Crooked River Knitting Guild Newsletter

February 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: February 22, 2010

Program: – KAREN WIEBUSCH WILL BE DEMONSTRATING THE CROCHET CAST-ON AND THE EASIEST MOEBIUS CAST-ON EVER!

Material List for those who would like to make the Bulky Moebius Cowl  (one skein, one night project = great gift and cowls are very "in" this year)

Yarn: 1 skein Malabrigo Rasta or Cascade Magnum;  or approx. 90 yds bulky weight yarn plus at least 4 yds. smooth waste yarn of similar weight but different color

Tools:

- US17 (15 will work)  40 or 47inch circular needle 

- large crochet hook - K or L

- one large marker

NOTE: IF YOU JUST WANT TO LEARN THE CAST-ONS, YOU CAN USE ANY YARN, WASTE YARN AND APPROPRIATE SIZE (long, circular) NEEDLE AND CROCHET HOOK.

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:

As was mentioned and discussed last month, we were supposed to have a joint meeting with the Grindstone Knitting Guild.  At the request of a couple of members and with the consent of the Grindstone Knitting Guild the joint meeting has been postponed.  The June meeting will now be the joint meeting with the Grindstone members.  In its place, Karen Wiesbusch will be showing us 2 cast ons for a Moebius Cowl, and then showing/teaching us how to make the cowl.  If we are not able to get everyone up to speed at this meeting, we will continue the program in March.  The supply list was included (in an earlier e-mail) if you care to take part in this project.  It can be a guild KAL. 

We also talked last month about various programs and topics.  If there is a program/topic you would like to see the guild cover at a meeting, please let us know.  Along that same line, if there is something that you can/would be willing to teach or show the members, please let us know. 

Listed below are items that had appeared on members previous membership forms.  Please let us know if any of these are topics you would like to see as a program.  Whether or not we can do it will depend on if we can find someone to teach that topic.  The items are listed in no particular order.  Please mark them in your order of preference.

Please tear off this portion to turn in------------------------------------------------------------

____Finishing                                               _____Different Edgings

____Blocking techniques                            _____Reversible cables

____Lace knitting                                         _____Color work/2 color knitting

____Cables/fixing cables                            _____New stitches

____Magic loop                                            _____Chart reading

____Entrelac                                                 _____Double knitting

____Design/drafting/adjusting patterns     _____Buttonholes

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 March 11, 2011. 

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. 

A Knitter's Fantasy 2011 will be April 9 at Chaney High School.  More details to come!

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