JAN 20, 2024 GENERAL MEETING (ZOOM ONLY)
Our speaker will be Echo Mae. Echo is a fiber artist, writer, speaker, instructor, knitting designer and board member of the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum. Echo’s knitting designs explore popular culture, literature, and mythology, and her speaking engagements explore the history and culture of fiber arts. She is one of the owners of Northwest Yarns & Mercantile, and author of the online journal Know Your Fiber, which explores the history and culture surrounding fiber animals and plants. Echo will speak on A Brief History of Knitting: From Knit, to Purl, to C4R. When and where did knitting start? How did it develop? How did we get from a simple knit stitch to the variety of knitting styles and stitches we have today? Learn all about the history of knitting from its earliest surviving artifacts up through works of knitters today.
Tentative Schedule:
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Social / Show and Tell
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Business Meeting
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Speaker
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Wrap-up
Our speaker will be Echo Mae. Echo is a fiber artist, writer, speaker, instructor, knitting designer and board member of the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum. Echo’s knitting designs explore popular culture, literature, and mythology, and her speaking engagements explore the history and culture of fiber arts. She is one of the owners of Northwest Yarns & Mercantile, and author of the online journal Know Your Fiber, which explores the history and culture surrounding fiber animals and plants. Echo will speak on A Brief History of Knitting: From Knit, to Purl, to C4R. When and where did knitting start? How did it develop? How did we get from a simple knit stitch to the variety of knitting styles and stitches we have today? Learn all about the history of knitting from its earliest surviving artifacts up through works of knitters today.
Tentative Schedule:
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Social / Show and Tell
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Business Meeting
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Speaker
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Wrap-up