grand Reopening: September 19th

Witches, get your stitches ready, because our next Stitching at the Movies night has arrived and it's giving major sequel energy.

Practical Magic 2
There's a generational curse, family drama, and just enough chaos to make your WIP feel very calm by comparison.

Location: Regal City Center, 801 C Street, Vancouver, WA 98660 (Map)
Date: Friday, September 11th at 7:15 PM

Tickets!!

Fall Retreat Info with Tigard Knitting Guild

The Fall Retreat is hosted by the Tigard Knitting Guild, and Fort Vancouver Knitters Guild will be joining. We have expanded the retreat this year, and it is scheduled for October 1-4, 2026. See below for registration information.

Registration

To register, visit the Tigard Knitting Guild website and go to the Calendar tab. Click on October, click on the event, then select the Registration tab to sign up.

Sacred Sheep Website

Sacred Sheep is in its third year as a destination for curated vendors with excellent yarns and fibers along with pet-able sheep, food carts, hats, bags, jewelry, tattoos, and so much more. To attend is to support our local yarn and fiber event. To purchase is to contribute to its success. Sibling rivalry aside, nothing tragic happens when we venture across the bridge to Portland. If you don't want to drive, we can carpool. So come on! Let's go and have a great time!!

Also check out the link on the left to Sacred Sheep's 2025 video. You may be surprised who you see repping the FVKG!!

Notes

A Note From Karen

Happy Summer, Fort Vancouver Knitters & Crocheters! 🧶

We hope you're enjoying these beautiful summer days and finding a little extra time to relax, stitch, and create. Whether you're knitting on the porch, crocheting at the park, or finishing a long-awaited project, we hope your summer is filled with inspiration and joy.

We're looking forward to seeing everyone at our August 6th meeting, where we have an exciting program planned! It's a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with friends, welcome new members, share your latest creations, and enjoy the fellowship that makes our guild so special.

Be sure to bring your Show & Tell projects, your enthusiasm, and a friend who might enjoy discovering our knitting and crochet community. We can't wait to spend an inspiring evening together!

Enjoy the rest of your summer, and we'll see you on August 6th!

Happy Stitching!

Karen

A Note From Hook and Needle

Do you love making beautiful things and helping inspire other crafters?

We’re putting together a list of sample makers for Hook & Needle! These are the fiber artists who help us bring patterns, yarn, and project ideas to life in the shop through beautiful finished samples. If you would enjoy creating pieces that help customers imagine their next project, we’d love to hear from you. We’ll be gathering interest through a short form, where you can tell us a little about your skills, preferences, and availability. Compensation options will be available.

Additionally, we’re now on Discord! This is a place to connect with each other outside of the shop. You'll find an area to show off your makes, post progress and ask questions during Make Alongs, and chat!

Interested? Contact us for more information:

Hook & Needle
621 Broadway St
Vancouver, Washington 98660-3500
(971) 319-4164
hello@hookandneedlefiber.com

Thank you for being part of this creative little corner of the world with us Upcoming Classes at Hook and Needle 💛

FVKG on Social Media

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OUR GUILD VALUES

COMMUNITY

GIVING THROUGH KNITTING

EDUCATION

Community

September and Share

* Projects completed by our members *

"Create with the heart; build with the mind"
Criss Jami

Rita

Debbie

Trish H.

JesAnne

Natalie

Caelen

Malinda

Tammy

Lisa

Carrie

Knitting News

So Much Social Knitting
in the 'Couve!!

Just a reminder that in addition to the monthly 2nd Tuesdays FVKG Knit Night at Leonardo’s, there are several options for social knitting in Clark County, with more being added all the time. A sample of various informal knitting groups in our area include:

Knit Happens
✦Mondays at the Camas Library from 12:30 - 3, main floor near the fireplace. The address is 625 NE 4th Avenue, Camas.

✦Text and Textiles
2nd and 4th Wednesday, 5-7 @ Bookish in Camas
3533 NE Everett St.
Camas, WA 98607
(Map)

Open Knit
✦2nd Tuesday of each month at Leonardo’s Pizza | 16505 SE 1st St | 5pm t0 8pm
✦Wednesdays at Leonardo’s Pizza | 16505 SE 1st St., Vancouver | 11am - 2pm
✦ Thursdays at Chuck’s Produce/Salmon Creek in the deli area from 10 am - 12 noon. Come join us! The address is: 2302 NE 117th St., Vancouver.

Knitting and Crochet Club
✦Tuesdays from 9:30-11:30am at Firstenburg Center. Knitting help is available. Small fee. Contact Firstenburg Center for more information.

Adult Fiber Art Social Circle
✦Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30pm Vancouver Mall Library/8700 NE Vancouver Mall Dr #285, ✦Wednesdays 10am-12noon at Ridgefield Community Library/210 N Main Ave, Ridgefield
✦ Fridays 11am,-1pm at Woodland Community Library, 411 Lakeshore Dr, Woodland

✦ Adult Craft and Chat Fridays from 4-5pm at Battle Ground Community Library/1207 SE 8th Way, Battle Ground

Open Craft at Hook and Needle
✦ Wednesdays 4pm - 7pm | Sundays 12pm - 4pm

Grab your needles or your hook, it's time for a Sock Along! From June 28th through July 26th, we're making socks together, and everyone's invited. Sign up is free! Simply signing up and participating in the make along enters you into our raffle. Want a bonus entry? Purchase your project yarn from us and you'll get an extra raffle entry, plus a stitch marker to mark your spot.

