Monthly Meeting Reviews, 2006
December
Cultured Purls Guild Meeting, December 12, 2006—Annual Holiday Party
The meeting started at 5:30 p.m. with a buffet of appetizers and desserts. The formal meeting started at 7:08 p.m. Bonnie presided as the only attending officer.
Attendance:
The meeting was attended by 48 members and two visitors. Our visitors were
Nicole, who works at the Gifted Purl as a sock instructor, and Turid’s mother
who was visiting from Norway.
Treasurer’s Report
• Bonnie gave the Treasurer’s report. Our beginning balance was $1490.16 with
$525.91 in expenses for gifts for the party. This leaves an ending balance of
$964.25.
• Currently we have a paid membership of 80.
• Dues for 2007 are $15 and must be paid by February 28.
Charity knitting
No charity items were collected today due to Peggy’s absence.
Upcoming Events
Bonnie announced some upcoming events.
• Thursday, Dec. 14: Knitting night at the CL Library, 7–9 p.m.
• Saturday, Jan. 6 and Sunday, Jan. 7 Mosaic Yarn Studio in Des Plaines is
holding its Sock Knitters Dream Sale.
• Helga brought in flyers about the Janesville Area Knitting Guild’s Knit-In
Feb. 8–9
• The Fold in Marengo will hold an open house on New Year’s Day.
• There will be no 4th Tuesday Knit and Chat meeting this month due to Christmas
• The first regular meeting of 2007 will be Tuesday, Jan. 8. Dawn announced we
may have a guest speaker to announce plans for the Fiber Fest to be held at the
Dole Mansion in July.
• The first board meeting for new officers and board members will be held on the
third Tuesday in January.
Survey
A member survey distributed. Any member that did not turn it in at the meeting
should give it to an officer or board member as soon as possible.
Elections
Elections were held. Our new officers and board for 2007 are:
President: Karen H.
Vice President: Andrea F.
Secretary: Peggy S.
Treasurer: Bonnie D.
Board members: Dawn A., Helga B., Marie D., Barb D., Sue B.
Knitting Challenge
Bonnie thanked all that participated in this year’s knitting challenge and
presented the entries. Three guild members judged the entries. The winners were:
Most creative: Fabric bowl by Lisa
Best use of material: Fabric and plastic bag tote bag by Karen E.
Gift Exchange and Guild Gift Distribution
Those participating in the gift exchange used Dawn’s knitting poem to exchange
gifts, and all present received a gift from the Guild.
Thanks to Peggy for buying and wrapping all the gifts and to Peggy’s daughter for delivering them to the church.
Show and Share
Bonnie presided as members showed off finished (and almost finished) projects.
The meeting ended at 9:00 p.m.
November
The meeting was called to order at 7:20 by Karen H, the President.
We had several new members in attendance: Laura from Algonquin, Sherry and
her daughter Brandy from Crystal Lake, Terry from Crystal Lake, and Turid from
Norway (and Crystal Lake for now). Three were from the knit out and have joined.
Barb brought treats and some were left from the weekend retreat.
We have had 9 new members since October which brings our total to 80.
Peggy was absent so there was no reading of the minutes. The treasurer
reported that we had a beginning balance of $1490.16, with expenses of $525.91
for the holiday party, leaving a balance of $964.25.
Charity items turned in by: Patty - 7 baby hats, Karen - 1 baby hat, Helga -
1 baby hat, Dawn - 1 baby hat.
Newsletter items are due by November 20th for the upcoming newsletter. Please
email submissions to Marie D.
The new by-laws were introduced. A motion was made by Pat and seconded by Helga that we accept the new by-laws as a complete document. A quorum was present and all who voted, voted yes and the motion passed.
To view the guild by-laws, you can download the files of the old and new by-laws by using these links to open Adobe Acrobat PDF files:
The group's first retreat was held the previous weekend of November 10-12
with 17 attendees, in New Glarus WI. They visited woolen mills, yarn shops, and
an exhibit on Elizabeth Zimmerman. All who went said they had a great time.
