Class Notes: Knitting Beyond the Basics: Hearth & Home III Wk 5

The presidents were due on Thursday night. The sight of all the presidents lined up together was awesome. Everyone did an outstanding job. Linda was really proud of us.

Leslie and her son made the nice sign. More photos at the end.

Linda demonstrated how to make a cable for the plastic bag keeper. The size 6 needles are for the ribbing only, then we switch to the size 8 needles for the rest.

Good Day Sacramento, Channel 31
The ladies met at the new location of Auburn Needleworks to be filmed for the Good Day Sacramento show at 8:15 on Friday morning. They brought their presidents with them. The show was aired around 9:30 am. Linda L. emailed all of us to say, "I went to Good Day Sacramento and searched their videos for presidents and our video from this morning came up and I clicked on the Facebook icon below the video and was able to post it to my Facebook page and then send it to my newsfeed. What fun we had this morning!"

Click on photo for a slide show. Thank you to Karen M. for sending me these two photos. For more photos, click on Presidential Photos under "Pages" on the left side of the blog.

Here is a message that Linda received from Good Day Sacramento:

"LINDA! WOW! I am so sorry about everything that happened today but the taped piece looked PHENOMENAL! Heather had a wonderful time too. I can't thank you enough for gathering all your students and the little presidents for the 9am hour. It is difficult to get a live signal out of Auburn so I am glad we were able to get the video back in time to run it today! I also know you are bringing all the presidents down to the State Fair and we would LOVE to get another shot with you and your team when they are either set up at the fair (we are definitely going live opening day and throughout the fair) OR you are welcome to bring them here instudio! That would be a ton of fun!

The segment is being posted on our website now and once it's loaded, I will send to you!
Thanks again and please keep in touch come State Fair time!
Aly (Alyson Schulz), Senior Coordinating Producer, Good Day Sacramento"

Another Good News
Linda received a letter from Vogue Knitting to invite her to bring the presidents to a convention in Chicago on October 25-28. Apparently, a reader sent the Auburn Journal's April 29 article about Linda and the Presidents to Vogue Knitting, and they were impressed. Teri and Debi volunteered to go to Chicago in the Fall to showcase the presidents.

Next Week, May 10: Spin, Spin, Spin
Linda will be absent, but she has arranged a guest speaker from El Dorado Hills who will be bringing each of us a spindle to practice with. We need to bring 2 oz. of roving. Don't get dyed roving. You can purchase roving at Rumplestilskin's in downtown Sacramento, and Claudia suggested the Farmer's Market. Babetta's sells roving too; prices range from $3.00 to $30.00. She recommended that I buy the one for $4.50 for our purposes. Our guest speaker will also bring a spinning wheel for us to try. Linda suggested that we take up a collection for our guest in class.

Anyone who wants to have dinner with our guest speaker before class, please contact Debi if you have not done so already. We will no longer be meeting at the Frontside Cafe since they are not open for dinner. Debi suggests meeting at Max's next to Holiday Inn and In-N-Out at 4:30 p.m.

May 17 Class
Linda will cover afghans. She gave us three afghan handouts that she felt we would like.

Our class is officially over on May 24; however, Linda can arrange a class for us on May 31 even though she will not be here.

Reservations and fee for Sip n Knit are due on May 17.

Fingerpuppets will be transferred to the Loomis Library from Foresthill that week too.

Tip from Karen W
Did you know that skewers are a good substitute for size 6 needles? Karen W. could not find her needles. So, Penny suggested that she look around the house for something to use. She found skewers!

Sandy's oval rug