Meeting August 23rd at Lauren's Moms

Here we all are at the meeting:
Some of Debb's projects completed on her vacation...

Ranie brought the cutest scarf and hat from her grandmas attic treasures and here she is working away on an afghan??

Tj is working on her scarf

Di is checking her palm pilot for dates....

Now Pat what kind of sock is that?????? You said its for what????

Why is Donna hiding? She must be telling Denise something really good? And Denise is very into helping Donna with those socks!

Oh Lori isn't that pretty...

Nice Lauren...looking good...

Ohhh so pretty and pink. Love the new sweater there Shanda

Cute hat there Priscilla...you look good with it on...

Great Meeting

I will say again what a great meeting it was and how good it was to be back. I missed everyone! Lauren's Mom was very gracious to let us have the meeting at her beautiful hom, Thank-you again...

Our next meeting will be at Shanda's house and theme for food will be fruits and jellos. The pattern is a jump start on the holidays, which means any holiday pattern is ok to share with the group.

Wow, we had some terrific chocolate desserts there and now that I am all sugar filled..yes Denise I had problems settling in for the night too, I look forward to a little fruit.

Our newsletter is schedulled to begin coming to your houses in September. Anyone who has any articles, ideas, recipes, patterns, links, stories, funnies, anything...please email me ASAP, so that I can get it into the newsletter. Deadline for articles is Sept. 5th.

Also if you have an idea for a name for our Newsletter please comment here or email me.
Some ideas are: "Stitch n' Chicks"

• Hook n' Needle Chatter Newsletter
• The Stitching News Newsletter
• Yarn Matters Newsletter
• What's Stitching Up Newsletter
• Chattering Chicks Newsletter
• Catch That Stitch Newsletter
• S&C Newsletter
• Stitch n' Cluck Newsletter

Thank you Pat for the fabulous "14K" cake that she brought for the raffle prize. Lori won this time and we were all drooling over the cake. Now Pat can you share that recipe??? Yum.. Yum...

The members package will also be distributed in Septemeber to every member. It will have some goodies in it and essential information such as; members roster, by-laws, information sheet, patterns, and a list of our sponsors and places that honor our members card for discounts.

Here is a short list of the next meeting locations:

• Sept 6th....................................Shanda's house
• Sept. 20th.................................Ranie's house (crockpot food theme)
• Oct. 4th.....................................open
• Oct. 18th...................................Pat's house
• Nov. 1st.....................................open
• Nov 15th...................................open
• Dec. 6th....................................Debb's House (Christmas Exchange party)

In December we have our annual Christmas Exchange party, that is lots of fun so be sure to mark those calendars and note that we only have 1 meeting, because of the holidays and then we do not have another meeting till the 3rd week in January. Some dates are open if you can volunteer your home for that meeting please let Debb or Denise know.

The LA fair dates for the group going will be as follows;

• Sept. 23rd (Sunday at 11am-?)

Debb,Denise, Priscilla, Donna, Pat, Lin, Lauren,Di, and possibly Shanda and Sandra

I will post this on our site too for those who are not blogging and ther will be some points recapped in the Sept. Newsletter!

Happy Stitching Gals....
Crochetoholic Debb

What a meeting last night!

Boy did we have a good meeting last night or what?! I was so wound up by the time I got home I couldn't sleep! (OK, it might have been all the chocolate but what a way to go!)

We had a total of 11 members which I think may be the highest number we've had at once. Very impressive. I had a little trouble following all the conversations but then I do tend to get distracted easily. (Quiet Lauren! No comments allowed from the cracker corner.) Allow me to attempt to summarize... half of us are hard of hearing, most of us have way too many social commitments (as evidenced by trying to get us all to the LA Fair), all of us care deeply for family and friends, we're all ready to laugh at our own foibles, and we all love to eat. Did I say that we're hard of hearing, maybe I meant we just don't/can't/won't focus! LOL! I had a great time even if I did miss some of the jokes.

Proud to say that Donna is VERY focused on conquering the sock monster. Sorry if I led you astray there with which you're supposed to do when trying to figure out the sequence. I promise it gets easier once you get past the first few rounds. I've started the heel flap on my socks and I didn't even have to make Shanda take off her shoes this time. (By the way, she's a really good sport!)

Laurie's entrelac scarf is gorgeous and I stil want to give the technique a try. She assures me it's not as hard as it seems, you just need to focus. (Oh Lord I think I'm in trouble!)

Lauren was working on her shawl for her brother's wedding. I think we need to have a picture of all of us with our Donna's Dishcloth Shawls. What'd say ladies? We can even probably get other members of our group to model the extras for the photo shoot. I only made the one but I think between Lauren and Donna there are at least 4 more. Would be a cute picture.

Loved your hat Priscilla! Didn't get a chance to really get around and talk to you much and get a good look at the hat but you wear it well. I didn't hear, is it for you or someone else? (And yes, this time I was paying attention!)

Well, I better actually get up and go do what I'm getting paid to do. See you all next time!