Tag Archive for the term: knitting

Have you ever been to a Fibre Festival and seen those enormous bags of fleece, but don’t know what to do with them? Find out at our Fibre Prep Workshop with Leslie, Saturday July 19 from 1 - 4pm!
Learn how to turn a raw fleece into spinnable fibre in this workshop. You’ll learn about […]

I’m happy to say that in the spirit of all the spinning and fiber that is being tossed about now at Ariadne Knits, we will be holding our very first Spin 102 with Leslie Ordal Saturday June 28!

Build your spinning skills with this follow-up to Learn to Spin. You’ll learn different drafting techniques to […]

I found this one today on Parc avenue just below St Joseph. It’s pretty grotty, but it’s got plastic clips attaching it to the metal…um..thing, so it’s not just “part of someone’s sweater that they left on the ground” as one of my friends suggested. The first outdoor knitted-something was here.

On my way home from work last Friday, I spotted this knitted sash on a tree. The tag says, “Knitty Gritty” so when I got home I googled the name, but couldn’t find anything that seemed to match, even though I seem to remember hearing about a Montreal group who knit things to put on […]

The Ides of March might have been cold and dreary, but certainly not at Ariadne. Our first “Learn to Spin on a Drop Spindle” was held that afternoon, and it was not only fun to watch, but very informative, full of smiles, laughs, tea and cookies.

Our Students gathered ’round the fireplace at 13h and […]

I dig Ariadne: weaver, conqueror of labyrinths, lover of love and of wine and, in this case, community and enviro oriented indie knitting! I wandered into the new yarn boutique following a meeting down in the St.Henri hood, remembering it from Worn Journal founder’s squawks of delight when driving past it back into town from […]

Though I’m not Christian, observing Lent has become a tradition of mine. It began back in Uni, when a dear friend who’s a devout Catholic fasted with me on Yom Kippur (I ended up breaking the fast early. He didn’t). In honour of his trans-denominational gesture, I decided to keep Kosher for Lent that year […]

Well, nothing went up on the site during game play last night because our internet went down, but there were creative minds here having a creative party. Much knitting, crocheting and embroidery was going down while sheets of exquisite corpse games were passed around. This time, instead of playing OHvYH, we edged more toward […]