Tag: Millvale PA

The Steel Valley Yarn Crawl Continues

Two stops today for The Steel Valley Yarn Crawl.

The Pittsburgh Yarn Company

and Yarns by Design in Oakmont

Meet Kristi Howard – Pittsburgh Yarn Company, 
established a year ago

The screen printed bags are by Danielle Clemons – two designs  Yarnivore  and Carpe Filum

SUPPLIES FOR SPINNERS
This holds the yarn when being spun
How fun are these cans of gourmet crochet?
Crochet Animal kits include a hook and are rated in different levels

Yarns by Design in Oakmont Pennsylvania Established in 2006

Meet owner Sandra Donatelli standing by the Woolfolk Yarn display.

Trunk Show Guest Christina Danaee knitting
Knitting Designer Christina Danaee of Ashville NC

Trunk Show guest Christina Danaee  website 

Her book “Modern Heritage Knits will be coming out September 24th. Check out her patterns available on Ravelry.

Steel Valley Yarn Crawl bag  All eleven stores buttons on display at Yarns by Design in Oakmont

Soldotna Crop(Caitlin Hunter Design) expertly knit by Natalie Belmont
Natalie Belmont on left with her best friend
Knitters gather in Yarns by Design
Yarns by Design in Oakmont

*If you missed the first post of the Steel Valley Yarn Crawl see Kathy’s Kreations in Ligonier and McWalker Yarns of Millvale at this link 

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Steel Valley Yarn Crawl Off to a Great Start

August 2- August 11 are the dates to participate in the Steel Valley Yarn Crawl.

It’s not too late to join the Steel Valley Yarn Crawl.   (click for more info)

Here are the two stores I visited today.

There are 11 yarn stores on the “passport” where the yarn crawlers get a stamp and a cute pin to put on the specially printed bag, finishing the center of each of the flowers in the design. Every store has different types of yarns, accessories and supplies for sale.

The bags were/are for sale at each store (if they haven’t already sold out). My friend Vincie and I started the crawl this morning, wending out way out to Ligonier and visiting Kathy’s Kreations  on East Main Street. Thirty nine years in business!   See photos below.

Three Knitters from Altoona were going to ALL eleven yarn stores in a single day!  

Kathy’s Kreations in Ligonier Pennsylvania

Faerie Garden Theme Tinkerbell is all around the store
One of the prize baskets
Yarn to knit up Black and Gold sports team items
Tink is Knit backwards. Tinkerbell and the Faerie Garden Theme at Kathy’s Kreations
Owner Kathy Zimmerman and Karen on the right
Gorgeous samples all around the store
Every Friday morning as many as twenty knitters gather around this table to knit.

How about the detail of this gorgeous dragonfly?

Stop #2__________________________________________

McWalker yarns in Millvale PA

Amy McCall Owner of McWalker Yarns sporting her beautiful Soldotna Crop Sweater designed by Caitlin Hunter
Good Night Steel Valley Yarn Crawl. Extended hours- opening at 8AM in Saturday morning.

McWalkers Yarns just celebrated their first anniversary in April. 

This Yarn Crawler visited FIVE yarn stores the first day!  See her pins on her bag. 

At the end of the day, Friday evening, my daughter Laura drove me (and my grandkids Charlie and Maura) over to Millvale to get in on the extended hours at McWalker Yarns.   I wanted to get a few more photos for the blog to generate some more excitement for the crawl.

Although this is the sixth year for the Steel Valley Yarn Crawl, it’s my first time to join in on the fun.

My grandkids Maura and Charlie pose for a photo at McWalker Yarns in Millvale

Christine and Amy pose in their Steel Valley Yarn Crawl Photo Spot at McWalker Yarns.

Exclusive COLORWAYS at McWalker yarns

Millvale Marigolds by Stitch Party of Millvale
Neighborhood Fiber Company dyes Fireworks Over Pittsburgh for McWalker Yarns
Fibernymph Dye Works in the Laurel Mountains PA

Jes is always ready to help you select yarn and figure out what you need to create your design.  She is a great teacher and a prolific knitter.

