Happy fall, Minnesota Knitters' Guild members!

Since the last issue of the Cable Gram, we've wel-comed the first signs of fall and--perhaps more excitingly--three new board members: Amy Hawley, Susanna Johns and Kathy Lewinski!

You may have noticed an extra person on the roster. What was formerly "Membership Di-rector" was split into two roles: one for at-tracting new members (Marketing Director) and one for retaining members (Member Ex-perience Director).

In addition to finding their contact infor-mation on the members' section of knitters.org, here is a bit more about each of our new board members:

Amy Hawley, a.k.a. AmyH66

Programming Director

Amy was taught to knit by her grand-

mother when she was seven years old. Her grandmother needed help making small scarfs for a church bazaar, and thus began Amy's love for charitable knitting. Amy temporarily put her knit-ting on the back burner when she got married and started a family, but in 2006 she took up knitting again, taking classes at local knitting stores and chal-lenging herself to learn more tech-niques. Amy has a project with her wherever she goes, plus many more on needles at home. She loves all things cables and has visited over 20 yarn shops throughout Minnesota.

Susanna Johns, a.k.a. suzeq22knits Marketing Director

Susanna assumes that she learned to knit from her grandma, with her mom as the backup tutor, but she was so young she cannot actually remember. As a kid, she became fascinated by the story of Molly (of American Girl Doll fame) knitting socks during WWII.

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INSIDE

Volume 32, Number 3 Newsletter of the Minnesota Knitters’ Guild Fall 2016

Sheri Braun, President

MN Knitters’ Guild

From the President

Knitting in the News: Make time to “Knitflix” ......... 2

Knitting in the Wild ................................................. 2

Knitting in the Northland ......................................... 3

At Recent Meetings: July: A Conversation with an Anonymous Knitter ................................................. 4

At Recent Meetings: August —Somali Nomadic Weaving ................................................................... 5

MN State Fair Winners ............................................ 6

State Fair Showcase ................................................. 7

Service Committee: Knitting Grandmas and Friends................................................................................. 8

Knitting Around: Fall River Fibers, Hot Springs, South Dakota ........................................................... 9

Charting the Future ............................................... 11

Northern Lights Affiliate Meeting Schedule ........... 11

Coming Up at MKG............................................... 11

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It seems inevitable in today’s multi-tasking world that fiber arts and streaming services such as Netflix would become a popular duo. A recent issue of the Boston Globe highlighted this phenomenon which has been dubbed “knitflixing.” Binge watching a favorite television series while knitting can be relaxing and a great way to catch up on projects. Knitting itself can even be found on Netflix, such as an epi-sode of the Norwegian show called Slow TV that features two epi-sodes — one 4 hours and one eight hours — of real-time knitting.

Netflix is even getting in on the movement by providing knitting pat-terns for socks that are inspired by some of their original program-ming, such as House of Cards. The patterns include instructions on how to embed sensors (see right) that will detect if you’ve fallen asleep, at which point the socks will pause your show. The “install accelerometer” part of the pattern can easily be skipped if you don’t want to break out your computer programming skills. Visit http://makeit.netflix.com/netflix-socks and make a pair of socks today!

Knitting in the News: Make Time to “Knitflix” by Caitlin Norris

Later, as a high school exchange student in Austria, Susanna was finally taught to knit socks by her host mother. From there, knitting eventually became her primary hobby. Susanna is grateful for the friendships she has gained from the knitting groups she has been a part of over the years. As the Marketing Director, she is excited about the opportunity to promote (well, let's be honest, brag) about the mission and the talent of the members of the Guild.

Kathy Lewinski, a.k.a. katbaro Member Experience Director

Kathy has always been into crafts, but didn’t teach herself to knit until after college. She really got hooked while living in San Francisco when a friend opened a knitting store. To pitch in, Kathy started knitting up fun (and odd) things for window displays, as well as teaching classes. In the last couple of years, she has started designing her own knitting pat-terns (many of them available for free!) with toys and mittens being her primary obses-sions.

We look forward to having a full, dynamic board that continues to serve our membership of 720 and counting. And of course, my continued gratitude goes out to the existing board members, committee volunteers and appointed positions who keep the Guild strong.

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From the President, continued

Knitting in the Wild

Members of the charitable knitting group “Hats for the Home-less” demonstrated knitting as part of Scandinavian festival at the Midtown Farmers’ Market on Sept. 10. The group knits on Monday afternoons at Ingebretsen’s Scandinavian market, 1601 W. Lake Street in Minneapolis. Hats can be dropped off at Ingebretsen’s and also at StevenBe.

