Hello everyone!

July 7th is the 2nd program of our new “year”. This year, we have a theme! COLOR! We will be exploring the world of color in many different ways throughout the year. We started off with Miss Babs last month. In October, we will be hosting TheKnitWitch with her wonderful line of hand dyed yarn and yarn bowls! In February & June of next year, we’ll host more dyers and/or enthusiasts of color.

This is just a taste for what is to come. We have a game plan set for the entire coming year! (Planning, who knew?)

July’s meeting will be lead by our wonderful Charity Coordinator, Jeanie Hanover. Just as we did last July, we’ll be kicking off our Charity knitting efforts for the next year and learning all about the secondary charity we will be adding our efforts to. (That’s right, Hats for Alex will continue to be one of our charity efforts.)

We will be kicking off our charity project with a visit by Michelle Reader who is in charge of donations at the Florence Crittenton Services, Inc. These services provide social services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents, women, and their families. They are in need of machine washable and dryable washcloths that can be knitted or crocheted. Cristi will be bringing a sample pattern to the meeting. We also plan to keep making Hats for Alex. They were very happy to receive all of our hats. We are very excited about our charity projects for the coming year!

Each month we will be recommending a pattern to knit. July’s pattern will be the Garterlac cloth. With permission from the wonderful Dave of CriminyJickets, I will have copies ready for you at the meeting. Or you can download a copy now and get knitting! If you would like to get started at the meeting, please bring some dishcloth cotton and appropriate needles.

The Charlotte Knitting Guild will once again be hosting World Wide Knit In Public Day (WWKIP) this year on Saturday, June 13th.

We will be hosting WWKIP at the Books-A-Million at Cotswold Mall from 11AM - 3PM.   Please come join us if your are a knitter, crocheter, spinner or dyer!   We love all fiberists and hope you will join us.  We will have prize drawings every half hour.

Attached is a flyer you can download.

WWKIP DAY Flier

Also, if you can not make it to Saturdays event, Things Remembered & A Close Knit are sponsoring Knit-In at the Garden!

Date & Time:
Sunday, June 14th from 1 - 5 p.m.

Location: Daniel Stow Botanical Garden

General Garden Admission:
Members free, $10 adults, $9 seniors 60+, $5 children 4-12
1/2 off for knitters with yarn or needles!!!

Join us and celebrate Worldwide Knit in Public Day! The textile industry has been connected to plants for thousands of years, as both a source of fiber and dye. Bring your knitting needles and receive half-price admission. Experienced knitters will be on hand with extra needles and plenty of yarn and can assist beginners in learning how to knit. For more information, contact Things Remembered Framing and Yarn at 704-824-0473.

Hope you can join us for a great weekend of Knitting in public!

DaveyRoberson
Webmaster

Update 5/29/2009 - Just a reminder that we will have our next guild meeting on June 2nd!   Also, If you have not completed the survey, (we are asking everyone on our email list to complete the survey, not just guild members) to give us your feedback to make your guild better!   Please use the link below to complete the survey by June 5th.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB2296KNDAB6R

Davey
Webmaster

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Hi All,

Our next guild meeting will be on Tuesday, June 2nd and
Babs Ausherman of Miss Babs Hand-Dyed Yarn fame will be with us for our June 2nd Guild Meeting.

She will speak with us generally about her dyeing process, and more specifically about selecting color combinations. She will be bringing sneak peeks of colors she has been developing AND patterns that her sister has been developing. PLUS…a yarn tasting with samples made from her yarns and colorways!

This time will also give you a chance to touch and feel her yarn. (We know you love to do that…we do too!)

She will have some yarn for sale but not nearly her full selection. You can preview all of her current selections by visiting her website. ( If the link for website does not work for you, copy and paste the following into your browser address bar: http://www.missbabs.com )

Join us for what is sure to be a wonderful evening and a chance to meet Miss Babs and her wonderful hand-dyed yarn!

Also - Due to the weather, we had low attendance at our May meeting. As a result, we did not have enough members for a quorum, so we did not elections. We will have elections at our June 2 meeting. We are still looking for nominees for treasurer and special events chair. If you are interested, please contact Rachel at racheldridge AT hotmail Dot com.

See you at the next Guild Meeting!

Davey Roberson
Webmaster

Registration Fee:  $7.00

Date:  May 16, 2009

Time:  7:15pm - End of Game

Location:  Knights Stadium

Stitch-N-Pitch! Yes, it is true, join us for a fun night of knitting, watching some baseball, socializing with other knitters and their families, and a grand finale of fireworks!!!

Charlotte Knights -vs- Toledo Mud Hens.  The Charlotte Knights are teaming up with Baskets of Yarn, the Charlotte Knitting Guild and The National Needlearts Association to celebrate the needlearts.  It is Pink Jersey night for the team and a portion of all tickets will be donated to help fight breast cancer.  The game includes a fireworks display at the end of the game.  Bring your knitting and join us for a fun filled night of stitching and pitching.

The tickets are $7 for lawn seat admission.  Brink a blanket (NO CHAIRS ALLOWED) and you are welcome to bring the whole family with you too! There will also be upper deck seating at no extra cost if you do not want to sit on the grass.  We will have door prizes and goodies for all knitters each inning, and the prizes will get better the longer you stay!

If you are going to the game you have the option of buying a Pink Jordana Paige Knitters Satchel or a Peace, Love, Knit T-Shirt at 20% off to wear and carry to the game with you.

