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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