September Meeting - Georgia Mountain Fibers

Join us at 7:30 at St Patricks for our September meeting. The program will feature Michael Lipinski of Georgia Mountain Fiber, which produces alpaca, llama, cashmere goat, and yak yarns. Also, the new directories will be distributed. In addition to contact information on our members, it contains the recently updated Bylaws and updated Policies & Procedures. There's also an updated listing of our shop affiliates

AKG Scarecrow has a Name!

The American Textile History Museum, home of the Atlanta Knitting Guild's Scarecrow, has selected the winning name. That's OZ at the left, shown on location in the museum. The winning name was submitted by Louise Pugh of Boxford, MA. I'm sure OZ will be quite happy in his new home, being loved and photographed by many visitors in the years to come.

Big Happenings at Sock Summit 2009

A video on the Oregonian website records knitters breaking a world record for most people knitting at the same time. The previous record, from Australian, was for 256 knitters. I can't help thinking that there have surely been times when we had at least 100 people knitting simultaneously at an AKG meeting.

Also, this gets me thinking (plotting?) about STITCHES South 2010. Anybody have any clever ideas?

Thank you to Barbara Argo for the link!

Happy Birthday, Atlanta Knitting Guild!

Come help us celebrate our 25th birthday at the Guild meeting August 6. Share with us sample projects from across the decades. Those of us who have been around from the beginning can't believe how the Guild has grown to the dynamic organization it is today. Share with us your memories from your time in the Guild.