We will again be having a BOYB tailgate party at Baskets of Yarn from 4 until 6:30ish.  Baskets of Yarn will be providing the chicken with sides provided by tailgaters.  After the food is gone we will carpool over to the stadium for a night of fun, friends, knitting and baseball!!

Wear your favorite knitted summer tank or the number of your favorite Knights player!  Don’t forget to carry your pink Jordana Paige Knitting Satchel (available at Baskets of Yarn), your Peace, Love Knit T-shirt, or your Knitting Guild T-shirt!!

To purchase your tickets, visit www.basketsofyarn.com

Davey Roberson
Webmaster

Hello all,

At our meeting this week, we asked our members to take a brief survey to help the board determine future programs, offerings and direction of the Charlotte Knitting Guild.   Please take a few moments to give us your feedback on the guild.

The link below will take you to our survey powered by Zoomerang.  You results will only be shared with the board members.   Thank you!!

Davey Roberson
Webmaster

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2296KNDAB6R

Wow!   It seems that it was just yesterday we were at our April meeting learning how to make Shrinky Dinks! Well bring those new shrinky dinks along, as one of items in our May program will be a needle tasting!    We will also be voting on Board Officers for 2009/2010, presenting this years winners of our Knitted Guild Awards, and needle tasting!

Bring along your favorite needles to share with the group.   We suggest casting on a few stitches of yarn or using a creative stitch marker to identify your needles.  We will pass around the needles to let other try them out.

Rebecca from Baskets of Yarn will be attending to let us know about Stich n’ Pitch 2009 as well!   More details on SnP will be in another post.

Our meeting will be in the usual place, Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd.  We will meet in the upstairs parlor.  (Second entrance on the left if you are driving away from city center.)

See you there!

Davey Roberson
Webmaster

Elain McCarn from The Needlecraft Center passed on some great news about an event up in Davidson on Saturday, May 2nd.

Please join us on the lawn for a picnic as we celebrate Davidson Town Day. Bring a chair, and a food item to share (paper products and lemonade will be provided) and of course, your project! We want to have so many stitchers that we spill out onto the sidewalk! (Don’t worry, Main Street will be closed!)

A coupon for 20% off, will be available at The Needlecraft Center for purchases on Saturday, May 2nd ONLY. You may pick up your coupon the day of the picnic.

See the attached flyer for details!

Town Day Flyer (Adobe PDF)

See you there!!!

Davey Roberson
Webmaster

UPDATE 04/17/09 - we have just 10 seats left for the bus! If you are planning on attending and haven’t reserved your seat, please use the PayPal option only since we can not gaurantee a mailed check will we received in time. If you have aleready mailed a check and have not received confirmation, pleas email us at info@charlotteknittingguild.org.

Thanks!

Davey
Webmaster
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UPDATE 04/15/09 - If you mailed a check to us for the bus payment, please email info@charlotteknittingguild.org with your email address for confirmation!
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It’s not too late to hop on the Bus to Stitches South!

We still have 16 seats left. We really want a full bus since it helps the guild. If you haven’t already, please share this with all the knitters you know and sign up yourself. We have a great, diverse group going.

Here’s the details again –
Saturday, April 25
Load at 6:30 a.m. Depart at 7 a.m. from Providence Baptist Church.
Arrive in Atlanta at 11 a.m. for Stitches South, a huge yarn and fiber marketplace with demos, classes, book signings and more.
Leave Atlanta at 5:30 p.m. and arrive back at the church at approximately 9:30 p.m.

$24 which includes the market entrance fee. Use the Paypal button at www.charlotteknittingguild.com or send a check to Jane Johnson at 4234 Quail Hunt Lane Charlotte, NC 28226, payable to Charlotte Knitting Guild.

Food and drink is allowed on the bus, but no glass containers. As for now, we are not planning on stopping for food. You will receive a confirmation message.

We will see you on the bus!

Davey
Webmaster

Hello All,

Reminder that we will be meeting tonight at 6:30.

We will be accepting payments for the Stitches Bus on April 25th and accepting entries for the Knitting Guild Awards.

Amy Rogers will also be bringing knitting books for sale. They are part of a large donation to the public library and are selling for 25 and 50 cents each. Nice hardbacks from Vogue and others.

Our program tonight will be taught by Cristi and we will be making Shrinky Dinks! We’ll show you how to make custom stitch markers for your project.

See our website for more info.
www.charlotteknittingguild.com

Davey
Webmaster

 Update! April 2, 2009
We have added a button for you to use to send the payment through PayPal. Click on the Stitches Bus Payment link to the left under the pages section to use this payment option.

Davey
Webmaster

Original Post
Hi All,

The Charlotte Knitting Guild will be sponsoring a charter bus to Stitches South in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, April 25th!!

The fee for the bus is $24 and includes market entrance fee

 Only 45 seats are available!!! 

Pay through Paypal at www.charlotteknittingguild.com or send a check to Jane Johnson, 4234 Quail Hunt Lane Charlotte, NC 28226, payable to Charlotte Knitting Guild.

Depart from Providence Baptist Church (4921 Randolph Road) at 7 a.m.  Loading starts at 6:30 a.m.

Arrive in Atlanta at 11 a.m. at the Cobb Galleria Centre for Stitches South 2009.  Leave Atlanta at 5:30 p.m. and arrive in Charlotte at 9:30 p.m.

Don’t miss out on the biggest yarn and fiber marketplace in the South with demos, classes and book signings.

Sponsored by Universal Yarn.

You can also download the flyer to email to friends and family.  

Stitches Bus Flyer