Next Guild Meeting – Tuesday, May 4th
Apr 29th, 2010 by daveyknits
Hello everyone,
Our next meeting is Tuesday, May 4th. We will be announcing the winners of the 2010 Excellence in Knitting awards, and holding our annual election.
May’s meeting program is on Problem Solving. If you have any thorny issues or burning questions about a knitting technique that’s stumping you, please email them in ahead of the meeting (or post them on our ravelry group) and someone in the Guild is sure to know the answer! Also, feel free to bring in a project that’s stumping you. We’ll share ideas and resources for taming your troubled knits.
If you like to knit in the round, have you ever gotten that annoying “jump” when you change colors, so that your nice stripes don’t match up so nicely? Our own Cristi Brockway will conduct a mini-seminar on mastering the “jogless stripe” to help you solve that particular problem. If you care to try it during the meeting, prepare ahead of time as follows:
You’ll need 2 colors of yarn in a similar weight, and your favorite needles for knitting in the round (two circs, magic loop, or DPNs). Cast on in the round (any number of stictches that are comfortable), and join without twisting. Knit 2 rows in color A, 2 rows in color B, 2 rows in A, 2 more in B. That will be your basis for the technique.
In other news:
We continue to knit for the Florence Crittenden home. This time of year, we’re told, donations tend to slow down, so we came up with the idea of knitting or crocheting little flowers that can be made into pins for the women at Crittenden for Mother’s Day. This is coming up really soon – Sunday, May 9 – but if you have a few moments of spare time before the May meeting, please consider making a little flower or two and bring them along to the meeting, We’ll provide pins and make sure they get to the ladies by Mother’s Day.
Here are some free patterns for your convenience:
Knitting:http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/flowers.php — try the Flower (rose) pin or Rose Corsage
Crocheting:http://www.allcrafts.net/crochet/crochetflowers.htm — we liked “Crochet Flower” (the first one listed), the Crocheted Rosette and the Pansy.
One more thing — SAVE THE DATE for WorldWide Knit in Public Day on Saturday June12! More details to come.
Davey Roberson
Guild Board Elections
Apr 29th, 2010 by daveyknits
The Charlotte Knitting Guild is a member run organization. It’s time to pick the members who will serve on the board at our May meeting. We’re still looking for members to fill the following positions — President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary/web committee chair, charity chair and special events chair (duties are listed below). Please consider nominating yourself or nominate someone you know. Terms are for one year, starting in June. Any person may hold office after having been a paid member for sixty days. Nominations can be sent to us – Cristi Brockway (prostiturtle AT gmail DOT com or Rachel Eldridge (racheldridge AT hotmail DOT com)
President — shall preside at all meetings of the organization and of the Executive Committee, shall appoint the chairmen of all standing and special committees with approval of the Executive Committee, and shall perform all other duties usually pertaining to the office.
Vice-President — Shall coordinate, with the assistance of the Executive Committee, the programs that take place during the monthly meetings of the organization. By the September meeting, shall survey the members present to find topics of interest and volunteers who would like to present programs. Shall preside at all meetings in the absence of the President.
Treasurer — Shall receive, hold and account for all monies, shall keep a proper account thereof and prepare a statement of account, and shall submit a monthly report to the membership at the monthly meeting.
Secretary — Shall take minutes of all meetings. Shall answer inquiries about the organization received by phone, letter, email or website. Shall carry out all necessary correspondence to foster and encourage membership enrollment. Shall send email notices of upcoming meetings.
Web Committee — shall organize and maintain the Charlotte Knitting Guild website
Charity Chair — shall organize selected service projects for the community
Special Events chair — shall organize special events such as the retreat, World Wide Knit in Public Day, workshops in conjunction with a committee
Next Guild Meeting – Tuesday April 6th
Apr 2nd, 2010 by daveyknits
Hello everyone,
We will be moving forward with last month’s scheduled program. We have a very special HANDS ON program brought to you by Debbie Davis, owner of The Fibre Studio at Yarns to Dye For: SOCK YARN DYEING! Yes, this is your chance for some hands on dyeing fun. Come ready to play with colors and spacing…and Debbie has very generously offered to take the yarns we dye, set them, and bring them back next month all ready for you to keep at NO CHARGE TO YOU! (The Knitting Guild is picking up the tab!)