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Knitting in the Northland By Shannon Laing

I was pondering a reread of The Things They Carried, a book by Tim O’Brien about the things – physical, psychological, and emotion-al – that troops carried during the Vietnam War. Within days of picking this book up again, our Northern Lights Affiliate used “What do you always carry in your knitting bag?” as an icebreaker before our meeting. Whether consciously or no, things in life often occur coincidentally, and as I watched homes in Baton Rouge being flooded and people grabbing valued possessions before leaving as quickly as possible, the question of “What would I carry?” became my latest philosophi-cal thread.

Some knitters are minimalists and carry only their current project and perhaps an additional needle or some markers to complete it. Some have well-provisioned bags with items to fill any knitting contingency, complete with wheels on the bottom to make toting things about easier. But most of us stick with the as-sumed essentials – project, measuring tape, scissors, markers, gauge/needle measurement tool, and perhaps an extra needle for cables or smaller-gauge ribbing on the project at hand. However, it’s the extra items we all seem to tuck in our bags that have me intrigued. What do those additional items tell us about our-selves?

I almost always have lip balm, tissues, and a fingernail file in my bag. On the surface, it’s because I don’t like to be uncomfortable while I knit. I get preoccupied and find it difficult to get into the Zen of my knitting when raggedy nails catch on the yarn and dry lips start crack-ing. And, if I’m to be honest, I find it just as distracting when there is someone who sniffs incessantly for want of a tissue as when I need one myself. It makes me happy (and them more comfortable, too) to offer one from my bag. But if I’m going to unpack the psycho-logical baggage in my knitting kit, I would have to admit that I carry these things because I don’t like to be seen as lacking common

sense by being unprepared.

I have also thought about the things I would grab to take with me should some unexpected disaster occur. There is “that” folder of papers I wouldn’t want to have to replace, a big old box of photos, and my knitting bag to anchor me during the time of uproar. Then again, there are also those two skeins of mink yarn I haven’t decided what to do with yet... and as long as I’m after that yarn, I suppose it would make sense to grab the skein of Suri alpaca and my holder with all of the circular needles not currently on projects… and, oh yeah, I suppose I’d grab the fella and the dog, too. Priorities, people.

But of all the things we have in our knitting bag, I think the most important thing most of us carry with our knitting is a promise. A promise to ourselves to put our best self into that project. A promise to finish what we start. A promise to give ourselves the gift of crea-tion.

Sometimes, due to time, money, or emotional deficits, we occasionally break some of these promises, but more often than not, we keep them. And when we do – when we create a piece of love, warmth, and beauty for some-one – sometimes, that well-worn hat, that sweater Grandma knit, the slippers that keep your feet as warm as a hug – these things be-come what they carry.

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As part of the picnic held at the July meet-ing, the Guild welcomed a knitter who put on a (handknitted) beard and swore us to secrecy. It was Knitteapolis, Minnesota’s only professional yarn bomber – meaning that she gets paid for planned installations of guerilla knitting. (A large yarn bomb that Knitteapolis created for the Roseville Oval Skating Rink was featured in the Winter 2015 issue of the Cable Gram.)

Her yarn bombing started as individual ex-ploits, and as a form of guerilla art that is tac-tile and engages the public. People started to hear about her yarn bombing, however, and offered to pay her for her work. At this point, Knitteapolis has been successful enough to quit her day job.

For one of her first paid commissions, she yarn bombed a wing of the Mall of America in red on behalf of the American Heart Associa-tion. They only gave her 11-days notice, so she had to enlist the help of lots of other knit-ters to create pieces for the installation. She also teaches knitting at the Boys and Girls Club.

Knitteapolis still does more spontaneous yarn bombings, sometimes with surprising reac-tions. She recently covered a bench along Lake of the Isles and subsequently received an e-mail from someone who had seen it. It turned out that this woman had just had the

bench installed in memory of her late hus-band. He was an avid knitter and the yarn bombing was done in his favorite colors. Knitteapolis also creates little square monsters and, like Elmo, likes to see where they end up. A friend who travels internationally has given her monsters to delighted children in Africa, Thailand and many other places.

Currently, Guild members are helping to knit flowers and other small pieces for a yarn bombing that will be unveiled later this fall. Kathy Lewinski, who is a new member of the MKG board, had patterns and yarn at the July meeting that Guild members can use for this project. Additional information is available on the Guild’s Ravelry page.

