Meetings

Next meeting will be Monday, November 16, 2009 in the large meeting room at Joplin Public Library, 5:30pm – 8:00pm or any part of that time you can make it.

It’s bring your project night and we are going to plan the entire 2010 class itinerary so try to make it for at least part of the meeting. We already decided on 2 quilt classes, both are hand piecing. One on strip piecing a four patch and one on half square triangles. Another class will probably be on chain less crochet. So if there is some technique or type of craft, please bring your ideas. I’m not going to say you have to teach it if you don’t want to, but we do need to plan it. Plus decide about our December meeting this year. I would like to make some bookmarks with all the classes listed for all of you by the December meeting.

You are always welcome to bring your own project to work on, or ask questions on a problem or learning something new and month.

Each month I will edit this post to show the next meeting.

 

October 2009 meeting

This was our first needle tatting class. I brought samples of what I have learned about different thread sizes and needle sizes.

Thread size 80, 20 and 10, all four needle sizes

Those that wanted to practice on how easy it was to learn needle tatting were able to, though we had to share tatting needles. Lorene has found a supplier she can get tatting needles from, visit her blog to see when she gets them in. http://yarnbasket.wordpress.com/

I forgot to get some pictures of Angie’s relative’s tatting and they were beautiful work too. So I’ve put two pictures of some tatting I found that was made in 1919.

Now I know you are looking forward to see what some of the ladies brought for show n tell check it out:

Thread size 80, 20 and 10, all four needle sizes

Remember this afghan pattern from our crochet class a couple of months ago & you can partially see all the color blocks that is making another afghan

 

September 2009 meeting

We had a wonderful time and learned a lot about making jewelry. Personally, I learned I liked to work with wire when making jewelry instead of string, my only other experience. We even had a drawing to win a pair of earrings. Which young Payton won.

I was amazed and grateful that 12 ladies made it out in the storm and came to class. Next month will be the tatting class. Check the Meeting blog for more info.

In our gallery of pictures for this month you will see Charis moving so fast to help all of us that she is a blur, I didn’t get a picture of everyone but you can see we were busy.

Ocean’s variation of the bracelet

Show n Tell

Show n Tell

Show n Tell

Show n Tell

Show n Tell

 

August Meeting

Besides working on the crochet pattern of Baby Stroller Blanket. Here are some of our show n tell from that meeting:

First up is Debbie with her orangutan and the others are of Lorene’s projects she won ribbons with at the fair. Next year, I hope more will enter some of their wonderful work.

 

July 2009 unusual meeting

We usually have a lot of fun at our monthly meetings. I sometimes wonder what others think of all the laughing that is going on inside the library meeting room. July was no exception as far as the laughter goes.

What was unusual was that someone had donated to the library lots of bags of yarn. And I mean LOTS. Trashbag size.  Many bags. The teen knitting group that meets at the library on Thursdays had gone through and nicely organized the yarn and picked out some for themselves, the previous week.

At the beginning of the meeting I told them I was going to bring in some yarn for the the group to go through. It took well over an hour for everyone to have a chance to get through the yarn and make their selections.

Just a few of the ladies on the floor in the library meeting room

It was nice to hear that some were going to make some items that they will donate to help others. Kind of a pay it forward. Possibly baby afghans for the hospitals, who knows what else these talented ladies will come up with.

A few of the ladies had already left by the time I went to get my camera but the rest agreed to line up for a picture if I would not post full body shots of them crawling around on the floor. It seems most of us are not fond of our behinds.

Cathy, Debbie, Debbie, Shelly, Ocean, Angie and Janice with their yarn selections from the huges stash of yarn that was donated to the library

Partly what amazed us was so much was donated and they were expensive yarns. There were lots of different types that we had never tried knitting or crocheting with. It will be exciting to see what the ladies do with some of them. I will be glad to post some pictures of the ones they bring to the upcoming meetings. Maybe some of them will post comments of their projects they are going to be working on from some of this yarn.

 

Take a look at Melissa’s wizardry

Missing Melissa emailed me that she has not been able to come to our CnC because of her bf change in shifts, but she is hoping to make it back soon.

She has sent a couple pictures of some recently finished projects and the last one is the one she is currently working on:

Colorful and beautiful

Gorgeous Lady

Melissa’s current project

I’m wondering how long does it take to do some of this beautiful work?

 

June 2009 Show n Tell

I only took 3 pictures of some of the projects from that evening. 2 are completed and 1 is still being worked on.

Some of the ladies (at least one) helped Ocean with the beading on her dress.

Ocean in the dress she has been working on for the Pow Wows

We saw some of the beading before they were sewn on the dress. Notice she even did some beading for her hair and moccasins.

Lorene brought a blue version of this baby afghan. We had seen a red version of it at a previous meeting.

Lorene's blue version, check her blog for more information

http://yarnbasket.wordpress.com/

Can  you guess what this adorable little critter is? He doesn’t have his loonnng arms yet. (That’s a clue.) Debbie is still working on him.

Another clue - orangu...

We had a couple of new members last night and can’t wait to see some of their other projects. It amazes me all the work that these ladies can do. Excuse me, we have had a couple of gentlemen come a time or too to learn a new stitch or two. It’s mostly ladies that come regularly. Thanks for the laughs and good times, I look forward to it every month.

 

Two Choices, hmmmm….

Which one, it’s tough to decide. I’m leaning towards…..both! LOL

Wishful thinking, Janice can’t do both in one evening. Which one are you voting for?

WINNER – - Soft Stroller Blanket – Uses 4 -4 oz (186 yd) balls of yarn (3 colors) and Size I crochet hook

Soft Stroller Blanket – skill level: Intermediate

Soft Strollet Blanket closer inspection

All Angles Afghan – skill level: Intermediate

All Angles Afghan closer inspection

All Angles Afghan – Uses 6 balls of 3.5 oz (218 yd) of one color, 6 skeins of 7 oz (364 yd) of 3 other colors and a size J crochet hook

 

Patterns and Ideas

Here is where it would be nice to post links and/or patterns and pictures of different projects. I can’t wait to see what you will come up with.

 

Yarn Basket’s Show n Tell by Lorene Van Buren

Yarns and....

We were lucky enough to have Lorene Van Buren from the Yarn Basket in Pittsburg, KS to bring some of her luxurious yarns and lots of projects she has completed for our Show n Tell. You should have been there. Here are some of what you missed. There is no way I can describe how the yarns felt. Wool that was similar to silk. Linen yarns (I didn’t even knew existed). Just to feel them was an eye opening experience.

Small projects, some 3D

Some of the smaller projects had a to be looked at from different angles to be able to see the hidden pictures in them. Love all the different color combinations and yarn types. Way more variety then we normally see in the Joplin stores.

Can’t wait until a field trip to see what else she has in her shop. Have you been there yet?

Yarn Basket, 703 N Broadway St
Pittsburg, KS
Her phone : (620)-235-1152

Check out her blog for her hours and more:

http://yarnbasket.wordpress.com/

Black Shawl

Just look at this shawl and how it drapes. Wish you could have felt it when she passed it around. So many of the yarns and projects just felt sooo soft. No matter if it was crocheted or knitted.

Do you want to see a close up of this shawl…just keep reading and looking.

Close up of the black shawl

Thanks Lorene for modeling all of your wonderful projects. And then passing them around so each of us could feel the various types of yarn and get a close up look.

So many choices and so many colors where would a person start! I’m wondering how many that were at this meeting have made it over to the shop yet and how could you possibly make a choice of what project to do with what yarn.

Do you want to see it in red?

This red looks pretty festive, don’t you think?

How about a different style and color?

What do you think of this?