Crooked River Knitting Guild Newsletter

January  2011

Regular meetings are the 4^th 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!!

NOTE: Meetings will be cancelled due to bad weather if the North Olmsted Schools are closed.

Next Meeting: January 25, 2010

Program: –Charity Knitting with the Experts; if you have a question or problem as it relates to your knitting, ask it and we will try to answer it for you and give you some other suggestions; at this meeting.

Also, we would like to have another silent auction to raise money for the guild. So bring in anything knitting related that you are willing to part with. 

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.

Knit-bits from the President:

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, safe and healthy New Year I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kelly, Marilyn, Janet and Bernie for all their hard work on our wonderful Christmas party.  Your efforts were greatly appreciated.  The favors, door prizes and centerpieces were wonderful.  I do hope that everyone who attended the Christmas party had a good time and enjoyed the food, favors and door prizes. 

Out of curiosity, has anyone knit any of the patterns that were included with your favor?  By the way, I am only finally working on my own dishcloth know as I prepare my words for this newsletter.  I have knit several of them but have given them all away.  I am working on another Christmas design for this year.

It was good to see you again, Meredith.  Hope it fits into your schedule so that you will be able to join us for more meetings.  Along that same line I would like to welcome Stephanie back.  Sorry to hear about your mishap but glad that you are better now.

Our charity project recipients for this year will be the church and Blessing House.  There is an ongoing need at the church for the items that we knit.  If you would like to bring an item(s) for the church’s pantry they are collecting canned vegetables this month.  If anyone is interested, the church, also, needs stuffed animals/bears dressed.  The animals have a message attached and are shared with their ill and shut-in members.

Our programs for the beginning of next year are:

January –Charity Knitting with the Experts; if you have a question or problem as it relates to your knitting, ask it and we will try to answer it for you and give you some other suggestions; at this meeting, also, we would like to have another silent auction to raise money for the guild. So bring in anything knitting related that you are willing to part with. 

February – Joint meeting with the Grindstone Knitting Guild.  Location has not been worked out yet.  If we can get the big room, it will be here.  Otherwise, it will be where they have their meetings which are a week earlier than ours.  They meet at the Mahler Museum in Berea.  More details later.

As noted above, at this month’s meeting we will be having a silent auction to raise money for the guild.  If you have craft related items you no longer want, bring them to the meeting and we will put them up for auction.

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 Febuary 11, 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!

EVENTS:

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.  Plus, you get a wonderful goodie bag when you check in.  The membership is only $10 and is well worth it when you see what you get in the goodie bag.