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Crooked River Knitting Guild Newsletter May 2011Regular meetings are the 4th Tuesday of every
month except December. Meetings
begin at 7:00 pm. Knitters of every
skill and level are welcome, as well as those who would like to learn.
Meetings
are held at the North Olmsted United Methodist Church on Dover Center Road, near
Lorain Road, N. Olmsted, OH. (Look for the large green water tower).
There is plenty of parking in the back. We are in Rooms 6 and 7.
Please use the back (Office) door, not the side one!! Next
Meeting: May 24, 2010 Kool
Aid Dying Demo with Vicki Birchenough June
Meeting – Combined meeting with Grindstone Knitting (see end of newsletter for
a map). MEMBERSHIP: At meetings, please remember to sign in and take a raffle
ticket for the monthly drawing. There
is a separate sign in sheet for visitors. Please
make sure any guests sign in as well. Marilyn
McCarthy (440) 331-1608, msm1936@sbcglobal.net Kathy
Nehrenz (216) 941-8714, kathyiscrafty@sbcglobal.net Our Guild is chapter #187 of The Knitting Guild
Association. Members are
encouraged, but not required, to join. The dues for TKGA are $30.00
a year, $54.00 for two years, and include a years’ subscription to Cast-On
Magazine, and mailings about National and Regional meetings; and they offer a master
knitter program for hand and machine knitters. If you are interested contact the TKGA at www.TKGA.com
or call 1-740-452-4541. DON”T
FORGET!! DUES ARE NOW DUE FOR NEXT YEAR!! Service We’ve had a request for people to make chemo caps.
Please bring donations to any meeting.
Knit-bits from the President: I would
like to thank Jean for our wonderful program last month.
I am sorry I was not prepared. However,
it was a very informative program. This
month’s program will be on Kool Aid Dying.
It will only be a DEMO. We will NOT actually
be doing any dying. The program
will be presented by Vicki Birchenough of the Grindstone Knitters Guild. June will
be our joint meeting with the Grindstone Knitting Guild.
The meeting will be at the Mahler Museum in Berea.
Their meeting starts at 7PM. There
is a brief program scheduled along with the meeting.
The address for the museum is 118 E. Bridge St in Berea.
It is at the corner of E. Bridge St. & Coe.
I read the
church’s newsletter for April and could not find in there where it told what
they wanted specifically for next month. There
was mention of the tuna fish but that was for last month.
As mentioned previously, paper products are always needed.
Whether it be paper towels, napkins, toilet paper or tissues.
These items are always needed and will not go bad. Please
continue to pray for Suzanne King. She
is home and has begun her radiation treatments. Also, please remember Patti Gell in your prayers as well.
While on a very special trip abroad (in part to Austria & Vienna) she
broke her hip. As of this writing
she is still abroad waiting to come back to a hospital stateside.
There is all kinds of little things and big things to be worked out
before she can make the trip back. One
suggestion for anyone, especially older people, when traveling abroad make sure
you get medical insurance for the trip. Travel
insurance for the trip is not a bad idea either. Start your
spring cleaning now. At our picnic
in July, we will have a silent auction to raise money for the guild.
So go through your stash of yarn, books and patterns and see if there is
anything you are willing to part with. If
there is, bring it for the auction. What
you are not going to use maybe just what someone else is looking for. Newsletter: Please email Meredith
Dreshar with any information that you would like included in the
newsletter. The deadline to get news into the next Guild
newsletter is June 16, 2011. If you have changed your e-mail
please let Meredith know. The
newsletter is posted every month on the Guild’s web site, along with past
issues of the newsletter. Lee
Ann Shollenberger is our WEB Master.
To access the Crooked River Knitting Guild web site
click on this link: http://crookedriverknitters.tripod.com
Hey! Guess What!! We have a Ravelry
group set up for quick comments, questions, whatever. Look for
"Crooked River Knitting Guild" here.
To sign up for Ravelry, simply go to the site and request an invitation.
Once you receive your email, simply follow the link.