She says that she usually installs her yarn

bombs in daylight and doesn’t try to hide what she is doing. If you see someone with an at-tractive handknit beard fiddling with some knitting around a stop sign, bike rack or bench, stop and lend her a hand – or a needle.

At Recent Meetings: July — A Conversation with an Anonymous Knitter by Elizabeth Watkins

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In August, the Guild wel-comed four resident artists from the Somali Museum of Minnesota along with two staff people from the organi-zation. The artists – Hawa Aden, Halwo Duale, Amina Shire and Ardho Ismail – are all experts in the traditional form of weaving, called kebed, that is used for practi-cal and decorative purposes in Somalia. Staff member Ami-na Muse interpreted for the women, who all worked dili-gently while talking and ex-plaining what they were do-ing. Staff member Sarah Larsson showed some slides and introduced the program.

Because families and clans moved so fre-quently, the kebed method does not require spindles, wheels, looms or other equipment. Traditionally, fibers from grass or tree bark are used as the medium for weaving. Here in the United States, however, they’ve adapted their techniques to use the multi-colored yarn available to them. Using their hands, feet, and sometimes even their mouths, they ply to-gether strands to form a thicker rope. The plied ropes of fiber are folded in half length-wise to form the warp while other strands are woven under and over horizontally to create the fiber.

After every horizontal row, the warp fibers are pulled and tugged to keep the strands packed tightly together. Patterns can be cre-

ated by dying fibers with flowers and plants.

In Somalia, kebed, of different sizes cover the walls and floors of their nomadic huts. Exposed to the elements, the mats must be re-placed every four to five years. The Somali Museum of Minnesota contains an example of a tradition-al hut, covered with mats woven in a variety of styles. Much like knitting, weaving is a social activi-ty. Weavers gather together in groups to drink tea, converse and weave larger-scale pieces.

To keep the tradition alive, these artists teach weaving classes at the Somali Museum. Although Somali youth are en-couraged to attend the classes, anyone may attend. Much of the instruction is provided through demonstration, so there isn’t too much of a language barrier.

The artists worked steadily as they talked, and by the evening’s end had created several lengths of plied cord and several inches of woven fabric. One of the women said that she knit when she was younger and offered to teach weaving to Guild members. It was a reminder that knitting and textiles really do bring people together from many parts of the globe.

The Somali Museum of Minnesota 1516 E. Lake St. Suite 011 Minneapolis, MN 55407 612-234-1625

At Recent Meetings: August — Somali Nomadic Weaving

by Elizabeth Watkins

Women preparing cords for weaving using their toes to grip one end of the fiber while they twisted the other end.

The Minnesota Knitters' Guild is no longer accepting cash and check payments. The motion was made and passed by the Board of Directors as a means to keep the future of The Guild sus-tainable. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to us at infomaster@knitters.org.

A Reminder...

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Guild members once again swept many of the ribbons at the 2016 State Fair.

The MKG awards four special prizes:

Best overall shawl — Mary Hamre

Best mittens — Bonnie Esplie

Best afghan — Kim LaBerge

Best hat — Deepa Nirmal

Winners of these four awards receive a Guild membership for 2017.

Additional Guild member who received awards are:

Alice Adams: light-weight shawlette

+Bonnie Esplie: *texture mittens, plain hat, *plain socks, *open work/texture socks

Theresa Francisco: cape/poncho

+Mary Hamre: *light-weight shawl, adult plain cardigan, felted bag, *infant’s hat

Connie Iverson: *+adult color -pattern pullover

Amy Jabas: texture mittens, plain hat, open work/texture socks, holiday sock

Phyllis Kiihn: not otherwise specified

Kristine King: adult limited-use texture pull-over, felted bag

Lotta Kiuru-Ribar: infant/toddler sweater

Sharon L Knutson: not otherwise specified -wearable

Paula Knutzen: infant’s sweater

+Kim Laberge: *one-piece afghan, color-pattern mittens, *child’s plain sweater, *child’s color-pattern sweater, holiday sock

+Sharon Laurel: sleeveless vest, infant’s sweat-er, adult sweater or vest, not otherwise specified

Kathy Lewinski: color -pattern mittens, *not oth-erwise specified-nonwearable

Lynn Maderich: adult jacket/coat

Marja Mullings: not otherwise specified-wearable

Lucy Norman: *light-weight shawlette, *adult plain pullover, *adult limited-use color-pattern cardigan