The knit-out had 20 non-members in attendance with 15 members attending to
assist non-knitters.
Mosaic Yarns in Des Plaines and Sunflower Sampling in Crystal Lake will be
having sales the weekend of November 18.
There will be a knitting challenge for the holiday party in December. You can
find a new unusual material to knit a project and present it to the group.
The holiday party will be starting at 5:30 on December 12 at the church.
People with their last names starting in A to L will be bringing appetizers and
M to Z desserts. An optional gift exchange will take place with gifts costing
$10. The election of next years officers and board members will also take place
this evening.
The class for the evening was intarsia taught by Marie D.
Minutes submitted by Linda D, vice president- in Peggy S's absence
October
Karen H opened the meeting on 10/10/06 at 7:05 p.m.
We had a record number of visitors
tonight, four of which became new members. We had Sharyn from Cary, Susan
from Burton's Bridge (came after seeing our website), Lisa from McHenry, Erica
from McHenry who just moved here from Ohio and also found us from our website,
Meghan from Cary, Patricia from McHenry, Terri from McHenry, and Minnie's sister
visiting from Germany. Total of 8 visitors tonight.
The number of members is 72 as of tonight.
We want to thank Linda for bringing her homemade dessert and Peg for bringing
"store bought" cookies.
Treasurer's Report: $1407.24 is our balance in our account per Bonnie.
Charity: We were fortunate to have quite a few items brought in for
Centegra Hospital-our 2006 Charity.
Items were as follows:
2 baby hats from Linda
1 baby hat and one chemo hat from Dawn
3 pink baby hats and 2 blue baby hats from Virginia K.
3 baby hats from Bonnie
3 baby hats and a beautiful pink baby sweater from Luz
Don't forget to join the "Knit
Out" being held at the Crystal Lake Library. It will be held on Sunday,
Oct.15th from 1:00-5:00 p.m. in their basement meeting room. Come and help teach
someone to knit.
Bring some of your handmade knitted items to display. Our guild will supply free
of charge needles and yarn for anyone that shows up and wants to learn to knit.
We had 60 people that came to learn to knit last year! We will also offer door
prizes for our members that show up and also people coming to learn to knit.
The Crystal Lake Library is trying something new for knitters. It will be only
for the months of Sept., Oct., and Nov. on the first Thursday of each of those
months at 7:00 p.m. in the basement meeting room.
Again, if someone wants to learn to knit or just come and knit they can do so.
October 17th is the meeting for board members only.
Don't forget to join us on our first knitting retreat, November 10-12.
Information is going to be sent out to each member this coming week.
You have to sign up and get your room by October 20th. Please note that we have
changed the class taken at the Woolen Mill from the wool dying class (too
caustic!) to beginning lace. We have now approximately
14-16 ladies going. It should be really fun for all! Information is also on our
web site.
Don't forget that nominations for officers and board members will be
brought up at our November Meeting. Please nominate anyone you feel would do a
good job.
Instruction for tonight was on Entralac, by Linda D.
Karen closed the business part of our evening at 7:40 p.m.
Minutes taken by Peggy S/Secretary
September
Tonight before the meeting we had a
Pot Luck Dinner. Members brought a dish to pass to open our "knitting season".
The food was all wonderful and heartily enjoyed by all of us!
Karen opened the meeting at 7:05 p.m.
We had two new visitors tonight.
Luz's sister from Reno, NV and Lisa from McHenry. Welcome!
The total number of members is now 68.
Treasurer's Report from Bonnie: Total Balance in our checking account comes to
$1,453.96.
Charity Contributions: Cindi-6 baby hats; Karen E.- 3 Chemo Hats, 3 baby Hats;
Barb-Baby Blanket, 5 baby hats, 7 IV Holders, 7 Chemo Hats; Evelyn-5 Baby Hats,
5 pairs of Baby Booties.
We want to thank each and everyone of our members for being so generous with
their time in knitting all these wonderful items for the Centegra Hospital!
