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(thanks, Taranaki, for a wonderful Festival)

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Start saving now for our 2011 National Festival
Invercargill June 2011 (dates & details to be advised)
We are assured of  a great Southland welcome

 

Share the experience! - Join the NZ Machine Knitters' Society!

  • Workshops for Beginners to Advanced Machine Knitters

  • Annual Festival - bringing together people from NZ and Overseas for expert tutoring, fashion parades, tours, exhibitions, trade stalls...........
     

  • Newsletter providing hints and tips, patterns, updates on machine knitting events, parts, and service.

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Visiting from overseas, and would like to meet with
fellow knitters?

Contact:  (2010 - 2011)

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To submit content for our Quarterly Newsletter please email newsletter@nzmks.org.nz
(patterns, recipes, articles etc. all welcome)

Link to Public Holidays NZ 2010

Would you like to know more, or wish to join?
Click on the Contact email for your area shown
below
Area Meetings & Details:

Area:

Newsletter:

 Dates & Venues:

Northland

 

Workshop dates for Northland this year are as follows: 

Jul 24th    Doreen Fosters home  - Fairburn Road, Kaitaia
Sep 11th   CWI Hall,  5 Norfolk Street,  Whangarei
Nov 28th   Evelyn Ashby's home- 5 Kennedy Street, Opua,  Paihia
Jan 22nd 2011 Corrine Ward's home  - 31 Plunket Street, Dargaville
Mar 12th  CWI Hall,  5 Norfolk Street,  Whangarei

Please contact our area if you intend to visit as some dates or venues could change.

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

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.

Bay
of Plenty

 

Meeting dates are as follows subject to hall confirmation -
I will let you know if there are to be any changes.

Saturday 21 August 2010
Saturday 20 November 2010
Saturday 19 February 2011 with guest tutor.
Saturday 16 April 2011 AGM.

Any member or non member in the Area on these dates are
welcome to attend.
Enquiries Pauline Williams email: 
paulownia@clear.net.nz

We are planning a weekend and details will be sent as soon
as all information is available.

Venue: St Enoch's Church 16th Avenue Tauranga 
Time: 9.30am to 3/3.30pm. Tea/Coffee provided. 
Bring your own lunch.

East Coast

 
For further information, please contact Mary Staley
Hawkes Bay  

Area Meetings & Venues as follows:           
24 July    Napier - Greenmeadows Community Hall, Tait Drive
18 Sept   Hastings
20 Nov    Napier
All meetings start at 9.30am with our Area Meeting and finish at approx 3.30pm.  If you are visiting our Area and would like to join us then please contact us, we would be delighted to see you.

Tea, Coffee and Biscuits are supplied but BYO Lunch.

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.
Contact Gaye Hall  07 878 5969


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

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

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 

Wellington

 

'Teach Ins' start at 1.30 pm prompt.

Marlborough

 

Club meeting night is the 2nd Monday in the month, held at 127 A Alabama Road.
There are no more day meetings.

Canterbury

 

Area Meetings:
August 7th and November 6th.

All workshops start at 9.30 am and finish about 3pm.
All Area days are held at the Methodist Church Hall - corner Chapel Street & Harewood Road Papanui Christchurch, time 9.30am to 3pm.
Cost NZMKS members $5 non NZMKS members $10 pot luck lunch.

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.

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.

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 Knitters Club:
Monthly meeting - 1st Thursday of the month at 7.30pm
For further information contact Secretary:
Isla Mouat Tel: 03 217 5314. New members welcome.

Manawatu

May 2010
Newsletter

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

Nelson

 

Enquiries please contact Ann Cooper

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Special Events & Area Contacts:
(for further details, contact Area Representative as listed below)

Area:

Contact email:

Special events:

 

Northland

Rose Walker

   

Auckland

Katrina Bush

   

Waikato

Rose Fitness

 
 

Bay of Plenty

Pauline Williams

 

 

East Coast

Mary Staley

   

Hawkes Bay

Alice Lumb

   

King Country

Gaye Hall

 

 

Taranaki

Janet Stuart

Eltham Weekend Workshop Camps:
October 8th 9th 10th
March 2011 to be confirmed
 

Wairarapa

Pat Moran

   

Wellington

Amy Taylor

   

Marlborough

Marilyn Hagen

 

 

Canterbury

Helen Angus

   

South Canterbury

Shirley Anderson

   

Otago

Ngaire Marshall

   
Southland Anne Baxter NZMKS National Festival Invercargill
Dates & Venue to be confirmed
 
Manawatu Shirley Hatfield    
Nelson Ann Cooper    

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Forthcoming other Events (non-NZMKS)
Enquire locally for full details

Jul 31 - Aug 30

"Drifting with the Tide" felting exhibition at 2 Rivers Gallery, Cheviot

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 to photographic web pages from previous NZMKS Festivals & functions:
Photos from Nelson Festival 2009
Links to NZMKS members' websites:
Ann Cooper  Laurel Judd  Doreen Berge

Links to other craft websites:
D.E.A. Yarns Levin
Anna Gratton Ltd.  Feilding
Dormani Yarns (Tony Bennett, Australia)
Mohair Craft NZ (branches in Auckland Area)
NZ Creative Fibre
YarnTraders
Hallblacks Natural Wool Products

Bernina Sewing Centre Tauranga
Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum Nottingham UK

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