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A newsletter of the Atlanta Knitting Guild: Bringing Atlanta's knitters together
Next meeting - October 5th - 7:30 p.m.
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President's message
Jill Vogin
Hi Friends,
It's finally here, our Fall Superstar weekend. I couldn't be more excited to be the President of our Guild at our biggest event of the year! Marly Bird will be here to educate and entertain us with her talent and vibrant personality. See below for more information about the weekend.
Thank you everyone who participated in last month's yarn raffle. We raised over $1600! The money we raised enhances our ability to pay for the church, storage facility, insurance and website. Thanks to the hard work of my predecessors, Margaret and Susan, we are in an extremely healthy financial position. The full financial report is below.
If you missed last month's raffle, don't worry...we have plenty more where that came from. Stay tuned! Thank you to board member Arlette Berlin, as well as her many helpers, who pulled off that successful event.
Lastly, we are going to be migrating our website to a new platform. This will be taking place as soon as the Superstar event is over. Our current host, Hopscotch, is being discontinued in November and so we are forced to make this move as quickly as possible. Our Communications VP, Claire Murata, is hard at work planning for the transition. Please have patience with us as we make this switch. Our plan is to move everything over as is and once we are sure the existing functionality is working smoothly, we will start enhancing the site.
Looking forward to seeing all of you on Thursday, October 5
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Yours in knitting,
Jill
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Programs
October Program
Marly Bird - we are very luck to have Marly Bird at the guild meeting on Thursday. Marly will be regaling us with stories about her times in the yarn industry. She will be talking about her new yarn and leaving plenty of time for questions and answers.
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Mini -
Workshops
Meg Fisher and Chris Curschmann
Thanks to all who participated in our informal poll of topics you would like to see as mini workshops. The most enthusiastic response was for a workshop on a variety of techniques that can be used on bear sweaters. We are planning such an event in mid to late October with several teachers and you can move from one to the other as desired. Those of you who are taking the Marly Bird class on entrelac might want to practice on a bear sweater and we'll have someone who can help with that. Please join us to help dress our large collection of naked bears! Stay tuned for details on future workshops. Meg Fisher/mini workshops
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Superstar Marly Bird
Kendra Fabry and Claudia Purgason
Greetings from the Superstar planning committee! We are nearing the end of our early bird pricing period for our October 5th-8th Superstar weekend with Marly Bird; you have until August 31st.
click here for our website with class descriptions and fees.
Fee schedule:
· Until August 31, 2017: AKG member: $65 per 3 hour class, all 5 classes: $290, non-member: $75 per 3 hour class, all 5 classes: $350.
· Sept 1, 2017 to October 5, 2017: AKG member: $75 per 3 hour class, all 5 classes: $345, non-member: $85 per 3 hour class, all 5 classes: $400.
We are at half way to our ticket sales goal. Remember that we have priced the classes as low as possible to break even if we meet our projection. It's a great benefit of AKG membership that we bring a national knitting superstar to us in Atlanta for classes lower then conventions and without the added cost of travel.
How can you help us reach our sales goal? Spread the word by posting about it on social media; the guild has a facebook page, a public facebook group, a ravelry group, and a meet up group. We made a flyer to be posted at local yarn shops and SEFA. In our final push we will be advertising on facebook, so if you see a post will you please "like" it and share it to your social network. If you are able to help with marketing, please email us at
majorworkshops@atlantaknittingguild.org
Special thanks to the library ladies who are bringing books related to the topics of Marly Bird's classes to the upcoming meetings.
If you are unable to attend a class, you will enjoy hearing from Marly when she presents at our general membership meeting on October 5th.
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Hospitality
Patty Malec and Susan Donges
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Members whose last name begins with the letters P =
B
should bring a snack (salty or sweet), or a dessert for the group to share. The Guild will provide coffee, hot tea, unsweetened iced tea, water, and paper products, as usual.
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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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Yarn Shop Spotlight
Yarning for Ewe
3220 Cobb Parkway SE
Suite 102
Atlanta, GA 30339
678-909-4963
www.yarningforewe.net
email: yarningforewe@gmail.com
Owners: Rieddhi and Maansi Shah
General info about the store: This month we spotlight Yarning for Ewe in the popular Cumberland Mall area on Cobb Parkway, a local and lively shop packed with fabulous yarns! Here you'll find that sisters Rieddhi and Maansi Shah have included a "who's who" of top name brands, including Blue Sky Fibers, MadelineTosh, Rowan, Spud & Chloe, Cocoknits, Anzula,
Woolfolk (coming soon) and
many more. The store also stocks
their own line of yarn (including beautiful silks!) called Vijay Fibers, produced by their mom, and they will special order for you if there is something specific you need. There is also an extensive line of knitting needles and accessories, books, lovely shop samples to try on, far too much to mention here, see the website for more!
Ongoing events: Classes are ongoing and are always changing, so please see the website but also call the shop to confirm the latest offerings. Classes are for all levels and are offered 7 days a week, by appointment and availability.
Hours:
Monday 11am - 8pm (Knit Night starts at 5pm!)
Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm
Special Events: There are ongoing in-store promotions, so call the shop to see what their latest specials are. Yarning for Ewe just wrapped up it's Anniversary Sale, mid-August to mid- September, but you can also look for things like a Black Friday sale, Christmas Party, Pajama Party, Kids' Camp and other promotions throughout the year.
Please check out this great store if you're in the Cumberland Mall/Cobb Parkway area. There's a lot to see as you may guess --
Rieddhi and Maansi stock a wide variety of fibers and tools for all levels and will be more than happy to help you!
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Karleen Buchholz, Carol Hassell and Elizabeth Halberstadt
Northside Hospital and Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children
I will be dropping off donated items to Northside Hospital for the Special Needs Nursery and other items to the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children. These organizations can use donated items any time of year and they are very excited and thankful when the items are delivered.
The Friends of Northside Hospital Auxiliary is having their Fall Luncheon the week of September 25 and it is extremely interesting hearing the news about all aspects of the
Hospital and what are their plans and updates on the various projects.
Homelessness and need have been around forever. The recent weather has been an excellent example how quickly things can change for a lot of people.
If anyone would like to donate items to Northside Hospital or the Women's Shelter, I will be happy to accept and deliver them throughout the year, I remember when the AKG gave the Trauma Bears directly to the police department and the various stories they passed on about how the children were so excited to see the bears and how different areas of the Police Department would come and try to take the donated items for their groups.
Thank each and everyone of you for any donation you have made and will make in the future.
Elizabeth Halberstadt
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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If you are a member or know of a member who has news that should be shared with our membership please send notices to
newsletter@atlantaknittingguild.org. 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 4-6 - Workshop
December 16 - Class
December 16 - Class
October 21 - Event
November 5 - November Program Meeting
Young Designers
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!
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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