New venue for Wednesday evening classes

Our Wednesday night classes will now be held at flat 1 (the front one), 60 Riverside Road, Orewa.  Please park in the student carparking area 2 doors down on the same side, or in the onstreet parking opposite.
See you there.

Term 3 has started

Hi all, and welcome to this term - a very warm welcome to Heather, who is 'new'.  It was wonderful to see Natasha and her beautiful new baby boy for a visit and a cuddle too.

There are some wonderful ideas for our pipes and tubes installation at Kaipara in October, with some people already starting work.  The idea is to use plastic plumbing pipes as a base for covers which incorporate knitting in some way, but that represent us and/or our places in our communities.  Each person may prefer to do one pipe, or to work with a group. The pipes come in a range of sizes and we are sourcing these now.  More about this as we progress.  It would be great to include examples from other communities around NZ - let me know if you are interested at kipfers@xtra.co.nz

The Monday morning group at the old Northcote Point War Memorial Hall in North Shore is building momentum.  10.30am to 12.30pm each Monday.  Everyone welcome.

And we're up and running again!

Hi all
Abject apologies to those who turned up last week - I thought I'd managed to communicate to everyone.  We are DEFINITELY starting classes this week.  I have already started down at the old war memorial hall in Northcote Point on the North Shore - Mondays 10.30am, if you want to join us.  Lots of fun and laughs.  Just starting, and we are looking to spin some new groups off from this one.

Orewa groups are raring to go.  We will be discussing the new installation for the Kaipara Sculpture Gardens, and the rest of term 3 - I will add the course outline here.  Lots of fun coming here soon!

Oh, and if you want to learn to crochet, or to take your crocheting to the next level, just let me know - there's a small group starting to meet semi-regularly on a Friday morning at the Estuary Arts Centre in Orewa.

Watch this space for news of some kids sessions through primary schools soon.  :)

TERM 3 STARTS WEDNESDAY 3RD AUGUST

I know there's been some confusion (and it's of my making!) but we will definitely be starting classes again on Wednesday 03rd August and not before.  The classes will continue to be tied in with secondary school term times for the rest of the year.
See you all soon.  :)

This just in . . .

The visitor numbers to the Estuary Arts Centre for our exhibition were the highest since September 2009.  There were 2,323 people through the doors.  Well done us!!

End of term trip to Kaipara Sculpture Gardens

On Wednesday 06th July we took a trip to the Kaipara Sculpture gardens to see how our work was faring and to show some of the group who had not been involved in the original installation.  I also wanted to have a look at the proposed area for our installation for the 2011/12 period - to go in at the end of October.
We managed to get 7 people there and, although the weather was brisk and a bit windy, the rain held off and the sun even came out for a while for us.  It was a great outing and we booked in advance so we could get the option of having lunch provided.  Lovely - farmstyle sandwiches, homemade lemony muffins and fresh fruit, with a nice hot cuppa as well.

Next step is planning the new installation - the local press 'The Rodney Times' has already run an article about it, so I expect to be inundated with requests for inclusion.  Watch this space!

Packing out

Well, we did it!  Knitcetera at the Estuary Arts Centre has been a huge hit, with many visitors returning and bringing friends.  We will have a rundown of statistics next month.  Over the coming 2 days we will be packing out - anyone who has items in the exhibition will need to uplift them anytime Saturday afternoon until 4pm or from 9am til 1pm on Sunday.  I'll be there.  :)