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Hawthorn Cottage Bed & Breakfast.
Hawthorn Cottage Bed & Breakfast is now officially up and running; take a look at their web site and pass along the word that there is now a wonderful new establishment in the Village of Chester, Nova Scotia! It looks like a fine spot for knitting.
Joyce James Tours
Joyce James, an enthusiastic knitter herself, organizes tours for knitters and friends.
Canadian Knitwear Designers' Association
This is a recently formed orgainization, which includes Canadian Knitwear Designers, Teachers, Pattern and Yarn Retailers, Authors, Book Distributors, Hand and Machine Knitters, and Knitting Guilds. In their own words, "Emphasis will be given to marketing CKDA, not only as an extensive source of knitwear related companies and guilds, but also as a comphrehensive educational base to advance the medium, and elevate the image of knitting as an art form."
Patternfish: a very user-friendly site to buy .pdf knitting patterns: lots of detail, lots of pictures.
Elann Fibre Company
A mail-order store which sells 100% natural
fibres, plus other knitting tools, materials, and patterns. The site
has an extensive listing of the fibres which they sell, listed by
their weight/gauge, and by the yarn content. Each yarn is described
in detail, and they also sell sample 10yd length skeins of their
yarns for making test swatches - what a great idea!
Knitter's Bookshelf
A source for new knitting books and videos.
The Knitting Guild of America
This is the national knitting guild of the US, and offers information about upcoming conferences (which always have excellent well-known teachers), their correspondance courses, and Master Knitters courses.
They also provide some free patterns, listings of associated guilds throughout the US, and information on their publication Cast-On.
Needle Arts Book Shop
Specializing in Knitting Books.
Lots of great titles, including a selection of books on Lace, Traditional and Ethnic knitting, as well as Reference and Design books.
Catherine Vardy's colourful Ch'ullu hats are found in the Attic Gallery, as well as Historical Knitted works from The Museum for Textiles collection.
Needle Beetle
Unusual and striking designs with an emphasis on nature and animals - plenty of finely charted dogs!
Shelridge Farms
There's lots to see at Shelridge Farm - take a tour of the Farm to learn about wool processing, and see the wonderful knitting kits they retail.
Their farm is located in Southern Ontario, and they offer a colourful selection of hand-dyed knitting yarns - 100% wool Soft Touch, 85%/15% Wool/Cotton,and their new fingering weight luxury merino - Shelridge Ultra.
Socknitters Home Page
This is a great resource for sock knitters - there are sock patterns, tips and techniques, information on joining the mailing list for Socknitters, classifieds, book reviews.
UK Knitting and Crochet guild
An organisation formed to promote and encourage the crafts of hand knitting, machine knitting and crochet.
Information on upcoming meetings and workshops; historical kits by members; and education and library services are also detailed.
Earth Faire - they carry beads, yarn, books, patterns (including Lucy's) and other fun things.
Woolly Thoughts
Designers of mathematical knitwear, or conversely, mathematical designers of knitwear.
Many of their designs are based on simple geometric shapes, and then combining them to create elaborate patterns.
Olavia's Handknitting Patterns
Check out the attractive easy-knit designs by this young Canadian designer.
Sivia Harding knit design: innovative knitted jewelry and beaded knitting patterns.
Jane Thornley: Nova Scotian Jane Thornley's passion for colour and texture add magic to her knitted and beaded creations, and her journal is well worth reading!
The Bee's Knees Handknitting Patterns
Colourful easy-knit baby and children's designs by Canadian designer Holli Yeoh.
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