Our thanks to editor Marie and members that contributed to our newsletter that
just went out. The next newsletter will be coming out at the end of November or
beginning of December.
The Felted Slipper workshop was a great success! 14-16 members attended and
everyone showed us their work. (Photos online at
Guild Photos) Thanks to
Andrea for organizing and teaching this workshop for us!
Future Events:
Sept.19th Charity Knitting/Panera Bread/Fox River Grove/6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.;
Oct.7th Tall Grass Farm/Delavan,Wi.-info on our web site.
Oct.15th is the Knit Out/Crystal Lake Library/1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.;
Nov.10-12
Guild Knitting Retreat/New Glarus,Wi.
Please sign up for the retreat A.S.A.P. so we have a number for visiting the
woolen mills, EZ exhibit, etc.
Elections for Officers and Board Members will be coming up. At the November
Meeting there will be nominations from the members at large, and the Voting will
occur at the December Meeting.
Business meeting ended at 7:45 p.m.
The instruction session tonight was
Shadow Knitting, taught by Bonnie D.
Minutes taken by Peggy S/Secretary
Charity Knitting Update
Note sent by Peggy S:
"I delivered 4 big bags of baby hats, chemo hats, booties, etc. to Woodstock Centegra Hospital the other day. This time I got to go up to the 3rd floor where the babies were. All the nurses couldn't thank us enough for all the beautiful items. They were so proud as they passed up Centegra in McHenry with a record of 122 babies born last month!! They have gotten the okay also for a big women's center and heart center in Woodstock at the hospital. I also went to the 2nd floor and brought the IV Covers and went to 200West Floor to deliver a bunch of chemo hats, that were also gratefully accepted by the nurses there."
August
Karen started the meeting at 7:10 p.m. There were 27 attendees tonight.
We had two new visitors; Jean from Crystal Lake, and Joan from Cary.
Dawn stated we have approximately 68 paid members as of this date.
Dawn gave the Treasurer's Report. As of this date we have $1434.24 in our bank
account.
We had three knitted baby hats given to our Centegra Hospital Charity.
Two hats were knitted by Sarah, and one was knitted by Linda. We thank you for
all your work in making these very cute hats!
Marie stated that deadline for submission for our upcoming newsletter is August
27th. Please take the time to send Marie all your interesting knitting articles
and original contributions. The newsletter will be coming out around the first
week of September.
Don't forget STITCHES this weekend. A lot of talk carpooling and getting
together at STITCHES was heard tonight. Have a great time with the classes and
the shopping!
August 27th (Sunday) is the Felted Clog
Workshop run by Andrea. It is being held at the Algonquin Township building
by Rt. 31 & Rt. 62. It starts at 1:00 p.m.
September 12th is our next regular meeting. To celebrate the start of the
"knitting season" we are having a potluck
before the meeting. It will start at 5:30 p.m. If you are planning on attending
please bring the following:
If your last name starts with: A-G Bring a salad
H-Q Bring a main dish
R-Z Bring a dessert
October 15th (Sunday) is the Knit Out held at the Crystal Lake Library from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Our Guild is holding a two-night retreat on November 10-12th. We will be staying at the Chalet Landhaus Inn, New Glarus, Wisconsin. Room rates are $94/per room plus tax (double occupancy) and have to be held with your credit card. This room rate includes a full hot breakfast buffet daily. On the Saturday we will visit the Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill located in Mt. Horeb to take a class and tour of the mill and of course do some shopping there, plus other activies to be added. The Guild is holding a block of rooms so get your reservations in early. The phone number to the Inn is 1-800-944-1716. Please make sure reservations knows you are with the Cultured Purls Knitting Guild. See our Events page for more info.
The class instruction for tonight was mitered squares taught by Minnie.
The meeting was closed at 7:30 p.m.
Minutes taken by Peggy S/Secretary
July
Karen opened the meeting at 7:08 p.m. We had three new visitors tonight, all
from Crystal Lake. Thanks to Debbie and Minnie for their delicious treats they
brought for all of us to enjoy.
