Thursday, November 10, 2011

November Meeting and Stitches, S'mores & More Update

BVKG Monthly Meeting

Tonight will be our monthly meeting for the Brazos Valley Knitting Guild.  We will meet from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm at the Larry J. Ringer Library in College Station.  The program tonight will be making items with fimo clay. Join us as we learn how to make buttons, stitch markers, shawl pins and any other item you can think of.  You will leave with a few completed items and directions on how to bake them.




Stitches, S'Mores & More Update


Many BVKG members attended the first annual Stitches, S'mores & More Knitting Retreat at the end of October.  They took classes in knitting with beads, taught by guild member Rhonda Lance, fair isle knitting and how to dye a silk scarf.  The retreat was held at Camp Allen and the weather was beautiful.  Attendees also got to work on mini-projects where they learned how to knit with a silk hankie, make chart markers, mini pom poms, a sugar scrub and how to work with clay among other things.  Below are a few pictures from the weekend.  Enjoy!

Our view at Camp Allen



Bead knitting with Rhonda.

Members knitting in the main cabin.




















BVKG members at the final lunch.

For information on the 2012 camp, visit http://www.texasknitcamp.com/.  It will be updated when information becomes available.