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My classes – Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb

For the ladies at the Collierville Library and any students from past classes:

 

You can find the schedule of current Joanne classes direct from the store website.  Please note it is right now showing November only.

 

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=Tennessee

scroll down to “Memphis” and then click on “Class Schedules”

 

That link will take you to the following URL:

http://www.joann.com/static/education/classes/current_2154.pdf

(Note:  I expect that the last part of the URL will change from month to month, so use that first URL if you want to bookmark it for the future.)

 

… here’s the skinny just on my classes, through February:

Knitting 101 – Basics – 1 Ses/2.5hrs – EVERY MONTH

 

Knitting 101                     Tue Nov 2                  6:00pm – 8:30pm

Knitting 101                     Thu Nov 12                10:00am – 12:30pm

Knitting 101                     Mon Dec 7                6:00pm – 8:30pm

Knitting 101                     Tue  Jan 26               6:00pm – 8:30pm

Knitting 101                     Sat  Feb 20               9:30am – 12:00pm                          

 

 

Knitting 201 – Cable Stitch – 1 Ses/3hrs – NOV & DEC

 

Knitting 201: Cable St       Thu Nov 19                10:00am – 1:00pm

Knitting 201: Cable St       Thu Dec 17               6:00pm – 9:00pm

 

                                                                                                                           

Knitting 201 – Lace – 1 Ses/3hrs – JAN & FEB                                 

 

Knit 201: Lace                 Tue  Jan 5                 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Knit 201: Lace                 Fri  Feb 26                6:00pm – 9:00pm

 

                                                                                                                                                                 

Knitting 201 – Socks – 2ses/2hrs – NOV, DEC, & FEB  

 

Knit 201: Socks               Sat Nov 7                  10:00am – 12:00pm                        

TWO SESSIONS             Sat Nov 14                10:00am – 12:00pm                        

 

Knit 201: Socks               Tue Dec 1                 10:00am – 12:00pm                        

TWO SESSIONS             Tue Dec 8                 10:00am – 12:00pm                        

 

Knit 201: Socks               Tue  Feb 9                6:00pm – 8:00pm Session 1

TWO SESSIONS             Tue  Feb 16               6:00pm – 8:00pm Session 2

 

                                                                                                                                                                 

Crochet 101 – Basics – 1 Ses/2.5hrs – EVERY MONTH

 

Crochet 101                     Thu Nov 5                  10:00am – 12:30pm

Crochet 101                     Mon Nov 16               6:00pm – 8:30pm

Crochet 101                     Tue Dec 15               6:00pm – 8:30pm

Crochet 101                     Sat  Jan 9                 10:00am – 12:30pm                        

Crochet 101                     Tue  Feb 23               6:00pm – 8:30pm

                                                                                                                                                                 

Crochet 201 – Ripple Stitch – 1 Ses/3hrs – NOV & DEC

 

Crochet 201: Ripple St      Tue Nov 10                10:00am – 1:00pm

Crochet 201: Ripple St      Sat Dec 12                1:00pm – 4:00pm

 

 

Crochet 201 – Lace – 1 Ses/3hrs – JAN & FEB

 

Crochet 201: Lace            Mon  Jan 11              6:00pm – 9:00pm

Crochet 201: Lace            Sat  Feb 27               12:30pm – 3:30pm

 

Crochet 202 – Granny Squares – 1 Ses/3hrs – NOV & DEC

 

Crochet 202:  Granny       Mon Nov 23               6:00pm – 9:00pm

Crochet 202:  Granny       Mon Dec 14              10:00am – 1:00pm

                                                                                                                                                                 

Crochet 202 – Felted Flowers – 1 Ses/3hrs – JAN & FEB

Crochet 202: Flower         Sat  Jan 23               1:00pm – 3:00pm                            

Crochet 202: Flower         Fri  Feb 19                6:00pm – 8:00pm

                                                                                                                                                                 

Crochet 202 – Baby Sweater – 2ses/2hrs – JAN & FEB

 

Crochet 202: Baby           Fri  Jan 22                 6:00pm – 8:00pm

TWO SESSIONS             Fri  Jan 29                 6:00pm – 8:00pm                                                             

Crochet 202: Baby           Thu  Feb 4                6:00pm – 8:00pm

TWO SESSIONS           Thu  Feb 11       6:00pm – 8:00pm          

Crochet links

This time, for my crochet Amigurumi students (click on any of the links below and you should go directly to the page.)

