We will take this moment to celebrate our younger crafters. We have been hosting afterschool knitting, sewing, and embroidery clubs on Wednesdays and Thursdays afternoons for two years now. We love it. We have so very much enjoyed having them in our shop! They are crafty, they are fun, they have boundless energy and enthusiasm…and they make it all seem easy!
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Sunday’s Dolls for Zambia workshop was so inspiring! Many, many thanks to Ruth Litchfield of Communities without Borders for being with us. Ruth is committed, enthusiastic, patient, creative and inspiring. Ruth brought dolls she had made, patterns, hints, and stories that motivated and moved us. The children in the orphanages she works with have absolutely nothing and they just love these cuddle dolls. Come on by the store and see for yourself. There’s a basket of dolls, patterns and information about giving money if you would rather participate in that way. We are also grateful to our own Jo Anne Steeves who will be taking the dolls we contribute to Zambia in July. The deadline for bringing finished dolls in is June 30th. They are fun, easy and quick to make. Use up your stash! Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks to Marty, Susie, Barbara, Jo Anne, Meredith, Annie, Chris who attended the workshop.
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This Sunday (5/19) Jo Anne Steeves will be hosting our Dolls for Zambia workshop from 2-4pm. Come by and meet the founder of the group, Ruth Litchfield, and hear more about this wonderful organization. If you have dolls to drop off, bring them with you, if you want to learn how to make them, bring your scrap yarn and knitting needles. More details are here. Hope to see you there!
Spring is for sewing and our sewing classes are quickly filling up. Washi Dress with Jeanne is full, but the Laurel Dress workshop with Alexis has spots open. Join Stephanie for a the Art Student Tote workshop for the perfect summer bag. Taylor teaches sewing techniques in her intermediate level Techniques with Taylor 1 Day Workshop and, if you don’t know how to sew but are interested in , try June’s I Day Crash Course. See all our sewing classes right here.
Besides our recurring monthly knitting classes, we have two great knitting workshops: Summer Lace Knitting and a 1 Day workshop on making the Hitchhikers Shawl. See all knitting classes here.
Knitting Class UPDATE: Diane’s Wednesday evening Intermediate knitting class is now a DROP IN class. If you have a project that you’re stuck on, need help getting started but don’t want to commit to 6 classes, or just need a little advice, this is the class for you!
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Thanks to a committed team of volunteers and a community outpouring of donated red and pink squares (and rectangles!), we realized our vision of creating a communally crafted Marriage Equality banner for the Wake Up the Earth festival 2013. We worked on it throughout the month of April and pieced it together during this past week and all day on Saturday. We are so grateful for what we achieved. We will be making a book on display in the shop and the banner itself will be in the shop for the next couple of weeks. Thanks especially go to Matt, Jess, Michael, and Jarel for helping organize and execute this project. Thanks to all the volunteers who donated yarn squares and helped sew this banner together! xo JP Knit & Stitch
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THE PLAN: JP Knit & Stitch, in collaboration with the local crafting community has, for the last three years, created a yarn/fiber installation during the rite of spring known as Spontaneous Celebrations’ Wake Up the Earth festival here in JP. This year we were inspired by the Human Rights Campaign’s red + pink Marriage Equality symbol. We have decided to build a community crafted version of our own out of knitted and crocheted squares. We are collecting squares at the shop which we will sew together next week. On the day of the festival–Saturday, May 4th–we will be set up on the main lawn in front of Stoneybrook T-stop and we will continue to add (sew squares) to it throughout the day. We will also have a knitting/crochet station set up so people can sit and make squares on the spot. We are excited about the possibility that we may end up with a pretty large banner! But we still need your hep!!!! Click here for the three ways you can help this effort.
THE UPDATE: The crafting for Marriage Equality group met last night during StitchNight at the shop. We discussed logistics around piecing together the banner. We are planning on sewing together the interior part of the marriage equality banner (the pink equal sign) first, before the festival.
THE DEADLINES: Drop off your pink squares on Sunday, April 28 at 5pm. We will use the week to sew together the equal sign and then on the day of the festival (Saturday, May 4th, from 12-5) we will be set up on the main lawn in front of Stoneybrook T-stop and will be adding red squares to the banner throughout the day. Drop off your red squares on Saturday, May 4 at the shop or at our spot by the Stoneybrook T. We are hoping to hang the banner from the main stage at 5pm on Saturday.
THE RAFFLE: We’re having a raffle to thank all of our square stitchers! Fill out a raffle ticket when you drop off your square(s) and enter to win a lovely, springy prize from Spud & Chloe, a JP Knit & Stitch project bag, and a $10 gift certificate!
THANKS to Jess Pease, Michael Sullivan, and Matt Fredenburg who are helping organize our crafting for Marriage Equality effort!
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