Canadian Guild of Knitters
Cynthia MacDougall
 Knitwear Designer - Hand
Mail Order
Magazine Publisher
Canadian Guild of Knitters was formed to provide information and education to knitters.
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The colours of Canadian Guild of Knitters are blue and yellow or gold: blue representing the seas and skies that embrace Canada, and golden yellow representing the sun, growth, optimism and the wealthy knitting tradition of Canada.
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From 2002-2009 Canadian Guild of Knitters published a magazine called Knit Together. In the Fall of 2009 Canadian Guild of Knitters teamed up with A Needle Pulling Thread to offer its members a larger, full-colour Canadian publication with information about knitting and other crafts. Knit Together lives on in the form of Cynthia's technical knitting articles in A Needle Pulling Thread.
Canadian Guild of Knitters launched the Knitting Accreditation Program in 2005. This comprehensive five-level knitting program is available exclusively to members of Canadian Guild of Knitters. Canadian Guild of Knitters now has several workshops available to give to groups: a creativity workshop for crafters who work with any media, and three shawl workshops that can be given independently or as a series. Workshops about steeking and twisted stitches are being developed to tie in with the Knitting Accreditation Program. For more information, please visit the Canadian Guild of Knitters' website.
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Cynthia knitted the sweater she is wearing
and the shawl in the background. The knitting
in her hands is a Baby Surprise Jacket
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Cynthia MacDougall is the principal of Canadian Guild of Knitters. Her grandmother taught her to knit when she was young, and in her late teens Cynthia took up the needles in earnest.
In the early 1990s she studied spinning in order to learn more about yarn construction. This led to a passing interest in weaving, but knitting remains her first craft love.
Cynthia has been a knitter for over 30 years, and she enjoys providing this service to both knitters and retailers. Her knitting articles have been published in such Canadian craft publications as Fibre Focus, the magazine of the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners.
Her first published design, a mystery afghan, was made available through a Canadian website in 2000. Her lace bookmark design, Snow Falling on Cedars, was published in the premier issue of Knit Together, and her Mariposa Blocks design was featured in the Leisure Arts publication Kids' Knitted Sweaters & More: Over 30 projects by Cabin Fever Designers. Cynthia continues to create new designs.
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Her first designs for A Needle Pulling Thread are the River Rib Toque and Boot Toppers. She is particularly fond of lace work and shawls, and has numerous shawl designs percolating in her notebooks and on the needles.
Cynthia enjoys other forms of writing, too. She recently completed her first, yet-to-be-published children's story.
For more information about Canadian Guild of Knitters please visit our website.
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Canadian Guild of Knitters' booth as it looked just before the doors opened at the 2003 Kitchener-Waterloo Knitters' Fair
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Cynthia MacDougall
Canadian Guild of Knitters
PO Box 20262
Barrie, ON, L4M 6E9, Canada
Telephone: 1-705-722-6495
Toll Free: 1-866-CGK-KNIT (245-5648)
E-mail: cynthia@CGKnitters.ca
Website: www.CGKnitters.ca
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