 

Fun Tshirts for Knitters
Knitted Wit Yarn is luscious
Come get your photo taken to remember the Steel Valley Yarn Crawl

NEXT STOP  YARNS BY DESIGN In OAKMONT PA

 

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McWalker Yarns in Millvale Celebrates First Anniversary

You might remember my post last April of McWalker Yarns opening in Millvale PA.

Click McWalker Yarns website for class schedules, hours and directions.

Today knitters and friends gathered in the LYS (Local Yarn Shop/Store)  to celebrate the first anniversary.  

 Hospitable, knowledgeable and skilled staff on duty. Owner Amy Walker McCall second from left and Jess, Joanna and Lauren,    Ready to welcome you to McWalker Yarns and assist you in choosing the perfect yarn for the projects you want to create, whether it be knitting, crochet or spinning.

Class schedules, Monthly Knit Alongs and Knitting Community gatherings and events are listed on the website. and on FB page here 

It was a happy celebration with  Chocolate cake and champagne.  Congratulations McWalker Yarns and wishing you many more anniversaries to come. 

 

 

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Man’s Best Friend and Books

The sculpture of the dog with a stack of books on his head has always caught my attention when I drive by the Millvale Community Library.  Tonight Steve  and I walked down Grant Avenue after dinner to see it up close. What an invitation to come inside and find a good book to read.

The artist is Pittsburgh sculptor James Simon and the sculpted dog’s name is Pages.

And how about those magnificent door handles? I know there’s a story there.

Miilvale. Just across the Allegheny River from the city of Pittsburgh. You’ve seen my posts of Panza Gallery, Grant Avenue Bar, McWalker Yarns, Jean-Marc Chatellier Bakery, Tazza D’Oro, bicycle racks and Esthers’s Hobby Shop  -to name a few.

 

Millvale Community Library  213 Grant Avenue   Millvale, Pennsylvania

http://millvalelibrary.org/staff-board/

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McWalker Yarns Hosted a Poetry Reading in Millvale

Thursday evening in Millvale, Amy McCall, owner of McWalker Yarns hosted poets Sheryl St. Germain and her former MFA student at Chatham U, Michael Bennett.

The yarn store was a wonderful backdrop for Sheryl St. Germain’s reading. Surrounded by skeins and skeins of colorful yarn, Sheryl read her powerful essay (from Stitching Resistance:  Women, Creativity and Fiber Arts  edited by Marjorie Agosin). She told of the role crochet has played in her life since childhood, but focusing on how crocheting with yarn helped her cope while parenting a son who was in trouble with alcohol, drugs and the law. She also read poems about her son’s dying of a heroin overdose from her book The Small Door of Your Death.  Her words touched the audience as she described the helplessness and grief, her numbness, as she centered herself every evening after a long day- crocheting an afghan for her son.  The repetition of hook into yarn loops as a meditation, an ease from depression and the stress of hopelessness. A healing.

 

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Pittsburgh native Michael Bennett read his poetry first and opened for Ms. St. Germain.  Michael  has worked for three years with Words Without Walls program, teaching incarcerated Juvenile offenders, teenagers being tried as adults.


Cellist David Bennett and McWalker Yarns supporter introduces the poet and provided delicious desserts  by Millvale Baker Jean-Marc Chatelier


New Orleans native Sheryl St. Germain has published six poetry books, two collections of essays, and co-edited two anthologies. The Small Door of Your Death, a collection of poems about the death of her son from a heroin overdose, appeared in 2018 with Autumn House Press. A forthcoming book, Fifty Miles, is a collection of essays about healing that include a couple of essays about working with yarn. Sheryl directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham University where she also teaches poetry and creative nonfiction, and is co-founder of the Words Without Walls Program . She was named Louisiana Writer of the year in 2018. Sheryl is an avid and accomplished crocheter, and a much less accomplished knitter. See: www.sheryl-stgermain.com/ for more information.