Roseanne Oberlander: adult limited-use texture pullover

+Tracy Pokrzywa: medium-weight shawl, light-weight shawl, *adult color-pattern pullover

Susan Rainey: *heavy-weight scarf, medium-weight scarf, texture hat, limited-use color-pattern hat, *adult plain cardigan, *adult limited-use tex-ture pullover, adult jacket/coat, *lunch cloth

SueEllen Riese: heavy-weight scarf, adult plain pullover, not otherwise specified-wearable

Tania Richter: medium-weight shawl, light-weight shawl

Amy Roos: *heavy-weight shawl, medium-weight shawl, light-weight shawl, light-weight shawlette

Ellen Silva: adult limited-use texture cardigan

Anna Smegal: adult plain pullover , adult plain cardigan, adult limited-use texture pullover

Bonnie Swierzbin: one-piece afghan, infant’s hat

Susan Traczyk: cape/poncho, child’s texture sweater

Umo Udo: sleeveless vest, adult jacket/coat

Elizabeth Watkins: *infant’s sleepwear

Jennifer Williams: texture socks

MKG Minnesota State Fair Winners

*First place in category +Winner of one or more of the sweepstakes or special awards

Connie Iverson's prize-winning sweater

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Knitter: Ellen Silva, Twinsetellen on Ravelry

Item and ribbon: Lover of 5 Sweater, 2nd place in limited-use texture cardigan

Pattern and designer: Ellen’s original design

Yarn: Sueno Worsted by Hikoo from Skacel

Comments: Ellen reported that designer Shirley Paden led a free design-along through her Ravelry group. The author of The Kniterwear Design Workshop, Paden coached participants through finding inspiration for a design, sketching, swatching, selection of stitch motifs and writing up the pattern. Paden then held webinar meetings to discuss progress, provide feedback and problem-solve. Ellen wants to make some modifications to simplify the design and also wants to make it in a lighter yarn before eventually publishing the pattern.

Knitter: Kim LaBerge, Luckydogknits on Ravelry

Item and ribbon: Yellow Submarine Sweater, 1st place in child’s color-pattern sweater

Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock

Comments: Kim won several ribbons, including a sweepstakes for best afghan, but selected this sweater as her favorite. She used Susan Rainey’s invisible stranding method, which allowed her to carry the floats without any pops of color showing through on the front of the sweater. Kim adapted the main motif from the Yellow Submarine Cowl by designer Yellowcosmo. She added some waves to transition from under-the-sea to a lighter blue representing the sky.

Advice to other knitters: “Look at things differently and maybe use a pattern from one garment and use it in another. Be willing to switch things up and push yourself to come up with something that is your own.”

Knitter: Peggy Mann Rinehart, PMRinehart on Ravelry

Item and ribbon: Vintage Dale of Norway cardigan re-released in the book Ret-ro; 2nd place for limited use, color pattern cardigan

Yarn: Dale Garn Daletta

Comments: The colors were inspired by Bohus designer Kerstin Olsson’s Royal Blue cardigan

Advice to other knitters: “I give the same advice to anyone venturing on replicat-ing a pattern: Swatch, swatch, swatch. Swatch for gauge; swatch for color; swatch for stranded knitting, and swatch for stockinet knitting. Then monitor gauge continually!”

Knitter: Amy Jabas, Knittinginpublic on Ravelry

Item and ribbon: “Mix it Up Christmas Stocking Stranded Colorwork,” 3rd place holiday stocking

Yarn: Lion Brand Wool-Ease

Comments: Amy describes this pattern as a “choose-your-own” adventure. Designer Terry Morris in-cluded motifs that all fit within the width of the stocking but had varying numbers of rows. The knitter chooses which motifs to use. Amy tried to use colors in consecutive motifs to minimize the number of ends to weave in. This project was made for the Guild’s current charity project.

Advice in making this project: Amy intends to line the stocking with fabric when she gets it back from the fair. This will help keep small objects from poking through the fabric and will also help keep the stocking from stretching out. Amy also threaded a piece of fabric seam binding tape through the hang-ing loop to keep it from stretching out.

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As many of you know, the Guild is trying to find out more about charity knitting that is going on across the state. In early 2016, Colleen Curtis reported that her knitting group, Knitting Grandmas and Friends, had knit 4,900 baby hats in 2015! My curiosity was aroused, and I wanted to know more about these prolific knitters.

