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Crooked River
Knitting Guild Newsletter August 2010Regular 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.
Please
note that meetings will no longer be held at the Renaissance!!
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: August 24, 2010 Intro to
Continental Knitting with guest instructor Margaret Halas Please
bring worsted yarn and appropriate sized needles as well as two stitch markers,
preferably in different colors. UPCOMING
GUILD PROGRAMS September
– Intarsia/Fair Isle a lecture/discussion lead by Jean Nicholls October
– Knitter’s Hand, Arm and Elbow Injuries with guest instructor Chris Jordan November
– Christmas Party We
originally planned to have one meeting set aside for charity knitting. Since we
have programs scheduled for the balance of the year, I believe that during the
September and October if you want to knit while the program is going on I would
like to suggest that it be for charity. We
will have yarn and patterns available. The items made will be collected and given to the Mitten Tree
that the church has at Christmas time. MEMBERSHIP: WELCOME to
our new member, Royanne Miller, who has so graciously accepted the task of handling
our door prize items till they are gone. Royanne is a friend of Marion
DeBrosse. Thanks, Marion, for your help in bringing a new member to the
guild. Remember
for your efforts, Marion's and anyone else's, you will be rewarded with a $5
Panera gift card. 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: As you may
or may not know, we are not paying anything to use the church’s facilities for
our meetings. They help stock a
food pantry in North Olmsted. As a
way to say Thank You for the use of their facility, the board is asking each
member to bring an item to each meeting to help them stock the food pantry.
Each month the church collects different items.
In August, they are collecting breakfast items that ARE NOT cereal.
To plan ahead, September’s collection will be for toiletry items, i.e.
toothpaste, deodorant and in October they will be collecting paper products,
i.e. paper towels, napkins, tissues and also, school supplies. That is the list for now.
We will let you know what future months are as they become available. Just
a reminder (for those of you who have not paid yet), dues are now due.
They are $15 and checks can be made payable to CRKG. Cash will, also, be
accepted at the meeting. HERITAGE
DAYS Grand
Pacific Junction in Olmsted Township will be holding their Heritage Days August
19 – 22. We have been asked by
Yarn Knit by Sue if we would like to participate.
After further consideration, Friday is not as good a day as we thought.
We have changed the date we will be there to Sunday, August 22 from noon
– 4. Hopefully some of you who
could not make it on Friday can come and help us on Sunday.
We ill be teaching people how to knit and telling them about the Guild.
Materials to teach people to knit will be supplied by Yarn Knit by Sue.
We will have information on the Guild to pas out as well.
If need be, we will be able to respite from the heat (if it is to warm)
or rain (if we should be so lucky) in the downstairs of Yarn Knit by Sue.
Or out on their back patio which is somewhat protected. The hours
for Heritage Days are: Thursday,
August 19 6PM – 10PM Friday,
August 20 10AM – 10PM Saturday,
August 21 10AM – 10PM Sunday,
August 22 11AM – 6PM
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 September 10, 2010. 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. 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: The Witty
Knitters Knitting Guild (of Warren or Youngstown) is sponsoring a bus trip to
Rhinebeck, New York for the Sheep & Wool Festival held there annually.
The bus trip will be October 15 – 17.
For additional information, contact Jacquie Thomas at JThomas55@neo.rr.com.
Her phone number is 330-856-2208 (home) or 330-219-6785 (cell). Soft ‘n
Sassy will be holding a retreat October 1 – 3 at the Inn at Honey Run.
For more information and details contact Soft ‘n Sassy by phone
440-746-9650 or e-mail softnsassy@ymail.com. The annual
Sheepover sponsored by Knit Wit Knits in Salem, OH will be October 8 and 9 at
the Dutch Village Inn in Columbiana, OH. Cost
is $165 and includes lodging, meals except Friday lunch and workshops.
Part of the activities include a before hours sale at the store on
Saturday morning. The Sheepover
officially starts after lunch on Friday and lasts till late Saturday afternoon. Most people start arriving late Friday morning.
For more information or a registration form contact Kay at 330-337-5648
or knitwit@raex.com.
It is a wonderful weekend if you have never gone October
9-11, 2010: 14th Annual Craft as Art Festival, Nassau County Museum of
Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. Details at www.craftsatlincoin.org.
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