For those that don’t know what Ravelry is, it’s a community for knitters, crocheters, designers,
spinners, and dyers, to find out about different yarns, patterns, tools, etc.
And best of all IT’S FREE! LYS
Happenings: Soft n’
Sassy is
celebrating their 7th year in business anniversary this month and you are
invited to celebrate with us!!!!
For every $10 you spend now through Thursday,
June 2 you will be entered in our weekly drawing to
win fabulous gifts. We will continue celebrating through our Deck Opening Party
on June 2 from 6 - 8 p.m. Celebrate with
refreshments, balloons, drawings, music, face painting for the kids,
complimentary massages, and more surprises.
A great yarn store if you haven’t checked it out: Cornerstone
Yarns 4663 W.
Streetsboro Rd (Rt. 303)
The store is at the corner of Rt. 303 & Rt. 176 (Broadview Rd) Richfield,
OH 44286 330-659-2669 An email I
received from them said in stock sock yarn was 20% off if you mentioned the
email during the month of May! Hours:
M, T, F 11 - 5; W 1 – 5; Th
11 – 7; Sat 10 – 4 www.cornerstoneyarns.com River Colors Studio currently has a Malabrigo Trunk Show!!
I believe it will be there till May 28 (not positive on this).
Stop buy and check out this
huge collection of sweaters made out of Malabrigo yarns. EVENTS: The Great
Lakes Fiber Show is May 28-29. They
have several classes and tons of venders. For
more info, visit http://www.greatlakesfibershow.com/LR/ Stitch
n’ Pitch with the Cleveland Indians is June 6.
Come watch our first place Indians take on the Minnisota Twins.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased from Soft n’ Sassy or by
contacting Becky Emery at 216-420-4152 (bemery@indians.com).
Additional local Stich n’s Pitches are being held July 24 with the Lake
County Captians and Aug. 1 with the Lake Erie Crushers.
For more info visit www.stitchnpitch.com.
For those
of you might be interested, there should be information appearing soon on the
Knitter’s Connection (KC) website – www.knittersconnection.com.
The Knitter’s Connection will be June 15 – 19 at the Columbus
Convention Center. For those of you
who have not gone, it is a very nice gathering.
The classes are very good with many known instructors.
The market maybe small but you can still do some damage there.
They are trying to have some unique and different things.
Items you may not be able to get at your LYS.
The other nice feature about KC is that it is close.
If you are a member, you will receive notification via e-mail and will be
able to register for classes early. There
is no membership this year, and only students will receive goodie bags. Woolfest
at Lake Metroparks Farmpark is June 25-26, with workshops running June 23-26.
Workshop registration starts April 4.
More info can be found at http://www.lakemetroparks.com/programs/woolfest.shtml TKGA’s
Knit & Crochet Shows are coming up. The
first one is Minneapolis, MN July 29 – 31 with classes beginning on the 27th.
It is at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis.
Their other show is September 23 – 25 with classes beginning on the 21st.
The second one is at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro,
NC. For more information check out
their website www.knitandcrochetshow.com The
first Crooked
River Fiber Fling is Aug 4 – 7 in Pennisula, OH.
The Fiber CAFÉ group of the Peninsula Art Academy is proud to announce
the first CROOKED RIVER FIBER FLING. Many fiber-focused events as well as family
activities are planned throughout the community.
Thursday and Friday
include fiber workshops, as well as the Wearable Art Show Friday
evening. Saturday
and Sunday include vendor booths with sales
of fiber related materials and fine handmade gifts, demonstrations, kids
activities, hands on activities, animal demonstrations, and more workshops.
Also planned are demonstrations on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad
and dog-herding demonstrations at the Spicy Lamb.
Early Workshop Registration is Open to Peninsula Art Academy
Members only April 20
- May 20, 2011 with
Registration opening to the General Public May 21, 2011.
For more info, visit http://www.fibercafe.org/. More
events to come!! Newsletter ArchivesMay, 2010June, 2010July, 2010August, 2010September, 2010October, 2010November, 2010January, 2011February, 2011March, 2011April, 2011
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