Next Meeting

Wednesday night September 19th is the next meeting of the Central Maryland Knitting Guild. We will meet at 7pm and will be having a program on Spinning. Feel free to bring your wheels and spindles if you already spin, and just bring yourself if you are interested in learning more about it.

We also will be showing our Elizabeth Zimmermann Baby Surprise Jackets that we started at last month's meeting. I'm sure we will be seeing the jackets in all stages since I know members who are almost finished and I also know members who are ripping their jacket out and starting over. It's never too late to join the knitalong!

Have a friend that you think might want to join the Guild? Why not invite them along this month? The Guild is open to all knitters interested in seeing what it is we do!

Interested in joining us, but can't find our meeting? Leave us a comment and we'll be sure to get you to us.

See you there!

A Call to Action!

Are you aware, my fiber loving friends, that our local public broadcasting stations have multiple knitting shows available to them to schedule into their weekly programming? (Some such shows are Needle Arts Studio and Knit & Crochet Today.) Are you aware that every local public broadcasting station programs it's own schedule? Are you aware that the Maryland/Virginia/DC public broadcasting stations choose NOT to schedule these shows for our viewing pleasure at 4am or any other time? Are you aware that MPT schedules a show on how to play GIN RUMMY instead????

Here's how to help! Click to voice your opinion. Send them e-mails telling them we want our knitting shows and we want them THIS FALL! (Hey- it worked for MTV when we were kids, it can work for us now.) Let your fiber friends know how they can make a difference, too.

EZ's Baby Surprise Jacket

Last night we started our Knitalong and it was great to see all of the different yarns that everyone had chosen for the project. Remember to post any questions or comments about the project as you are working on it, so that we can all help each other along the way. Also you can publish pictures of your finished garment here on the blog for us to ooh and aah over. These great baby items will probably be given as gifts before we can see them in person, so let us see how they turn out!

A quick note about a yarn store... 'The Tangled Skein' in Hyattsville will be closed next week so that the landlord can do repairs. They expect to reopen Aug. 28th, but call before you go just in case they aren't done.

Enjoy the last of summer. Sweater weather is right around the corner!

Knit In! This Saturday

Just a reminder that The Mannings are having their yearly Knit In! this Saturday in East Berlin, PA. A number of Guild members were in attendance for their Spinning Seminar in June, and are looking forward to returning for this event. If you have never been to The Mannings, it is located on a wonderfully peaceful farm and has tons and tons of rooms filled with anything you may desire for fiber related fun. (And the farm cats are fun to play with, too)

Hope to see you there!

More Sale Yarn!

Knittin' Chicks is having a sale. They are located on 5 North Main Street in Mount Airy. Between 8/4 and 8/11 all summer yarns will be 20% off and clearance yarns will be 40% off. If you have any questions for them, their phone number is (301) 829-4113.

In case you are not on the mailing list...

Super Summer Shelf-Space Sale Starts Saturday
All right, enough alliteration.

So from Saturday, August 4, through Sunday, August 19, our summer cotton, cotton-blend, linen and linen-blend yarns will be on sale for 30% off.

Reductions will be taken at the register.

Here’s what’s on sale:
Cinnabar• Cotton Frappé• Debbie Bliss Pure Cotton• Falaise• Fantasy Naturale•
Flax• Jo Sharp Summer Cotton• Linen Tweed•
Love It• Maggi’s Linen and Multi Linen• Nautical Cotton•
Nostalgia• Patagonia• Pomaire•
Second Time Around Cotton• Tahki Cotton Classic• Ty-Dy

Shop early to make sure the colors you want are still available!

A Tangled Skein
5200 Baltimore Ave.Suite 101Hyattsville, MD 20781
301-779-3399
www.atangledskein.com

Sit 'N Spin!

The 'Knitters Nest' in Eldersburg is hosting a Spinning Time on the second Sunday of each month from 1-4pm. The next gathering will be on Sunday August 12th.

This new yarn store just opened this past April and is located at 1431 Liberty Road. The phone number is (410) 549-0709 or they can be reached on the web knittersnest@verizon.net.

The owner has mentioned a few of the spinners are also basket weavers and make wonderful baskets to hold the yarn they have spun. The group may offer a class for these in the future.
Sounds like fun!