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A newsletter of the Atlanta Knitting Guild: Bringing Atlanta's knitters together
Next meeting - January 4th - 7:30 p.m.
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President's message
Jill Vogin
Hi Friends,
It is holiday time and you know what that means...soon we will be able to go back to knitting for ourselves! I am flying down to the happiest place on earth with my daughter and am really looking forward to the knitting time as well.
We have a lot of wonderful things in the planning stages for 2018:
- 2 more Superstar programs, Spring and Fall
- A repeat of our most popular mini workshop...gradient dyeing
- A brand new website with expanded content
- Knitting in Public day event
- And much more!
Looking forward to seeing all of you on Thursday, January 4
th.
Yours in knitting,
Jill
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Spring Superstar: May 3-6th 2018:
Anne Berk
Anne Berk was certified by TKGA as a Master Knitter in 2003. Anne has designed for many yarn companies. DVDs on intarsia technique - "Inside Intarsia" and "Intarsia InDepth" are published by Interweave. She has written patterns and articles for many publications, including Piecework, Sockupied, ColorKnit and Twist Collective. She has taught classes nationally on subjects ranging from Argyle socks to Zipper insertion into hand-knits.
"Annetarsia Knits" is a reference book for learning to knit intarsia flat or in the round, in stockinette or garter stitch. The book includes workshops, a motif library, and 28 patterns for using the new techniques. Content is designed for knitters of all skill levels
Anne is also an optometrist in private practice in Portland, OR
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Best Wishes,
Kendra Fabry
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Programs
The Hole Truth: Placing & Spacing Buttons & Other Fastener
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By Phyllis Bell Miller
Have you ever found the right button in the wrong size for your masterpiece? This presentation explains how designers make calculations for planning, sizing, placing, and spacing buttons, buttonholes, and other fasteners. These handy guidelines apply to all garments, including those that are knitted, crocheted, and sewn. You will be able to adjust your pattern to suit the size of any fastener that you choose, add fasteners where none exists, or plan fasteners for your original designs.
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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 very soon. 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
January meeting - these will be much appreciated.
Bears
Folks, I delivered 32 dressed bears and other critters to the Georgia Council for Child Advocacy on Monday. Again, they have provided us with a huge bag of naked dogs, cats and rabbits to dress, donated by PetSmart. Since we now have a really large supply of these critters, AKG knitters might want to note their measurements: chest is 14"; tummy is 16". We still have a supply of smaller bears that need sweaters, as well.
An additional note: My count of dressed bears delivered to GCCA for 2017 is 311, although this accounts for 10 months. I am missing any bears completed in January and April 2017.
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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Lost and Found
Jolie Elder
Well, the lost and found items are piling up at my house!
From October 2017: a rather nice pair of scissors. I'm surprised no one has claimed these yet.
From our December 2017 potluck:
a plastic bowl that looks like crystal
a rather nice cake server
a plastic plate
a two-part Tupperware-like cake and cookie transport
If any of this is yours, please let me know. If you left something behind on purpose because you don't want it, please let me know that, too. I can see it ends up someplace useful.
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Hospitality
Patty Malec and Susan Donges
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January, if your surname belongs in the following range then please bring a snack to share at the meeting
A-E
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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
European Retreat
My name is Simone (aka OwlCat Designs) and besides designing knitwear and teaching workshops here in the US, I am working on launching two knitting/slow stitching retreats in my home country Switzerland.
I am offering two retreats in August 2018, the first one is a Knitting retreat with classes by Nancy Marchant and myself. We will stay on the grounds of a historic castle and take day trips into the surrounding area (medieval town and chocolate factory, anyone?). The second one is a Slow Stitching retreat up in a car free village on the sunny slopes of the alps, with a broader approach to fiber arts. We will be working on a few thoughtful projects using embroidery, hand sewing and knitting, and we'll get to enjoy a local artists class on making a wooly sheep that looks just like the sheep we are hoping to visit on our guided hike with a local shepherd.
The website with all the details is here
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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.
We have purchased new books including:
One More Skein: 30 Quick Projects to Knit by Leigh Radford
Brioche Chic by Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark
Finish Free Knits: No Sew Garmets in Classic Styles
Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible: 260 Equisite Patterns by Hitomi Shida
Dimensional Tuck Knitting by Tracy Purtscher
Books we introduced at our December Meeting include:
Silk The Practical Spinner's Guide by Sara Lamb
The Knitted Alphabet by Kate Haxell and Sarah Hazell Hip
Graphic Knits by Rochelle Bourgault and Lisa B. Evans
Rudgyard Story by Jo Sharp Quick
Cozy Bulky Knit Accessories by Knit Picks
Baby Botanicals by Alana Dakos
Under 100 Knit Collection by Knit Picks
60 Quick Knits by Sixth&Spring Books
The Handknitter's Yarn Guide by Nikki Gabriel
Nursery Rhyme Knits by Theresa Boyer
Big Knit Love by Linda Zemba Burhance
New Donations include: Knitting Beautiful Classics by Kristen Nicholas Classic Style Book 16 by Martin Storey
Additional purchases and donations will be introduced in February and March. If you are interested in checking out any of the above books at our January meeting please email me at .... AKGLibrary... and I will reserve them for you.
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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 
January 6, 2018 - Special Program
Get Your Craft On! Join us on Saturday, January 6, anytime between 9 am and 5 pm, to start a new project, finish some UFO's or just to hang with fiber lovers. (And enjoy our new energy-efficient LED lighting.) SEFAA will provide beverages; bring some fiber-friendly food to share.
February 2018 - Quilting/Surface Design Workshops
Map Haiku
(Feb. 16) and
Favorite Places
(Feb. 17-19)
with Valerie Goodwin - Create a small art quilt map that captures the feeling of your haiku or a larger cartographic quilt that evokes feelings or elements of your chosen location!
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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