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When: Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, with lunch at 11:45 am
Where:Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, VA, 540 985 5900 or toll free 866 594 4722
The Hotel Roanoke will provide a reduced rate of $79 per night for one or two nights - Friday, Sept 12, & Saturday the 13th. This special rate expires on Friday, August 15. Please be sure and call early - they set aside the same number as rooms as last year.
Organizer: Susan Esser
Description:
A non-profit affair, providing a place for knitters and local shopkeepers to meet for a one-day knit-in. There are no classes, nor any admittance fee. You will spend whatever money you choose, only on yarn, lunch, dinner and a hotel room (if you come a distance.) Knitters are invited to meet, chat, knit, eat, purchase, and share ideas with others. We will show each other what we are working on. Each knitter is encouraged to bring something to give to the local charities in southwest VA. There will be door prizes as well as a prize for the winning charity knitter.
The program or order of the day is very simple. At the begiining of the day, each knitter introduces herself.Each knitter receives a 'goodie bag.' If Sue receives enough prizes, each person will receive a knit related door prize. She solicits door prizes from the major knit magazines, knit companies and shops. The knitters attending will donate the rest.
There will be three vendors present this year:
| Bovidae Farm from Mars Hill, NC |
| Orchardside Yarn Shop from Raphine, VA |
| The Yarn Barn from Dillwyn, VA |
To reserve your space at the NoSoKnit: email Susan Esser.
Lunch:
For lunch, you may choose to eat elsewhere, but a delicious buffet for the NoSoKnitters will be available in the Regency Room of the Hotel Roanoke. Like last year, it will be a buffet in the Regency Room, including a carving board selection, sandwiches, soup, salad, dessert, and non-alcoholic beverage. The cost is $17, including tax and tip. The money will be collected at registration at the beginning of the NoSoKnit. You may pay with cash or a check made payable to Tere Salmons.
To reserve a space for lunch, email Tere Salmons by September 6.
Charitable Item Donations
Each knitter attending the NoSoKnit is asked to bring an item to donate to charity. Items for infants, children, and women can all be used. Machine washable and dryable yarns are preferred. Since wool irritates some babies, please do not use wool for baby items. If you attended the NoSoKnit last year, use the yarn donated by yarn manufacturers which was in your goodie bag. If not, any yarn will do.
The charities receiving the items donated this year will be the same as the past two years:
Infant & premature baby clothing will be donated to the Carilion Medical Center for Children at Roanoke Community Hospital. This is the local hospital which provides obstetric and pediatric care for the indigent.
All other items will be donated to The Turning Point Shelter for Women, Salvation Army's shelter for abused women and children in Roanoke.
As an added incentive, a prize will be given for the most creative use of the donated yarn.
For more information, contact Rae Creedle.
Knitting Supply Donations
This donation is entirely voluntary, but if you have excess yarn, patterns, and/or buttons , please bring them to donate. The greatest need this year for the inmate knitting group is sweater's-worth quantities of acrylic or washable wool yarn. They also can use sets of buttons for cardigans, and children's patterns. They have plenty of needles at this time. You can clean out your stash and help others at the same time. They will be used by female inmates at the Alderson, WV, federal women's prison camp. A group of about ninety women knit and crochet for needy area children, elderly nursing-home residents and battered women's shelters. They make lap and baby blankets, and each child on their list receives, at Christmas, a sweater, mittens, cap and scarf. The inmates make no profit for the project, and also have no funds to buy yarn. They rely entirely on donations from the community.
For more information, contact Debbi Young.
For questions about this page, please contact Rae Creedle.
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