One favor – if you plan to attend, please try to send an email to Jet, our VP, at seekritknitster@gmail.com so she can let Debbie know approximately how many kits to bring. Let her know by NOON on TUESDAY. Also Debbie asks that you wear old clothes that you don’t mind getting dye on.
We will also be collecting submissions for the Excellence In Knitting Awards at this meeting. Please bring your submissions as we would love celebrate your handmade projects!
The meeting, as usual, is at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211. Park on the Sardis Road side & go in the covered entrance. Turn right through the rotunda to find the stairs or elevator, go to the second floor and take the short flight of stairs to the upstairs parlor.
Show and tell will be from 6-7 pm and the program will begin at 7.
Next Guild Meeting – Tomorrow, March 2nd @ 7 PM
Mar 1st, 2010 by daveyknits
tonight’s meeting is cancelled due to inclement weather. Stay home, stay safe. The program will be shifted to April instead, and the deadline to turn in submissions to the guild awards will be extended until the April meeting as well.
Davey
Hello everyone,
This month we have a very special HANDS ON program brought to you by Debbie Davis, owner of The Fibre Studio at Yarns to Dye For: SOCK YARN DYEING!
Yes, this is your chance for some hands on dyeing fun. Come ready to play with colors and spacing…and Debbie has very generously offered to take the yarns we dye, set them, and bring them back next month all ready for you to keep at NO CHARGE TO YOU! (The Knitting Guild is picking up the tab!)
One favor – if you plan to attend, please try to send an email to Jet, our VP, at seekritknitster@gmail.com so she can let Debbie know approximately how many kits to bring. Let her know by NOON on TUESDAY. Also Debbie asks that you wear old clothes that you don’t mind getting dye on.
We will also be collecting submissions for the Excellence In Knitting Awards at this meeting. Please bring your submissions as we would love celebrate your handmade projects!
The meeting, as usual, is at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211. Park on the Sardis Road side & go in the covered entrance. Turn right through the rotunda to find the stairs or elevator, go to the second floor and take the short flight of stairs to the upstairs parlor.
Show and tell will be from 6-7 pm and the program will begin at 7.
See you there!
Davey
Next Guild Meeting – Tuesday, February 2nd
Feb 1st, 2010 by daveyknits
This month: Illusion Knitting!
Heather Storta is a knitting instructor at Yarnhouse in NoDa. She’s been knitting for over 6 years, and is currently working through the TKGA Master Knitter Program. She passed Level 1 in September of last year, and is currently working on Level 2. Over the last 6 years, she has experimented with many different knitting techniques, taking the attitude that one should be a fearless knitter.
Our program tonight will be on Illusion knitting, a very interesting colorwork knitting technique. If you would like to try the technique out during our program, be sure to bring two highly contrasting colors of dishcloth cotton and appropriately sized needles.
See you there!
Next Guild Meeting – Tuesday January 5th
Dec 28th, 2009 by daveyknits
Reminder, the Guild Meeting is tonight at 7pm.
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Hi Everyone!
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 5th. Our guest speaker will be Michael del Vecchio from Universal Yarn. He is the author of ‘Knitting with Balls: A Hands-On Guide to Knitting for the Modern Man’ and a regular columnist with ‘Knit ‘n Style’ magazine. His writing and published designs have appeared in various magazines and publications.
In addition, Michael is a skilled technical editor of knitting patterns. He is the primary technical editor for ‘Knit ‘n Style’ magazine and has worked with various individual designers, authors, yarn companies, and publishers to edit and size patterns and draw charts and schematics.
For our program, Michael will be teaching us another colorwork technique – Fair Isle! For this program, we have a little homework before the meeting.
