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A newsletter of the Atlanta Knitting Guild: Bringing Atlanta's knitters together
Next meeting - March 1st - 7:30 p.m.
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President's message
Jill Vogin
Hi Friends,
What is the difference between a knitter and a person that knows how to knit? There are lots of people that knit, but we Knitters are more than that. We look forward to those moments every day where we can pick up our needles whether it is for 10 minutes or 3 hours. The highpoint of our travel is finding a cool new yarn shop (and our friends know we need to go in...."just give me 20 minutes"). We embarrass our children by knitting at every sporting or school event. We switch to circular needles while knitting in the car so we don't poke the driver with our straight needles and evoke complaints. We get known by our friends as "the Knitter" and get bombarded with requests (can you make me...I'll pay for it...but in the store it only costs $30). If you have experienced any of these symptoms, you are a Knitter and not just a person that knits. . And most of all, we want to spend time with people who "get us", aka other Knitters. And that, to me, is the purpose of our Guild. It is our space and my great joy is to make it a haven for my fellow Knitters.
Our spring calendar is already getting full of happenings...
- Our March meeting will be the long awaited yarn raffle as well as a journey to yarn events courtesy of Debra Davis and Diana Baber.
- Sunday, March 18th I will be leading a Baby Bear Surprise jacket Knit-a-long for all levels. Sign up and materials list will be available soon.
- Our April meeting we will welcome our own Susan Nease talking about "Fantasies and Realities of owning a yarn shop".
- Sign up soon for our May 4-6 Superstar event with Anne Berk...early bird pricing ends March 31st
- And to finish up the spring, we are organizing an event for "Knit in Public" Day.
Details for all these events are below or will be coming soon.
Looking forward to seeing all of you on Thursday, March 1st.
Yours in knitting,
Jill
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OUR LAST AND FINAL RAFFLE OF THE YEAR !!
Available one night only.......
Make sure you get there early to look at all the scrumptious yarns we will be giving away that night. Available that night only a huge selection of colors ranging from Lace to Chunky Weight Yarn from which to choose.
Don't forget to bring Cash, Check, an/or Credit Card and of course Yourself ��
Look forward to seeing you at the March 1, 2018 Meeting ........
Arlette Berlin
Raffle Committee Chair
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LAST MONTH FOR EARLY BIRD PRICING!
Kendra Fabry
Prices go up on April 1st, so please be sure to take advantage of the lower prices and full package discount asap. You can pay by check at the March meeting or on the website.
I'd like to point out that we are having two 1.5 hr classes for our Spring Superstar with Anne Berk to mindful of the budget conscious knitter. Sign up now before early bird pricing expires!
Due to technical difficulties at the February meeting I will show a you tube video of
Anne Berk so you can see how lovely she is at the March meeting.
Anne is offering our guild free shipping of her books if you'd like to order her book from her website
http://annetarsia.com/ use this code: TEAMANNETARSIA.
Please note there is only a 30 minute lunch break on Sunday, this was a time constraint; we will arrange ordering delivery as a convenience (cost of lunch is not included) or you can bring a packed lunch and use the SEFAA kitchenette.
We need your help to publicize this event to make is a success. Please share this on social media, to your fiber groups, etc.
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March 18th Baby Bear Surprise Jacket
Meg Fisher
Attention all level of knitters! Jill Vogin will be hosting a knit-a-long on Sunday March 18
th from 2-5pm at Crema Espresso Gourmet in Dunwoody. We will use Cully Swansen's (Elizabeth Zimmermann's grandson) book "The Complete Surprise" to practice techniques from beginner to advanced. The end product will be one or more tiny creations ideal to clothe our naked bears (or give to a favorite child). This will be a great project to use up odd balls of yarn from your stash.
Among the techniques that you can use in this project are:
Beginners:
1)
Increasing and Decreasing
2)
Color changes
3)
Using stitch markers
4)
Finishing
Intermediate:
1)
Buttonholes
2)
Magic Loop (working in the round)
3)
I-cord
4)
Stranded knitting
Advanced
1)
Steeking
2)
Creating your own design/chart
3)
Custom sizing
This event will cost $22 to cover the cost of the book. Registration will be available on our website shortly. Once you register, you will receive a materials list.
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Reviews of Workshops
Meg Fisher
My goal in planning the mini-workshops is to provide opportunities for knitters to get more involved in the guild and learn some new skills. Along those lines, we are also linking the workshops so that what we learn in one will connect to the next one.
We hope that you will want to try out these techniques and instead of making a swatch, make a bear sweater!
Last November - New techniques (to practice on bear sweaters)
- a variety of cast-ons and bind-offs for different situations
- how to knit continental
- the basics of labyrinth knititng - look for it's own mini-workshop in the future
In February - Working with color
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Program-March
Knitting Travel
There are lots of wonderful knitting opportunities in metro Atlanta, but there are also experiences to be had if you are willing to travel. The indubitable team of Diana and Debra have traveled to many of these shows - SAFF, STITCHES, SC Knit Inn, Maryland Sheep and Wool - and will tell us what there is to see somewhere, out there, beyond our neighborhood.
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Program - April
The Fantasies and Realities of Owning a Yarn Shop
How many of us have fantasized about spending endless days in the warm and pleasant company of mounds and mounds of our favorite yarn? Susan Nease, formerly owner of Nease's Needlework, will tell us the knotty truth about what it is really like to own a yarn shop.
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Karleen Buchholz, Carol Hassell and Elizabeth Halberstadt
Bear Update
Earlier this Month I delivered the 17 dressed bears provided by members at our February meeting. And, although I wasn't able to visit the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy office before the January newsletter went out, I did deliver the 29 bears from the January meeting a couple weeks ago, as well.
We have plenty of naked bears (and other cute species) that need sweaters, pants, pinafores or dresses, skirts, hats, capes -- whatever garments spark the creativity of members. We have critters in all sizes from quite small to around 13" to 15 or 16" chest measurement to a couple large enough to fit into an infant sweater. Bring 'em on! Center staff always tell me they need dressed critter and are so glad to get them.
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.
Request for Help
My mom is 93 and has made 29 Christmas stockings for her family. My nephew is expecting twins and she is confused and can't remember how to do the pattern. Was wondering if you knew a knitter in Tucker that could work with her. They could do one stocking and she the other. I would be happy to pay them. I know she is frustrated and wish I could help her but know nothing about knitting. Please email [email protected]
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Save the Date
World wide knit in Public
Saturday June 9th 2018, more details to follow. Lydia Sheffield
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Hospitality Update
For March if your surname starts with M-Z 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.
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Time to think about a Retreat?
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.
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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 
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 and fit in a 12" x 12" x 12" space. Application is now open; see the
SEFAA site
. Entries are due by March 8.
March 3 - Tour
March 16 - 18
- American Craft Council Atlanta Show
Volunteer to work at the SEFAA booth in the Make It! Area.
Volunteer sign up
is open. No more than 3 hours, fun, and free entry to the show for the day!
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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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