Sunday the 20th S'n'B Reminder AND Tuesday the 22nd, Knit Happens reminder....

Sunday, March 20th:

Come join the folks of Champaign-Urbana’s Stitch n’ Bitch group for a warm afternoon of knit and crochet! We have plenty of chairs, so please come on in even if it looks full!
If you are participating in the upcoming community-focused collaborative art piece, feel free to bring your piece to work on during the meeting time! We’d love to see what you are going to put up!  
Look for us in the private room off of the 2nd floor common area…

Just in-case you missed it and need to be reminded, here is the write up…

Title: Knitting the Community Together

Description:

Calling all fellow knitters and crocheters! Join Klose Knit, the Champaign-Urbana Stitch ‘n Bitch, and the Illinois Women’s Resources Center’s Knit Happens in this community-focused collaborative art piece.

We need your participation! Knit or crochet a 12in x 8in (w x h) block and come together to create a community masterpiece. Then join us starting at 6pm on Thursday, April 7, to tie the blocks to the Neil St. fence in Downtown Champaign (at the corner of Neil and Church). On Friday, April 8 at 6pm, we’ll be knitting and crocheting on-site and will continue adding blocks during the Boneyard Arts Festival. 

More complete information will be posted on this site very soon!



 

Tuesday, March 22nd:

Don’t forget! KNIT HAPPENS!
We will be meeting for “Knit Happens” this Tuesday, and we would love to have some seasoned knitters showing up to help get the BALL rolling. (pun TOTALLY intended)

UIUC Womens’ Resource Center
703 S. Wright St.
Corner of Wright and Green,
2nd Floor Freestar Bank
The door to the Women’s Resource center is located on the east side of the building, just take the elevator to the second floor.

We will be meeting 5:00pm-7:30pm.
Here are the dates for Knit Happens this semester:

• March 22nd 5-7:30pm (host set-up around 4:45)
• April 12th 5-7:30pm (host set-up around 4:45)
• April 26th 5-7:30pm (host set-up around 4:45)
• May 10th 5-7:30pm (host set-up around 4:45)

Now, we need hosts! As a host, you’re expected to stay the whole time and you’re expected to lead a short tutorial near the beginning of the gathering on a topic of your choice. (Examples include: “Casting On/Off,” “Choosing Yarn and Needles,” “Crochet,” “Knitting Graffiti,” “Increasing/Decreasing,” etc. Be creative! You can also bring along a helper to be your co-host! Please contact Rachel Storm about materials available to the host (getting copies made of your tutorial materials, etc.)
rstorm2@illinois.edu

Please sign up for your date and theme here:
http://signupgenius.com/go/hosting5

If you are interested in hosting, PLEASE DO THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! We still need 4 people to sign-up. First come, first served!

Since our community knitting event is going to be an actual part of the Boneyard Arts Festival (it will be on the actual MAP for the Boneyard event!), and now that I know the word of YARN is all-powerful, please feel LOTS of self-inflicted pressure to attend :-)

Important S'n'B meeting on Sunday March 13th!

If you think that you would be interested in participating in a large knit graffiti event, please come to the meeting on Sunday to throw around and gather some creative ideas for me to take to a brainstorming session next week.

***Look for us in the PRIVATE room off of the 2nd floor common area ... both the lighting and conference table are really nice! ***

This time, please feel pressured to come, because we need ALL of your creative ideas!!!

Knit is Happenening now that Knit Happens! is happenening again!

Knit happens! is back!

Greetings Knitters!

Here are the dates for Knit Happens this semester:

• March 22nd  5-7:30pm (set-up around 4:45)
• April 12th  5-7:30pm (set-up around 4:45)
• April 26th  5-7:30pm (set-up around 4:45)
• May 10th  5-7:30pm (set-up around 4:45)

Now, we need hosts! As a host, you're expected to stay the whole time and you're expected to lead a short tutorial near the beginning of the gathering on a topic of your choice. (Examples include: "Casting On/Off," "Choosing Yarn and Needles," "Crochet," "Knitting Graffiti," "Increasing/Decreasing," etc. Be creative!

Sign up for your date and theme here: http://signupgenius.com/go/hosting5

PLEASE DO THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO RACHEL CAN CREATE PUBLICITY. We just need 4 people to sign-up. First come, first served!

A knew knewsletter has also been posted, so if you have not seen it on Ravelry or Facebook, then you can go see it here!

