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Ravelympics due to start at Ravelry
Ravelympic logo by zzwhitejd
Today the Winter Olympics start in Vancouver, BC. and the Ravelympics will start at Ravelry.
What is the Ravelympics you ask? The event is online at the social knitting website called Ravelry. The website started out with knitters and has evolved to include fiber fanatics of all kinds – spinners, weavers, crocheters and pattern developers, not to mention all manner of suppliers including yarn manufacturers and magazines.
Ravelympics is two weeks of focused, intense personal & team challenges to tackle while watching the Olympics. Ravelryites picked projects to start or complete, joined groups and posted projects. The fun begins with “casting on” at the opening ceremonies of the games and ends when the torch is extinguished. This mad group is composed of over 8,711 participants from around the globe that have one goal in mind – to complete the projects they posted while watching world-class sporting events.
By the time this is over there will be a large mass of projects completed, personal goals achieved and hopefully Gold medals for America!
Add comment February 12, 2010
In the Woods Retreat March 19-12, 2010
The 2nd annual Knitting Retreat 2010 is scheduled on March 19 – 21 at the In the Woods Campground & Resort in Canon, Georgia. This retreat is all Inclusive: Room, Food, Beverages,Yarn and Patterns for projects are included, you need to just supply needles.
The featured instructor will be Susan Glinert Stevens aka fleegle in ravelry circles. Susan will teach the fleegle heel as well as the purl less in-the round garter stitch. Susan’s classes will be on Saturday, March 20.
Patricia will also be there, and I’m sorry I don’t have a last name. Patricia loves to knit socks and her classes will be about sock knitting -Colorwork – learn Continental/American for 2 hand colorwork and making a heel sampler.
Cost and complete schedule for the weekend can be found at the website. There will be Door prizes, contests and giveaways!
CALL Tom @ 706.246.0152 to make reservations. No registrations taken after March 12. Must be paid in full by March 12. Accepts: Visa, Mastercard
Add comment February 10, 2010
Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival
Need I say anything more than “Rhinebeck” to make knitters and spinners swoon? Most knitters and spinners have heard of the festival and have set this as a “one day I will attend” goal. Those who have attended use word like “Wow”, “Amazing” and “Sensory Overload” to describe the festival know as ‘Rhinebeck’. The festival is held every October and this year will be held October 17-18, 2009 at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York just north of Poughkeepsie, New York, during the peak fall color season
This is a large gathering of fiber-arts enthusiasts (knitters, crocheters, spinners, and fiber lovers), growers of natural-fiber-producing livestock and vendors of the materials and tools associated with each. This is a true showcase for one of Dutchess County’s first (and still viable) industries; the Sheep and Wool Family Festival is now in its 37th year at the fairgrounds. Sheep, llamas and alpacas will be on display, with craft and fiber artists presenting the wonders of wool and sheep related items. The show is family orientated with activities for all ages, including a pumpkin chucking contest, a Hay Maze, cooking demonstrations, and Border Collies showing off their shepherding skills.
This year the workshop schedule includes Lily M Chin, among a host of other wonderful fiber artists.
Link s you may be interested in:
General information
Index of events
This year the Book Sigining and lecture events will feature Clara Parks, Lily M Chin and Kristen Rengren, the author of Vintage Baby Knits.
Also featured is The New York State Make it with Wool Contest. This contest will be held Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 10am to 2pm . The Make It With Wool prizes are sponsored by the NYS Sheep & Wool Festival. Contestants must select, construct and model their own garments.
Add comment October 2, 2009
Stitch n' Pitch at Comerica Park
TheNational Needlearts Association (TNNA) has partnered with Major League and Minor League Baseball to host people who love to knit, crochet, crossstitch,embroider and needlepoint. These promotional events attract thousands of “Stitch N’ Pitch fans” every year who are encouraged to bring their projects to work on during the game.
Stitching in public has become a hot trend and seeing groups of people working on needlearts projects in coffee shops, restaurants and other unusual places is becoming a regular sighting.
Stitch n’ Pitch will be at the Detroit Tigers vs. Tampa Bay Rays game held Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 1:05 p.m. Grab your needles and yarn and come cheer for the Tigers while you embroider, needlepoint, knit, crochet or cross-stitch with other creative people like you!
The Tigers have reserved a special section of seats for the Stitch n’ Pitach participants. The seating is in sections 210 to 215 for this special event. Tickets are only $15.00. To purchase tickets at this special location, go to the Stitch n’ Pitch website and follow the links.
Also, as part of the “Every Kid Every Sunday” promotion, all kids 14-and-under can enjoy the following:
• Back to School Backpack sponsored by DMC
• Pre-Game Kids Take the Field presented by Big Boy
• Kids Day Bicycle Giveaways (4 per game)
• Free Rides on the Carousel and Ferris Wheel presented by Red Robin
• Interactive baseball Card Game “Pack Attack!”
