Our year runs from September so it's time once again for our AGM - Tuesday 2nd September at 8
pm. It is the ideal opportunity to give
us your ideas and thoughts about the club and what you aim to knit during the
next year. You can of course e-mail us direct with ideas for club meetings so that we
can try and include them in the programme during the coming year.
Along
with the AGM (which as you know doesn’t take us very long!) we have invited
Rosie from Moon Beads to come along and talk to us about knitting with
beads. I am sure she will have some of
her gorgeous beads with her as well of other items of interest to you, so bring
your purse!
Hardly a day goes by without someone, somewhere in
the world looking at this blog spot of ours. We are keeping
a paper version as a form of diary to show those members that don't have an internet connection.
Once
again it has been difficult to find speakers and as yet some dates haven’t been
filled. We are aiming to do that as soon
as we can. We will also be asking members
to volunteer to show techniques and stitches to fill the programme. Programme
updates will be posted here on the Blogspot as soon as a date is filled.
With
your agreement, we will continue to support the Friends of the Royal Marsden
Hospital, Sutton Branch with donations of knitted and other new, but unwanted,
items. We will collect them together at our December meeting, and they will be
taken to the hospital a few days later. The Friends of the Royal Marsden will
also be the recipient of the money raised at our club meetings through the sale
of donated yarn and other items of knitting paraphernalia, plus donations from
other sources. The “pot” currently has
over £188 for them. The total amount sent to them over the years stands at over
£2,200 and the amount raised through the sale of goods we’ve sent must double,
maybe treble, that.
Having
looked at the amount in our treasurers account, the subs will remain £15.00 for
the next year so please help us by having your cheque ready (made payable to “Fleet Machine Knitting Club”) or the
correct money to hand and maybe in an envelope with your name on it. As an
alternative, if you don’t expect to be able to make some of the meetings you
can opt to pay £3 per night that you attend. We may need to levy an additional
variable amount towards any evening when we have a speaker; depending on how
much they charge and the distance they travel.
Looking
forward to another successful year of knitting.