Stitch 'n' Bitch Champaign Urbana Knewsletter!

Happy New Year!

Hello All!

I hope that your holiday was merry, and that this new year is dawning bright and exciting for you! Not a lot has been posted in the past several months, but that does not mean that nothing has been going on! Quite the contrary! Lots of FO's, WIP's and new faces have been showing up at the Sunday get-togethers. I just wanted to stop by here to let you know that we will be meeting with Rachel at the WRC (UIUC Women's Resource Center) to be coming up with the new times (and place?) for this semesters Knit Happens! meetings. Updates will be coming soon! Please stand by!

And, if you are a fellow CUS'n'Ber, and have an Etsy shop, pm me and I can put your shop up in our side bar!

Hello Hello Hello, is there anybody out there?

OKAY! After a LOOONG Hiatus, I am back! I am going to try to keep this page updated now that I am back on my feet and back into the thick of things!

This will be a short post, as I feel as though I have spent my entire evening on the computer, and I HAVE to get some knitting done before I go to bed! :-)

I can assure you, that there are some fun things in store for us this year, and we will post them as soon as we know more!!

Last Sunday was my second time back to S'n'B since this time last year, and Kathleen has done a WONDERFUL job steering the ship alone all of these months. I am elated to have such a wonderful, dependable partner in all of this! S'n'B would have withered and died had it not been for her! Thank you so much K!

I have so much I want to say, but I am THROUGH tonight, so I leave you with this....

Here are some new haps going on around town!!

TUESDAY September 14th:

It’s the First meeting of Knit Happens!

The UIUC Women’s Resource Center and S’n’B Champaign-Urbana present Knit Happens!

Welcome Back! This is the first meeting this year for Knit happens!

A knitting circle and workshop for new, and also not so new, knitters! Free yarn and needles available for the newbies -- attendees are encouraged to purchase their own needles.

The group meets upstairs on the 2nd floor at Espresso Royale, every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, beginning at 4pm, going ‘till????

SATURDAY, September 18th

Klose Knit Natural Dye Day --
Saturday, September 18

3 - 5 pm

Class Fee: $30 (includes supplies)
Learn how to use natural ingredients (some found in your own kitchen!) to dye yarn and create beautiful, colorfast effects. Be sure to call Brigitte if you are interested in signing up for the class! (217) 344-2123 or email brigitte@klosekniturbana.com.

and last but not least!
don’t forget!!!

SUNDAY, September 19th:

S’n’B from 1:00 pm until about 3pm.

Aroma Cafe
118 N Neil St
Champaign

Hope to see you there!!

Knit Happens!

Here is the info for Knit Happens!!
Hope to see you there!

Long time no post!

Had a lot of stuff going on, but I think we have worked out a way to try to keep the blog-space going. Here is a little update from last weeks meeting! Enjoy!

Submitted by Kathi:
For a while, it was just Jill and I. She was picking up the stitches on her Central Park hoodie to make the front band. She doesn't like picking up stitches - it's tedious and fiddly. Then along came Liz, who is recently from Texas (Nothern?) and she teaches History at Parkland. She isn't very old, but has been knitting since she was six, so she didn't even need to look at her work. She's making lacey socks with a lovely heathery brown malabrigo, (i think). I continued to rip and re knit the toe of the 2nd skeleton sock, but I re-did it again yesterday, and am about to finish! Tomorrow I will bring a baby blanket somebody told me to edge with crochet.

I got with Rachel at WRC and she pointed out my mistake about KH being next week, not this one. I was just trying to rush through the winter. We discussed the idea of advertising different themes for our KH, like crochet, cast on, cast offf, cables, etc, and having the first half hour for that subject; people who don't want to learn or teach should come at 6. She says 1st and 3rd Fridays are good for now, but in April we will need to switch to 2nd and 4th fridays for WRC scheduling reasons. That should be fine. I haven't heard back from the woman at Parkland who will be teaching knit and crochet, so I'll call her next week.

Tonite is Pecha Kucha 2 and my husband has offered to escort me, since nobody else seems interested, but I hope I see somebody there, even though I didn't hear anything about fiber arts in the lineup.

Brigitte sent an email about a KIP at Fleurish on a Sunday in late Feb. I'm gonna check that out. I had suggested occasional SNB field trips (like the library), but nobody really said anything. I would love us to support Brigitte's KIP. I'll ask around on the FB page and at the meeting.