Left handed crochet!  I'm going to practice myself this week to see what I think of these tutorials...and I'm not even ambidextrous.  Whee!

http://www.crochet.org/lessons/lessonl/lessonl.html
http://www.craftbits.com/project/how-to-crochet-left-handed

I notice that a lot of Youtube and other crochet video resources are not exactly - hrmmm - professionally produced.  A shaky camera or toddler yelling in the background can be a little distracting.  I do like this video - very good, close-up, one step at a time demonstrations. 

http://www.nexstitch.com/v_crochet_videos.html

And since one of the toughest things starting out is just getting that yarn "grabbed" onto the hook:

http://www.nexstitch.com/v_chain_stitch.html

Finally, a long-time favorite site for all things beginner:
http://learntocrochet.lionbrand.com/
No video, but nice, detailed diagrams to help you remember what you have learned!

Check back around Tuesday and I'll see if I can find any more, and I'll also point you to some very cute amigurumi sites.   

One more site while I'm online

http://www.verenaknitting.com/VIDEOS.aspx

better resolution YouTube videos showing cast-on, knit, purl, etc.  Nice and clear!  Note that the cast-on taught is the "long tail" cast-on, which is perfectly good...but I taught the knitted cast on last Friday.  There are multiple ways to do practically everything in knitting - you pick what works best for you.

http://www.theknittingsite.com/videos.html

Again for my Joann kids - I like this very patient British knitting lady,even though the videos are a bit small. You can cut and paste the URL above into your browser or click here.

Hint: You can right click on the vid and zoom in - a bit grainy, but perhaps clearer.

I hope to get more helpful sites up, but had forgotten that the hottest days of summer in our house are very "iffy" days for Comcast connectivity - will get up more, but probably only early AM or very late PM!

For Joann Students!

Look Monday night for a link for videos!  (Might have it up before then, but at latest.)

In the meanwhile, for inspiration, check out ravelry.com or knitty.com! 

TESTING, 1-2-3

Over the next day or two, I will be testing some Typepad functionality to gain a more complete picture of my options if I want to keep this account while passing on "management" of the MKG blog.  (Oh, yes, I can have more than one blog on this account, and in fact that was the original idea...)  Anyway, please bear with - I will start these "don't bother to read posts with a capitalized "TESTING".

Uploading file Download LowCarbKeyLime.rtf .  (For the morbidly curious who are reading this post - FYI - it's a pretty good recipe.)

Holy Moly!

The MKG is now a member local guild in The Knitting Guild Association!  (aka TKGA)  You'll find our listing here.

Here's a little sneak peak for this month's newsletter to fill you all in, from Marcia:

Wow, what a fun, lively meeting we had in February! We are happy to have our new members, Katherine W., Sandy B., Lora C. and Sharon W. Katherine has just opened her own yarn shop – “That Yarn Shop” in Hernando, MS. If you are down that way, be sure to stop in. (Hank gets a gold star for bringing her to guild!) Always remember to make our visitors and new members feel welcome.

We are now affiliated with The Knitting Guild Association. Hopefully we should receive our welcome packet by our next meeting. You may see our guild listing under www.TKGA.com, under “Find A Guild” if you type in our city and state.

If you are interested in becoming an individual member of TKGA, we will have applications at each guild meeting. A one-year subscription to Cast On magazine is included with your membership. I received my own membership card today with the password to log in to the members only portion of the TKGA website. There is a goldmine of information on there!

At our February meeting, Gayle brought an informative program critiquing the different knitting magazines and also filled us in on the different knitting websites. She plans to continue her research to keep us up to date on knitting information on the Internet.

( A story about Gayle’s daughter, Tara, was in the Commercial Appeal last week about her spending her spring break in New Orleans along with other students to do work on homes demolished by Katrina. Tara raised $7,000 to sponsor two trips for these students to go to New Orleans for this effort. She also was instrumental in starting an organization, “Rhodes Rebuilds”. I know Gayle is a proud mom.)