 

Desserts  created  by  Jean-Marc Chatellier French Bakery

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Interesting Sign Across River in Millvale

A six word Saturday.

I’ve not seen one of these before but they make a lot of sense.

This one in front of the police station.

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McWalker Yarns Sweater Challenge Fashion Show

Saturday afternoon McWalker Yarns in Millvale PA hosted the November Sweater Challenge (NaKniSweMo) Fashion Show.

All of the sweaters were made with yarn from McW Y, had at least 50,000 stitches and were knit between 12:01 on 11/1 and midnight 11/30.

Knitters were to wear their sweaters if they knit them for themselves.

One sweater knitter had to be at work today and was unable to attend the fashion show but we’ll try to add a photo.

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Margaret “Maggie” Toth  brought her husband Chris who was modeling the sweater she knit for him – Berocco Man’s Sweater free pattern “Dan”.

She used Cascade ECO yarn– colorway Shire.

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Here’s Lauren Eicher modeling Jamestown Sweater knitty.com by Amy Christoffers 

Yarn Malabrigo Rios “Archangel”

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Christine’s niece Rebecca baked Gingerbread Men cookies sporting Holiday Sweaters IMG_0736

And here is Christine modeling her Free Range Kimono  Corner to Corner Crochet

Pattern by Jess Coppom    Yarn Cascade Wave “Nightshade”

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Christine  standing by the display showing yarn she used for her Free Range Kimono

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Meet Barb McAbe modeling her Sideways sweater designed by Joji Locatelli in Laine Magazine #6  Autumn/Winter 2018    Wow, look at those cables!

She used Shepard’s Wool in the Mint Colorway

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Here is Denise Kaliowski wearing her Kimono Cardigan by Linda DeRuiter

Yarn is Painted Mist in Misty Rainbow (6 skeins)  She made notes that it is very drapey and soft and she loves the colors.  We did too.

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Amy McCall (owner of McWalker Yarns) knit Selenity by Annie Rowden Laine Magazine #6   Yarn  Scout Colorway Blue Heather

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Photographed by Amy McCall

Yarn-   Lore by The Fibre Company (Earthy colorway) and Sunflower Heather is by Scout 

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Aimee Benswanger cheered us all on as we modeled our sweaters and here she is with her Entrelac Scarf  www.frecklesandpurls.com  Berocco Remix  Colorway Pool

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Denise is working a baby hat

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Already onto the next sweater. Amy McCall inspired us to complete our November sweaters.  We had a fun afternoon. The challenge produced a lot of creativity and camaraderie.   Amy gave us all a sheet of Temporary Knitting Tattoos for participating.

There was a grand prize drawing for a $50 store credit and the ticket was drawn by a Sock Club member.  I was fortunate to win so am planning my next sweater to start AFTER Christmas.

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Panza Gallery a Perfect Host

The show is over but I wanted to share a good portion of it online for those who weren’t able to come to the gallery.

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Neonatal Nurse storyboard with grandson Charlie

FLowers from cousin Chris
Sylvia Ruth and Bev
Bernie Pintar Ceramicist
Friends Tand Family
Patrick Moore and Joaquin Navarro
My sister Mary
Toni D joins Sylvia and Bev
Greg an Friends
Grrenfield School Coworkers
Roy Tucker Professional Bartender

FLowers from cousin Chris
Bernie Pintar Ceramicist
Sylvia Ruth and Bev
Friends Tand Family
Patrick Moore and Joaquin Navarro
My sister Mary
Toni D joins Sylvia and Bev
Greg an Friends
Greg Mutinelli
Grrenfield School Coworkers
Roy Tucker Professional Bartender
Jack and Tookie Teacher
The Murphy Women
Germaine Watkins
Erin and karen
Tom Underiner and Mary Ellen
Deb Lieberman and famiy
Photographed by Germaine
Ruth and Mary photographed by Germaine
The boys get acquainted
End of the night by Joanne B