Bonnie gave us a balance of $1407.24 in our account for the month.
We had 4 baby hats donated for our Charity project with Centegra Hospital.
Thanks to Karen, Sue, and Sara for knitting these pretty hats.
Our next Charity Knitting get together will be held in September at the Fox
River Grove Panera Restaurant, Route 22 & Rt.14, from 6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
The deadline for submission of any articles for our next newsletter is August
26th. Please send any knitting information to Marie who is editor of our
newsletter. Hopefully the next newsletter will be coming out at the beginning of
September.
Crystal Lake Library has kindly decided to co-sponsor this year's Knit-Out being
held Sunday, October 15th from 1-5 p.m. We are able to use the library's room
without having to pay for it.
Only two of our members attended the guild picnic held at Turner Camp in
Algonquin. The low attendance was blamed on everyone having a busy summer.
Thanks to Barb for hosting it.
Future Events: August 4-6 I'd Rather Be Knitting Yarn Shop Sale located in Long
Grove, IL.
August 10-13 Stitches Midwest/Rosemont. Since parking is $11/a car try to car
pool.
August 16-20, Michigan Fiber Fest
August 27 (Sunday), Our Guild Felted Clog Workshop being held at the Algonquin
Village Hall, Rt.31&62 from 1:00 p.m. until ? Andrea is in charge of this
workshop. She will be doing a group order with Knit Picks Company. You can place
your order for both the yarn and the pattern with Andrea. She has a palette of
all the colors of the Peruvian Wool. It is worsted weight wool yarn. You may buy
the yarn elsewhere, if you desire.
Tonight's class was headed by Patti. She had two very pretty lace patterns for
one of our 5" squares. Thanks to Patti for all here help with this class
tonight.
More information to come on our knitting retreat being held for two nights,
November 10-12. We will be trying to get some rooms reserved at the Chalet
Landhaus Inn, New Glarus, Wisconsin. More information to come as soon as we
hear.
Karen closed the meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Peggy S/Secretary
June
The June 13, 2006 meeting of The
Cultured Purls Guild was called to order at 7:10 by Karen. We welcomed 5 new
visitors, 2 from Crystal Lake, 2 from McHenry and 1 from Cary. Treats were
supplied by Helga and Cindy.
The number of members is at 64. There was no treasurer's report given.
Mary Joan turned in 1 IV cover and 3 chemo caps for Charity Knitting.. There
will be a Charity Knitting night on Tuesday, June 20 at the Panera Bread store
in Fox River Grove from 6:30 to 9:00. You can find patterns on the web site and
you can either bring your own yarn or knit from the charity yarn stash.
The newsletter went out the first week in June. Our next newsletter will be in
September. Please think about writing an article for the next newsletter.
Karen reported that there were many yarn shops having sales in the past weeks -
Gene Ann's, Gifted Purl and the one in Crystal Lake I believe.
The Knit in Public that was held on
Saturday, June 10 was well attended. We had 9 people in attendance.
Future Events:
June 20 - Charity Knitting 6:30 - 9:00 at Panera Bread in Fox River Grove
July's regular meeting will not be July 11, but July 25 because of Bible School
July 18 - Board Meeting
July 23 - Picnic at Barb D. in Algonquin at 1:00
August 10-13 - Stitches in Rosemont
August 27 - Felted Clog workshop with Andrea
Nov. 10 & 11 - Guild Retreat -Please complete the poll so we can move forward on
retreat.
Jane gave us instructions for Slip Stitch Knitting. We are to finish the 5x5
square to go into our instructional pillow top.
May
No report submitted.
April
Karen opened the meeting at 7:10 p.m. on April 11, 2006. She welcomed three
new visitors to our meeting. Two of the ladies live in Crystal Lake and one
lives in Cary. The total number of attendees tonight was 35. Thanks to Cindy S.
for bringing cookies to go with our coffee and tea.
We have one new member sign up, bringing a total paid membership number to 60.
