Join us in person or online December 3, 1-2 pm, for “Yarns and Yarns,” an hour of knitting and storytelling on northern islands, when we will be discussing and demonstrating island knitting traditions that focus on mittens. Local knitter Cheryl Wartman will talk about the tradition of making fishing mittens felted in salt water, as told to her by her grandmother Yoston from Launching Place, PEI. Kim Doherty Smith from Fleece and Harmony, a locally sourced wool mill in Belfast, PEI, will answer questions about how they mini mill their yarn from PEI sheep. And Lynda Harling Stalker, from a long line of PEIslanders, will join us online from Antigonish to discuss handknit mitts and islandness.

Knitters bring your knitting and share your current projects and mitten stories! We’ll be gathering at The Gallery Coffee House and Bistro (82 Great George Street, Charlottetown, PEI), or you can join us online.

This is the fourth “Yarns and Yarns” event organized by the Arctic Island Studies Research (NAISR) Thematic Network of the University of the Arctic. Previous in-person and online events were hosted by knitting groups in St. John’s, NL, Uist in Scotland, and Iceland, with over 100 knitters from all over the North Atlantic - and beyond - Zooming in. The Charlottetown event is hosted by the Institute of Island Studies at UPEI.