This month’s meeting was led by Vice President Beth Soper as
our fearless leader has flown south.
Mandie Harrington (secretary) reported that the Membership
Directory was in progress but not everyone had responded. The draft was passed around for additions and
corrections. If you have not responded
to the directory survey please do so here
or email me with that information.
Barb Bettegnies (Special Programming Committee Chair) asked
for additional members to help with the Cat Bordhi committee and Peg Alexander
joined. Barb reports that Cat will split
her travel expenses between us, TNNA, and the Small Knits Symposium in Bloomington. She has asked Cat to extend her stay at the
hotel she is staying at for TNNA, and we are making headway toward choosing a
location.
Barb passed around a list of classes Cat offers and asked
people to vote. If you did not get to
the meeting but plan to attend the workshop in April, Titles are:
Lecture
Twenty Misleading Knitting Myths-Uncovered and set rightTime Travel to Peru - When modern and indigenous knitters join as one
Classes
Seven Super Skills Cowl
Cat’s Sweet Tomato Heel Socks
New Pathways for Sock Knitters
Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters
Personal Footprints for Rebellious Sock Knitters
Carefree Moebius Knitting
Advanced Moebius Knitting and Designing
Engineering New Stitch Patterns
Finding the Fountain of Fresh Knitting Ideas
Please let Barb or I know your preferences if you have them or if you need more information about any of the classes.
Guild members were asked to come to a decision on this
year’s charity knitting. Mary Ellen Lohr
suggested the Tit-a-long for breast cancer survivors. Beth brought up the orphanage in Zimbabwe which
we knit sweaters for last year has 60 more children newborn-12 in need of
sweaters. Marsha Callahan suggested Craine House, A halfway house on Michigan Road where
non-violent offenders can serve out their sentences with their children, and
the kids have a need of sweaters.
The options were discussed and it was agreed that we would
have two charity knitting projects, one small and one larger. The small project is the knitted
breasts. Sweaters will be collected for Zimbabwe until
June when they can be delivered, and sweaters after that will be for Craine
House.
The pattern for the knitted breasts is here.
They have a need for sizes C and larger, especially
sets. Please Please go ahead and fill them with polyester fiberfill and leave a tail,
but don’t close them. They will add a
weight and close them up. There is no
need for the icord or buttons.
We will get more information about the sweaters for Zimbabwe and
Craine house, but all sizes from newborn to youth large are needed.
At February’s meeting anyone who wants can bring yarn
(preferably worsted and washable) for sharing or swapping for these projects.
Barb also announced that we are tentatively scheduling Lucy
Neatby for Spring 2015. She will call
her to make more specific plans.
Mandie did the Tip of the Month, about weaving in ends of
yarn as you knit. I have a blog post
about that here.
Paula Winnig also mentioned the “helpful notes” on Ravelry
projects. So, if you are looking at a
pattern and you click the projects tab, you can sort by people who have marked
the project notes as helpful (they have a little life preserver on them). This is useful if you’re stuck, or if you’re
altering a pattern in a way someone else may have done before you.
Alice Bell did the Book Report this month on Nicky
Epstein’s Knitted Embellishments. She also brought in some beautiful
examples of her work from this book, including a gorgeous tree skirt with
various knitted trees all over it.
Laurie Hagans mentioned the yarn crawl Roving Indiana. You buy a passport for $5 from any of the 8 participating yarn shops. You get a 10% discount at each participating shop during the crawl, a chance to win the shop prize at each shop you visit, a portion of the pattern for the crawl (visit all 8 to get the full pattern), and if you make it to all 8 shops you leave the completed section of your passport to be entered in a prize drawing for the overall prize.
Participating shops are
The Clay Purl - Nashville
In a Yarn Basket - Bloomington,
Mass Ave - Indianapolis,
Nomad Yarns – Plainfield
Scotland Yarn - Shelbyville
Shabby Sheep and Ewe - Columbus
Sheep Street - Martinsville,
and Starstruck Cat Studio - Greenwood.
The event takes place from February 21st to March
2nd.
Joyce Mallette gave the program on attached i-cord. A tutorial can be found here. She
gave a tip to start the i-cord with 1 stitch instead of 3 and yo twice on the
first row to make a nicer beginning, and then S2KP at the end to 1 stitch
instead of binding off 3.
Lastly, we need more volunteers for Tip of the Month. Please let me know if you’d be willing to do
one of these for us.
