| |
|
A newsletter of the Atlanta Knitting Guild: Bringing Atlanta's knitters together
Next meeting - February 1st - 7:30 p.m.
|
|
President's message
Jill Vogin
Hi Friends,
I just came back from New York City where I had the privilege of attending Vogue Knitting Live. Having been a Stitches veteran going back many years, it was an exciting change of pace and the event did not disappoint.
We have a program coming up later in the spring to talk about what it is like to attend these events. The best part is that Stitches South is returning to Atlanta in April of 2019. So everyone will have the opportunity to experience this kind of event without breaking the bank.
Meanwhile, both our Superstar and Mini-workshop chairs are hard at work planning great event this winter/spring.
Our new website is up (check it out, same web address) and we will continue to load it with content. Thanks to Claire Kooy for making this critical transition for us.
The raffle scheduled for February is being postponed until March due to our chairperson's scheduled surgery. We have so much wonderful yarn, there will be something for everyone to covet!
Looking forward to seeing all of you on Thursday, February 1st.
Yours in knitting,
Jill
|
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
--
Best Wishes,
Kendra Fabry
|
Feb 10&11 COLOR WEEKEND!
Meg Fisher
Sat. Feb. 10, 1:00 - 4:00 pm $20 + $13 supply kit fee paid to AKG
Phyllis Bell Miller
Fiber Arts Design Series - Making Color Work for You: The Professional Guide to Understanding, Creating & Using Exciting Color Schemes
Do you panic or hyperventilate when confronted with dozens of color choices? This workshop shows you how to make color work for you. While making a color wheel out of yarn, you will review basic color principles and learn how to use color groups, undertones, value keys, more than 20 traditional color schemes & more. The workshop also explains how to identify and build historic & ethnic color schemes and how to capture & match colors like a professional. Information in this workshop applies to all color-matching situations, including quilting, sewing, embroidery, wardrobe planning & home decorating.
Location: Jill Vogin's neighborhood clubhouse in Dunwoody
2694 Fontainebleau Dr., Atlanta 30360
Please share the above information with your friends! We will also be inviting NGKG, local quilt guilds & other groups.
There is a min. of 15 to have this class.
Sun. Feb. 11, 10:00 am-4:00/5:00 pm
$35 + $21-25 supply kit fee paid to teacher
Gale Evans (GalesArt on Etsy)
We will dye a mini skein gradient (6 shades) plus one large skein for enough total yarn to make a shawl. You can reorder more yarn after class if you want to do this at home.
.
*** If you sign up for both classes the fee will be $50 plus the supply kit fee ***
|
Program
Annie Hall
Our speaker for February is the talented spinning teacher Annie Hall. Annie will demonstrate how fiber becomes yarn. There is a reason why fairy tales talk of spinning, as it is magical. Even if you aren't a spinner and don't inspire to be one, you will learn about the properties of yarn and best uses. And Annie will bring lots of handspun eye candy!
|
|
Karleen Buchholz, Carol Hassell and Elizabeth Halberstadt
Women's Shelter
Please bring in toiletries to the February
meeting
- these will be much appreciated.
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.
|
|
Save the Date
World wide knit in Public
Saturday June 9th 2018, more details to follow. Lydia Sheffield
|
|
Hospitality Update
Patty Malec and Susan Donges
Our co-chairs who have so diligently served us for the last few years have both resigned their posts.
We will miss Patty, as she moves to her new home in Athens. And speedy recovery to Susan, who is undergoing surgery.
For February, if your surname starts with F-L then please bring a snack to share at the meeting.
Please note, if you would like coffee or other beverage then please bring your own to the meeting.
|
|
Time to think about a Retreat?
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
|
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 new books that were donated see the picture below
We have also had books and Magazines that were donated for the March raffle
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.
****** If you have borrowed books in the last several months, please return them this month so that other members may enjoy them. Our holiday "Grace Period" has passed.****
|
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.
|
News from our friends at the North Georgia Knitting Guild
Sandra Huff
Please note our new location :
 .
|
Learn... Create... Explore... With SEFAA 
February 4 - Program
February 15 - March 13, 2018 - Exhibition
ICONIC: Tapestries by Molly Elkind
- This exhibition of handwoven tapestries features two series of work. One series considers the figure of the Virgin Mary, exploring the myth and the impact of Mary as an icon of womanhood. The other series explores abstract combinations of text and image as a kind of contemporary illuminated manuscript.
Reception: February 25, 2 - 4 pm.
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!
2018 Square Foot Fiber Art Pin Up Show
Entry to this exhibition is free and open to all. Entries must use fiber and/or a fiber technique. Applications will open mid-January; see the SEFAA site. Entries are due by March 8.
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!
|
 |
Atlanta Knitting Guild Board
AKG Officers 2017-2018
|
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
|
Standing Committees 2017-2018
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