Sock Along Socials: Join us during our regular Open Craft Times on Wednesdays 4-7 PM and Sundays 12 - 4 PM to stitch alongside other participants.

Giveaways & Prizes: Everyone who signs up is entered into a raffle for a $25 Hook & Needle gift card. The Sock Along wraps up with a Finish Party on Sunday July 26th. You don't need to be finished to attend, so even if you're rocking half a sock we'd love to see you. Sign up today and get ready to cast or chain on!

Vancouver GoFest Celebration 2026 Mark your calendar and be ready to adventure through Downtown Vancouver as a Pokémon Trainer! Hook & Needle is proud to be a passport stop this year and we can't wait to celebrate with you. Grab one of our Crochet Poké Ball Keychain Kits, the ball you pull is a mystery.

✨ Will you pull the Master Ball?? For more details and events, see: https://www.pokevancouverarena.com/

Knitterly Travels

Stephen and Penelope's

Just returning from a fun and very exciting to Amsterdam. When a knitter goes to Amsterdam, I can assure you this place is in the foreground of your planning!

My questions were:
* How close can I stay to this store?
* Which day(s) will I go?
* What am I interested in?
* What yarn am I looking for?

Answers:
* Close!
* A day to sleep off jet lag.
* Two shawl patterns with yarn, and some of Stephen's pattern books.
* More Qing yarn!

They do ship to the US, too. So some yarn that I'm yarn dreaming about has to come with the next shipment. Stephen West's designs are on Ravelry, too.

The Woolery Rewards Program

A valuable reminder: 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, punch needle, knitting, and crocheting. In addition to being a great resource for us for our addictions er, crafts, 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 5% of all purchases made when the member first clicks on the WGRP link.

Then look around online, and place your order as usual.

NOTE PLEASE, you must use this link to ensure the rewards go to FVKG.

Questions? Contact Laurel at treasurer@ftvancouverknittersguild.org.

Laurel Prager

Knitterly Reads

Knitting the U.S.A. (Nancy Bates, Insight Editions, 2025).

Following on the success of Knitting the National Parks and Knitting California, author/knitter/teacher/fiber enthusiast Bates has again come up with 50 beanie hats that are inspired by and represent every state. Organized by region - North, South, Midwest, and West - each design features some unique feature of each state. Perhaps it’s a take on a color or symbol associated with a state, such as a multicolored hot air balloons against a blue sky for New Mexico or a basket of ripe peaches for Georgia or even a wooden sailing ship against a backdrop of fall foliage for Connecticut. The designs are often an unexpected take on a state’s identity but lovely, nonetheless. Made in worsted weight yarn for average adult heads, techniques include stranded colorwork, duplicate stitch, and - because they are beanies - choosing an appropriate cast on stitch. Useful, fun, unique, and imminently giftable.

Wardrobe Embroidery - Warner Bolstad (Zakka Workshop, 2021).

While not strictly a knitting book, this title nicely fits into the fiber arts roundhouse. Subtitled: knit & embroidery projects for up cycling clothes, the book presents several embroidery patterns that can be used on knits or other fabrics. Nine are knitting patterns - headband, neck warmer and several sweaters, both pullover and cardigan. Another nine are clothing items with embroidered embellishments - shirts, hats, totes, and of course jeans. Many designs are reminiscent of the sixties style hippie garments but definitely updated for today’s trends. A pattern library and inspiration gallery will get your fingers itching for both knitting needles and embroidery hoops. From a young Norwegian designer whose philosophy is: don’t throw it away, upcycle it for another season or two of fashionable attire.

Giving Through Knitting

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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

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. Last call for 2025 will be at the November 6 meeting. Bring all knitted charity items to that meeting. If you are not able to come to the meeting, call Geri 703-599-9626 or Sue 503-968-9740 to arrange for a pick up.

We are still knitting hats for the food bank to be delivered just before Thanksgiving.

We are also knitting fingerless mitts in brown, black and grey for the nuns who take such good care of us at the retreats. They will be for Christmas gifts.

We continue to knit items for the Veterans hospital on an ongoing basis. They like fingerless mitts, scarves and hats in washable yarn as well as shawls that are size large and do not have a long V in the back. The longer shawls get caught in wheelchairs. These also need to be made of washable yarn.

If you have an idea for other charity knitting projects please let us know. We are always on the lookout for new things to knit!!

Stay tuned for a surprise project announcement in the New Year. In the mean time~

Happy Knitting from Geri and Sue

Please continue to make soap sacks and/or donate soap to Velda Madison. Collecting soap and soap sacks is a continuous initiative and the donations to various organizations happen year round. The receivers of these sacks are thrilled to have them.

Thank you for your support!

—Velda Madison

Yarn Heart

Education

Upcoming Classes at Hook and Needle

Upcoming Classes at Hook and Needle!!

