“One Thumb, Four Fingers – The Creative Hands of EHS”

In the Parkview Gallery (formerly Hallway Gallery) at Neilson Park Creative Centre, March 31 to April 27, 2025.

This year’s show includes a showcase of mittens created in response to last year’s guild challenge, asking members to spin yarn for, and then knit, weave, felt, or otherwise create a mitten.

All photographs by Patti Wibe.

Carole Gay – Time for Dinner

4 woven napkins. Pictured with a band woven by Elizabeth Evans.

Cathie Dowell – Circular Cowl

Silk/Linen/Baby Alpaca

Cathie Dowell – Shawlography

Semi circle shawl. Yarns used used were remnants from other knitting projects.

Cathie Dowell – Study in Purple

Wool and miscellaneous art yarns and fibres from stash

Cathie Dowell – Veter Triangular Shawl

Wool and mohair

Cathie Dowell – Watery Vortex (asymmetrical triangular shawl)

Hand spun Merino wool

Cindy O’Malley – Cochineal Rodeo

Warp: 80/20 Wool/Nylon, Weft: 55/23/22 Kid Mohair/Merino Wool/Nylonv

Cindy O’Malley – Colour Play Wrap

Hand dyed wool

Cindy O’Malley – Frankenfibres

Warp: Icelandic Wool, Recycled Yarns, Weft: Mohair

Cindy O’Malley – Mustache

Warp: 80/20 Tencel/Wool, Acrylic, Weft: 55/40/5 Acrylic/Polyester/Nylon

Debbie Law – Dragon Mitten and Knight Gauntlet

Wool Silk, Metalic Thread, Metal Buttons. Wet/Needle Felted Handspun Knit Mittens

Debbie Law – Guilded Fairy (view 1)

Wool, Silk, Alpaca, Kapok fibres, Wood. 11 Guild members contributed materials. Wet/Needle/Nuno Felted 3 dimensional female form sculpture

Debbie Law – Guilded Fairy (view 2)

Wool, Silk, Alpaca, Kapok fibres, Wood. 11 Guild members contributed materials. Wet/Needle/Nuno Felted 3 dimensional female form sculpture

Elizabeth Evans – Mini Mitts

Diane Martin – Tallula’s Hearts

Dyed, handspun wool

Diane Martin – What about Thumbs

Dorothy Thomson – Inlayed Jewels

Tencel

Dorothy Thomson – Woven Scarf

Tencel

Elena Koneva – Sheep Puppets

Wet felted. Wool and fleece.

Elena Koneva – Spring Bulbs

Tulips: Merino wool, wire, and stone Snowdrops: Merino wool, wire

Elizabeth Evans – Ontario Farmed Fibre Shawl

Made from handspun yarn, using fibres farmed in Ontario

Elizabeth Evans – Quechchemitl Shawl (networked twill)

Elizabeth Evans – Quechchemitl Shawl (summer and winter)

8 shaft Summer and Winter

Elizabeth Evans – Tablet Woven Band

Pattern: Cowberry band by Sonja Berlin based on Norwegian tradition

Helen Skelton – Krokbragd 1

3/8 Jaggerspun merino heather yarn and 4/8 cotton

Helen Skelton – Krokbragd 2

3/8 Jaggerspun merino heather yarn and 4/8 cotton

Karen Bota – Newfoundland Trigger Finger Mittens

Saltwater Mittens Pattern – Spring Ice. Ladies size Medium (Roughly). Knitted from Briggs and Little wool.

Karen Fowler – Playful Shawl

Acrylic, wool and mystery yarn. Using supplementary warp and weft.

Karen Fowler – Scarf

Knitted from handspun wool.

Karen Fowler – Shadow Weave Tea Towels

Lori Bond – Pointed Twill Scarf

Maura Leahy – A Peaceful Summer Day

Maura Leahy – Autumn Glory at Our Cabin

Maura Leahy – Pretty in Purple

Tam and neckwarmer set

Members of EHS – 2024 Sheep To Shawl

The shawl woven by EHS’s team at the 2024 Royal Winter Fair Sheep to Shawl competition. The warp uses natural wool colours, dyed with madder.

Members of EHS – Dyeing with Madder Sheep

Needle-felted sheep made by EHS Members for the display table at the 2024 Royal Winter Fair Sheep to Shawl Competition

Members of EHS – Mitten Challenge Results

Susan Lapell – Candy

“I really HATE knitting dolls etc., so I figure my brain was addled during the pandemic, when I fell in love with Susan Hickson’s little tearoom bears [and other creatures], along with their wardrobes on Ravelry. Mine is Candy Bear. She sat unfinished for over 2 years until about a month ago when I finally decided to give her a face and sew all the pieces together. When I bring her home she’ll get her tee shirt, shoes, and perhaps a bag over her shoulder.”