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A newsletter of the Atlanta Knitting Guild: Bringing Atlanta's knitters together
Next meeting - December 7th - 7:30 p.m.
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President's message
Jill Vogin
Hi Friends,
Hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I got to fly to Texas and enjoy quality knitting time. I need all the time I can get to have those holiday gifts fly off the needles.
A special thank you to Meg Fisher and the mini-workshop helpers for an awesome bear making and learning session.
Our December meeting will be all about celebrating the holidays with our friends! No speaker, just socializing and sharing. We will be having a pot luck dinner, with the guild providing the main course (roasted chicken and shrimp). Let your creativity flow and bring your awesome culinary treats to share with the group.
We will also be having a gift exchange. If you wish to participate, please bring a wrapped, knitting-themed gift worth $10 or so to the meeting.
Looking forward to seeing all of you on Thursday, December 7
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Yours in knitting,
Jill
** Remember children who need your help: knit or crochet sweaters, tops, capes, dresses or hats to dress naked bears. Dressed bears will go to the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy to provide a bit of happiness to children who are in tough situations. The holidays are coming! **
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Programs
There will be no program this month - it is time to mingle!
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White Elephant
December Program
We will be doing a gift exchange (white elephant) again this December. If you wish to participate, you should wrap a knitting related gift,10$ value, and bring it to the December pot luck. At the meeting, we will switch them around so that everyone who brings a gift will receive a gift. When purchasing your gift, please remember we have members of multiple faiths so please avoid holiday themed items.
Rules
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When you arrive at the meeting, please write your name on a slip of paper and put it in the bowl.
Keep your gift with you and take a seat.
After we eat, someone neutral will draw the name of our first gift-giver.
Our first gift-giver will come to the front of the room and draw a name.
She then hunts the room to find the person whose name she drew (she is allowed help from the group).
She gives that person her gift and takes that person's seat. She introduces herself to the table and tells them a little about herself.
Meanwhile, the gift recipient becomes the second gift giver and so goes to the front of the room and draws a name. At this point, she has 2 gifts in her hands...the one she just got and the one she is giving away.
Repeat process until all names are depleted.
The last person will not be able to draw a name. Instead, she gives her gift to the first gift-giver.
Gifts can be opened/traded at any time.
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Website - Update
Claire Murata Kooy
The old website is no longer operational and the new website is under construction. We hope to migrate by mid December. If you have any suggestions for the new website, please feel free to write me at [email protected]. Thank you for your patience
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Karleen Buchholz, Carol Hassell and Elizabeth Halberstadt
Women's Shelter
Please bring in toiletries to the
December meeting - these will be much appreciated.
Bears
Folks, I delivered 21 dressed bears to the Georgia Council for Child Advocacy this morning. Particular thanks go to Bridgette Fessele and Randie Cowan for their great work in dressing lots of bears.
I also returned from the Council offices with two huge bags of new bears, dogs and perhaps other species. These were contributions from PetSmart. I'll bring these to upcoming meetings, starting in December. I hope everyone will get out their needles, because we really have a lot of naked animals to dress. Carol
KROGER
Please register your Kroger rewards card and list AKG as the community rewards recipient of their choice. This, in no way, affects any rewards program you get as a shopper - it simply accumulates points for dollars spent shopping at Kroger and they then cut a check to AKG each quarter. Easy, pain free way to earn extra $ for the guild.
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Congratulations
Langston Meena Jackson-Dawkins born Nov 2 (4 weeks early) weighing 5lb 8oz
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Hospitality
Patty Malec and Susan Donges
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December will be Pot Luck with Chicken and Shrimp provided by the guild
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Website Update
Earlier this month, you should have had an email regarding the website. However, due to an unexpected issues, I am postponing migrating the website. We will have the present website until November 20. Then we will lose the website until the middle of December. However, during the time we do not have the website, the e-mails for @atlantaknittingguild.org will still work.
If you have any suggestions for the new website, please do not hesitate to e-mail me. If anyone can do graphic design and help me with the website, please let me know as well.
Thank you very much for your understanding! Claire Kooy
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Time to think about a Retreat?
