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2016 CALENDAR Sept 12
7:00 pm
Temple B’rith Kodesh
2131 Elmwood Ave.
Rochester, NY
Doors open at 6:30, business and announcements at 7:00. Program starts promptly at 7:30 pm.
The HelpTable with Lynne Sherwood is available until 7:30 pm.
Upcoming meetings October 31 November 21 December 12
Next Board Meeting:
October 17
6:30 pm
The Knitting Circle
1501 East Ave., Suite 103
Rochester, NY 14607
All members are welcome to attend.
Deadline for October 2016 Newsletter Submit all articles by
September 19 to: newsletter@rochesterknitt ing.org
President’s Message
Wow! What a hot summer! I think it might be my fault that we've had such a hot summer. Brett and I took our pool down a couple of years ago and it seems that the summers have been getting hotter and hotter ever since! We had a pool for many years (about 25 years at our current residence) and in all those years we never had more than a few 90 degree plus days per year! The last couple of years we had the pool we barely had days above 80 degrees and I only got in the water when it needed to be vacuumed!
I always hate to see summer end but fall doesn't just bring us cooler weather, it brings us the Finger Lakes Fiber Festival and the startup of the Rochester Knitting Guild. Both are events I look forward to every fall. If you've never been to the Fiber Festival you are missing out on a wonderful way to spend a fall weekend. The colors (trees, fiber, and yarn), the variety of fibers, the classes, the demos and the finished pro-jects on display are sure to inspire more project ideas than you can im-agine. The Fiber Festival is great fun for the whole family, there are ani-mals, a variety of Guilds displaying projects of their particular craft, food vendors, a horse drawn wagon that circles the grounds providing free rides and vendors selling all kinds of equipment and supplies for spin-ning, knitting, crocheting and other crafts.
So let's welcome fall and prepare to kick off our series "Knitting for the Holidays" by joining the RKG at our September membership meeting on September 12th and attending at least one day of the Finger Lakes Fiber Festival at the Hemlock Fairgrounds September 17th and 18th. I hope to see you all at both events!
—Amelia Templar, President
Welcome
Back!
2017 Spring Workshops
Lucy Neatby! Details inside...
“all the news that’s fit to knit”
September 2016 Volume XXXII Number 1
News for Ewes
The Rochester Knitting Guild is an organization to promote interest,
appreciation and skill in knitting.
Visit our website at www.RochesterKnitting.org
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Come Knit with Us…
Are you getting together with another group of knitters and would welcome a few new faces? Please contact Pam Knapp (see the Board listing) to have your group listed here.
Mondays—Sit and Stitch, 3:30-5 at Webster Public Library, 980 Ridge Road, Webster. Contact the library at 872-7075.
Tuesdays—Knitting Circle, 1-3, at Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Avenue, Irondequoit. Room 213, the Laurelton room. Contact the library at 336-6062.
Wednesdays—Knit Clique, 12-2 pm at Brighton Library, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. Contact the library at 784-5300 or visit their website: www.Brightonlibrary.org/library/Adults_prog.htm.
Thursdays—Informal Knit Together. Penn Yan Library, 1-3 pm, 214 Main St., Penn Yan, NY. Contact: Pam Ells, 585-526-5327.
Fridays—Volunteers needed for Legacy Clover Blossom Senior Living Community women. 11 am in the Sun Room. Contact Carol D’Agostino, 478-4960
4th Tuesday—Hilton-Parma Knitting and Needlework Group— 6:30-9 pm at Hilton Community Center Senior Lounge on Henry St. Contact is Noreen DeBruycker, 352-6611.
4th Tuesday—Monthly Prayer Shawls group—7 pm at Panera Bread on Hylan Dr. near Marketpl ace Mall in Henrietta. Open to all fiber arts. Contact is Mary Ellen Arden, 334-1906 (evenings), 321-9479 (days).
1st Wednesday (except during Lent)— 6:30-8 p.m. at 1st Congregational Church, 65 Church St., Spencerport (makes lap robes for charity from 8” squares). Come join us. Call Holly Bauer-Mergen at 352-4548 with questions.
2nd Thursday—Fun & relaxing, self-directed program 6:30-8 p.m. at the Gates Public Library. Bring your own snack or beverage if you wish. Contact: Mary Jo C. Smith, Librarian, 585-247-6446
2nd Thursday—of each month. 2:00 pm at the Ogden Farmers’ Library, 269 Ogden Road, Spencerport, NY 14559. For more info or questions, call the library at 617-6181 and ask for Kate (Adult Librarian). Bring your projects and socialize while you work!
3rd Saturdays—of each month, 10 am—1 pm at the 12 Corners Starbucks in Brighton, NY. KAPS for KIDS, a knitting group sponsored by the CURE and the Yarne Source
Web
The password for the member section of the web site is k2togtbl
Also, go to the Rochester Knitting Guild page on Facebook and be sure to “like” us. And feel free to post finished objects/patterns there for our members.
