Board Officers and Committees

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Volunteering with the Minnesota Knitters' Guild is fun and rewarding! Are you interesting in taking your membership to the next level? Check out our Volunteer page to learn how to get involved!

 

Amy Hawley

President

Amy was taught to knit by her grandmother when she was seven years old. Her grandmother needed help making small scarfs for a church bazaar, and thus began Amy's love for charitable knitting. Amy temporarily put her knitting on the back burner when she got married and started a family, but in 2006 she took up knitting again, taking classes at local knitting stores and challenging herself to learn more techniques. Amy has a project with her wherever she goes, plus many more on needles at home. She loves all things cables and has visited over 20 yarn shops throughout Minnesota.

 (presidentmkg@gmail.com) | amyh66

Katie Wheeler

Secretary

Bio to come.

 (secretarymkg@gmail.com) | kswheeler970

Susanna Johns

Treasurer

Susanna assumes that she learned to knit from her grandma, with her mom as the back up tutor, but she was so young she cannot actually remember. As a kid, she became fascinated by the story of Molly (of American Girl Doll fame) knitting socks during WWII. Later, as a high school exchange student in Austria, Susanna was finally taught to knit socks by her host mother. From there, knitting eventually became her primary hobby.Susanna is grateful for the friendships she has gained from the knitting groups she has been a part of over the years. As the Marketing Director, she is excited about the opportunity to promote (well, let's be honest, brag) about the mission and the talent of the members of the Guild.

 (treasurermkg@gmail.com) | suzeq22knits

Jess Long

Programming Director

Jess learned to knit from her aunt when she was young. She crocheted a little in college, but picked up knitting after college and hasn’t been able to stop since then. When she isn’t knitting, she’s thinking about knitting. Jess always has a pair of socks on the needles.

 (programmingmkg@gmail.com) | kirbiebird

Karen Cyson

Operations Director

Bio to come.

 (memberatlargemkg@gmail.com) 

Shelley Hermanson

Shelley Hermanson

Yarnover Director

Shelley has been knitting since 1952. Her mother taught her to knit to keep her quiet. She has chaired the Yarnover committee since 2000.

 (yarnovermkg@gmail.com) | Freeda

Anna Sorgert

Service Director

Anna learned the basics of knitting in middle school from her sister and then taught herself everything else from books. She has been without a LYS, but the amazing Twin Cities yarn shops and Yarnover keep her stash well fed. Anna leads a knitting group in her community, enters projects in the state fair, and never finishes her Christmas presents on time -- and somewhere in between those, she also enjoys tech editing other knitting designers’ patterns. Anna is the bad sheep in her family, as she has not returned her sister’s favor -- her sister is still at the scarf-knitting level….

See our Charity Knitting Page for more information about our current projects and donation process.

 (servicemnkg@gmail.com) | aersknit

Kathy Lewinski

Member Experience Director

Kathy has always been into crafts, but didn’t teach herself to knit until after college. She really got hooked while living in San Francisco when a friend opened a knitting store. To pitch in, Kathy started knitting up fun (and odd) things for window displays, as well as teaching classes. In the last couple of years, she has started designing her own knitting patterns (many of them available for free on Ravelry!) with toys and mittens being her primary obsessions.

 (membershipmkg@gmail.com) | katbaro

Katie Beckwith

Volunteer Director

Bio and contact info to come.

 

Kate Westlund

Social Media and Technology Director

Kate became enthralled with knitting when she was a young girl and saw a fellow young person knitting on a plane. She implored her mother to teach her everything she knew, which as it turned out was only casting on and knit stitch. Once Kate learned to purl from the book in this very same beginner's knit kit, there was no end in sight. (Although Kate has a penchant for misplacing every day items like keys and sunglasses, she still has and uses many notions from that kit.) Kate is the type of knitter who doesn’t always swatch, which is sometimes obvious in her finished projects.

 (socialmediamnkg@gmail.com) | khwestlund