Treasurer's Report by Bonnie:
Beginning balance: $1458.00
Deposits made: +54.00
Expenses: -15.39
Ending Balance: $1496.61
Charity: Patti knitted 9 baby hats and one baby blanket for Centegra Hospital. Kudos to Patti!! Our guild decided to buy some baby yarn for any of our members who would like to make some baby things for our charity. Dawn was kind enough to get the yarn on sale and use her discount at Hobby Lobby. Thanks Dawn! We also have several people that have brought in skeins from their stashes for us to use.
A motion was brought up to buy a swift and ball winder from Debbie and Bonnie. The motion passed unanimously. Later in the meeting Nancy was nice enough to donate a ball winder so all we have to order is the swift. Bonnie will look into pricing and order one. They run around $50.00.
Our newsletter just came out a week ago. It is being organized and written by Marie. Please send or e-mail any great knitting articles or information to Marie. The deadline for the next newsletter will be posted on our website. Thanks to Marie for doing such a great job!
Tonight's instruction was on pattern embossing. Patti was our instructor. Bonnie showed everyone an example (a sweater she had knitted) of pattern embossing that was beautiful. Thanks to Patti for taking the time to help everyone with her instructions, etc.
At the May 9th meeting, the instruction will be on learning Cables.
The instructor will be Kathleen with Minnie helping. The June 13th instruction
will be Slip Stitch Mosiac. We need instructors for this.
Please volunteer your expertise.
Please check out our website for all future events
coming up. Everyone is getting excited for
Stitches Midwest which will again be held in Rosemont this August 10-13.
Parking is supposed to be $11/a day per car. Daily admission will be $8 per
person, $12 for 2-day passes, or $16 for a 3-day pass. Be sure to sign up EARLY
as classes fill up very quickly. If you are not taking any classes but just want
to go to the yarn market then the hours for the market are: Friday & Saturday
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. or Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more
information visit the website at:
www.knittinguniverse.com
Karen closed the business meeting at 7:45 p.m.
Peggy S/Secretary of Cultured Purls Guild
March
Karen started the business meeting for Cultured Purls Guild at 7:08 p.m. on March 14, 2006. We had one new person, Sue B from McHenry.
Total attendance for this meeting was 31. Karen thanked Peggy and Helen for bringing "goodies" served with our coffee and tea.
Bonnie/Treasurer gave her report. Beginning balance was $1296.00. An additional amount of $162.00 came in during the last month for a total as of 3/14/06 of $1458.00 in our account. We now have 57 paid members.
Peggy announced we had quite a few charity items donated by our members. Linda F-1 baby hat, Susan R-2 chemo hats, Minnie -6 baby hats. We thank each and every one of you for donating an item!
Our newsletter, coming out at the end of March, will be sent to our web site instead of by regular mail. If you have an interesting article please send it on to Marie, who has kindly volunteered to get the newsletter out.
Dawn mentioned to our new members that we have our library exchange of patterns, books, and magazines for our members. We also have a suggestion box at our monthly meetings.
It was brought up that 4 of our members attended the last knitting night held at the Crystal Lake Library. The last session at the library is Thursday, 3/16 from 7:00 p.m. until closing.
Karen mentioned that Tall Grass Farm is having their annual spring fiber jubilee. It will be held on Saturday, April 1, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Parking is roadside (all four wheels must be off the road). There is a market for yarn, clothes, jewelry, etc. along with shearing on the half hour from 10:00 a.m. -3:30 p.m. Buy a great lunch from the ladies of the Richmond Methodist Church from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. If you have further questions contact Susan Miller at 608-883-2025 or click on the "Fiber Jubilee" button on their web site: email skmiller@idcnet.com or www.mohairconnection.com By the way Tall Grass Farm is located in Delavan, Wisconsin, just up the road from Needles N Pins yarn shop and Studio S fiber shop.
For other events please visit our website.
For our next meeting on April 11th, our instructors will teach the embossed stitch. Our thanks to Linda D. for leading our lesson on the Duplicate stitch, along with all her "helpers" for tonight's lesson. Our May meeting will be a lesson on learning to cable.
