Amazing Technicolour Quilt winner, Lucia Balabuk

Sara presented the quilt to Lucia Balabuk who works in the administration office of the Science One department located on the 3rd floor of the Learning Centre. She was really pleased - said she had no expectations of winning but was glad to contribute to Covenant House, and was glad to receive the quilt.

Amazing Technicolour Quilt finished!

Our 2010 project completed, and we successfully raised a large donation to Covenant House in Vancouver.

Amazing Technicolour Quilt poster

Tickets are on sale now!
Draw will be during the Library Winter Wonderland luncheon, Wed Dec 15th in the SUB Ball room.

Big Blanket project update ~ renamed Amazing Technicolour Quilt

Hello all,
We're close to having all our squares knitted. Next steps are arranging them into our desired pattern, blocking, sewing together, and finishing.
Then we can start advertising our finished project and selling raffle tickets for charity.
Here are the pictures from our meeting today.
Cheers, Meg

How are those squares doing?

Knitwits met for their usual weekly meeting. Here are some more snaps of our Big Blanket project squares.

It's hip to be square

The first squares for our Big Blanket project are done. What a beautiful collection of colour and texture. We're off to a great start ~ Keep up the knitting & crocheting :)

Knitwits new project: Big Blanket

Hi all,

We have made a great start on our Big Blanket project!!

Edita bought 14 skeins of yarn yesterday, and today we wound it into balls. I have two balls not yet claimed - navy blue, and a purpley blue one. We are quite certain that each ball will make at least 2 squares. Leftovers from your first square will be used in solid coloured squares or mixed up for multi-coloured squares.

I have attached my list of the folks who are participating. Once I have confirmed the number of us participating, I'll ask you to reimburse Edita for a portion of the yarn expense (it's going to be less than $10).

To remind you of the inspiration for our Big Blanket, check out the photo on the blog shown below. This is not a pattern so we're on our own for figuring out squares. If you're unsure about a pattern - reply to the Knitwits and someone will be able to help you figure out a pattern.

Getting started:

We are going to aim for our squares to 10" by 10".

You'll need to do a swatch to check your tension and to try out your pattern. Do your swatch in stocking stitch (or the pattern that you intend to knit) at least 4" by 4". Use 4.5mm or 5mm needles. (Use 5mm if you are doing cables or twists.)

To determine how many stitches you'll need to make a 10" by 10" square, count how many stitches you have per inch on your swatch. Multiply that by 10 and you'll have the number of stitches to cast on. Based on Edita's sample you should have about 42 or 44 stitches. (If you knit tightly you'll more, if you knit loosely you'll need fewer).

Our wonderful collection of Cascade yarns


Tracking our colour choices


A getting started lesson


Turning skeins into balls using wheel


We used two wheels to get the job done