GROUP REPORTS BLACKTOWN
Our Group was pleased to meet in person again after months of Zoom meetings. During lockdown some improvements have been made to the area surrounding our meeting hall which will give us more flexibility for meetings and workshops. We are currently formulating our workshop plan for 2022. In December we held our annual Christmas competition congratulations to the winners! - and enjoyed morning tea. Many of our members participate in a weekly charity knitting/crochet group at Blacktown Library, which contributed to the recent yarn bombing of Blacktown to raise awareness of the problem of domestic violence; and also created an amazing Christmas banner for the Max Webber Library. Members of our Group have finished several Wrap with Love blankets in the last couple of months, and a few of us have already started on our FibreFest shawls! Katherine Flanagan, Secretary
BLUE MOUNTAINS
The final quarter of the year had us meeting in person again in our new
meeting location at the Glenbrook Bowling Club. It has been wonderful to see people face-to-face and to see the creativity of our members in person instead of through a screen. Our November AGM saw us farewell Elizabeth Le Breton, Yvonne Cookson and Jan Perry from the committee. They’ve truly done an exceptional job steering us through the pandemic and keeping us connected as a group. The new committee members have some big shoes to fill but are excited for the challenge and the year ahead! In December we took full advantage Capital Region - cakes for high tea of our new venue with a Christmas lunch organised by Jan Marshall and Fran McDaid, who have clearly missed extravagant afternoon tea and a celebration of what we have achieved their calling in event planning. We in the past year. Early in the year we also exchanged gifts in our traditional set crafting goals and in December we one-skein swap, where gifts are have our last check-in, to see how we all handmade using a single skein of progressed. Some of our members' 2021 yarn in a Secret Santa style exchange, goals were 'finish three cardigans', 'knit and our one-skein challenge a top down garment', 'knit a pattern as competition. Congratulations to our it is written' and 'remember to change challenge winners Mavis Bilinge, Ruth needle size'. We are very generous with Buchannan, and Susan Stephens. We the chocolate rewards for those who enjoyed seeing the gifts and other have set goals for themselves, whether projects, both complete and works in they have achieved them or not. progress, in our Show and Tell. In January, we set ourselves some With so many fibre events on the new goals for 2022 and spent a bit of horizon this year, we can’t wait to time talking about our plans for the share as many of them as possible with year ahead. These include a bus trip to our members! The Blue Mountain’s FibreFest and a lead role in the Royal Guilders wish all a safe and fun 2022. Canberra Show's craft pavilion. We have Luke Shilson-Hughes, Secretary taken on management of the knitting section and Fran Browne (our convenor) CAPITAL REGION (formerly is the head steward. Much planning is Queanbeyan) underway and this includes knitting The Capital Region group ended 2021 pieces to match the craft pavilion theme in style with our traditional Christmas of 'High Tea'. We're using some Jean meeting. We have a wonderfully Greenhowe patterns for cakes and biscuits to create a really fun display. Viv Haley brought her cakes, biscuits and even a knitted sausage roll along to the January meeting. Teresa Morey, Secretary
CLARENCE VALLEY
Our last meeting in December was our Christmas lunch at the Crown Hotel overlooking the river which was on the rise. Because of all the rain we received our meetings have been a bit light on members as some couldn't attend due to road closures. We hope this year will be better and we can get lots of knitting done. Looking forward to getting back and catching up with knitting friends. Helen Ada, Publicity
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