Program Notes Update

Due to a miscommunication, the Program Info in the December newsletter was incorrect.  Sorry about that.


 
At tomorrow night's December meeting, we will all bring a dish to pass and the Secret Santa projects will be exchanged.  We will also kick off the Ambiente Modular Pillow (free from Skacel) KAL project so bring your yarn, needles, and pattern to get started.







At January's meeting representatives of a few of the charities we knit for will be there to tell us about their work in the community.  We will also have information so we can prepare for the steeking program presentation in April.  Yikes!  I don't know if I'm ready to cut into my knitting but I'm willing to watch and learn.

Another Knit-Away Coming In Spring

3^rd Annual Knit-Away at Washington House Inn in Cedarburg, WI April 1st -3^rd.  

You probably don't want to miss this!

Come with us to the historic town of Cedarburg with its main street full of specialty shops and restaurants.  Spend a couple days with a bunch of your knitting friends.  This is not an organized, everybody goes everywhere in a group, trip.  We have the use of their basement meeting room for the two days we're there.  If you decide to go shopping or go for a walk, get up, and wander off.  If someone else wants to go along, they can.  If you need a nap, be our guest.  When it's time for a meal, a few people go here, others go there, still others go someplace else.  Like I said, it's fluid.  If you want to spend two days just knitting, that's what you do, just don't skip

the 5 PM wine and cheese reception in the Inn's Gathering Room or the full breakfast (and I mean FULL!) from 7-10 AM. 

In case you run out and need more yarn, the Grafton Yarn Store is only three miles away.

Reserve a room by calling (262) 375-3550 and asking for the Potter block.  (Room rates included in the body of the group email.)

Knit-Away Day Is Coming!

Knit-Away Day is on Saturday, October 19^th, from 9AM to 3:30PM at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens - Green Bay Botanical Gardens. 

 

Everyone should bring a wrapped gift, usually something to do with knitting, but people have brought wine, etc., spend around $10, but don't put your name on it. We will then have our annual gift grab (Chinese Christmas, for those who know it by that name).

 

Go to Perfect Potluck sign up for a brunch item to bring. Coffee and water will be provided.

We will have our corporate sponsors there with yarn to show and sell, including yarn that can be used

for the upcoming pillow KAL.




(photos from 2014 & 2015)

Something New for December!

Somebody, I don't know who (probably Carol), had a great idea for our December meeting/holiday potluck.  Instead of bringing a dishcloth to exchange, we're going to go through our stash, find some interesting yarn that you'd like to knit into a hat, scarf, or cowl (no sweaters or afghans, please), and then find a pattern to go with it.

Now the fun begins.

Bring the yarn and pattern to the October meeting in a brown paper bag (stapled closed) with the form that MaryLu emailed to us all after the September meeting inside too.  

• Mark on the outside of the bag if it's a Hat, Scarf, or Cowl and the level of difficulty--Easy, Moderate, or Difficult.

• Please have the yarn wound.  It doesn't matter if it is wound by machine or by hand.

At the meeting we will put the bags out and you will pick a new one.  You'll be knitting a hat/scarf/cowl for another member.  Shh, don't tell!  You have two (2) months to complete it and, at the December meeting, you give the item you knit to whoever it came from, and you will receive the project that you brought all completed and gorgeous.  That night its Mystery Knitter will be revealed to you.

For the program in October we'll view the Philospher's Wool Fair Isle video, which is a festival of late 1990's style sweaters with valuable Fair Isle hints and tips thrown in, so bring something easy to knit on while the video plays.

***Also at the October meeting, please bring any items you've knitted for Julie Lefevre's request for things for the siblings of young cancer patients.  Hats, purses, scarves, mitts, even Hacky Sacks--make up something for these often forgotten victims of cancer in families.

In November we're having a yarn swap/sale/giveaway, so as I went through (part of) my stash last weekend I found a single skein with a scarf pattern already inside.  Score!  So that's going into the bag with the pattern that I read through to make sure it isn't too complicated or challenging and the form.  It'll get stapled so I can't second guess myself and will wait for the October meeting for the next step in its destiny.


Doesn't this sound like fun?  (As always, participation is optional.)

September Meeting Coming Up

Next Thursday, September 19 is the next BLKG meeting and here's what our president Carol had to say in her letter in the latest newsletter:

Our September meeting will be primarily business. I’ll present the 2020 budget and a mini “State of the Guild” report. Please give some thought to “What I Want Our Guild To Be”. We’re eager to hear ideas about the next steps for our Guild. Where do we want our Guild to be a year from now? 5 years from now? I look forward to seeing you there
 

I'll be there at 5:30 because I rashly agreed to be Knit Doctor at the September meeting so if you need help with a project bring it along and hopefully together you and I can figure out how to proceed.   Even if that means turning your knitting back into yarn balls.

For Those Entering the Fair...

The time to carry your well-knitted offerings to the Fairgrounds, pin on your entry tags, and leave them there to the tender mercies of the judges.

Entries are received in the Exhibit Building on Monday evening from 6:00 - 8:00 PM or Tuesday morning from 8:30 - 10:00 AM.



All of my pieces have had their overnight soak in Eucalan, then been patted and pinned into shape to dry.



Ooh, I'm so excited.  I have to confess that I was never in 4-H so I am inordinately tickled to be entering the Fair.  I will cherish my ribbons until the end of my days.

Fair Entries

The deadline for entering items in the Brown County Fair is coming up.  It's Monday, July 15 so you've got the weekend to get your things organized and get on the Fair website to register them.  They don't have to be finished by July 15 because the date to take the entries to the fairgrounds is Monday, August 12 from 6:00-8:00 PM and on Tuesday, August 13 from 8:30-10 AM..  Click on "Exhibitors" on the top, then scroll down to "Exhibitor Information", then down to "Entry and Judging Schedule" to find dates, etc.

I've been scouring the closets for things I've finished, that I think are worthy of being entered, and that might earn a ribbon.  When I laid it all out this afternoon to take its picture I realized that it all needs a nice soak in wool wash and blocking.  The cardi will need de-pilling too.


I hope that at least a few Guild members decide to be brave and enter the Fair.  It's fun and great for a person's ego.

I hope to see you next Thursday evening in the park!