Class Notes: Knitting Beyond the Basics: Hearth & Home Wk 4

This week was a knit night. We were going to learn how to cross stitch on the linen panels we knitted, but there were no panels that were blocked to work from and most of us were not done. It was postponed until next week. Linda gave us a copy of the Knit cross stitch pattern that she magnified and brought color pencil for us to make the pattern easier to see. During the Show n Tell, a few of the ladies said that they tried knitting a panel but decided to give it up after several tries. Linda suggested that we make smaller sizes as a sampler or for the ATCs instead of panels.

By the way, Cynthia is looking into finding a rubber stamp for the back of the ATC cards. There were no stamps at Michael's or Joanne's. (On a side note: Cynthia has three utube videos of her cat online: Saddie's in the shower; Saddie on Lacey's? chair; Saddie's love of concrete.)

We received several patterns in a packet for future projects: several dishcloths and Swiffer cover. Most of them use cotton yarn.

Library Display
We found out that the waiting list to display the fingerpuppets at the Auburn library is a year long, and the new Rocklin library does not have a display case. Linda will take a few of the fingerpuppets relating to children's stories to the Foresthill library; the rest took our fingerpuppets home.

Needle Cases for Sale
Leslie Rogers made some cute needle cases that can be purchased for $18.

Items for Class
We have $298 in our fund. Linda proposed that we purchase the following items:

1. A game called Last Knitters Standing, $24.95 from Pattern Works.
2. Several skeins of flesh-color Cascade 220 yarn for our presidential challenge. (There are several presidents left to be taken. So far, only one knitter in Linda's morning class has signed up.)

Linda L. is taking orders on books about all the presidents (except the present one) written by Mike Venezia. Each book is about one president and costs $7.95. Linda P brought two to show us, and Linda L. and Irene thought they were informative and entertaining. She is placing the order this Saturday morning.

Presidential Trivia
Linda will have a couple of questions for us every week, so we can learn about the presidents while we knit them.

1. Name the presidents that were generals.
2. How many counties are named after Washington? (Hint: Think no more than the 50 states.)

Stitches West
Linda asked for a show of hands for anyone interested in going to Stitches West next Feb. Most of the ladies were interested.

What To Do
Linda shared with us that she has had three sleepless nights this week. Last week there were a couple of disgruntled ARD staff members that didn't like our class using the copy machine free of charge. Linda received an email from ARD saying that they will charge her 25 cents per copy from now on. The next day, after Linda replied to their email, they changed the date to starting in January. This is a very high cost, and Linda's integrity was in question. She contacted Placer School for Adults to check if we can switch back. After some thought, Linda decided to finish her contract with ARD instead of breaking it after this session so she does not burn any bridges. She asked for our opinion. Here were some ideas suggested:

Diana and Cynthia said that they will print handouts at home. (We can use our fund to pay them for ink.)
Cynthia volunteered to bring her printer to class.
The class can take turns making copies each week.
Linda can scan the handouts and email them to us.

We told her that we would honor her decision. Linda suggested that we (as individuals) not use the copy machine at ARD from now on.

Sandy's gloves