The Knitterati

Special back-to-back-to-back meetings!

2005-05-22T12:06:00.000Z

As per discussion on the Yahoo Groups board and due to the anomalous months of May and June, the former which has five Tuesdays and the latter which starts on a Wednesday, thereby relegating our "First Tuesday" meeting to being the last Tuesday of May, we are having an "extra" meeting on 7 June (the actual first Tuesday of the month) as well as the 31 May and the usual third Wednesday meeting on the 18 June. Well, at least I'll be at the extra Tuesday meetup... :oP

Diana

Reminder: Meetup Tomorrow Evening (18 May)

2005-05-17T13:41:00.000Z

Hello all,

Just thought I would post a reminder about tomorrow night.

Hope to see you all there!

Erin

Just a Funny...

2005-05-08T13:23:00.000Z

Hitched from the UK Knitters:
http://missoula.bigsky.net/stadler/page0008.html

It generates a fibre-lover related name. It's quite random and will actually continue to generate names after the initial entry and will generate different names for the same name entered twice... so if you don't like your first result, keep clicking!

Diana aka "Headmistress Stiches Off-Centre"

Worldwide KNIT IN PUBLIC Day: saturday 11th june 2005

2005-05-05T13:19:00.000Z

thanks to trish, here is advanced warning of worldwide knit in public day. saturday 11th june. potential for some knitting in public en-masse, perhaps?

Emilyx

ps. sorry the writing is so big, i cannot find the button to make it a more acceptable size.

Important Question for the Knitterati

2005-05-03T20:24:00.000Z

Hello everyone,

It was suggested by Sally this evening that we might wish to form a yahoo group to replace our old meetup board. This is would allow mass mailings out to people and give a greater degree of flexibility for those using the board. We would keep this board and have a link to direct people to this new group.

I have created a group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/leedsknitterati and an accompanying email address (leedsknitterati@yahoogroups.com) based on this suggestion. We can then do our best to set it up like it was at Meetup. More moderators and the like can be set up-- I am not trying to take over as organiser but thought it would be good to have a group set up so we can all have a look at it before we make a decision. I have put a link to the new group below.

If it is thought to be a good suggestion, please join the new group. If you think it is a rubbish idea and that we should continue in blog form only, please leave your comments in the comments section in order to gauge opinion.

Thanks,
Erin

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Next Knitterati Meetup: Wed 18 May

2005-05-03T20:22:00.000Z

Hello everyone,

Just a reminder that the next Knitterati meetup is scheduled for Wednesday, 18 May.

RSVP to comments if you please!

Reminder: Knitting Meetup Tomorrow (3 May) Evening!

2005-05-02T12:19:00.000Z

Hi Everyone,

This is just a reminder that the meetup starts at 7pm tomorrow (3 May) in the second floor coffeeshop of Borders (on Briggate).

I noticed the other day that they have the newest editons of Simply Knitting and Interweave Knits on the shelves, plus we have a poster advertising our group down by the knitting books. It appears that Borders is having a "knitting book suggestion of the month"-- this month it appears to be Stitch and Bitch Nation.

Hope to see you all there!

For members switching over from the Meetup board...

2005-04-28T15:36:00.000Z

Just to let you know that you can rsvp by clicking on the "comment" link below the post for the event. You do not have to log into blogger in order to do this. Please remember to add your name to your post (first names only if you wish, or your meetup identity) name so we can get an idea of who is coming!

Also, we will have to let "Simply Knitting" know that our address has changed-- did anyone notice we warranted two separate entries?

Erin

Next Knitterati Meet-up: Tuesday 3rd May

2005-04-21T14:28:00.000Z

Tuesday 3rd May
7-9pm
Upstairs in the cafe in Borders, City Centre

(bring your own mug and get 10p off the price of your drink. also, more importantly, bring your knitting!)

Emilyx

Cat Mazza: Knitting as Political Activism

2005-04-21T14:21:00.000Z

Cat Mazza is a knitter, incorporating knitting and political activism within her art. (featured in the latest issue of 'bust' for all you third wavers out there)

Her website is at http://www.microrevolt.org/, and from there you can find out about the Nike Blanket project, which is inviting knitted squares to be submitted to make a protest blanket against Nike (and other large corperations') use of sweatshop labour. She is keen to utilise knitters as protest since knitters understand the labour process that goes into knitting a garment & thus are a meaningful group to mobilise in the sweatshop issue. There are currently no squares submitted from the UK, and she would be thrilled to have your involvement. Double check on the website, but i think its as simple as knitting a 4"x4" square and sending it over to her. if a bunch of us did it we could all post them together. I for one am certainly interested.

Also, Cat is working on the knitPro Needlecraft Art Show: http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro & would love some UK submissions for that if any of you are interested.Hope this info sounds of interest to you, as it seems Cat is doing some really fantastic work & it'd be great if she could somehow become linked with the awesome knitters and crafters in the UK. And if you're not interested in her projects then do check the site out anyway, as the knitPro software seems rather exciting for knitting patterns.

Emilyx