• Post-Game Kids Run the Bases presented by Pepsi
• Face-Painting
Locally, tickets are available at City Knits in Detroit and Mount Clemens.
1 comment August 23, 2009
Sock Summit knitters aim to set Guinness World Record
The organizers of Sock Summit decided to have an event to break the Guinness World record of people knitting simultaneously. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and Tina Newton booked the Oregon Ballroom of the Convention Center to hold this event. The ballroom was limited to 1600 knitters. The Knitters at Sock Summit, all 935 of them, attempted to set the world record for simultaneous knitting. The previous record, set in June in Australia, was 256 knitters
On Friday, the 7th of August at 12:15 p.m., the knitters started knitting, following the Guinness World Record rules. The Guinness World Record rules were that the attempt must be made by knitters knitting for 15 minutes, using “traditional needles” which they define as “two needles”. This means that every person that participated used two needles, and not circulars or four needles. The attempt was a success. The record was broken, but no official word yet.
There are many blogs detailing this event, and also a video from K2TOG at The Oregonian.
Add comment August 15, 2009
Squam Art Workshops
Are you looking for a workshop that will revitalize your creative juices. something that provides you with a beautiful setting, activities that include swimming, hiking, and boating? How about numerous antique shops, second-hand stores, and general stores, as well as restaurants and picturesque towns, to explore?
If you answered yes to the above questions, you might be interested in attending the [tag]Squam Art Workshops[/tag] events to be held June 3 – 7, 2009 and September 16 – 20, 2009 at the [tag]Rockywold-Deephaven Camps[/tag] on Squam Lake, located in central New Hampshire For more information about the area, please check these links:
Squam Lakes Association
Squam Lakes Chamber of Commerce
There are many classes to choose from that include: painting, printmaking, journaling, doll making, writing, knitting, sewing, photography, crochet, sculpture, felting and some classes that combine several of those elements into one workshop. Both sessions follow the same format: there are three days of workshops.
Both sessions have 3 days of classes, June’s sessions will focus on textiles and September’s classes will focus on visual arts and writing workshops.
There is a very long list of classes, and a very long list of teachers for the June sessions. There are still spots available for the June session ; downpayment of $350 is needed. Registration and cost information is found here.
Another bonus, if you are a member of the [tag]Raverly[/tag] website, the first Ravelry party in New England will be at the SAW on Saturday, June 6th. The party. is open to all Ravelers and friends, not just participants of the Workshops
Add comment May 26, 2009
Contribute to Australia's National Gallery
How would you like to take part in creating a knitted pole cozy that will be on display at the [tag]National Gallery[/tag] in Australia? Not happening you say? Well read on.
Held over four days, Magda Sayeg, founder of [tag]Knitta Please[/tag], and Sydney artist [tag]Denise Litchfield[/tag] will transform the front entrance and foyer of the National Gallery.
Knitters are invited to help create squares of knitting for the coverings. Denise Litchfield - Grrl + dog writes about this event at her blog. This event is part of Knitta Please a festival of events from July5 to 12 , which celebrates the final week of the exhibition Soft sculpture.
Knitters are invited to help create pieces that measure 10–20 cm wide and 140 cm long, which will be stitched together by volunteers to create coverings for 6 large concrete poles - 10 meters high, that’s over thirty feet. Each pole measures 140 cms or 55 inches in circumference. That means your piece has to be that long to fit around the pole. Make sure your piece is no higher than 20 cms or 8 inches.
Any color of yarn, any type of yarn and any technique is accepted! The wackier the knitting the better. Use your imagination – recycled plastic bags, ribbon, whatever!
And, just to make it more fun -Denise Litchfield will send you special commemorative hand made, one -of- a- kind knitted bling just for sending a knitted swatch
You need to start knitting now and send your items to arrive by July 1st. Takes about 10 days to mail to Australia from the US. Just email Denise at grrlandog@bigpond.com to commit.
Include a small note stating your name, location and age (optional) because each knitted strip will have a small label stating the maker’s details.
1 comment May 14, 2009
Think Outside The SOX Contest Winners
Sock Knitting has created many new designers – at least based on the amount of entries with this contest. The [tag]Think Outside the SOX[/tag] co-sponsors devised 26 amateur categories to stimulate knitters creativity. Each category was judged by the sponsoring company, and each winner was awarded a $500 prize. That created 26 chances to win (21 yarn-specific categories and 5 non-yarn-specific categories)! The voting for the KniTalk catagory was done by knitters who logged into [tag]Knitalk Community[/tag] and at [tag]Stitches West[/tag]. The winners are featured in a future edition of Knitters Magazine and in a new sock book published by XRX Books.
This picture is the Grand Prize winner Betty Salpekar of Woodstock, GA. Betty was in the audience at the Student Banquet. She received her $6000 check from XRX Publisher, Alexis Xenakis to a standing ovation.
