Month: September 2023

Meeting Minutes

September 2023 Minutes

Salem Millstream Knitting Guild

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This Month

Birthdays

knitted birthday cake and candles with yellow cake, white frosting, light purple candles, and a purple ribbon tied around the cake

Happy September Birthday to:

  • Gretchen Carter
  • Teresa Furnish
  • Debbie Paxson
  • Marcia Smith

Happy October Birthday to:

  • Joyce Arthur
  • Janet Bubl
  • Nelda Gill
  • Christine Golden
  • Priscilla Seybert

September Meeting Highlights

Joyce Cook, President, welcomed members and guests. One guest came from Eugene, and two others found out about the Guild at the State Fair. She announced there would be a Board meeting following the meeting to go over the surveys of the kinds of meetings and programs members would like next year.

State Fair 2023 display of Salem Millstream Knitting Guild's aran sampler scarves

Mini Sweater – Little Lopapeysa

The knitting of mini sweaters continues. There were several lovely examples this month.

display of eight mini sweaters of various styles, including five Little Lopapeysa sweaters in various colors (white, blue, tan)

Show and Tell

  • Heather Sly-Haley knit a bag for her yoga mat.
  • Sandy Galbraith showed the socks she’d entered in the State Fair.
  • Joyce Cook showed her lace scarf, pointing out the cat pin.
  • Debbie Juul showed the Christmas stocking she just finished for her grandchild.
  • Kathy Goebel showed the numerous hats for donation she knit all with scrap yarn.
  • Diane Williams knit and felted this backpack with leftover wool yarn.
  • Genevieve Rickner modeled her cotton knit cardigan with a pattern from the 1940s.

Program

Laura Salisbury, knit designer and yarn dyer from Always Be Kind Yarn in Eugene, told the story of her business, showing her yarns and some of the items she has knit with them. A portion of the proceeds from her yarns go to support suicide awareness and prevention.

Her products are available on the web and in the Eugene yarn shop. Laurie dyed a lovely yarn for our Knitting Guild called “Millstream”!

She developed this heel construction (diamond heel) to keep the stripes aligned. Her sock patterns are also available on the website.

Upcoming Events

October 14 Meeting

This falls on the same weekend as the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival at the Linn County Fairgrounds. Perhaps some will want to carpool there after our meeting. There will be food carts available for lunch at the Fairgrounds.

To accommodate this, the Guild meeting will be shorter. There is not a formal program, but for those who want to stay, we will have a few fall patterns to knit. Please bring yarn, any size with appropriate needles, to knit a fall leaf or acorn.

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August 2023 Minutes

Salem Millstream Knitting Guild

This Month

Birthdays

birthday candles in the shape of letters that spell Happy Birthday, all candles lit

Happy August Birthday to:

  • Sandy Galbraith
  • Kathleen Holt
  • Karin Lightner
  • Tia Purdy

Happy September Birthday to:

  • Gretchen Carter
  • Teresa Furnish
  • Debbie Paxson
  • Marcia Smith

If we missed your birthday or have you in the wrong month, please let us know!

August Meeting Highlights

We had a great turnout for our annual meeting at Smith Creek Village in Silver Falls State Park. Thanks to Marcia Smith for coordinating the reservation and helping Su Fennern with an imaginative activity. Su went above and beyond in finding and printing 32 unique patterns for “mug rugs” with names such as “Chocolate Bar,” “Seashell Coaster,” “Christmas Tree,” and “Mosaic Trivet.” Here’s the complete list:

  1. Chocolate Bar
  2. Diamond Coaster
  3. Heritage Coaster
  4. Seashell Coaster
  5. Herringbone Stitch
  6. Sandstone Coaster
  7. Mitered Squares
  8. Be-Leaf
  9. Pinwheel
  10. Textured Plaid
  11. Merry Mat
  12. Distitch Edge
  13. Christmas Tree
  14. The Streamline Moderns
  15. Reversible
  16. Ripple Stripe
  1. Double Lattice
  2. The Jazz
  3. Knit Boho
  4. Beans
  5. Java Jive
  6. The Deco
  7. Mug Rug
  8. Cute Heart
  9. Roman Stitch
  10. Sunday
  11. Slip Stitch Coaster
  12. Mosaic Trivet
  13. Venezia Palina Coaster
  14. Heart Shaped
  15. Twinkle Coaster
  16. Circle Coaster

Mini Sweater – Westie

two red mini pullover sweaters with white yokes

Cindy and Su showed the mini sweater they knit for the month. It was a bottom-up, and all pieces had to be sewn together.

After lunch, we moved outside to the lawn, sitting in a circle and showing the knitting project that each one was working on. What a variety from such a talented group!

Upcoming Events

September 9 Meeting

  • For our program, we are welcoming Laura Salisbury, owner of Always Be Kind Yarn. She started the business following the suicide of her 25-year-old daughter. She will be sharing her story and offering some of her yarn for purchase.
  • All items for our service project for those fighting breast cancer are due at this meeting. We are in line to surpass our goal of 100 items!
  • There will be a quarterly Board meeting following this meeting, where we will be reviewing results from the surveys (thanks to the 25 who responded!) and begin our planning for 2024. The meeting is open to all Guild members.
  • We are having elections for two positions for our 2024 Guild Board in November. If you are interested in the position of president or program coordinator (two-year commitments), please speak with one of the other Board members: Debbie Juul, Treasurer; Judith Bither, Secretary; or Marcia Smith, Program Coordinator.

CCC Wellness Fair

We have been invited to have a table at Chemeketa Community College Wellness Fair on Tuesday, September 12 from 10 a.m. – 12 noon. We want to share the health aspects of knitting and have been told that several employees are interested in learning!

If you would like to share your love of knitting and answer questions, please respond to the Guild email. It would be great to have three of us there to represent the Guild. Thanks for considering this.

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