I scheduled a visit in mid-July and spoke with Molly Sullivan, a retired registered nurse, who was one of the group’s original members. Molly had been knitting with an AARP group, and was approached by Bran-dy Hill, an employee of the new Maple Grove Hospital, who wanted to know if peo-ple might be interested in knitting baby hats for the hospital’s newborns. Thinking it might be fun, Molly and two other people started this knitting group on December 30, 2009. They were expecting to make maybe 35-40 hats, but soon found out that there were 120 babies due in the next few months! Recruitment of new knitters began at once. There are now about 65 active knitters in the group, although not everyone comes every week. Some members knit from home and have their contributions delivered.

Leadership responsibility grew from the one original chairperson, Molly, to six staff, in-cluding 2 co-chairs, 2 inventory managers, 1 person who does the ordering and manages the statistics, and one person who crochets

embellishments for the hats. Knitting Grand-mas and Friends meet every Monday from noon - 2 PM at the Maple Grove Communi-ty Center. At first, AARP supplied the yarn, but as the need grew, the hospital began sup-plying the yarn, and the Knitting Grandmas supplied the knitting-power!

The project has steadily grown over the past nearly 7 years. The Maple Grove Hospital has the second largest number of deliveries in the state. The knitters recently exceeded 26,000 hats since it began! They must knit at least 100 hats per week just to keep up with demand. Below are the contributions for just one week!

The project is widely known throughout the community. Molly said that people often stop a new mom and ask her if she had her baby at the Maple Grove Hospital. They recognize the hats! Prospective parents also look forward to picking out their very own hats. Each hat comes with its little note, such as the one below, from the person who knit the hat.

Unfortunately, not all babies survive. For

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Service Committee: Knitting Grandmas and Friends By Betty Hanna, Service Committee Director

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those difficult occurrences, Knitting Grand-mas and Friends knit tiny baby blankets, such as the one pictured below in which to wrap these precious infants and remember their short lives.

When I asked some of the knitters what they enjoyed most about belonging to this ambi-tious group, some, like Molly, could visualize what it could accomplish for parents and the community. Others enjoy meeting new peo-

ple and finding friends they can do things with.

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Each hat is unique, and pat-terns, such as this “kitty” hat, are available along with the yarn.

If you live in the Maple Grove area and are interested in joining these knitters, please contact Kris Orluck at 763-494-6514.

I love road trips with my husband — he drives and I knit! So when we set off on our two week, 3,800 mile driving vacation to Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, I packed five knitting projects! I also have a knack for find-ing yarn in unusual places and try to bring home a souvenir skein, or two,...or three!

After a week in Glacier National Park and a night in charming Buffalo, Wyoming, it was on to Custer State Park in South Dakota. We stayed in Hot Springs, just south of the park. In the 1800s this town had been a fashionable spa and resort destination. Still today there are more than 150 hot springs within the city lim-its. The sandstone buildings that define the town reminded me of the elegance that once was there. Fortunately, the town seems to be undergoing a renaissance. Elegant and restored Victorian homes dot the bluffs and a few of the

Main Street buildings are being renovated.

One such storefront houses the Chautauqua Ar-tisans Market, a non-profit cooperative, and next to it Fall River Fibers!

According to their website, Terry Slagel and her husband “became the third generation own-ers of Hot Springs Ace Hardware in June of 2008. I am proud to say my family has owned

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and operated a hardware/general store in our South Dakota com-munity since 1935.

Fall River Fibers started inside our Ace Hardware and came about because our area of the country is hundreds of miles from a fiber store that stocks equip-ment and supplies for hand spin-ners and weavers. I wanted to find out who the lo-cal existing fiber people were and encourage the love of fiber arts for others by providing a place to touch and compare equipment, pick out supplies, take classes and get support whether learning a new craft or sharing an old.”

Although I did not meet Terry (she was on a fiber buying mission), her sister was quite help-ful in directing me to skeins spun by local fiber artists, including bison, alpaca and llama. The bison intrigued me, but in the end I passed on it as it was quite harsh to the touch. I did end up with three skeins: 170 yds of 100% llama hand spun and dyed by Judy Cox of Moondance Spring Farms. I also chose another skein of hand dyed single ply 100% wool. And finally one of Terry’s creations, a core spun yarn of wool bamboo, lurex silk, cotton and some spar-kle. I’m told it will felt very nicely. I feel a handbag coming to my needles soon!

Terry has been a weaver for over 20 years and her shop re-flects that passion. Spinning wheels and looms are every-where. She offers classes and encouragement to everyone.

