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Bakers Dozen Bonus deal from Stitches with a Twist

Stitches With a Twist in Blyth, a yarn store with so much more, is offering a great deal on yarn: the Bakers Dozen Bonus. Buy 12 balls of yarn and…

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18 September 2020

Lace Museum offering online workshop in Halas Lace

The Lace Museum is offering an online workshop in Halas Lace starting September 24. For more information and registration: https://www.thelacemuseum.org/workshops.html Halas lace was first made in 1902 in Kiskunhalas, Hungary. Halas…

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13 September 2020

A fibre decision made

A fibre decision has been made. And the choice is… There were many test swatches done and fibres tested until there were three top choices. And then, after some further…

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16 May 2019

The quest for sheen begins

The search for the right fibre for the wedding dress recreation is underway. For the first time ever, I find myself trying to knit with silk in the quest for…

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16 April 2019

Huron Wristers – an update

I was working at finalizing & editing my pattern for the Huron Wristers, a pair of fingerless gloves. Gotta get it ready for a test stitcher or two. Wool is…

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29 July 2020
  • Historic Textiles in Our Local Museums,  Knitting,  museum reproduction

    Wheeler Mitts Knitting Kits available at Huron County Museum

    If you’re a knitter into historically inspired projects, Wheelers Mitts Kit is for you. The Wheeler Mitts Kit is inspired by the Wheeler Gloves, a textile artifact in the collection of the Huron County Museum. Interpreting the pattern on the gloves and using wool from Steele Wool Farm that was dyed at FACTS with their flowers from their garden, the mitts are a beautiful keepsake from Huron County to knit up. To purchase a kit, please email sbolen@stitchrevivalstudio.ca or visit the Huron County Museum Gift Shop soon!

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    22 February 2021

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    19 August 2020

    Nap Mat Sewing Instructions

    11 September 2017
  • Herb Wheeler's Carpentry Shop
    Historic Textiles in Our Local Museums,  Knitting,  museum reproduction,  Needlework,  Needlework History,  Pattern Recreation

    The Huron Wristers: a story of connections part 2

    Continued from The Huron Wristers: a story of connections part 1 Was there a family tie to either Estonia or the British Isles? The answer would help to identify the glove pattern perhaps. When an instagram post by Best Dishes, a Goderich business owned by Sarah Anderson, appeared in my feed one day identifying the wristers pattern as based on a family heirloom, chance had dropped the perfect opportunity. It was time to connect. A couple messages back and forth and the story unfolded… History of the Wheeler Family Sarah as it turns out, is the daughter of Richard Anderson, great-nephew of Herbert Wheeler. Richard sent the following information about…

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    Exploring historic textiles in our local museums

    3 December 2020
    Herb Wheeler's Carpentry Shop

    New knitted mitts kit in the works

    27 December 2021

    Knitting in code

    4 February 2020
  • Historic Textiles in Our Local Museums,  Knitting,  museum reproduction,  Needlework History,  Pattern Recreation

    The Huron Wristers: a story of connections part 1

    The story of the creation of the Huron Wristers is a story of connections: the connection of past to present, of generation to generation. Back in 1972 Pearl Wheeler donated a pair of knitted gloves that once belonged to her husband Herbert to the Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol. The museum’s record notes that at the time the gloves were thought to date from 1870 and were knit by a man. Herbert and Pearl lived in Belgrave, Ontario. Herbert had seven siblings, four brothers and three sisters.  His parents were Charles Wheeler and Mary Ann Wilkinson. Herbert was a carpenter and apparently also the local barber. How long the…

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    Herb Wheeler's Carpentry Shop

