Category: Meeting Minutes

This Month’s A lot of topics were covered during this meeting… Thank you all for your participation. Our UFO winner for most completed project was Su Fennern and Patty Scruggs for most goals completed. Next year we will have a winner for the oldest UFO completed.

Clara reported that the retreat is currently full with one person on the wait list.

Volunteers wanted: Sarah Keller, Owner of Knot Another Hat yarn shop (Hood River, OR) and the organizer of the annual Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival held in The Dalles, OR is working to have an event in Silverton at the Oregon Gardens in April of 2018. If you want to volunteer please contact sarah@knotanotherfiberfestival.com.

January/February Patterns:
Bankhead hat by Susie Gorlay https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bankhead
Communication Breakdown Cowl by Casey Day-Crosier https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/communication-breakdown

Show and Tell:
Baby Sweater/slippers Monique Rae Woman’s Loafers slippers
Lilac Trails Vest Sweater for Grandchild
Sweater – Argentina Wools Grey shawl (Jimmy Bean)
Vent shawl Cable scarf
Sweater – Impeccable Loops & Threads Leaf Mitts
Wool Slippers Shiri Cowl
Debut shawl on Raverly (sock yarn) Sock Head Cowl (dream in color cashmire)
Baby Bunny with bunny butts Knit in thread cap
Fingerless Mitts in Fair Isle (use scraps) Natural Wool Blanket

Next Month – JC Briar – Brioche class – Bring smooth, plain, worsted-weight yarn in two co US 7 needles for working in rounds – (set of dpns, a pair of circulars, or a one long “magic loop” circular)
Stitch marker to mark the beginning of rounds
Crochet hook, roughly size G

Snacks – Ginny Floyd and Karen Lemon

Setup/Cleanup Volunteers –Nancy Campion (setup) Janet Bulb (clean up)

Taffee House can use anything for babies, youths, adults, and elderly. Acrylic prayer shawls for Nita Porter’s church. Prayer shawls for hospice groups – Nancy Campion will get these to the hospice organization.

NEXT MEETING IS FEB. 10
ARROWHEAD MOBILE PARK
5422 PORTLAND RD. NE,
AT 10:00 AM

We had a large group this time around.  Our subject this month was beading.  We had training on the different ways of adding beads into your knitted projects.  In addition to the handouts we have a few links that people suggested for your information as well.

 http://shalimaryarns.blogspot.com/2009/07/simple-beaded-bind-off.html This one is using needle and dental floss to attach the beads on the bind off of a shawl.

 http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/FEATseducedbybeads.html  Knitty .com beads 101 lesson on both stringing on and using a crochet hook.

 Connie Paulson brought in JC Briar’s new book on chart reading.  If you want a copy and did not get it Saturday, you can contact Connie.  (Membership roster is attached).

One more link for the cable braided necklace pattern by Olga Buraya that Sue Tyvoll had shown for show and tell.  http://olgajazzzy.blogspot.com/2010/12/cable-braided-necklace.html

Also, www.smileyyarns.com place to get cheap yarn (Dorothy’s vest)

First weekend in March is the Portland Yarn Crawl – 16 shops and a great map on the web site.  www.portlandyarncrawl.com

Our web page is now up and has content.  www.millstreamknitting.com  We have tabs on the top of the page.  One is for events, I have posted all the upcoming events for the year, with their web links.  On the right side there are links to Ravelry, Yarn and Pattern places.

We will add a page link at the top to list upcoming topics for our monthly meetings.

On Saturdays we have found a place to knit, Broadway Commons Coffee Shop at 1300 Broadway Street NE.  9:00AM – Noon.  We will be meeting here all but the 2^nd Saturday of the month.  We are hoping to get a big group to come join us and anyone who needs help with knitting or a project could get help at this time as well.