South Carolina Knit Inn is Friday through Sunday 2-4 February 2018 in Greenville SC. Class descriptions will be published on their website <scknittingguild.com> on Sunday 12 November, with registration opening about a week later. Registration is limited to 255 people and fills up fast.
Registration is open for Kanuga Knitting and Quilting Retreat <www.kanuga.org/our-programs/adult-conferences-retreats/knitting-quilting>, Thursday through Monday 11-15 January 2018 (Dr. King Memorial Holiday weekend) in Hendersonville NC, just south of Asheville. Knitting instruction includes Amy Johnson teaching "Orenburg, Estonian, and Shetland. A collection of lace techniques," Catherine Scheisz teaching "Socks: Heels and Toes," Jolie Elder teaching "Swirl Jacket. Starting small so you can go big," Mimi Kezer teaching "Two Clever Techniques to One Great Project,"Varian Brandon teaching "Techniques for Better Colorwork," and Boykin Exum staffing the knitting fix desk.
Registration is open for Unwind <unwindgetaway.com>, Friday through Sunday, 27-29 April 2018 in Blowing Rock, NC. Teachers this year are Varian Brandon, Jolie Elder, Master Knitter Heather Storta, and Jeffrey Wall. This event conflicts with Georgia Mountain Needle Arts Festival and is the weekend before Maryland Sheep and Wool
-- Jolie
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From our Librarian...
Stephanie Johnson
We're adding over $600 in new books!!
AKG members may check out up to four books and one CD/DVD per month. All items are due back the following month.
You can look inside many recent books to see if there is a pattern you like by accessing the book on the AKGLibrary's Ravelry page.
- Sign onto your Ravelry account.
- In the 'search' field, type in AKGLibrary and select People. You are searching for a person on Ravelry named: AKGLibrary.
- When that person appears, click on the AKGLibrary,
- Click on the library icon in the top right of the screen
- You can now browse our library.
- If you see a book that interests you, click on it. If the publisher has loaded in the contents of the book, which all have been doing for at least the last seven years, you will be able to see the thumbnail descriptions of each pattern.
- To see the thumbnail descriptions of the patterns in the book, click on the tab in the right hand corner that says: 'X' patterns.
- Scan the patterns. See one you like? Request the book from the library.
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If you are a member or know of a member who has news that should be shared with our membership please send notices to
[email protected]. This would include, but not be limited to, birth of a child, illness, death of an immediate family member, etc.
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News from our friends at the North Georgia Knitting Guild
Sandra Huff
Please note our new location :
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Learn... Create... Explore... With SEFAA 
December 3 - December Program Meeting
with John Marshall - Learn to judge the techniques employed and the quality of Japanese textiles through samples from John's extensive collection. Register today!
December 4-6 - Workshop
December 16 - Class
December 16 - Class
Lu
nchtime Fiber
is every Tuesday and Thursday (holidays excluded) from 10 am to 2 pm. These drop-in, open-studio sessions are free and open to everyone - just bring a fiber project to work on and your lunch.
Visit the
SEFAA website for more information on these and other upcoming events!
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Atlanta Knitting Guild Board
AKG Officers 2017-2018
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Jill Vogin, President
Jolie Elder, First Vice President
Lydia Sheffield, Secretary
Alison Lalla, Treasurer
Ashley Jackson, Sr. Vice President of Programs
Mai Ly, Jr. VP of programs
Kendra Fabry, Sr. VP of Major Workshops (Superstars)
Claudia Purgason, Jr. VP of Major Workshops (Superstars)
Meg Fisher, Chris Curschmann,co-VPs of Workshops, (mini)
Lee Greenberg, VP of Membership
Claire Kooy, Social Media/Communications
Susan Duralde, Immediate Past President
Whit Robbins, chair emerita
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Standing Committees 2017-2018
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Knit it Forward (Karleen Bucholtz and Carol Hassell- Trauma bears; Elizabeth Halberstadt - Preemie hats)
Susan Donges and Patty Malec, Hospitality
Stephanie Johnson and Sandy Crowley,
Library
Arlette Berlin, Raffles
Welcoming committee (Open)
Denise Tokarz, Affiliates Liaison
Claire Kooy, Photographer
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