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The Hook, Yarn, & Needles fiber arts group of the Washington DC Fiber Arts Collective is celebrating it's 4th year of existance. We are not having a birthday party, but we are having a great fiber arts workshop. Mixed media artist and felt artist Mr…
Save the Date: Next CreativesDC meetup at National Museum of Women in the Arts
June 9, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Save the Date for the next meet-up of CreativesDC. We have a fun and engaging program planned at a beautiful location - the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Hi FOLKS. It was great seeing you on Saturday. As usual I left refreshed. The photo at the top is for the Afghan King--her name is Xenobia Bailey. She is a crochet artist out of NYC. Her artist blog provided me the inspiration to get moving on dev…
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- What is your interest in the CreativesDC beta community?
- Coordinator for the Washington DC Fiber Arts Collective. Doing outreach to inform the community about the new structure and share collective activities.
- How are you using your imagination and original ideas to enrich our economy and culture in DC, and beyond? Or, how would you like it to?
- The group is free and open to anyone in the city who would like to learn to knit or crochet. many people in the city are on limited incomes and can not afford the fee charged to learn a skill that was passed down through families or taught to friends by friends. The collective also has a project that is reaching out to families who have lost children to violence.
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- The Washington DC Fiber Arts Collective has become the organization for the Hook, Yarns & Needles knitting and crochet group which has been meeting at the Martin L. King Library on the 1st. and 4th Saturday of the month since 2005. My name is Deirdre Wright and coordinate and facilitate the group's activities.
The group continues to meet on the 4th Saturday of each month at the MLK Library in Room 221 from 12 to 4 pm. The group also schedules a middle of the month knitting/crochet session at a bookstore in the DC area. We also continue to take trips together. We recently attended the DC Bead Society bead show and are again planning to attend the Stitches Neddlework show in Baltimore this fall.
The group continues to teach anyone whom desires to learn to knit and/or crochet. The group also continues to facilitate "The National Afghan Memorial Project for Child Victims of Murder-"WRAPPED IN LOVE"". This project presently teaches signifigant others to knit/crochet so a memorial afghan can be made for the deceased child. The project has also expanded to include "The Granny Square Project". A granny square will be made for each child in the district who has lost their life to murder.
Please feel free to contact me for more details and if you are interested in learning to knit or crochet.
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- D.Wright
Wrapped In Love
P.O. Box 11302
Washington, DC 20008
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Hook, Yarn, & Needles 4th Year Celebration
The Hook, Yarn, & Needles fiber arts group of the Washington DC Fiber Arts Collective is celebrating it's 4th year of existance. We are not having a birthday party, but we are having a great fiber arts workshop. Mixed media artist and felt artist Mr. James Brown, Jr will be facilitating a workshop on felting for the group.
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Posted on October 20, 2009 at 11:06pm —
"Hook, Yarn & Needles Meeting UPDATE
Hi FOLKS. It was great seeing you on Saturday. As usual I left refreshed. The photo at the top is for the Afghan King--her name is Xenobia Bailey. She is a crochet artist out of NYC. Her artist blog provided me the inspiration to get moving on developing and managing a blog f… Continue
Posted on May 27, 2009 at 7:51pm —
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