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November 2022 Meeting Recap: Member Tips and Jen Parroccini presents Your Most-worn Sweater: Choosing Patterns for Your Wardrobe and Your Life

11/16/2022

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by Shela Perrin​

In person meeting is held at Rose City Park Presbyterian Church located at 1907 NE 45th  Avenue, Portland, OR.  Social knitting and a Business Member Marketplace in support of our  level 3 business partners took place from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. This included a Knitted Wit sale of hand dyed yarn and craft supplies.  Virtual meeting began at 7:00 pm via zoom. As a side note Knitted Wit is offering free shipping with the coupon puddletown through  the end of November. 

Capacity was restricted so an RSVP was required to reserve a seat. Covid vaccine and booster proof and  masks are required. Bivalent Booster is required by December 8th. Proof  of vaccination can be emailed to info@puddletownknittersguild.com or checked at the  door.   Meeting volunteers are always needed  to set up chairs, greet other members, and help monitor the zoom chat. Please let us know if  you can help when you RSVP for the meeting. 

Membership new or renewal is available at a monthly meeting or on the website. Early  bird membership will be available through December.  Questions can be directed to membership@puddletownknittersguild.com.

Calling for old phones or tablets with a good camera, Wi-Fi capabilities, and a power charger to assist in  the meeting production. If you can donate one or more that would be very helpful. 

Virtual Knit Night is now every Monday between 6 and 8pm, drop in anytime. Visit the Guild  Events page on the website for a current link. 

A Communications Chair is needed to fill a vacancy on the board. This position needs to be  filled through the end of 2023. Monthly time commitment is 3-4 hours. 

The 2023-2024 Board Member candidates for open positions were introduced. Voting took place at  the Annual Official Member meeting during the November 10th meeting. All members attending in person and virtually had the opportunity  to vote. Candidates were as follows: 
Kate Perry, President 
Julie Moore, Secretary/treasurer  
Sioux Van Kol, Member at large  
Maria Asbeck, Member at large 
The candidate slate was approved and they will start their terms in January 2023.  

Service Project was wrapped up at the November meeting and all items will be submitted to  North by Northeast before Thanksgiving. They are the only clinic in Oregon devoted to  African American/Black health. The clinic provides primary care services and health education,  promoting through a variety of venues. 

Member Tips with Anna Lorton: In a Knitting Slump? 
Following are some of the tips Anna shared with us that are knitting adjacent activities, mostly  cost free: 
  • Do a notions research for your projects 
  • Join a knit night or guild meeting
  • Scroll knitting on Instagram to get ideas 
  • Make a list of yarns, patterns you want to knit, techniques you want to learn
  • Look at patterns on Ravelry or in books at the library 
  • Take a class 
  • Figure out a system to track your projects or update your records 
  • Design or pretend to design something 
  • Work up a color work chart, knitter graph paper #5 is available from schoolhouse press.
  • Undo an undone item and use the yarn for something else.  
  • Clean out your knitting bags and organize. 
  • Cast on or pretend to cast on. 
  • Make a dishrag by casting on one, then making increases and then decreases to get beck to  one stitch on your needle. 
  • Mend something 
Share your tips and tricks at info@puddletownknittersguild.com. If you would like to try your  hand at sharing tips during the meeting, please volunteer one month or several so Anna can  take a sabbatical. 

Next month Anna will share confessions of a knitter which will be her last tip for a while. If you  want to send her any confessions that you would not want to openly confess. Send your  confessions to info@puddletownknittersguild.com. 

The Puddletown Knitters Guild is celebrating 5 year anniversary of the guild. Congratulations  to all for your interest and participation. 

Guest Speaker Jen Parroccini presented Your Most-worn Sweater: Choosing Patterns for Your  Wardrobe and Your Life. She resides in Pittsburgh, PA, Jen designs patterns and teaches  workshops and classes as well as offering consulting. She helps students find clarity and plan  fundamentals for choosing what to add to our current wardrobe. There are many items to  choose when starting a new project. She focuses on how we can determine our needs and our  gaps with intention. We can find patterns on Ravelry, Instagram, Etsy, Pinterest, Reddit, a book  or any making materials. She shared some hashtag places on Instagram where we can find  designers and follow them. She also talked about barriers we might face in a project and  shared ways we can get around them. She had suggestions to inspire us while we come up  with a plan for a project.  

Contact information: 
Website: www.jpknitsthings.com
Email: hello@jpknitsthings.com
Instagram: @jp_knits_things
Ravelry: Jennifer L Parroccini

Jen is teaching a workshop for your wardrobe on Saturday, November 18th at 5pm Pacific  Time. This is a 3 hour virtual class and it comes with a book and a short pre-work assignment.  You will leave with a framework that lasts forever and a concrete plan for your next three  projects. This will be her last workshop for 2022. Cost is $75.00, class is filling up fast there  are a limit of 8 attendees. Questions can be addressed to hello@jpknitsthings.com. 
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Show and tell, in person attendees must limit to one item per meeting. Virtual attendees  can submit their photos. Include your pattern name and yarn details along with anything  special about the project to showandtell@puddletownknittersguild.com by the last Tuesday before the monthly meeting. 

Our December 2022 meeting will feature Tina Johnston presenting the Portland Community  College project: a Fleece Partnership. Tina is the owner of Black Sheet Fib er Emporium and  Kokomo Yarns. She has spent many years working with the sheet at PCC Rock Creek  campus. In conjunction with the farm manager Tina educates veterinary technician students about fleeces. She also shares with other spinners and is working to develop yarns and roving  from the Rock Creek Campus flock. She will share her work with us.
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