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February 2011 NewsletterNext Meeting February 19, 201010 AM - 4 PM (more or less) Email goes to: spinner@serendipityspinners.org |
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January Nutshellby Sue, Ginger and Frank |
As per our long standing tradition, January saw us in the meeting room in the hotel using our drum carders to card up the fiber we'll be taking to Stitches West later this month.
Look at us card. We even had a visitor carding for us.
Come visit us in booth 119. Better yet, sign up with Jocelyn (jklgirls@yahoo.com) for one of few remaining spaces. Hurry, they're going fast. For a few hours in our booth teaching people people how to spin on CD drop spindles, you get FREE admission to the market for the entire weekend. How could you lose?
Welcome to Frankie, our newest member & Evan (her SO)!
Stitches weekend is our meeting weekend. We will meet at Kelly Park. We might adjourn early so we can get some shopping done at Stitches West. Ginger will not be here for the Feb meeting to take notes. Can anyone else do it?
Remember: Please invite at least one person to a meeting this year - each and every one of you.
Old Business
New Business
Activities
Chris S. (our activities czar) sent email inquiries but has had no responses yet. She's planning to scout Stitches West for possible local teachers. She has a lead on a possible lead on Sacramento area dyeing and felting teacher. Nancy D.is willing to house a fiber teacher traveling to our area to teach. Thank you, Nancy.Show 'n Tell
Aviva: is putting the finishing touches on a brown lace, hooded sweater. She started knitting a salmon sweater.   |
Frank: is knitting a pair of socks from the toe up as per book. He found some pretty tins at Safeway. It's an annual quest.
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Sue: bought her shiny, new be-jeweled 4 GB flash drives. She is spinning blue-purple silk from de-stash event. Also showed 2-ply skein of linen spun for woman that is doing re-creation of some 300 year-old lace. As long as she was showing things off, she showed some yarn she purchaced. It is 70% mink 30% cashmere. Talk about yummy. These two books will help her learn to knit on her antique sock machine.
   
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Nancy D.: came with basket of what looked like multi-color felt balls. In a shop in Palo Alto and saw felted soap bars. Being handy, she had her own home-made (made the hard way with lard, lye (and whatever else goes into it) for a while in stash. She felted wool around her bars. While she was at it, she felted around some old Aron Soap bars. They're sort of like a wash cloth wrapped around soap.
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Ginger: showed a photo of an stunning afghan crocheted from a kit as a gift for her sister. It's an utterly amazing single crochet done in an fabulous orchid pattern. She is currently crocheting a baby afghan. She saw the pattern with a pretty flower and just had to make it. She doesn't know anyone who is pregnant at the moment so it will go in the ready-for-gift stash until the need arises.
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Chris S.: is crocheting a toddler sweater from stash of commercial yarn ini sage, tan, and black. It's a coat style pattern she purchased on ravelry. She made a 9 gram spindle with a balsa wood whorl to spin cat hair. One of her cats has a beautifully spinnable undercoat. She bought a ball of cotton candy pink. Shr doesn't like pink but her nieces do. So far, she's crocheted one pot holder out of it.
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Jocelyn: is knitting a shocking pink shawl. She' s almost done. We're all shocked it's pink. (Not!) And that she's using pink stitch markers.
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Frankie: (Our newest member!) brought her wheel. She's spinning Ashland Bay merino. She's knitting a cardigan. She spun the yarn for it on drop spindles. It took 6-9 months. Her guest is Evan.
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Carol: made it. She had no show 'n tell.
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And that's January in a Nutshell.
If you have news or pictures of interest to the group please send it to spinner@serendipityspinners.org