Charlotte Knitting Guild Meeting, Tuesday, May 1 @ 6:00 pm

Knitters go Uptown!

Grab some knitting and join us on Saturday, June 16 for World Wide Knit in Public Day. We’ll be heading uptown by light rail, bus, car, bike or foot. From Noon to 2 p.m., visit one of these knitting hotspots—Mint Museum, The Green, Wells Fargo (formerly Wachovia) Plaza, Founders Hall, or the Main Branch of the Public Library. Then from 2-3 p.m., we’ll gather at the Public Library for our grand finale with door prizes, the swap table and games.

Excellence in Knitting

Bring your submissions for the Excellence in Knitting event!

Guild Business

Board Elections

We’ll be voting for the Board of Directors this month if we can get a quorum. We are still seeking nominees for vice-president and secretary. Enthusiasm is important… experience is something you’ll gain, and current and former board members will help you learn.

Board meetings are minimal. We typically conduct a lot of business by email. We particularly need energetic, creative and organized people. Shape the guild into being the group you want!

Talk with any of the current or former board members for more insight into what involvement looks like.

We are losing our meeting space!
After a long and excellent relationship with Providence Baptist Church, they, unfortunately, will no longer be able to host our meetings. We have already started searching for new space, so if you have solid leads on meeting facilities, contact any board member to discuss your idea. We think that we have some viable options, but we’d hate to overlook any leads.

Directions and Meeting Info

We meet the first Tuesday night of every month at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211 from 6 – 8 pm The first half hour is knitting and socializing, the rest of the time is dedicated to learning new things. If you have completed a project since the last meeting, consider bringing the finished object with you for show-and-tell!

Managing Your Subscription

If someone forwarded this email to you and you’d like to subscribe, you can manage that on this page: http://charlotteknittingguild.org/mail/?p=subscribe In addition, the links to subscribe or unsubscribe should be in the footer area of each newsletter

April Program

Our April program will be “April Fools,” presented by you!

Bring in examples or stories of times that your knitting has ‘fooled’ you and we can all learn from your boo-boos and how you fixed them (or maybe threw the whole thing in the rubbish, who knows?).

Also, we’d like to share some light snacks and have a lively social hour this month, so if you can buy or whip something up to bring along, please do. We should have some paper plates and cups and so forth, and we’re certainly not looking for anything heavy, expensive or complex!

Excellence in Knitting

Don’t forget about the Excellence in Knitting program this spring. Think about what you’ve made in the past year that you could submit. We’d love to see a submission from everyone!

Guild Business

We are losing our meeting space!
After a long and excellent relationship with Providence Baptist Church, they, unfortunately, will no longer be able to host our meetings. We have already started searching for new space, so if you have solid leads on meeting facilities, contact any board member to discuss your idea. We think that we have some viable options, but we’d hate to overlook any leads.

Board Elections
Want Charlotte to have the best-possible knitting guild? Then join the board and serve! Share your talents as vice-president, treasurer, secretary, membership/marketing coordinator, special event coordinator or charity coordinator. Board meetings are minimal. We typically conduct a lot of business by email. We particularly need energetic, creative and organized individuals. Shape the guild into being the group you want!

We will announce a new slate of board officers in later in the spring and vote the following month. If you are interested in learning more, talk with any of the current or former board members for more insight into what involvement looks like.

Directions and Meeting Info

We meet the first Tuesday night of every month at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211 from 6 – 8 pm The first half hour is knitting and socializing, the remainder of the time is dedicated to learning new things. If you have completed a project since the last meeting, consider bringing the finished object with you for show-and-tell!

Managing Your Subscription

If someone forwarded this information in an email to you and you’d like to subscribe, you can manage that on this page: http://charlotteknittingguild.org/mail/?p=subscribe

In addition, the links to subscribe or unsubscribe should be in the footer area of each newsletter.

March Program

Our March program will be on crocheted edgings for our knits, presented by Jenny Raymond.

Jenny Raymond of zJonquil Designs teaches knitting & crochet at Yarnhouse in Charlotte and regional shows. Her husband and 3 clones have been trying not to get stabbed since she began knitting in 2004 and crocheting in 2008.

Homework/supplies (Optional): bring in a standard 4″ slipped-stitch-edged swatch with extra yarn and appropriate hook for playing with ideas.

