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MINNESOTA KNITTERS GUILD Sponsors The 24th Annual Minnesota Knit Together Location 2010 Hopkins High School 2400 Lindbergh Drive Minnetonka, MN 55305 Yarnover Saturday, April 17 Registration Information • 2010 Yarnover will be held on April 17, 2010 Schedule • Registration fee for full day is $115 for MKG Members, $145 for Non-members, half day is • 7:30-8:00 a.m. Registration $75 for MKG members, $105 for Non-members Receive name tag, meal ticket and door prize ticket • Registration includes Keynote Address, morning and/or afternoon classes, and lunch Check to see if you are a door prize winner! • First 350 attendees to register will receive a Nantucket Bag (see Page 2). Bags will be handed • 8:00-8:15 a.m. Welcome and Announcements out on the day of the event. – Shelley Hermanson • Please note that some classes may have a • 8:15-8:45 a.m. Keynote Address* materials fee that is payable to the instructor at The Best Part of Knitting is Yarnover. Invisible • Individuals who have paid their Minnesota – Cat Bordhi Knitters’s Guild dues by January 1, 2010 will be • 8:45 a.m. Market opens assigned classes by random drawing on February 6. • 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Morning classes • Confirmation letters will be sent mid February • 12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch in Dining room • Early Bird Discount Registration deadline is • 1:30-4:30 p.m. Afternoon classes; March 6. Advance registration deadline is Continuation of All Day classes April 9. Walk-In Registration will be welcome. • 4:30 p.m. Wrap-up and Evaluation • Refund for cancellation on or before February 16 is 75 percent; after February 16 and • 4:45 p.m. Market closes before March 26 is 50 percent. No refunds after March 26. * Keynote address by Cat Bordhi will be open to • Registration questions? Please call or text Anna the general public for a $5 fee. Blomster @ 612/867-8125. • Any other questions? Call or text Shelley Hermanson at 612/867-5032 or call the MKG The Depot Too coffee shop automated voice mail at 612/436-0464, ext. 115 will be open for food & drink purchases all day. 2010 Yarnover Classes Instructor Morning Afternoon Cookie A. AM01 - Flat to In-The-Round and PM01 - Re-sizing Stitch Patterns Back Again Cat Bordhi AD01 - Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters Beth Brown-Reinsel AD02 - Gansey Sweater Lily Chin AM02 - Tips Tricks & Hints PM02 - Questions & Answers Edie Eckman AM03 - It’s Not Over ‘til It’s PM03 - UnLearn to Knit Finished Margaret Fisher AM04 - Seven Things that can PM04 - Zip, Button, Tie: Creative “Make or Break” a Sweater ™ Closures Jared Flood AM05 - Seamless Sweater PM05 - Knitting from the Top Workshop Down Franklin Habit AM06 - Photographing Your PM06 - Photographing Your Fiber Fiber Susanna Hansson AD03 - Domino Scarf from Japan Rosemary “Romi” Hill AM07 - Silver and Gold Stitches PM07 - A Walk through Muir Woods Ginger Luters AM08 - Terrific Trims PM08 - Unique Modular Shapes Lucy Neatby AM09 - A Dabble into Double PM09 - Hallelujah Grafting Judy Pascal AM10 - Incredible Increases; PM10 - Beaded Scarf Dramatic Decreases Carol Rhoades AM11 - Whorl*ds of Fun: PM11 - Tips and Tricks with Beginning Spindle Spinning Two-End Knitting Gayle Roehm AM12 - Challenging Stitches PM12 - Exploring “250 Stitches” from Japanese Designs by Hitomi Shida Meg Swansen & Amy Dejten AM13 - 2-Color Knitting PM13 - EPS (Elizabeth’s Techniques Percentage System) Knitting accessories not included First 350 attendees to register will receive a Nantucket Knitting Bag. Bags will be handed out on the day of the event. 2 Instructor Bios Edie Eckman Edie Eckman splits her time between knitting and Cookie A. crocheting as a teacher, designer, writer and editor. Cookie A., has designed patterns for Knitty, Vogue She teaches workshops around the country and Knitting, and the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin’ enjoys sharing in that “aha” moment when her Sock Club. Her pattern line, Cookie A Knitwear students grasp a new technique. She is the author Designs, debuted in 2007 and was an immediate hit. of How to Knit Socks: Three Methods Made Easy, She teaches throughout North America and lives in The Crochet Answer Book, and Beyond the Square Mountain View, CA. Crochet Motifs. Her newest book, Around the Cat Bordhi (Keynote Speaker) Corner Crochet Borders, will be released in May Cat Bordhi’s mission, according to Stephanie 2010. Pearl McPhee, “is to make you a more creative, Margaret Fisher freethinking knitter who problem-solves and Margaret Fisher is a TKGA Master Knitter, experiments with vigor and fearlessness. The best nationally known knitting instructor, and designer part? She can.” Cat teaches and inspires more than who teaches knit, crochet, and sweater design 1,000 knitters a year in her classes and retreats all workshops across the country at conventions and over North America. Her YouTube knitting tutorials for shops and guilds. Margaret is a former co- reach many 1,000’s more, and her