Join or renew your Puddletown Knitters Guild Membership for 2023

Puddletown membership lasts from January 1 to December 31 of 2023. It's $35 to renew for the year. Don't forget to renew here and participate in the fun events we have planned this year!

In order to make our guild more accessible to all, Puddletown Knitters Guild has a membership scholarship program. Please donate any amount towards a membership for a fellow knitter. To do so, speak with our treasurer at guild meetings. To receive a scholarship, it's as easy as emailing us.

2023 Membership for INDIVIDUALS

2023 Membership for BUSINESSES

OUR GUILD MEETINGS
ARE NOW HYBRID

CLICK HERE to read our COVID-19 policies for the in person meeting

Watch from home via zoom or join us in person!

Rose City Park Presbyterian Church
1907 NE 45th Ave, Portland, OR 97213

CAPACITY WILL BE RESTRICTED. Please RSVP to reserve your seat. If we haven't already checked your vaccine card, you may also email proof of vaccination to limit check in time.

Doors open at 6pm for social knitting.
Program begins at 7pm.
NO ENTRY AFTER 7pm.

Covid vaccination & booster proof and masks are required.

Thursday,February 9th, 2023
HYBRID Program starts at 7 p.m.

Susan Plack will introduce the mechanics and inspiration of machine knitting through a demonstration of how a knitting machine makes fabric. She will discuss strategies for creating unique objects quickly and encourage exploration of what is possible with the use of a knitting machine. Susan is a fiber artist who has learned, created, and taught many different fiber arts. She currently teaches fiber arts classes at a local yarn store. Her area of specialization is machine knitting socks and to date, she has knit 245 pairs!

CLICK HERE to join the meeting via ZOOM

CLICK HERE to RSVP for the in person meeting

Member Tip with Margaret Weddell

Margaret will be discussing 9 podcasts that may be entertaining, educational, and inspirational to knitters.

Share your tips and tricks! Send a note to info@puddletownknittersguild.com.

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at Member Tips?
Now is your chance. We have a couple of spots available if you would like to share your favorite tips!

Can you help set out chairs? Greet other members? Help monitor Zoom chat? Let us know when you RSVP that you'd like to help.

Show and Tell

In person show and tell, bring your FOs and have your pattern name and yarn details ready.We know you have much to show off, but please limit your items to one per meeting.

Virtual attendees, submit your photos! Please include your pattern name, yarn details and anything special about the project. Email your photos to showandtell@puddletownknittersguild.com before you go to bed on Tuesday, February 7.

Mark Your Calendar

Guild Events

Join Puddletown's Virtual Knit Nights

Every Monday
Drop-in anytime between 6 and 8 p.m.

Visit the Guild Events page for the current link.

FEBRUARY MEETING:

Brioche Knit Love with Michelle Lee Bernstein

Michele Lee Bernstein designs and teaches from her home in Portland, OR. She loves using interesting techniques to make small objects from one or two skeins of very special yarn. Michele will talk about her history with brioche knitting and share samples from her new book: Brioche Knit Love. In her book she teaches a new technique with every pattern. Bring your US 15 needles and super bulky yarn (or worsted weight and US size 6 needles). Her presentation will include a starter one-color brioche project!

2023 Service Projects

The Guild's official service project for 2023 is knitting for foster children and families. Our partners are Boxes of Love and With Love.

Why Two Organizations?
Working with two organizations will let us serve a more diverse group of foster kids. This means we knitters and crocheters will have more choice in what we create — if you love knitting toddler sweaters, then knit toddler sweaters. And if crocheting toys is your jam, get that hook out and get your amigurumi on! Boxes of Love is especially interested in toddler sweaters and hats for babies through teens, while With Love is hoping to share dolls with diverse skin tones with their clients. Both organizations would love to wrap their kids in some warm baby blankets. Watch for challenges throughout the year that will focus on these items, but don’t feel limited. If it is warm and soft and a child can wear it or cuddle it, we can find a home for it between these two groups. The only requirement is that you use MACHINE-WASHABLE and SOFT yarns.

Details here about the Spring Challenge!

What: Toddler sweaters. Infant and child sweaters accepted, but we are targeting sizes 2T-3T. Washable, soft yarn only!
When: Last sweaters accepted at the April meeting (may be delivered at the April meeting or you can email us with a photo of the finished garment on or before April 13)
Prize drawings: Every challenge item earns the knitter an entry in a random drawing for a challenge prize as well as a bonus entry in the annual prize drawing
Prizes: First place - $25 gift card to guild business member shop of knitter’s choice; Second place - a lovely yarn surprise
Drop off: At the Service Knitting table at in-person meetings or email info@puddletownknittersguild.com to arrange a drop-off
Reminder: All year long we have a baby blanket challenge going. So knit a little sweater as a palette cleanser and then keep knitting those blankets!

The Boxes of Love Project is a grassroots effort to provide babies and children entering foster care from local hospitals with a large box of new clothing, pajamas, shoes, and other comfort items to call their own…A Box of Love. It is their mission to let these babies and children know that they are valued and loved. Having their own clothes and comfort items help the children feel secure during what can be very frightening times.

At With Love, the mission is to help foster families change the lives of children ages 0 – 6 by providing resources that nurture dignity, hope, and community. Like Boxes of Love, With Love is also a grassroots organization. They answer specific requests from foster families within a few days of a new child entering the home. Families are also able to continue to make requests for goods every 90 days while a child is in their care. They provide everything from clothing and toys to baby gear and diapers.

Community Events

Red Alder Fiber Arts Retreat
February 16-19 in Tacoma, Washington
Registration is still open for classes, and there will be a fiber marketplace
Learn more

Rose City Yarn Crawl
February 23rd-26th in the Portland Metro Area

An annual Portland experience, the Rose City Yarn Crawl is an event for fiber enthusiasts — knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers, and felters — to explore the many shops in and around Portland, Oregon! 2023 will mark our 14th year of celebrating Portland as a yarn and fiber destination.
Learn more

Volunteers Needed

We are always looking for volunteers to help sustain the guild. At this time, we are especially in need of volunteers to help make the in person meetings happen.

For more information visit the About Us page, talk to one of the Board members at a meeting, or email info@puddletownknittersguild.com.

PKG Gear: Available on CafePress

We've opened a shop at CafePress, so now you can show your love for Puddletown Knitters Guild! With so many items—t-shirts, bags, stickers, and more—to choose from, you're bound to find something you like.

Shop Puddletown Gear

Our mission is to promote a diverse community of knitters of all abilities, to support local fiber providers and artists from farm to needles, to model respect for the local fiber community by actively valuing their time and expertise.