2009 - 2010 Calendar

October 15, 2009
Guest Speaker Veronik Avery’s knitwear designs have appeared in numerous books and magazines including Handknit Holidays, Interweave Knits, Women’s Day, and the website Knitty.com. Her latest book, Knitting in Classic Style-Classics in Knits will be featured.

October 22 - 25, 2009
Stitches East, Hartford, CT - Stitches features a range of activities including classes, lectures, fashion shows, banquets and the Stitches Market, an incredible shopping experience for any knitter or yarn enthusiast – make your arrangements to go on this road trip with Alanna Nelson of Tactile Travel at http://www.tactiletravel.com.

November 19, 2009
Master designer Deborah Newton takes the mystery out of the design process. She is known for her understanding of proportion and fit and her ability to create complex shapes in knitwear. She is the author of Designing Knitwear, Knits To Be Noticed, and has contributed her designs to numerous magazines. Learn how she adapts garment shapes and details in her knitwear designs. A special treat will be the introduction of her latest book Cabled Designs.

December 17, 2009
Annual Holiday Party - Cookie Swap with prizes - Gift donations to The Women’s Lunch Place:
In past years we have swapped gifts at the Holiday party. This is a nice idea, but it is difficult to find a gift when we are all frequent buyers at local yarn shops. Rather than give to each other, let us give to a woman in need. To participate bring a unwrapped gift to donate to a woman who frequents The Women’s Lunch Place…toiletries, hat, gloves, mittens, scarf… something cheerful to brighten a woman’s life.

January 21, 2010
Adriene Sloane is a fiber artist whose works have won prizes including the KGA Best in Show in Machine Knitting and been displayed in museums and galleries including The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Knitting shapes have long been defined by the human form. By moving the context of knitting from clothing geometry to sculpture, knitting becomes a medium with a link to a rich and complex fiber tradition that has the power of history behind it. To be able to turn a single strand of yarn into fiber building blocks with form and function, texture and color is also energizingly low tech.

February 18, 2010
In-house workshop

March 18, 2010
Annual Yarn Auction - Silent and bidding. Add to your yarn closet at bargain prices. Yarns, books, tools, etc. change ownership.

March 26 - 28, 2010
Weekend Retreat, Best Western Cold Spring Motel, Plymouth
Multiple workshops to choose from and exercises to keep you knitting in comfort with Ann Marie Turo.

April 15, 2010
"Think outside the yarn basket", a knitting contest and a chance to explore knitting a non-traditional item or a traditional item in a funky "fiber". Entries will be judged; there will be prizes.

May 20, 2010
TBD

Guest Speakers and Work Shop Presenters