June 2022 Meeting Recap: Member Tips and Sydney Crabaugh presents Knitwear Becomes Fashion: Twentieth Century Knitting History

by Shela Perrin
  
Our July meeting with be a hybrid one so you will be able to join virtually or be in person at the  meeting. The new meeting site is at the Rose City Park Presbyterian Church located at 1907  NE 45th Avenue, Portland, OR 97213. Doors open at 6:00pm for social knitting. Covid  vaccination, booster proof and masks are required. 

The Guild cannot function with volunteers, please consider the following positions:
Board membership 
Sound system information 
Programming 
Special events 
Administration within the Guild 
General volunteerism 
For more information visit the About page, talk with a  board member, or email us at [email protected].

Virtual Knit Nights are every Tuesday between. 6:00pm and 8:00pm. All are welcome. Visit the  Guild Events page for the current  link. 

Please save the date of Saturday, July 16th, 1-3pm for an Ice Cream Social, location to be  announced. 

2022 Service Project - North by Northeast Community Health Center is the recipient of all  projects donated. Any type of warm item is welcome - hats, gloves, scarves and cowls. Any  size and color, knit, crochet or sewn. More information on the Guild Service Project page. Please contact [email protected] to arrange  drop off or hold items for the final delivery in the fall. 

Dishcloth Challenge items to be included in the produce boxes distributed to the community  by North by Northeast Community Clinic. Finished items are due by June 30th. Email  [email protected] to arrange a drop off. Every item will give you a  double entry for some great year end prizes. The person completing the most dishclothes will  win a $25 gift certificate to the yarn store of their choice. Every item will earn one chance in a  random drawing for 2 skeins of Knit Picks Chroma Fingering, Get your Neon (70% SW Merino,  30% Nylon, 396 yards/100g). 

Welcome to two new business members: 
3 Green Sisters in Portland, Oregon 
Nancy Williamson Framing & Fibers in Clatskanie, Or 

Member Tip with Anna Lorton: socks, socks, socks!  
Anna described the basic construction of a sock is the cuff, leg, heal, gusset, foot and toe.  You can accomplish knitting a sock with circular needles or double pointed needles. You can 
make two at a time with a magic loop method, sock race 2 at a time or knit 2 socks in 1. You  can knit one sock and then knit the 2nd sock in the opposite direction. Once completed make  sure they fit and then take a few weeks to get used to them. On the plus side they are portable,  beautiful yarns to choose from, they take a small amount of yarn, some of the knitting is  mindless and they provide warm feet!  
Suggestions: 
Rye Light pattern by Tincanknits, free on Ravelry. 
Rose City Rollers pattern by Mara Catherine Bryner, free on Ravelry 
Vanilla is the New Black pattern by Anne Fletcher, free on Ravelry 
Next month Anna will share tips for the provisional cast on. 

​Guest Speaker Sydney Crabaugh described how knitwear has become fashion through the  history of knitting from the early 1900’s to the 1950’s. In an interesting and fun presentation  Sydney shares the history of knitting and how it eventually becomes a fashion statement. She  begins with knitting for WWI, then cycling garments, how knit wear became popular in the  1920’s, then 1930’s when the stars of Hollywood begin knitting on and off the screen. 1940’s  and WWII everyone became involved knitting for the war, after 1945 people began to knit for  themselves. Yarn was cheap. 1950’s Argyle became very popular. She recommends the book  No Idle Hands The Social History of American Knitting by Anne L. Macdonald.  

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