There also was a 27th category… setup just for the Pros in the industry. This non-yarn-specific catagory was judged by [tag]Cat Bordhi[/tag], [tag]Lucy Neatby[/tag], [tag]Sandi Rosner[/tag], and the Knitter’s Magazine editorial team. And the winner was awarded a $500 prize. All the winners were announced at Stitches West in California. These judges also determined the winners of the Knitter’s, KnitU, XRX Books, and STITCHES catagories. The Queens of Socks themselves made a video to discuss how they determined the winners and the fun they had handeling all the entries.
The sponsors of this contest are: [tag]Skacel[/tag], [tag]SWTC[/tag], [tag]Mountain Colors[/tag], [tag]Regia[/tag], [tag]Universal Yarn[/tag], [tag]Unique Kolours[/tag], [tag]Cherry Tree Hill Yarn[/tag], and [tag]addi Turbo by Skacel[/tag] – (not to mention [tag]Knitter’s Magazine[/tag], KnitU, [tag]STITCHES Knitting Expos[/tag], and [tag]XRX Books[/tag]) who donated over 21,000 in prizes in 27 categories.
And what great designs the amateurs created! Click here for all the pictures of the winners. Click here for a slide show of all 293 entries. One of the category winners was a 10 year old, Elizabeth Brook Shelor, Meadows of Dan, VA. A future designer, I’m sure!
The reason I am excited about the winners of this contest is that six of the winners were from my home state – Michigan! The [tag]Michigan[/tag] winners are: Terri D Gogolin, Milan, MI who won two categories; Janice Talkington, Lake, MI; Linda McGibbon Beaverton, MI who won two categories; and Tanya Thomann, Berkley, MI who won the KniTalk catagory.
Way to go ladies!
Add comment April 8, 2009
Sock Summit 2009 – Are You Going?
Do you like knitting socks? Would you like to be at a gathering of knitters where Knitted Socks will be the main (and probably only) topic? Would you like to meet and take classes from some of the best known sock knitters?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, the [tag]Sock Summit 2009[/tag] is the answer to your prayers. This event will be held in Portland, OR at the Oregon Convention Center. This fab idea was put together by a few well known people in the knitting industry – Tina Newton, owner of [tag]Blue Moon Fiber Arts[/tag], [tag]Stephanie Pearl-McPhee [/tag]and[tag] Cat Bordhi[/tag]. Need I say more when it comes to sock knitting?
And the list of teachers is mind boggling -
The dates for this summit are Wednesday August 5th thru August 9th, 2009. Registration information can be found at the Sock Summit 2009 website.
A special closing ceremony will be held on Sunday, August 9th. That date will be the 99th Anniversary of the birth of [tag]Elizabeth Zimmermann[/tag], which prompted the idea of a panel of Knitting Luminaries who will talk about what’s happened in knitting in the last 99 years, who we owe it to, and where they think it’s going.
Add comment April 3, 2009
Knitty reaches 50 Million Hits and has a Contest
If you are subscribed to the [tag]Knitty[/tag] mailing list, you already know this amazing fact. At some point during the day of April 13, 2008, the [tag]Knitty Magazine[/tag] reached an amazing amount of hits – 50 Million individual site visits to be exact.
So, what did the owner/creator of Knitty do?[tag] Amy Singer[/tag] sat down and decided to hold a contest to thank all the people who read the magazine. Amy contacted some Knitty favorites and they rushed to join in the celebration of this milestone event.
The first greatest thing about this contest is that you just need to be a member of the Knitty mailing list to be entered. The second greatest thing about this contest are the prizes. Wonderful Prizes!
- From Lexie of [tag]Lexie Barnes[/tag], a $250 gift certificate to her shop!
- From Beth of Lorna’s Laces, a sweater’s worth of the [tag]Lorna’s Laces[/tag] yarn of your choice, in your choice of color!
- From [tag]Potter Craft[/tag], you’ll get these six knitting books:
Big Girl Knits * More Big Girl Knits * A Fine Fleece
Twinkle’s Weekend Knits * Tweed * Shear Spirit - From[tag] Knitting Out Loud,[/tag] their entire library of knit-related audio books:
Stitch & Bitch * America Knits * A History of Hand Knitting
Knitting Memories * No Idle Hands * The Art of Fair Isle Knitting - From Jennifer of [tag]Stitch Diva,[/tag] her entire library of more than 40 Stitch Diva Patterns in knit, crochet and hairpin lace!
- From [tag]Cat Bordhi[/tag], her entire collection, autographed, including all 4 of her revolutionary moebius and sock knitting books and her novel, Treasure Forest.
So, what are you waiting for? Join the list!
Contest winner will be chosen by a random number generator on May 1, 2008 at 9 am eastern time. I can hardly wait!
Add comment April 22, 2008
Knitting Daily Waist Shaper
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