Jerusalem Knitting & Craft

I haven’t been using this blog much, but I do want to set up some placemarker so that people who want to knit and craft in Jerusalem can find us.

Firstly, if you are on Ravelry (and you should be!), you can find us here: Jerusalem Crafters

Secondly, you can just e-mail me. My e-mail address is safranit at gmail.com (I didn’t use the @ sign to prevent a bit of spam)

Thirdly, if you are looking for yarn stores in Jerusalem, you can e-mail me as well.

Cheers!

The Jerusalem SnB has relocated due to the closure of Chez Gita. After trying a few possibilities, we have decided on Cup O’ Joe on the corner of Keren Hayesod and Jabotinsky. They were very open to us meeting there, and it looks like there will be enough room. (Also, there was some agreement that they have very good coffee!)

The next meeting will be February 27th from 8-10PM.

In other group notes, there is a second group meeting at 6PM the first Monday of the month in Jerusalem as well as groups meeting in Beer Sheva, Efrat and Tel Aviv as well as a “yarn crawl” that happened on a recent Friday in Haifa. For more information about these groups, post a comment.

Also get yourself a beta account at Ravelry….it is worth it!

Take a look at this site. Ravelry is calling itself a knit and crochet community. It looks interesting.

The next meeting of the Jerusalem Crafters will be on March 14 from 8-10PM.

As usual we will be meeting at Chez Gita on Havatzelet Street.

The theme of the meeting inspired by our workshop by Laurie will be “kishutim” (decorations)

Adding little stuff to make our projects shine. Bring your small scrap yarn to see what we can do. Some examples will be included. If you have any other patterns feel free to bring them along.

The Jerusalem Knit N Nosh (aka SnB) is making a move to a fall/winter knitting location (we are still exploring other options, so if you have suggestions, let me know). The location for our meeting Wednesday (November 1st) will be at Chez Gita. For location information go to: Chez Gita Location .

Our meeting time is from 8PM-10PM (20:00-22:00)

Please feel free to invite anyone you know…if you don’t know how to knit but want to learn, feel free to come as well…we are all willing teachers. If you don’t have any knitting equipment, just let me know and I’ll bring some spare yarn and needles for you to practice with.

Note: I’d like to try monthly meetings at Chez Gita, and the other meeting at a yarn shop. If anyone has contacts with any of the owners, and would like to talk to them about the possibility of staying open until 10 PM once for us to come and visit, that would be great. Some places could be: Shani Bad, Avodat Ivri, and the place in Geula.

I’ve heard from a fellow blogger Rock of Galilee that the people up north in the shelters would appreciate donations of yarn and needles (preferably shorter ones for the kids). Now is the time to clear out your stash for a very good cause.

If you can make it to the meeting on Tuesday, I will be collecting. If not, reply to this post and we will work out a time to meet. Please feel free to alert others who may not see this post.

The summer meeting place and schedule are upon us.

We will be meeting every other Tuesday from 8-10 in the evening. Due to constraints at Cafe on the Rails, our first hour will be outside in the garden, but we will need to be inside from 9-10.

I’d like to expand this group to all (portable) crafters. The light outside is good enough for knitting and crocheting, and if we get “our table” you can even do cross stitch and other projects.

Next meeting date: Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Take a look at the links to the right…new ones have been added to the bottom. They include two Israeli Knitter’s websites and knitting-humor.

Enjoy!

Well, Passover is rapidly approaching and so we will be taking a break from our meetings until May. Hopefully we will be starting up again at Cafe on the Rails. (I haven’t heard when they are opening yet.)

So if you can make it to today’s meeting, it will be at 20:00 (8PM) at the Sheraton Cafe…no purchase necessary!!!!

I admit my Hebrew isn’t the best, but come to: Hebrew Schedule to see the schedule in Hebrew. If anyone wants to give me some tips to make the Hebrew look better, or sound better, please do!