Our business meeting ended at 7:30 p.m. Peggy L. S/Secretary
February
The meeting was opened by Karen H on 2/14/06 at 7:08 p.m. We had one new visitor tonight.
Bonnie D is still collecting our annual dues. The amount for each member for the annual dues is $18.00. Please get these dues in as soon as possible. We now have 53 paid members for 2006.
Charity: The following items were brought in for our Charity Program:
1 Hat from Karen, 1 Hat from Bonnie, 1 Hat from Evelyn, pair of booties from
Evelyn and one IV Holder from Evelyn. A big thanks to all for these baby items
for Centegra Hospital.
The following dates were mentioned for area shows, bargains, discounts:
Mosaic Yarn Shop/Des
Plaines: Fashion Show/$25.00 per person, for more information go to their
web site.
Gifted Purl/West Dundee:
Feb.26 (Sunday) is a Guild Member Open House.
It will be held from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. There will be refreshments and a discount
of 15% for all guild members.
Basket of Stitches/Palatine: All their yarn is 40% off to anyone right now.
There is only a 10% guild discount for needles, books, etc.
Quietly Wild/Woodstock: Is
going out of business and will have everything discounted starting
Feb.28th-various discounts.
Due to it being Valentine's Day, there was no project tonight, but the
Friendship Scarves could be continued if desired. We had a lot of people giving
help to other members so that was nice.
For the March meeting, our project will be learning the Duplicate Stitch as the first of a number of little squares of different techniques throughout the year. For the materials and instructions needed before the March meeting please go to our web site program info page.
Treasurer's Report from Bonnie:
January Balance: $450.00
Dues paid before February meeting: $846.00
Total Balance for February: $1296.00
Thanks to all who brought all the
great "goodies" to our Valentine meeting.
Formal meeting closed at 7:45 p.m. Show-N-Share time began at 8:30.
Peggy S/Secretary
January
Karen opened the meeting at 7:10 p.m. We had 9 new visitors. Four ladies from Crystal Lake, two from Cary, two from Huntley, and one from Woodstock. Several of these ladies heard about our Guild from attending the Knit Out at the Crystal Lake Library, read about us in the Herald, took classes from one of our guild members, or through one of our local yarn shops. Word sure gets around!
We are now signing a list when you come in-not just for visitors but for Guild members attending the monthly meetings, just to get to know the numbers of each month. This month we had a total of 45 ladies attend.
We were very lucky to have quite a few baby items donated for our Centegra
charity project. The following items were donated in January:
fleeced lined/knitted blanket and a hat - Jacqueline G.
3 baby blankets and a pair of slippers - Barb D.
8 baby hats and 8 pairs of baby booties - Evelyn M. (Peggy's Mom)
Thanks so very much for all these donations-they are much appreciated!
The following are the Officers for the Guild for 2006:
Karen H - President
Linda D - Vice President
Bonnie D - Treasurer
Peggy S - Secretary
The following are the Board Members for the Guild for 2006:
Dawn A-our founder and web site guru; Helga B, Patti K, Marie D, Minnie D.
Karen asked everyone to be sure to bring up anything they would like to have taught at any of our upcoming meeting. Since the next monthly meeting falls on Valentine's Day, there will be no official training sessions. We can continue working on our Friendship scarves together.
Officers and Board members will meet for their first meeting next Tuesday, January 17th, at Barnes and Noble at 7:00 p.m.
Crystal Lake Library is holding knitting meetings on the third Thursday of
January, February, and March from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Information about this is on the web site.
Treasurer's Report: 12/13/05 Balance: $760.38
01/10/06 Balance: $489.76* *This balance does not represent monies taken in for
2006 dues paid at this meeting.
Tonight the guild project was working on the Friendship Scarf.
Dawn A also showed how to do the Crochet Cast On to a number of members who were interested.
Business meeting ended approximately at 8:00 p.m.
Minutes taken by Peggy S/Secretary
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