Materials for the event are:
Students should choose which color should be the motif color and which color is the background color (or the MC), then, cast on 92 sts onto the circular needle (I like a long tail cast on, but its students’ choice).
We’ll pick up right there with starting to learn the two handed technique.
The meeting, as usual, is at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211. Park on the Sardis Road side & go in the covered entrance. Turn right through the rotunda to find the stairs or elevator, go to the second floor and take the short flight of stairs to the upstairs parlor.
Show and tell will be from 6-7 pm and the program will begin at 7.
See you there!
Next Guild Meeting – Tuesday, December 1st
Nov 25th, 2009 by daveyknits
Just a reminder the Guild meeting is tonight @ 6pm. Hope to see you there!
Davey
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Pick up a few holiday treats for yourself at the next guild meeting. We will have a variety of yarn (ribbon, eyelash, Lamb’s Pride, etc) and magazines for sale $1 each. Cash or check only. This event is possible thanks to a major destash by a friend of the guild.
Please bring all washcloths, baby items, and any other knitted/crocheted charity items to be delivered in December to Florence Crittendon.
This meeting will also be our annual Holiday Pot-luck and gift swap. Heavy appetizers or your favorite holiday dish are encouraged for the pot-luck. Please remember there is no sink or microwave in the upstairs parlor. There’s always plenty. To participate in the gift swap, please bring a knitting related item costing $10 or less.
The meeting, as usual, is at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211. Park on the Sardis Road side & go in the covered entrance. Turn right through the rotunda to find the stairs or elevator, go to the second floor and take the short flight of stairs to the upstairs parlor.
Show and tell will be from 6-7 pm and the program will begin at 7.
Davey Roberson
Next Guild Meeting – Tuesday, November 3rd
Nov 2nd, 2009 by daveyknits
Wow! It is hard to believe that a month has flown by since we had our last meeting!
Chris Wysocki from Yarnhouse Knits in NoDa will be joining us to talk about his new shop and the the services he will be providing. Also a reminder that we are knitting baby items for the next 2 months for our charity work.
The meeting, as usual, is at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211. Park on the Sardis Road side & go in the covered entrance. Turn right through the rotunda to find the stairs or elevator, go to the second floor and take the short flight of stairs to the upstairs parlor.
Show and tell will be from 6-7 pm and the program will begin at 7.
Next Guild Meeting – Tuesday October 6th
Oct 3rd, 2009 by daveyknits
In October we’ll be welcoming Brittany Newberry, the Knit Witch herself, to speak with us about her journey through the knitting world. She will talk about how Knit Witch got started and a little about how knitting has influenced her “life philosophy”. She will bring some of her gorgeous yarns for purchase.
Her husband Wayne, a talented potter and the other half of Knit Witch, will bring some of their beautiful and distinctive yarn bowls. All bowls are handmade by him at their home in Blue Ridge, GA.
Please check out their website for more information before they get here on Tuesday at www.knitwitch.com. They are more than willing to answer questions about their business, their move out of Atlanta to Blue Ridge, GA or just things in general.
The meeting, as usual, is at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211. Park on the Sardis Road side & go in the covered entrance. Turn right through the rotunda to find the stairs or elevator, go to the second floor and take the short flight of stairs to the upstairs parlor.
Show and tell will be from 6-7 pm and the program will begin at 7.
ALSO
Our first CKG Charity Sit and Knit will be Saturday October 10 at the Caribou Coffee/Breuggers Bagels in the Park Road Shopping Center (corner of Park and Woodlawn, next to Michael’s). We will be there from 2 to 4 pm. Please bring a charity project you’re working on and join us!
September Dishcloth Pattern
Aug 31st, 2009 by daveyknits
Here is the link for September’s Intarsia Dishcloth for the pattern page on the website:
http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/clothpumpkin.html.
As a reminder, Charlotte Purls member, Connie Byrne will be teaching intarsia at our next guild meeting tomorrow!
Davey
