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Cable Gram Blog from June 2010

Memorial Service for Carrie Bartz

Posted in News by Infomaster on Jun 24th, 2010

Carrie Bartz, who had just begun a term this spring on the Minnesota Knitters' Guild Board as Secretary, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, June 21, in Woodbury.  She was 52.  Services were held on June 28 at Wulff Woodbury.  At press time, an online obituary was available at http://tinyurl.com/bartzwulff.

Carrie knew computers, and she knew knitting.  She worked as an information technology specialist for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and had been a member of the Guild for less than a year when she volunteered for MKG's Web Site Task Force in 2009.  Smart, friendly, and a passionate knitter, she was an invaluable member of the group as it met over the year, first to describe what the Guild needed for its new Web site, then to advertise for and finally hire the company that did the redesign over last fall and winter.  Among other things, according to Guild President Shelley Monitor (also a member of the task force), Carrie compiled most of the Resources section of the new Web site, which was launched in May -- patterns, tutorials, yarn shops.

The loss of Carrie, our friend and colleague, will be keenly felt for years to come at the Guild.  We are grateful for the intellectual legacy she left us, and mourn her passing.

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June Guild Meeting: the Cliff Notes™

Posted in News by Infomaster on Jun 16th, 2010

The Youngest Knitter and ‘Socks’

When guests and visitors were recognized, we learned that we had a VERY NEW KNITTER among us. She told us that she had been knitting for three DAYS and she is three years old. Rock on!

The program topic was ‘Socks,’ and there were five tables of instruction and demos. So what are some of the things we learned?

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2010 MKG Service Project or Hats, Scarves, Mittens – Oh My!

Posted in News by Infomaster on Jun 3rd, 2010

The Minnesota Knitters' Guild kicked off 2010 with a year-long guild service project to knit hats, scarves and mittens.

Members and non-members can knit hats, scarves and mittens or any combination of these and donate the items at any of the monthly meetings this year. Each quarter at a meeting (March, June, October and December) the items that were knit that quarter will be shown at the meetings so people can look at/touch them and get inspired to knit more for the charities.

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String, Felt, Thread The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art

Posted in News by Infomaster on Jun 1st, 2010

CHECK OUT THE STRING, FELT, THREAD VIDEO
Featuring author Elissa Auther and artworks by Sheila Hicks, Miriam Schapiro, Senga Nengudi, Barbara Shawcroft, and more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHdhoXJ_7co


Elissa Auther
University of Minnesota Press | 248 pages | 83 color images | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-5609-7 | paper | $29.95
ISBN 978-0-8166-5608-0 | cloth | $90.00


String, Felt, Thread
presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the “low” world of craft to the “high” world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence today of a craft counterculture. In this full-color illustrated volume, Elissa Auther discusses the work of American artists using fiber, considering provocative questions of material, process, and intention that bridge the art–craft divide.

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