Greg Mutinelli
Jack and Tookie Teacher
The Murphy Women
Germaine Watkins
Friends and family
Erin and karen
Tom Underiner and Mary Ellen
Deb Lieberman and famiy
Photographed by Germaine
Ruth and Mary photographed by Germaine
The boys get acquainted
End of the night by Joanne B

Button Store Proprietor
Artist
Hot Dog King
Horticulturist
Milliner
Photography Teacher Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild
Caricaturist
US Navy Pilot
Balloon Artist
Sports Photographer
Pittsburgh Public School Security Officer
Balloon Artist Little Italy Days
Chimney Sweeps
Italian Grocery Proprietor
Piano Tuner
Funnel Cake Truck Owner
Delores Sweet Shop Owner
Vintage Clothing Specialist
Butcher
Yarn Store Owner
Barber

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Father Dave Urban

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Carpentry Teacher. Nephrologist

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Sophia at Ritter’s

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Cotton Candy Vendor

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Dwayne Dolphin Trio

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Funnel Cake Truck Owner
Delores Sweet Shop Owner
Vintage Clothing Specialist
Italian Grocery Proprietor
Chimney Sweeps
Balloon Artist Little Italy Days
Pittsburgh Public School Security Officer
Balloon Artist
US Navy Pilot
Caricaturist
Photography Teacher Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild
Milliner
Horticulturist
Hot Dog King
Artist
Button Store Proprietor

Yarn Store Owner
Butcher
Caricaturist
US Navy Pilot
Balloon Artist
Sports Photographer
Pittsburgh Public School Security Officer
Balloon Artist Little Italy Days
Chimney Sweeps
Italian Grocery Proprietor
Vintage Clothing Specialist
Delores Sweet Shop Owner
Photography Teacher Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild
Milliner
Horticulturist
Hot Dog King
Artist
Button Store Proprietor
Funnel Cake Truck Owner
Piano Tuner

Carpentry Teacher. Nephrologist
River Rescue
Dwayne Dolphin Trio
Gigapan Operators. Baker
Pizza Shop Manager
Father Dave Urban
PNC Park Field Groomers
Cotton Candy Vendor
Orthodox Priest
Zamboni
Alaska Railroad Conductor
Sophia at Ritter’s
Tree Expert

Shillelagh Maker

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River Rescue
Barber

The Family gathered in July 14th

Family by Andrew Wagner
Photo by Andrew Wagner
Michael and FF Marlene
Anna with her portrait
ERika and her mom
Uncle Frank and Aunt Linda with Anna Maura and Michael and Jack
Taken by Andrew Wagner
Photo by Mark McG
Photo by granddaughter Anna
Photo by Aunt Linda

Family by Andrew Wagner
Photo by Andrew Wagner
Michael and FF Marlene
Anna with her portrait
ERika and her mom
Uncle Frank and Aunt Linda with Anna Maura and Michael and Jack
Photo by granddaughter Anna
Taken by Andrew Wagner
Photo by Mark McG
Photo by Aunt Linda
Uncle Dan HVAC Specialist

Vintage Car Restorer
All the way from FL

 

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Tessaro’s Storyboard

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Vintage Car Restorer
All the way from FL

 

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Sports Photographer

The Closing was July 27th

Mary Thomas’ article in the Post-Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2018/07/25/Ruth-Hendricks-People-at-Work-Panza-Gallery-Eric-Crosby-Andy-Warhol-Foundation-fellowship-Eric-Shiner/stories/201807180009

 

Tawyna Panizzi article in the Trib

https://triblive.com/local/hamptonshaler/13790388-74/retired-pittsburgh-teachers-people-at-work-photos-on-display-in-millvale

Printing done by Tom Underiner of Pixel River Images

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