RANGELEY — The women of the Rangeley region will show their knit, crochet and craft talents at the 14th knit and crafts show and sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 17, at the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum on Route 16, one mile east of Rangeley. Admission is free.

Celebrating the creativity of Maine fiber artists, the show will also introduce visitors to the history of knitting in the logging woods of the region. The museum also invites people to bring their current knit and craft projects.

Margaret Yezil of Oquossoc will offer a variety of handmade items such as fanciful moose and Christmas items. Quilter April Grant, knitter Daria Babbitt and rug hooker and braider Arbeth “Petie” Coffren will attend, along with several friends from the Salem area. They will offer free demonstrations and lessons to museum visitors. Knit goods fashioned by the ladies of the Church of the Good Shepherd will be available, as will afghans donated to the museum by Barbara Priest.

On display will be the museum’s exhibit on knitting in the timberwoods of Maine, “Hand in Hand: Logging and Knitting,” with gloves worn by local loggers as well as a pair of gray woolen double-thumb mittens from New Brunswick. Worn by woodsmen, the unique mittens made by thrifty women could be turned over and used on the other side once the palm-side had been worn out. Many of the museum’s photography exhibits also show the sweaters and mittens made by women, and sometimes mended by men, that were used in the logging camps.

The Rangeley region also has a colorful knitting story to tell. Many of its native daughters, such as Lucille Haley Richard, Virginia Haley White and Bertha Lamb Haines, began knitting as girls, and some cared for and dressed the dolls their mothers made for them. The exhibit “Knit by Heart: The Art of Lucille Richard (1926-2006)” honors this knitter who also founded the museum event.

Also on display will be sweaters knitted by Gladys Yocom Metka for the Guidepost Magazine project “Knit For Kids,” that sends sweaters to children in need in the United States, Romania, Turkey and throughout the world. Ecopelagicon, the nature store in Rangeley, will bring books about knitting, crafts and textile arts.

The museum invites knitters, crocheters and other crafters who would like to include their handiwork in the show and sale to call Peggy Yocom at 864-3421.

The Logging Museum is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday in July and August, and by appointment by calling President Ron Haines at 864-5551 or Vice President Steve Richard at 864-5595. The Logging Festival, celebrating its 30th year, will be held Friday and Saturday, July 23 and 24.