July 2014 Meeting

We started out with an awesome Italian Beef Pot Luck lunch.  Leigh's husband Bernie made us a huge pot of Italian Beef!! Others brought buns, chips, pickles, peppers.  Sherry made a lovely fresh tomato salad with mozzarella and basil.  To top that all off Kim made BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS!!!!! that we smothered with vanilla ice cream (to cut the sweet as we say in the south!)

Can you tell I was smitten with the blackberry dumplings :-)

We had some show and tell.  Sherry had been busy making 14 minute slippers

Bottle cozies

 and a beautiful scarf out of some very lovely sparkly yarn!

Since our last meeting Leigh bought 2 Bonds, one for her and one for Doris, so we split off with Elaine giving Bond lessons

They were very busy and intent most of the time, but you can see the look of happiness on Leigh's face as she got something right!

One the other side of the room we worked on baby Mary Jane slippers on the bulky.

Everyone learned at least one thing and sometimes it was by making mistakes, which is I think can be the best way to learn!

May 2014 Meeting

After skipping our April meeting due to SIX of us going to the Spring Fling Seminar in Peru, Indiana we are back on track with our meetings! This month we were back at Kim's house and we started the meeting with lunch (cos we are a hungry bunch!)

Next was show and tell.  Kim recently got a quilt machine from the Paducah Quilt Show.

Doris brought her quilt in progress....We love all crafts!! No JUDGING :-)

Sherry had been busy making items using some of the cool things she learned at Spring Fling.  One of the classes was on crochet stitches directly on the knit machine.  I also attended that class and it was very cool. 

 This is machine knit "half double crochet" 

She also made these slippers from the pattern that Diana Sullivan included in our Seminar Handout

Here are 2 pair of fingerless gloves she made.  Each with a different type of "hem"

Elaine showed us her new STUNNING jewelry!  Again, you notice we are multi crafty and we don't judge ;-)

And her Zentangled gifts for her granddaughter's birthday party later that day

We even got to see Kim's orphaned blind bunny named Circles!

Ok, now down to business.  We were so impressed with Sherry's items we begged her to demonstrate.  She complied and gave us a demonstration on both the slippers and the MK "crochet" edges.  LUCKY US!

A great time was had by all AND we learned new stuff.  OH and did I mention Barb brought 7 UP cake!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!  SUPER YUMMMMMMMM  :-)

March 2014 Meeting

We are such a silly bunch having our March meeting in April! Oh well :-)

We met at Reba's house and started with a lovely lunch of lasagna, salad, garlic toast, apple dumplings and cookies, YUMMY.

Reba gave a demonstration on DAK and DBJ.

Kim, Barb, Elaine, Sherry, Leigh and BJ drove down from Illinois. We got to see Margie, long time no see! AND 2 new faces! Margie brought her friend Darlene who had never seen a knitting machine and we were joined later by Bee from Lithuania who wants help returning to machine knitting.  Had a little bit of show and tell.

We discussed our travel plans for the Spring Fling Seminar in Peru, IN, we have SIX going this year :-)  By the end of the day we had 10 in attendance, a meeting record I think!