December 8th, 2017_Holiday Party!!! Patton Township Building_ 6:30 – 8:30 This is the annual covered dish gathering, featuring congenial dinner and the Fiber Gift Exchange. If you wish to participate in the gift exchange, bring a wrapped gift (fiber or knitting related totaling approx $20) to put into the pool for the drawing. Bring a gift, get a gift. There will be no fisticuffs or grappling over the perceived best gift. All in good fun. Dinnerware provided by Guild. The Guild is known for excellent food offerings, bring on your best!
November 2, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM. This month, Susan Magargee will present a brief program on slip stitch patterns as an introduction to mosaic knitting. Slip Stitch is a way to fool the eye of the observer into seeing something that looks much, much more complicated to knit than it really is. Using only one color per row, slip stitching allows color patterns to emerge using color from the row below. We will casually explore this method through example allowing its ease and usefulness to come to light. There will be an opportunity to knit along to experience various aspects of slip stitch patterning. Bring several colors of matching weight yarns in colors that please along with needles appropriate for the weight. One swatch uses double points, but most are fine with single points. If you like, start several swatches of about 15 – 20 stitches using one color, then purl one row leaving a long yarn for working the swatch. We’ll be using two or three colors for each swatch over several rows. We’ll adapt as we go.
October 5, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM. Our program this month will once again be presented by Chelsey Fisher who will enlighten us on the mysteries of Steeking. Steeking is a method for knitting an article in the round that later is cut at a designated place to allow it to be opened up to insert a button band or zipper or to attach sleeves to a garment. This enables, for example, the knitting of a Fair Isle piece that is all knit stitch without purls that can be made into a cardigan by cutting, WITH SCISSORS, at the designated stitches and binding off the loose stitches to form the opening that doesn’t unravel. You’ll see…
Here are Chelsey’s instructions for the workshop sample: Materials: Worsted yarn (something not slippery), stitch markers, a contrast color yarn, a knitting needle (double points or circular), crochet hook that fits the yarn, darning needle, scissors. With the Main Yarn and double pointed or 16-inch circular needles, cast on 13 stitches, place marker, cast on 25 more stitches. [38 stitches] Place a different color marker and join for working in the round, being careful to not twist the stitches. Round 1: Knit to next marker, sm, p1, k10, p1, knit to end of round. Repeat Round 1 until piece measures about 4 inches from cast-on edge. Bind off.
September 7, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM.
This month we will have a reprise of Bonnie Ottaviani’s Tension and Pain Relief Strategies which she presented during For the Love of Fiber_2017. Do you push for “just one more row?” Does that additional row give you tense shoulders, aching hands and wrists? Do you sit for hours at your spinning wheel only to feel strained or stuck when you do stand up? Do you have aches and pains from working on a project too long? This Knit & Yoga session will show how to avoid those project stoppers while sharing your passion for knitting, crocheting, or spinning with other yarn and fiber lovers. Bring your current works-in-progress and while you work, you’ll learn important strategies and a little yoga to avoid repetitive stress injuries while sharing our passion for all things fiber! The mission is to inspire you to be physically and mentally healthy to pursue the activities you love through both yoga and a healthy lifestyle.
August 3, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM. Our program this month will be presented by Chelsey Fisher who will show various methods of casting on and binding off, with tips as to which projects they are best suited. Bring scrap yarn and suitable needles for the practice of these useful techniques.
July 6, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM. This week Megan Tomkiel will present a program featuring how to achieve the Twisted Garter Stitch Cuff, a decorative edge for necklines, sleeve edges, or sock tops. Bring scrap yarn and needles to match, along with a yarn needle to finish the join.
June 1, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM.
Time for the bi-annual election of Guild officers. A quick look at the slate of candidates for President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary and a vote by current guild members. Our program will be presented by Cathy Riemer, a reprise of the Love of Fiber class, A Different Way to Approach Kitchener Stitch. Bring with you materials described in this link: Kitchener Stitch–Materials
May 4, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM.
Back to skills…Melissa Carpenter will present Fiber Preparation: Worsted and Woolen with a demo of the ways from fleece to spinning of the two radically different yarn production methods.
April 6, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM.
Now that our annual Love of Fiber Event has occurred, we can get back to the business of improving our skills in the knitting line. We will have a recap of the Big Day and move on toward planning our future programs for each month. With a sigh of relief, we will sit and knit at last!
March 2, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM.
We are working on finishing touches for our annual For the Love of Fiber event, to be held at The Match Factory on March 18, 2017. The anticipation is growing and some prep is needed. We will have social knitting time, too!
February 2, 2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM.
We are gearing up for our annual For the Love of Fiber event, to be held at The Match Factory on March 18, 2017. If you have them, bring your name badges from last year. More to come. We will have show-and-tell and social knitting!
January 5,2017 Patton Twp Building 6:30-8:30 PM
Monthly Guild meeting, official business begins at 7 PM
This is the time to regroup from the holidays and make purposeful strides toward FLoF organization. Plenty of time for social knitting as we contemplate the agenda of techniques to learn this coming year.
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