Speakers

Upcoming and recent speaker information is found on the news blog page.

Non-members can be added to our mailing list to get the most up-to-date information about each month’s speaker. Please email newsletter@kwkg.ca

2024/2025 Speakers (subject to change)

  • September 2025 – Barb Barone and Cynthia Hyslop, former yarn store owners and now the creators of Yarniversity by River City Yarns offer on-line courses, tutorials and share their knowledge.
  • October: Jon Hetts of ULA+LIA
  • November: Jane Thornley
  • December: Aleks Byrd

2023/2024 Speakers

  • May 2024 – Stephanie Earp – Recent trends and reports from mainstream fashion, observations from the point of view of a local yarn shop, overview of natural and man-made fibres
  • April 2024 – Sally Melville – The most common mistakes knitters make
  • March 2024 – Laura Nelkin – All the things that can be done with a stitch saver
  • February 2024 – Taiu Landra, Koigu Wool Designs
  • January 2024 – Amy Singer, editor of Knitty Magazine
  • December 2023 – Julie Crawford, creator of Knitted Bliss, teaching how to embroider on knits
  • November 2023 – Alexis Hoy – Merging Genres: Finding the bridges in your creativity
  • October 2023 – Sandi Rosner, Learning Short Rows: how, why and where to use them
  • September 2023 – Fiona Ellis – Jump Start your Creativity

Past Speakers

2022/2023 Speakers

  • May 2023 – Alexa Ludeman from Tin Can Knits: Mini Workshop – Design a Colourwork Yoke
  • April 2023 – Fiona Ellis: Let’s Twist Again!
  • March 2023 – Sylvia Olsen: History of the Cowichan Sweater & the Coast Salish knitters
  • February 2023 – speaker cancelled
  • January 2023 – Kirk Dunn: Bringing Knits Alive
  • December 2022- Chris Liszak: Wet Felting
  • November 2022 – speaker cancelled
  • October 2022 – Christine LeGrow & Shirley Anne Scott: Saltwater Knits
  • September 2022 – Sally Melville: My Life in Knitting

2021/2022 Speakers

  • April 2022 – Laura Nelkin: Put Some Bling On It!
  • March 2022 – Lucy Neatby: A Double Knitting Voyage
  • February 2022 – Donna Hancock: Wellington Fibres
  • January 2022 – Vicki Ryder: Songbird Yarn & Fibres
  • December 2021 – June Gilbank: Creative World of Crochet
  • November 2021 – Cabin Boy Knits: Natural Dyeing
  • November 27th Extra – Stephen West
  • October 2021 – Ilga Leja: Kaleidoscope Knitting