If you find yourself in the southwest corner of South Da-kota, be sure to stop in and weave, or spin or knit with Terry! As her web site says, she is “always looking for new people with whom I can share the magical worlds of weaving and spinning.”

Fall River Fibers 629 N. River St .

Hot Springs, SD 57747 605-890-2750

fallriverfibers@yahoo.com

www.FallRiverFibers.com

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Knitting Around: What I Did on My Summer Vacation by Nancy Adomeit

Knitting Around is a regular feature highlighting knitting all around the state of Minnesota. Readers are encouraged to suggest yarn stores, knitting events or people for future issues of the Cable-gram by e-mailing mn.knitters.guild@gmail.com.

Charting the Future

Retreats, workshops and events for knitters who like to plan ahead.

A free calendar of knitting events around the country may be found on The Knitter’s Review website, www.knittersreview.com. Also check out learning opportunities at our own Textile Center to hone your skills: www.textilecenermn.org.

September 16-17, 2016 25th annual September Seminar for Knitters & Fiber Artists Carole’s Country Knits Rockinghorse Farm St. Cloud, MN www.ravelry.com/events/september-seminar-2016

October 7 – 9, 2016 3 Days of Wool Friday, October 7 —1st Annual Wool Conference October 8-9 — Sheep and Fiber Farm Tour www.naturalfiberalliance.com/3_days_of_wool_events_summary

October 22, 2016 Shepherd’s Market Fall Fiber Festival Marion, Iowa www.shepherds-market.com

November 4-6, 2016 Vogue Knitting Live Minneapolis Convention Center www.vogueknittinglive.com

November 5, 2016 Fall Fiber Festival Eisenhower Community Center in Hopkins: classes and shopping for garments, spinning equipment and other local products www.fallfiberfestival.com

To add an event to this quarterly calendar of events, e-mail mn.knitters.guild@gmail.com.

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Northern Lights Affiliate Meeting Schedule

NLA meetings are usually held at Portman Square, located at 4601 McCulloch Street, Duluth on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. A Meet and Greet is held at 5:30, a business meeting at 6:00, followed by a program. Meetings adjourn about 7:30. For further information, contact Pam at duffykope@yahoo.com.

September 21, 2016 Hats that Fit Host: Shannon L.

October 22, 2016 Autumn Workshop Host: Carol Anderson of Cottage Creation Patterns. Free to NLA members; $30.00 for all others Email Pam at duffykope15@yahoo.com for more information

November 16 2016 Charity Knitting Round Up and Stash Buster Sale Snack Pot Luck

December date TBD Annual Christmas Party

Coming Up at MKG All meetings, unless otherwise noted, are held at the Textile Center, 2500 University Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. Doors open at 6:30 pm, meeting starts at 7.

October 18, 2016

An evening with Roxanne Richardson talk-ing all things short rows.

November 15, 2016

Melissa Leapman will be in town and pre-senting items from her books.

December 20, 2016

Annual potluck and silent auction.

Officers President Sheri Braun

Secretary Jessica Long

Treasurer Mona Phaff

Operations Director Karen Cyson

Yarnover Director Shelley Hermanson

Service Director Betty Hanna

Programming Director Amy Hawley

Marketing Director Susanna Johns

Member Experience Director Kathy Lewinski

Technology and Social Media Kate Westlund

Appointed Positions Librarian Rebecca Anspach

Cable Gram Editor Elizabeth Watkins

Cable Gram Design and Layout Nancy Adomeit

The Cable Gram is a quarterly publication.

Contact the MKG at www.knitters.org for more information or if you have a story idea.

Bring Your Knitting! The Minnesota Knitters’ Guild meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7 to 9 PM at the Textile Center of MN, 3000 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414.

Northern Lights Affiliate meetings are on the third Wednesday of each month, at 6 PM, at the Portman Community Center, 4601 McCulloch St., Duluth, MN.

Come Check It Out Be our guest! Come to a meeting and see if MKG is for you. Whether you are just beginning or have years of experience knitting, MKG is a place to meet folks who share your passion, and a place to share our knowledge and love of the craft.

Want to Join? Yearly dues are $30, January 1 through December 31, and are not pro-rated. Benefits include programs at our monthly meeting, the quarterly Cable Gram, public service projects, members-only knitting contests, early registration for our annual Yarnover event, and the support of fellow knitters!

Since 1985 . . . Promoting interest, appreciation, education and fellowship in the art of knitting.

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