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Monday, January 28, 2008

February meeting: Crochet lessons!

At the next MARCH meeting, those of our members who know how to crochet will be teaching the rest of us. We'll be tackling (hopefully) Berta Hesen-Minten's "Strawbeary" thread bear pattern.

The pattern as written produces a bear under three inches tall, in DMC Cebelia 10 crochet cotton with a .75mm (slightly larger than a US #14 steel) crochet hook. Bring your own if you have it, but extra will be available.

I plan to bring some worsted-weight yarn and appropriate hooks - the usual guideline for thread animals (or "amigurumi" in Japanese) is to use a smaller hook than usual for the yarn weight, so that your stitches are very tight and the stuffing doesn't show through. Gauge doesn't need to be exact. I also plan to bring some simpler patterns for those of us who haven't crocheted in, um, decades.

The meeting will be from 7-9 pm on Tuesday, February 5, at the Senior Center cancelled due to inclement weather.

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posted by Karen in Wichita @ 1/28/2008 09:31:00 AM   0 comments

The usual meeting place is the Downtown Senior Center, 200 S. Walnut (just south of Douglas on Seneca, on the east side of the street behind Seneca Park). The meeting room is off the gym, which will usually be full of square dancers who'll happily tell you where we are.

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