✦ Beginner Knit Class - September 5
✦ Intro to Cross Stitch - September 12
✦ Weaving on a Bookmark Loom - September 12
✦ Fixing Knitting Mistakes with Rachel - September 13
✦ Cuff Down Sock Workshop - September 26 + 2 more
✦ Needle Felting Make & Take - September 27

To see full list of upcoming classes and register, click here!!

Knitterly Reads

Two recent additions to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library collection fit nicely with the season:
The cooler temperatures of fall are ideal weather for a bit of wool knitting...be it sweaters, hats, cowls, or - in this case - socks. The great thing about socks are they are a small canvas for experimenting with or perfecting knitting techniques and skills. In Joyful Colorwork Socks by Charlotte Stone (Page Street Publishing, 2024), knitters get patterns that highlight stranded colorwork in delightfully whimsical ways. The 25 unique designs are organized by interest area such as pets, hobbies, holidays, and celebrations. Socks for a dog or cat lover? Check. Botanical or garden-related designs? Check. How about a pair of cupcake-inspired socks for an upcoming special birthday? Again, check. Patterns instructions are all clearly written and colorfully illustrated in easy-to-read charts. Introductory sections include how to choose and substitute yarns and color combinations, tips and tricks to avoid second sock syndrome, and how to design a customized colorwork sock of your very own.

Halloween is just past and Christmas is on it’s way...what better time to begin a project from Tim Burton’sThe Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Knitting Guide to Halloween Town andChristmas Town? Edited by Tanis Gray (Insight Editions, 2023), this collection of 28 designs runs the gamut from ‘terrifying toys’ to ‘horrifying home decor,’ with costumes and everyday apparel in-between. Like the Addams Family theme song goes, the projects are creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, but altogether ... fun, unique, and iconic. Here can be found a 10” tall classic Jack Skellington figure and his Santa counterpart, an Oogie Boogie Cowl, and a Nightmare Before Christmas throw. Projects range from beginner-level to more advanced and combine a number of techniques such as lace, cables, intarsia, and mosaic. Instructions are written, with charts as appropriate to the design. It is, as the editor writes, “a chillingly delightful collection of cozy knits with an eerie twist."

—Linda Frederiksen

Mosaic Knitting Workshop - Ashleigh Wempe (David & Charles, 2023).

It looks complicated but after learning the basic technique, it’s something that any advanced beginner can master quickly. Color work patterns are created by using one color for two rows while slipping some stitches then switching to a second color and slipping specific stitches in those rows.

The result is intricate-looking geometric designs that can be worked flat or in the round. Unlike fair isle and intarsia techniques there are no floats to carry or bobbins to manage. After going over the basics of mosaic knitting, the author dives into 13 small to medium-sized projects. Get a taste of mosaic knitting with a coffee cup coaster or cozy then expand to cowls, shawls, and blankets. Unlike many pattern books, the samples are made up with affordable Lion Brand yarns rather than expensive and often difficult to find fibers. Charts are large and easy to read. A perfect starter kit for those new to the technique.

Knit Modern Scani Sweaters
- Marita Clementz (David & Charles, 2025).

This new book highlights 12 visually striking knitting patterns from a Swedish designer. All are made with Scandinavian yarns that have both a cozy and warm look and feel. The designs, which are a modern take on traditional Nordic knits, are primarily top-down, raglan sleeve pullovers in crew or turtle necks and short and long sleeves. And, it’s the patterns that are the stars here, The big bright, colorful, abstract floral motifs and geometric designs in interesting and alternative color ways are reminiscent of the well-known brand, Marimekko. Unisex sizing is inclusive from extra small to extra large adult and most of the knits are in DK (light worsted) weight. The
attractive and appealing designs designs also feature short rows and Ladderback jacquard or yarn floats techniques. For more advanced knitters.

Submitted by Julie Patterson

Used with permission and with thanks to KnitPicks

Volunteers

Knit Club at Riverview Elementary

Thanks to FVKG and their members for the support of our Knit Club at Riverview Elementary School. Thanks to Pam, Sue, Cheryl, Rita for knitting sample animals with simple patterns for the kids to knit.

Thanks to all the folks that have donated knitting needles, yarn, bags and notions. The Fifth Graders at Riverview are doing great. We have about 14 kids in the Knit Club. Some are finishing fingerless mitts and the kitten above, while others are just starting. Rita, Nina, Lomoar, Leslie, Pam, Patty and Molly are teaching them.

One of the challenges we face with the fifth graders is that we only have one school year to teach them as much as we can. We teach at lunch / recess 11:40–12:15) on Wednesdays and Fridays, so we only get about 20-25 minutes of knit time. But they work hard when they are at Knit Club.

We would like to start a Fourth Grade Knit Club at Riverview on Thursdays at 11:25-12:00. Then we would have 2 school years to teach them, and we might get them further into learning all there is about knitting. Would any of you be willing to help teach the Fourth Graders? If so Please email Rita at copphous@comcast.net or text Rita at 360-608-6989.

THANKS!
~ Submitted by Rita Coppernoll

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