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Link to Public Holidays NZ 2010
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Area Meetings & Details:
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Northland |
Workshop dates for Northland this year are as follows: Jul 24th
Doreen Fosters home - Fairburn Road, Kaitaia Please contact our area if you intend to visit as some dates or venues could change. |
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Auckland |
Auckland Area Workshop Dates for 2010:
August: Sat. 21st - Pakuranga
Baptist Church Hall, Pakuranga
November: Thu. 18th - Community Hall,
Te Atatu Peninsula - (shared lunch)-
Guest Tutor confirmed (re-scheduled from April 15th)
9.30am cup of tea and 10am start
and finish approx 2pm. BYO lunch (unless otherwise indicated) -
tea/coffee supplied.
All visitors are
welcome to our Area Workshops and local club meetings. For further information about clubs in Auckland or workshops contact Katrina Bush: ph: (09) 489 7088 or email ciao.bb@clear.net.nz |
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Waikato |
Workshop dates:
September 18th 2010
November 17th 2010
March 26th 2011
Waikato Area workshops are held at the Presbyterian Church Hall, Canada Street, Morrinsville. 9.30am cup of tea and 10am start.
Bring own lunch - cup of tea / coffee supplied
For further information Contact Rose Fitness
rfitness@value.net.nz Ph 07 884 8576
Any knitter visiting our Area is most
welcome to attend both Workshops and Club Meetings. |
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Bay |
Meeting dates are as follows subject to hall confirmation -
Venue: St Enoch's Church 16th
Avenue Tauranga |
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East Coast |
For further information, please contact
Mary Staley
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| Hawkes Bay |
Area Meetings & Venues as
follows: Tea, Coffee and Biscuits are
supplied but BYO Lunch. |
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King Country |
Aug 21st
2010
Kopaki, Gaye Hall's Home
Oct 16th
Ohura Fire Station
Dec 4th
Taumarunui Arts Centre
March 12th 2011
A G M Mapiu Club Rooms. Taumarunui Club meets on the 1st Wednesday
of the month at the Arts Centre, Hakiaha St., Taumarunui. Ohura Club meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Ohura Fire Station, alternating monthly with Eilish Hagenson's home in Aria Tce. Mokau. Contact Eilish Hagenson 06 752 9181
King Country Area meetings
All area workshops start at 9.30am with a
cuppa.
If anyone is in the area you are most
welcome to attend
Contact Gaye Hall 07 878 5969 or
Nell Tarrant 07 896 6284
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Taranaki |
Newsletter "Silver Needles" 4/2009 |
Knit
Ins:
August 14th
in Waitara
November 13th
in Hawera
February 12th 2011
in Stratford
April 9th
AGM in New Plymouth
Cup of tea at 9.30 and start at 10.00 until 3.00ish |
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Wairarapa |
Our Area
Days for the year are:
18th Sep, 20th Nov. The teach-ins are held at the Shear History Trust Museum, 12 Dixon Street, Masterton (use side entrance), starting at 9.30 with a cup of tea and the business starting at 10.am, pot luck lunch and finish with a cup of tea at approx 3pm |
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Wellington |
'Teach Ins' start at 1.30 pm prompt. |
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Marlborough |
Club meeting night is the 2nd Monday in the month, held at 127 A Alabama Road. |
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Canterbury |
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South Canterbury |
Area Meetings:
4 August
13 October
9 February 2011
13 April
Our Meetings are held in the Trinity Hall, Cnr Church Street and Avenue Road, Timaru commencing at 10 a.m. | |
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Otago |
Jul 2010 Newsletter |
Dates of our programme and Knit in's are
as follow
Saturday 14
August 2010 - Knit-in to be held in Clinton sharing with
Southland. Details in attached Newsletter.
Saturday 18 September
2010
Saturday 6 November
2010
Both these days to be held at 33A Lanark
Street, Mosgiel. All members welcome.
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Southland |
Next Area day will be a combined Otago Southland Day 14th August at Clinton Bowling Club Rooms. Starts 9.30 am Area Days held at Hedgehope and start at 9.30am with cup of tea. Invercargill Machine
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Manawatu |
May 2010 |
All meetings at
Rotary Hall Foxton. Avenue Road (Off State Highway 1)
Here are the dates for next year:
These Teach-Ins start with a "cuppa' at 9.30 and then the meeting starts 10.00am.
21st August 2010
16th October 2010
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Nelson |
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Enquiries please contact Ann Cooper |
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Taranaki |
Eltham Weekend Workshop Camps:
October 8th 9th 10th
March 2011
to be confirmed
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| Southland | Anne Baxter |
NZMKS National Festival
Invercargill Dates & Venue to be confirmed |
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| Nelson | Ann Cooper |
Forthcoming other Events (non-NZMKS)
Enquire locally for full details
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Jul 31 - Aug 30 |
"Drifting with the Tide" felting exhibition at 2 Rivers Gallery, Cheviot |
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Aug 16 - Aug30 |
"Sock it to 'Em" Travelling Exhibition at Ashford Craft Shop, Ashburton |
| Aug 18 - Sep 15 | Kapiti Arts & Crafts Exhibition at Kapiti Gallery, Matai Road, Raumati |
| Aug 28 - Oct 3 | Exhibition: Earthwaulks by Aotearoa felters at Millenium Gallery, Blenheim |
| Sep 4 - Sep 19 | Sea Threads. Auckland HSG Biennial Exhibition at Mairangi Arts Centre, North Shore |
| Sep 6 - Sep 27 | "Sock it to 'Em" Travelling Exhibition at Poverty Bay Club, Gisborne |
| Sep 24 - Oct 1 | Inspired by Nature: Rotorua Creative Fibre Exhibition at RAVE Rotorua |
| Oct 18 - Oct 29 | Manawatu Area Exhibition at Wanganui Arts Centre, 19 Taupo Quay, Wanganui |
| Nov 24 - Dec 13 | Exhibition: Earthwaulks by Aotearoa felters at Creative Tauranga, Tauranga |
| Jan 13 - Jan 29 | Exhibition: Earthwaulks by Aotearoa felters at Pataka, Porirua |
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Links
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websites: Links to KiwiKnitters Email Group OzMkers Email Group Victorian Machine Knitters' Association |
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