Brenda Meece has donated a DVD, “Freeform Knitting” for our guild library. (I have already watched it and I loved it!) Brenda will have our March program on “Understanding Fibonucci”. She has asked that we bring 5-6 colors of yarn in comparable gauges. We appreciate Brenda for her ongoing support of the guild.

We have many excellent books, videos and DVD’s in our library, which Mary Alice will be bringing to meetings each month. I encourage you to take advantage of our guild library. 

Please remember to wear your name tags at meetings. If you do not have one, please email me at vintagekittylady@hotmail.com asap, so I can have one for you at the next meeting.

Be sure to invite your knitting friends and people you meet in the yarn shops to come visit MKG. It is wonderful to be a part of such a creative and sweet group of ladies. 

See you Tuesday, March 27^th……

Me, I'm off to the TKGA site to take a look around...

Holiday Party Tuesday!

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah, and a festive winter solstice to all secular or Druid celebrants! 

One reason you shouldn't miss the Holiday party this coming Tuesday:  I'm bringing the fruitcake!

...

hey, where did everyone go?

No, it's really good, truly.  It's this fruitcake, made without any flourescent waxy embalmed fruit-like products whatsoever.  You think that Red Dye No. 2 and monoglycosaturide stuff is what they ate in the days of Tiny Tim and Bob Crachitt?  I hope you get to catch an airing of the Good Eats episode that features this recipe (2nite 7PM), but then FoodTV is our household's background music for the holidays.

It's also an, um, highly "spritzed" fruitcake.  (Refer to recipe link, above.)  If planning to have a BIG slice, bring designated driver.

...and how has your Christmas knitting fared?  This just has not been much of a knitting YEAR for me, but I did manage to produce a little fairisle sampler purse as part of teaching myself fairisle, and I'll be bringing a lovely picture of it to the party, or maybe the next purse in progress, as my kids are highly disgrunted that the first one got shipped off in the holiday mailings.  It's nice to have friends and family oooh and ahhh over my knitting; it's better to actually have another knitter or 20 to show it off to!

May the coming days be joyous and full of activity, but not too busy for y'all to stop by Josephine's on Tuesday before dragging out that dried up tree to the curb!  (If anyone needs info. or directions to Josephine, give me a call, or a holler by email:  lisab_guppy@yahoo.com.)

Tumbleweeds and a newsletter

The tumbleweeds are blowing across this part of the blogosphere.  First, I had a week plus internet outage, courtesy of Time Warner Cable.  ("No, it's not my modem."  "NO, SERIOUSLY, it is not my modem."  Bang head.)  Then life just simply got in the way.  Somehow, it's the 100 degree plus days that have all the weirdness...

In any case, the blog had to give way to family concerns and mundane necessities yet again, and my apologies to Lindsay Obermeyer, who I was planning to give more thorough coverage during the month of August.  What I can do right now is give you/re-mention a few websites.

http://www.people.memphis.edu/~artmuseum/upcoming.html

That's the art museum at the UOM, and they are pre-advertising Lindsay's exhibit.

http://www.lbostudio.com/

That's the artist's site.

http://www.mifa.org/default.asp

And I think you know MIFA.  (But may not have visited their site.)

Thanks again, to Lindsey, for making time for us on Tuesday night at the meeting.  (At least I have a hat!)

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that being out of the way, we have newsletter.  MSWord.  PDF.  Guess this month got by all of us, as she says she was hurried, but it's still a keeper.  (Of course, splinter-free toilet paper was more than I needed to know about.  And no, you'll have to look at the newsletter to see what I'm talking about, and how it pertains to knitting.)

A solution re. the guild site

Typepad is aware of the problem and is working on it. For the time being, here's the 411:

>Go here: http://knitter.typepad.com/mkg/

>instead of here: http://knitter.typepad.com/mkg

>(note the difference with the end slash).

This should get you in without a problem.

Also this is why, when I hit on many of my bookmarked sites this morning of other typepad users, I had no problem getting in. That last /, which is the conventional thing with web addressing, was automatically included when I saved into "favorites". (But we tend to leave it out, when we type in sites manually, because most of the time the address can be resolved without it.)