AT LOOSE ENDS
357 3rd Ave. SE • Perham, MN 56573
ph/fax 218-346-YARN (9276)
email: info AT atlooseends DOT com
www.atlooseends.com
(Hey! You're here!)

OPEN YEAR ROUND
STORE HOURS:
TUES-SAT 10-5
SUN-MON CLOSED

BE SURE AND CHECK BACK OFTEN AS I AM CONSTANTLY ADDING ITEMS, CLASSES, ETC.
....WELL OK, NOT CONSTANTLY...BUT I'M TRYING!

CURRENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS

"START OF SUMMER (MEMORIAL WEEK) SALE...
May 25 - 31
10% OFF STOREWIDE!!
(includes spinning and weaving supplies)
Patterns - Buy 3 Get One FREE
Sale limited to in-stock merchandise
Store Hours During Sale
Tuesday, May 25 - Saturday May 29 10 - 5
Sunday May 30 10 - 3
Monday May 31 10 - 3
Please take some time to honor all the brave men and women who have served our country, those who have died, and those who are wounded.

Watch for details on the 5th Annual
YARN HARVEST SHOP HOP

September 18-25 2010
with the Kick-Off Party at your LYS
September 17 from 5 - 8 pm

Great fun! Great prizes! Goodie bags! Daily drawings!

2 Grand Prizes and 1 Consolation Prize!

Here's the map so you can plan your route!
Find a friend or two to go with you!

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AREA GUILDS & ORGANIZATIONS

Tangled Knotters Guild: Meets the second Saturday 10 a.m. November thru May at Prairie Needles, Battle Lake and other locations. For those of you around the Henning area and south. Contact Sharon Marquardt 218-583-2297

Northern Prairie Fiber Artists Guild: Meets the second Saturday 10:30 a.m. Septmber thru June at Moorhead Public Library and other locations. For those in the FM area and outwards. Very active group. Good learning sessions. Visit npfa-guild.org

Minnesota Knitters Guild: Meets the third Thursday 7-9 p.m. at the Textile Center of MN. Yearly dues $30 1/1-12/31. Visit their website for more info.

Check back for details on the Fall'10
At The Lake Fiber Arts Retreat
sponsored by
At Loose Ends, Perham;
& Crates of Yarn, Fergus Falls;

at
Weslake Resort on West Lost Lake, northeast of Fergus Falls, MN (tentative)

Thursdays and Saturdays from 11:30 to 1:30 come and enjoy Yarn Therapy. There's a group of like-minded friends waiting to welcome you. Spinners bring your wheels, weavers bring your portable looms, crocheters bring your hooks. Or just bring your interest.

Scenes from a summertime Yarn Therapy (formerly known as Sit and Knit) I've renamed it so all you crocheters, weavers, spinners, and any fiberbending person will come. It's FREE and it's fun.

At The Lake Fall Fiber Retreat Flyer & Registration form
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SHEILA'S SHAWLS

The Silent Witness National Initiative and At Loose Ends invites you to remember Sheila Wellstone (activist and wife of Senator Paul Wellstone) and her tireless crusade on domestic violence issues by knitting, weaving or crocheting for a mother or sister of a woman who was murdered in domestic violence, or for a survivor of domestic violence.
I have started a shawl here at the shop where you are welcome to come and knit a few rows. Or bring your completed shawls in whatever technique you prefer to At Loose Ends and I will mail them to the Minnesota State Coordinator for Sheila's Shawls. She will, in turn, see that they are given to a person who is in need of the comfort.
I hope you'll join me in honoring Sheila Wellstone, a dedicated advocate to ending domestic violence. Check out the Silent Witness website at www.silentwitness.net and Sheila's Shawls at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SheilasShawls/

Here's all our pumpkins. All in serious need of dental work!! What a fun day we had! Thanks to Julie Slaby for her expert instruction. Hey other area guilds, give her a call!

Guild meets the third Saturday of each month at 10 a.m.at the shop. We learn so much from each other.

Come and join us. Dues are only $10 a year. Here's a sample of one year's meetings:

The April meeting was on Mosaic Knitting - a technique that looks like two color knitting without having to carry both colors in the same row.

May's meeting - Someone help me remember!!

June's meeting we learned short-row heels. And using a wire coat hanger, we made sock blockers.

July's meeting Lynette A. led us in another dyeing adventure-this time with wool. Lots of fun and VERY interesting...see the pix below.

August's meeting - Assembling a Warm Up America afghan or knit squares for the Shop Hop Shawl.

September - We shared our best knitting tips.

October - We'll be watching Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Glossary. Talk about tips!!

November - Start kniting now for the Mitten Tree. Watching more tips from EZ's Knitting Glossary.

December - Partaay!! It's Christmas pot luck, bring a gift to exchange (Optional) or just bring yourself...and a friend.

Now we are 2! ...years old that is. Thanks for all your support and business these past two years. I couldn't have done it without you all!!

Celebrating 3 years of business with coconut cream pie followed by two forms of chocolate...my hips are well padded!

Now I'm almost 7 and we're all on diets...sonocakes.

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