innovative books, chair of the Master Hand Knitting Committee of Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, A Treasury The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA) and has of Magical Knitting, A Second Treasury of Magical written magazine articles on knitting and knitting Knitting, and New Pathways For Sock Knitters have techniques. She is the author of Seven Things that reached well over 100,000 knitters. She is also the can “Make or Break” a Sweater™. author of an award-winning novel, Treasure Forest. Jared Flood Her newest book, Footprints for Insouciant Sock Jared Flood is a New York based knitwear designer Knitters was released in the Fall of 2009. For more and photographer. A Pacific Northwest native, information visit www.catbordhi.com Jared holds an MFA from the New York Academy Beth Brown-Reinsel of Art and travels the country teaching traditional Beth Brown-Reinsel has been teaching knitting hand knitting technique and garment construction. nationally for over 20 years. She has authored the He has been living and working in Brooklyn since book Knitting Ganseys, published by Interweave 2005 His design work and writings have been Press, and her articles have appeared in Threads, featured in Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, Cast On, Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, and Knit.1 Magazines, and Spin Off (Interweave Press) Knitters magazines. She continues to design for as well as various other print and online sources. yarn companies, magazines, and for her own pattern Jared’s photography has been featured in Good line. Housekeeping, New York Magazine, NY Spaces, Lily Chin NY Living, Vogue Knitting, Knit.1, The Knitter Lily M. Chin is an internationally famous knitter [UK], Debbie Bliss Magazine, and numerous online and crocheter who has worked in the yarn industry and book publications. He is the creator of www. for over 25 years, as a designer, instructor, and brooklyntweed.net and author of Made in Brooklyn author of books on knitting and crochet. She has a collection of original hand knitting designs with created garments for the collections of designers natural fibers, distributed by Classic Elite Yarns. from Ralph Lauren to Diane von Furstenberg. Franklin Habit Her work has been on the backs of celebrities and Writer, illustrator, and photographer, Franklin super models. She was named a “Master Knitter” Habit is the author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting by Vogue Knitting International. She is regularly Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008) and proprietor cited in media across the U.S., including the Late of The Panopticon, one of the most popular knitting Show with David Letterman, CNN, the NY Times blogs on Internet. On an average day, upwards of and more. Lily Chin has lived in New York City all 2,500 readers worldwide drop in for a mix of essays, her life and has been involved in some aspect of the cartoons, and the continuing adventures of Dolores fashion industry since age 13. the Sheep. (Continued on Next Page) 3 Franklin’s other publishing experience in the fiber Lucy Neatby world includes contributions to Yarn Market News, Lucy Neatby is an internationally recognized Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, teacher, designer, and writer who thrills knitters Cast On: A Podcast for Knitters, Twist Collective, around the world with her inimitable charm, and a regular column on historic knitting patterns knowledge, and uniquely colorful designs. Her for Knitty.com. passion of nurturing and empowering knitters, and These days, Franklin knits and spins in Chicago, putting them in control of their art, is legendary! Illinois, sharing a small city apartment with an Judy Pascale Ashford spinning wheel and colony of sock yarn Judy, a native of Connecticut and a life long knitter, that multiplies alarmingly whenever his back is launched her career as a professional knitting turned. instructor and designer in the early 1990’s. She Susanna Hansson has professionally sold her unique knitwear under Susanna Hansson is a teacher and speaker who the name THE JUDITH COLLECTION both originally learned to knit in the 5th grade in privately and at juried shows. For several years her native Sweden. She teaches regularly at she was employed at a yarn shop where she taught national conventions; Seattle area shops; regional knitting classes and assisted numerous customers conferences; as well as in Canada, Scandinavia, with their knitting and finishing problems. She and Japan. Color, technique, history and culture is now exclusively teaching knitting and design in the context of knitting are of particular interest classes with the emphasis on customizing desired to Susanna. For more information, please visit her fit. More recently Judy has combined knitting with website at www.oneofsusannas.com. beads. Using a non-prestringing technique and Rosemary “Romi” Hill textured stitches, she has designed classes from Rosemary “Romi” Hill learned to crochet and small projects to garments.