    New knitted mitts kit in the works

    27 December 2021

    Blyth Knit & Natter

    19 August 2020

    Knitting in code

    4 February 2020
  • Knitting,  museum reproduction,  Natural dyes,  Needlework History,  Stitching Inspiration

    Stitch some history with the Colours of Huron

    They are done! My very first knitting kit is all put together and ready to be delivered! The Huron Wrister Kit, inspired by history & featuring the ‘Colours of Huron’, will be able at FACTS in Blyth on Friday for the FACTS Forest Exhibit Opening! And, the Huron County Museum will have a small number available for sale on Saturday. It’s so exciting to be able to work with FACTS and Steele Wool Farm on this creative fibre collaboration and to have the encouragement of the Huron County Museum. Planning the Huron Wrister Kit The origin and inspiration for the Huron Wrister lays with the historic textiles in the collection of the…

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    13 September 2020

    Dress of Many Patterns – lace pattern #1

    23 September 2020

    Thank you, Dad, for everything

    30 April 2022
  • fibre dyeing,  Knitting,  museum reproduction,  Needlework History,  Pattern Recreation,  vintage reproduction

    Huron Wristers and the Colours of Huron

    The Blyth History Stitcher is at it again… naturally dyed palette created by FACTS and beautiful wool from Steele Wool Farm, this is definitely a creative fibre collaboration; it’s time for an update on the Huron Wristers. The Huron Wristers Kits are now in production, with the coloured yarn being weighed and divided. The worsted weight wool is from Steele Wool Farm, a Blyth-area fibre producer owned by Margaret Steele. Naturally sourced local dyes, provided by FACTS Blyth, were used to create the palette of the ‘Colours of Huron’. Each kit will have enough wool to knit a pair of medium/large fingerless mitts and will consist of one ball of natural wool (220 yards)…

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    19 March 2021

    Textile art classes at FACTS, Blyth

    13 August 2020

    So many hearts!

    22 January 2020
  • Knitting,  museum reproduction,  Pattern Recreation

    Researching vintage colourwork

    I’ve been doing some research on colourwork patterns and knitting histories and traditions as part of the development of a new pattern, the Huron Wristers. The wristers pattern is based on a pair of lovely knitted gloves in the collection of the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol located in Goderich, Ontario. The museum’s gloves are approximately 100 years old, are knit with wool and are large enough to fit a man’s hands. The pattern is somewhat similar to Sanquhar and Fair Isle colourwork traditions. I went through many a pattern book and magazine, looking for where the pattern may have originated. I’ve come to think that the knitter (said…

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    16 January 2022

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    29 July 2020

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  • wedding dress dated from 1911
    Citizen Science Project,  Knitting,  museum reproduction,  Needlework

    The Dress of Many Patterns – a citizen science project

    Hey, local Huron County stitchers! Would you be interested in a ‘citizen science project’ focusing on needlework history? What would you think of this idea: creating a number of vintage needlework samplers inspired by historic needlework items from the collection of the Huron County Museum in Goderich and then piecing those samplers into a piece of wearable art… a wedding dress?! The wedding dress design will be based on an Edwardian Tea Dress-style dress originally worn by Francis Mason Watson (1890 – 1918) a former resident of Blyth, Ontario. The shawl and dress will be made up of vintage pattern samplers (swatches) based on textile items in the Huron County…

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    3 August 2020

    Thank you, Dad, for everything

    30 April 2022

    Huron Wristers and the Colours of Huron

    21 November 2020
  • Knitting,  museum reproduction,  Needlework,  Pattern Recreation,  Test-Stitchers,  Updates,  vintage reproduction

    Huron Wristers – an update

    I was working at finalizing & editing my pattern for the Huron Wristers, a pair of fingerless gloves. Gotta get it ready for a test stitcher or two. Wool is from Steele Wool Farm . Colourwork is based on a pair of knitted gloves in the collection of Huron County Museum.

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    19 August 2020

    A bit of a website fix-up

    24 August 2021

    FACTS Gallery working session: heirloom patterns Oct. 26 at 1pm

    25 October 2019

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My name is Sharlene, a freelancer, stitcher, and lover of all things needlework & vintage. I enjoy sharing my journey of discovery through stitching history, exploring the connections between needle arts, culture and history.

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