Meeting call to Order Called by: Pam St Clair
Time: 7:19
President's Comments: Everyone was welcomed. Members and guests were asked to remember to sign-in and to wear their badge. We were thrilled to have 5 guests and two new members. April birthdays were recognized.
President'a activities this past month: Lots of Frogging! And lots of hours worked to pull together the scheduling for the Spring Craft Show – and some great time logged working at the Craft Show as well.
Minutes of the March meeting were posted to the TKGV blog and accepted as presented.
Treasurer's Report:
General Fund: $2,823.50
Charity Fund: $97.83
Education Fund: $289.14
Grand Total: $3,210.47
Treasurer's Report was accepted as presented.
The Treasurer asked to include the Education Fund into the General Fund. A Motion was made, seconded, and there was no discussion. A vote was held and the Motion carried.
Committee Reports:
Programs: Trink Dahl Prince
- Two of our guests at this meeting were welcomed as “recruits” from the Spring Craft Show.
- Tonight's program by Sue Von Ohlsen will be on Shoulder Shaping
- May – Eleanor Cavin and a team of folks will be presenting finishing techniques. Eleanor mentioned that people need to look at the newsletter to get instructions for the swatches to get ready for the May Finishing Techniques. Use light colored yarn.
- June – Spinning Show and Tell
- July – Yarn sale
- August – Charity
- September - Yarn Sale Deux
- Speakers – Sally Melville is available for 2011. We could have Sally for a weekend in November 2011 – either weekend of 5/6 or 12/13 2011. For 4 classes, the cost is approximately $1600 plus incidental expenses. We also need to rent a place to hold the classes. A suggestion was to get a quote from Westminster Canterbury. Everyone was very interested in pursuing more information about class size limitations and to get more details on the dates and location.
Charity Projects: Jackie Scott
- A sign-in list is available at every meeting for people to register their count.
- The Guild received a nice thank you note from St Mary's for slippers and a blanket. The Guild is supporting St Mary's as our charity at this point in time. Please consider knitting anything that a child from age 4 up to young adult age might want, which can go into a hot washer and dryer. Slipper socks and lap blankets are always appreciated.
- As we move into summer, the Guild would like members to knit pet blankets for Charity projects. Any kind of blanket that can line a cage from cat size to Great Dane size. The pet blanket you make will go with the pet when it is adopted, so the blanket is part of the pet's care kit.
- Charity yarn and needles were donated to the Guild. Members were asked to take any items tonight, on the honor system, for use in Charity Knitting projects.
Welfare and Calling Tree - Karen Richardson was not present.
- There is no news to pass on to Karen.
Newsletter and Publicity: Sonia Barisic. Sonia was not present.
- Members noted the beauty of the “look” of the Newsletter. Members were reminded the Newsletter is online.
- Tote bags available for $20.
- Raffle items were purchased from the Yarn Basket this month.
Web Committee: Joanne Fisher, Lara Marin and Andrea Riddle.
- Web Committee strongly believes the TKGV Blog should be linked via Google for “click-thru” advertising as a way to make money for the Guild. One suggestion for use of the money is to fund a website.
- Much discussion ensued. A suggestion was made that it would be helpful if the Web committee would provide more information about Google Click-thru and what is involved in developing, funding and maintaining a website. It would then be helpful to document the process with “big animal pictures” to present the process to the membership at a future meeting.
- Carolyn Cox volunteered to look at the terms and conditions of the Google Click-thru.
- Treasurer agreed to look into “non-profit” status and what affect, if any, advertising dollars have on the Guild's “non-profit” status.
Old Business:
- MD Sheep and Wool – Last month membership decided the Guild would pay $100 plus the $100 deposit. At this time there are 23 people confirmed and 2 “maybes”. There are 9 non-members.
- Spring Craft Show – The show was a huge success. The Guild drew a lot of interest in both the knitted items on display and questions about knitting and the Guild. As noted above under Programs, 2 guests present at the April meeting were “recruits” from the show.
- WW Knit in Public Day – This event will be held on June 13 from 12-5 at the D'ART Center in Norfolk. Bring a chair, food and drink. The WW Knit in Public coordinators envision lots of great activities to get everyone excited, including: a yarn tasting lounge, charity knitting, goody bags, a scavenger hunt and a learn-to-knit station. Members were asked to bring extra needles and scrap or old yarn to make kits. Volunteers will be needed to teach people to knit and to coordinate the charity knitting.
- Gathering of the Guilds – to take place on Saturday April 10, 2010 at the Francis Land house.
- Raffle Committee made a request to increase funding for Raffle prizes to $150 per quarter. The Raffle Committee spent $99 allocated for the 1st quarter. A Motion was made, seconded, there was a discussion, a vote was held and the Motion carried.
- The President received an email from Blue Heron Yarns, with an offer to bring Blue Heron discontinued yarns to a Guild meeting for show and purchase. Members are pretty excited about having Blue Heron, so Members asked Trink to schedule Blue Heron as part of Programming.
April Program: Sue Von Ohlsen presented the April Program on “Better Shoulder Shaping”.
- Instead of the “stair step” appearance which is unattractive and hard to seam together, Sue had an example of a technique used by Elizabeth Zimmerman. The technique utilizes P2Tog and K2Tog as the first and last stitch in the bind-offs typically used to create the shoulder slope. The P2Tog and K2Tog create a more gradual slope, which is easier to seam. Sue also reminded members that shoulder shaping is not always necessary, especially if the wearer of the sweater has square shoulders. It's important to remember patterns are not written in stone and if the knitter knows a better way to do something, the knitter should make the modification.
Raffle: 4 Wonderful yarns from the Yarn Basket were raffled.
Show and Tell: Members showed many knitted garments and works in progress.
Next Meeting Date: Monday May 3, 2010
Meeting Adjourned Time: 8:47 pm
Respectfully Submitted,
Peggie Meyer
