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
Secretary