Membership
Renew your membership as soon as possible to avoid disruption in your newsletter service. The 2016-17 membership form is included in this newsletter, and also can be found at the RKG web site at www.rochesterknitting.org
RKG now offers a student membership @ $15.00. (See membership form).
—Cheri Switzer
Community Knitting
We are looking forward to seeing everybody this Fall and seeing all the hats, blankets, mittens that have kept hands busy in spite of the heat.
—Betsy McGee and Deb Goehring
Program
Welcome back from a sizzling, sultry summer. In addition to planned events, we’re looking to incorporate some exciting new ideas & projects for our 2016-2017 meetings.
Let’s spice things up a bit! You’ll be receiving a survey from me soon asking for your suggestions! Feel free to submit responses to me at our first guild meeting, Sept 12th, or by email reply to [email protected].
Let’s keep each other in stitches toward a gregarious and gratifying guild this year.
Always Zanni,
—Susie Zanni, Vice President
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Who is she you ask?
Craftsy writes: “A former navigation officer for British cargo ships, Lucy Neatby now finds herself submerged in the fabulous world of fiber. Whether designing, writing or instructing, she strives to bring out the true fun in knitting. Her website, Lucy Neatby Designs, is no different. Lucy is also the face behind a series of instructional DVDs, Learn with Lucy, and the author of popular books, including Cool Socks Warm Feet, Cool Knitters Finish in Style and A Little Book of BIG Holes for Hand-Knitters.”
She currently has four classes on Craftsy that are discounted. If you want to familiarize yourself with her style you can’t go wrong with one of the classes—Fearless Knitting, Foundations of Double Knitting, My First Socks and/or Next Steps in Knit-ting. Treat yourself to one of more of her classes, you won’t be sorry.
Which workshops will we offer?
I’m glad that you asked. Like the past few years, two workshops each will be offered on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
We’ve chosen workshops for most levels. Pick one or all. Workshops will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at the October, 2016 meeting. Space in each workshop is limited, so register early. Please review the workshop descriptions on the member website before making your selection. If you’re missing a necessary skill but want to take the workshop, never fear, we can help. Please see Cindy Proano, Cheri Switzer or Nancy Vandivert if you will need help.
We look forward to helping you in October.
—Cindy, Cheri, and Nancy
Spring Workshops 2017
with
Lucy Neatby As previously announced in our May meeting, we are privileged to have snagged Lucy Neatby for our 2017 Spring Workshops. Due to rising costs, this may be Lucy’s last visit to the United States so you don’t want to miss her.
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President Amelia Templar [email protected]
Vice-President Susie Zanni [email protected]
Secretary Patti Tyler [email protected]
Treasurer Sarah Shepard [email protected]
Director (1 yr) Allison Goldberg [email protected]
Director (2 yr) Meg Weglarz [email protected]
Auditor Holly Bauer-Mergen [email protected]
Membership Cheri Switzer [email protected]
Community Service Betsy McGee, Deb Goehring [email protected]
Library/Knitting Resources Barbara Ryon-Covill Gay Lelanda Covill [email protected]
Hospitality Marlene Davidson [email protected]
Website Alisson Goldberg [email protected]
Newsletter Team Pam Knapp, Nancy Thomas [email protected]
Guild Afghan OPEN [email protected]
Shop Liaison Pam Knapp [email protected]
Auction Chair Natalie Klein [email protected]
Nominating Committee Tina Turner [email protected]
Workshops Cindy Proano, Cheri Switzer [email protected]
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There is Room for You! There are vacant positions—please consider volunteering!
A small reminder: we are very privileged to be guests at the home of our host, Temple B'rith Kodesh. The Temple provides us with a wonderful place to meet each month and enjoy all our Guild has to offer. In order for us to continue to enjoy this location, please remember to be mindful of our surroundings. Should you wish to smoke, please remember smoking is only appropriate outside in an area not directly in front of the entrance. Thank you for your consideration.
—Amelia Templar, President
Hospitality
Goodies for the September meeting will be provided by Board members. Thanks for all of your generous provisions last season
Please remember no meat products; and bring your own mug to save the environment and the budget.
—Marlene Davidson
Member Shop News
Please check out the list of member shops on the last page of the newsletter. Please patronize these shops, as they are kind enough to offer a 10% discount to RKG members. Note that The Woolery on Main is no longer a member shop as they are now focusing on rug hooking and gifts.
Shop night this year will be held on November 21. Please note the change in our November meeting. Mark your calendar, and let me know if you will need a table for this event.
—Pam Knapp, Shop Liaison
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Library
This Fall I just want to remind everyone about the library loan policies. Every registered member will be permitted to borrow any of the books in the collection up to a limit of five books at a time. You may borrow the books for one month and renew them for a second month without a fine. If the books are not returned by the third month there will be a fine of $2.00 per month until the end of the Guild season then the cost of the fine will be the cost of replacing the book, which varies according to the current replace-ment price of the book found on the internet. If you need to contact me for any reason I can be found at [email protected].
