Saturday, October 24, 2009

CHARITY AUCTION NIGHT!

Our next meeting, Thursday, November 12, 2009,
will be a Charity Auction Night!
featuring guild member, Patti Paris as Auctioneer!

Members and guests will bring orphaned items from their stash:
Knitting/Crocheting related items such as
YARN, BOOKS, MAGAZINES, PATTERNS, NEEDLES, HOOKS
. . . will all be welcomed for donations to our auction.


YARN
(full skeins only!) should be packaged as follows:
  • Clear Plastic Bag with a label which specifies:
  • Type(s) of Fiber with % (ie: 70% merino, 30% silk, etc.)
  • Weight of Yarn (ie: fingering, DK, aran, worsted, bulky, etc.)
  • Grams/oz. per ball
  • Yardage/meters per ball
  • TOTAL YARDAGE in bag
BRING YOUR SPARE $$ AND LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!!

Friday, October 2, 2009

Day of Learning 2009!!

Our 5th Annual Day of Learning was a huge success!
LIKCG members and guests truly enjoyed themselves.
We look forward to next year's event and hope that members that
couldn't make it this year will join next year's fun!!!

A Special Thank you to Judy, Candance, Tatyana, Barbara and Ann
for making this event such an exciting and memorable day!


Judy Pascale - Shapely Shawlette Workshop






Tatyana Mirer - Crocheted Edging Workshop




LYS Vendor, Infinite Yarns, during lunch time

Ann Scheneck, owner of Infinite Yarns helping a customer


Judy Pascale - Beaded Cell Phone/Purse Workshop


Candace Eisner Strick - Ten Things My Mom Never Taught Me Workshop


Candace's Twisting into Texture Workshop


Barbara H. Van Elsen's, Swirls, Twirls & Spirals Workshop


September Meeting: Members-Teaching-Members

What a great meeting we had in September!!! Everyone enjoyed themselves, learning new techniques or getting a refresher course. A very special thanks goes out to our guild members that taught: Patti Anne, Gloria, Alice, Robin, and Stephanie.


PATTI ANNE teaching a group on Pattern Writing. . .



GLORIA teaching how to make Crochet Bobbles. . .



ALICE taught the Knitted Cast-On and Russian Join. . .
STEPHANIE taught a group how to Crochet Cables. . .

And ROBIN taught a group, Entrelac.