Jenny will be bringing several books with crochet edgings to pass around/discuss, discussing various applications and techniques, and helping those who do not crochet understand some of the very basics (time permitting).

Excellence in Knitting

We will be holding the Excellence in Knitting program again this spring. We should have an outline of rules and target dates at this meeting. We’ll follow-up with an email for those who can’t be at the meeting.

Guild Business

We are losing our meeting space!
After a long and excellent relationship with Providence Baptist Church, they, unfortunately, will no longer be able to host our meetings. We have already started searching for new space, so if you have solid leads on meeting facilities, contact any board member to discuss your idea. We think that we have some viable options, but we’d hate to overlook any leads.

Board Elections
Want Charlotte to have the best-possible knitting guild? Then join the board and serve! Share your talents as vice-president, treasurer, secretary, membership/marketing coördinator, special event coördinator or charity coördinator. Board meetings are minimal. We typically conduct a lot of business by email. We particularly need energetic, creative and organized people. Shape the guild into being the group you want!

We will announce a new slate of board officers in April and vote in May. If you are interested in learning more, talk with any of the current or former board members for more insight into what involvement might be like.

Directions and Meeting Info

We meet the first Tuesday night of every month at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211 from 6 – 8 pm The first half hour is knitting and socializing, the remainder of the time is dedicated to learning new things. If you have completed a project since the last meeting, consider bringing the finished object with you for show-and-tell!

NOTE! – if you haven’t been to a meeting in a few months, remember that we are now in room 1315 of the Activity Center, which is on the other —left —or north— side of the church at the front entrance. Room 1315 is the first room on your left once you enter the building.

November’s Program is “Beading with Davey”

Spice up your knitting with beads!

This month, Davey will be showing off how to spice up knitting by adding beadwork in your repertoire.

From beautiful knitted shawls, to simple crocheted or knitted beaded necklaces and bracelets, we will be covering it all!

The (Near) Future

Looking ahead a month, our December meeting will be our annual holiday party. In addition to bringing your favorite holiday snack to share, we also think it would be fun to bring your favorite holiday gift pattern to share as well!

Charity Items

If you have made items for our charity drive, be sure to bring them along.

See you at the meeting!

Directions and Meeting Info

We meet the first Tuesday night of every month at Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd, 28211 from 6-8 p.m. The first half hour is knitting and socializing, and we spend the rest of the time learning new things.

Thanks!

-Jorah Lavin, Guild Secretary

For our September meeting, we’ll be having Jane Prater talk to us about Applique for our knits.

Here’s a blog post by Jane about our upcoming program.

We’ll have a more detailed meeting announcement soon!

Here’s our most recent Guild Newsletter!

Enjoy!

Chris Wysocki writes:

Since I began knitting, I noticed an overwhelming feeling of community among knitters. That is something that you simply cannot find everyday. I want to share ideas, experiences, learn together and embrace knitting as the art it is. Knitting is just the beginning of plans for Yarnhouse. We plan to expand into other fiber arts such as spinning, dyeing and weaving. I hope everyone will be here to enable us to grow the community together.

Directions and Location

We are located in NoDa, Charlotte’s historical arts district. Our store is on North Davidson Street between 36^th and 35^th Streets. Parking is available in the rear and is accessible via 35^th Street by driving behind Cabo Fish Taco. If that lot is full, parking is also available at the Johnston YMCA. [ see a Google Maps map of the store's location ]

If you missed our meeting this month, you missed a really great time!

We started of with a Yarn De-Stash sale by Stephanie Quattrini. She had many lovely yarns, beads, handles, felting and many other items for sale!

We also had several new participants in this meeting including our winner of a Guild Membership from our Last Knitter Standing Game we played at WWKIP Day – Andrea.  During show and tell, Andrea showed the group the little knitting ladies she has made from wire, knitting, and charms.

The Little Knitting Ladies

In addition several other members showed off their latest knitted creations and works in progress (WIP’s).   Pictures from the show and tell will be added soon.

For our program, the lovely Past President – Rachel Eldridge presented us with a “Countdown to Christmas” session.   Rachel showed how you can take your fabric or yarn scraps and felt them in to lovely Christmas decorations and gifts for friends, family and co-workers!

Our next meeting will be September 6th and will feature the divine Jane Prater (another former President of the Guild) teaching applique!   You do not want to miss this meeting!