This summer was very busy, I am sure for most of us, especially for me. I have been busy not only with knitting but I completed a patchwork quilt that has taken me over a year to make. I have also been playing around with some of the lovely yarns that I won at the bag auction.
This article will be short because I wanted to finish off last May’s article about color and show off some of the 389 books we have that include pat-terns that incorporate lots of colors in a single project. Here are a few of my favorites which I will have avail-able for loan during the September meeting. Knitter’s Stash says it all for many of us. This book not only
imparts ideas for the use of yarn, but also has ideas for organizing your stash. Alice Starmore’s book, Charts For Color Knitting has a variety of color patterns or color knitting using charts. Some are easy to understand while some of the others are challenging and best for advanced knitters.
—Barbara Ryon-Covill-Gay and Lelanda Covill
Hi everyone! I hope you have all had a great summer! As we are now entering September and beginning the lovely fall season, now is a great time to start think about stocking up for your winter knitting projects and hanging out with your fiber friends by attending the Finger Lakes Fiber Festi-val, where there will be a wide range of fiber and tools, classes, demonstrations, as well as food and friends!
And if you are planning to attend the festival, why not get in for free? The festival depends on volunteers to be successful, and to thank you for contributing two hours of your time to that success, you will receive free admission to the festival for that day. You can sign up by contacting me by e-mail at [email protected], by phone at 315-264-3718, or in person at the September meeting.
Thanks and happy knitting!
—Vicki Beighley, Finger Lakes Fiber Festival Volunteer Coordinator and fellow RKG member
Contact Deb Fister ([email protected]) to volunteer for the RKG booth.
Finger Lakes Fiber Festival
Sept 17 & 18, 2016
1 Fair Street Hemlock, NY 14466
(607) 522-4374
http:/www.gvhg.org/fiberfest/
Sew Green of Rochester 264-268 Arnett Blvd. Rochester, NY 14619 585-328-2642
Www.sewgreenrochester.org
Village Yarn and Fiber Shop Karen Petito, Sarah Reilly, Linda Nally & Van Black-Winhaver 350 West Commercial St. East Rochester, NY 14445 585-586-5470
[email protected] www.villageyarnandfiber.com
Woolly Lamb Sharon Kabel 712 Main St. East Aurora, NY 14052 716-655-1911
[email protected] www.woollylambyarnshop.com
Yarn Culture Patti Odinak 1387 Fairport Road, #885 Fairport, NY 14450 585-678-4894
[email protected] www.yarnculture.com
The Yarne Source Susie Zanni 7 Schoen Place Pittsford, NY 14634 585-334-5350
[email protected] www.yarnesource.com
The Yarn Shop of Geneva Kathy DeMaria 508 Exchange St. Geneva, NY 14456 315-789-7211 www.theyarnshopofgeneva.com
Embraceable Ewe Erin Kosich 213 Main St Hamburg, NY 14075 716-646-6674
[email protected] www.embraceableewe.com
Expressions in Needleart Lori Malolepszy 110 S. Main Street Canandaigua, NY 14424 585-394-4870
[email protected] www.expressionsinneedleart.com
Honeoye Craft Lab Liz Yockel 6 Honeoye Commons Honeoye, NY 14471 802-342-6342 [email protected] www.honeoyecraftlab.com
Pollywogs Diane and Walter Jezewski 7 Bush Ave Wayland, NY 14572 585-728-5667 [email protected] www.mypollywogs.com
Support our local yarn shops !
RKG Member Shops Please remember to call ahead to check hours
2016-2017 ROCHESTER KNITTING GUILD MEMBERSHIP The Rochester Knitting Guild (RKG) invites you to join or renew your membership for the coming year, which runs from September 2016 to September 2017. Benefits of being a Guild Member include meetings, discounts at member shops, discounted rates and early registration at Guild functions, Guild Newsletters and access to library materials. Dues are $25.00 (cash or check) per year and are due at or before the September meeting. Student Membership - $15.00 Attach copy of your student ID to your membership form. Bring your dues to the September meeting or mail to Membership, RKG, PO Box 92264, Rochester, NY 14692. The Guild’s success depends on participation by ALL members of the Guild. Please consider taking part this year! Auction Help gather yarn for the annual auction, transport, sort and display, act as runners during the auction Community Service Help collect and record donations at Guild meetings, facilitate distribution of finished items Hospitality Help set up and clean up refreshment tables
LibrarHelp display and pack up
the library, accept and organize
returned books Membership Greet members and visitors, hand out door prize tickets, sell raffle tickets, organize name tags Nominating Committee Help prepare a slate of nominations, talk to nominees to be sure they are willing to serve
Programming Help plan and/or deliver Guild programs, prepare samples and handouts Social Media/Publicity Contribute content and help manage Guild’s social media outlets
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2016-2017 RKG Membership Form
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