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You'll remember in fall of 2012 I attended a symposium which gathered people interested in starting a knit and crochet museum. Much has happened behind the scenes since then. Bylaws were written last year and adopted in early autumn. Then those of us on the board went to work on the 1023 form, which is the form filed with the IRS to obtain 501(c)(3) status. That form was filed earlier this month. Hurray! Now we wait for the IRS to recognize that of course Center for Knit and Crochet is a charitable organization. Last weekend several members of the CKC board attended Vogue Knitting Live! in New York. I was not amongst them, so I don't have any lovely photographs to share. What I do want to share is that CKC has a new website and is soliciting charter memberships . Memberships are $35 and currently new members receive a CKC tote bag as a thank-you. The thing I most want to share is the vision. I am so proud of the narrative we submitted in our 1023 filing. Please visit the O...

While you may not hear much about it for awhile, there is a new knit and crochet entity gestating. A group of passionate volunteers will be working behind the scenes to carefully plan and build and connect all the pieces into place. This new entity is The Center for Knit and Crochet: Preserving and promoting art, craft and scholarship. Vintage gloves from the collection of the Knitting & Crochet Guild (United Kingdom). Brought to the symposium by Angharad Thomas, Textiles Archivist. More pictures of vintage objects can be found on the Atlanta Knitting Guild blog . On Thursday morning, I flew up to Milwaukee and took the bus over to Madison, Wisconsin in order to attend the knit and crochet heritage museum symposium . Karen Kendrick-Hands has done an amazing job of nurturing the idea that knit and crochet textiles should at least enjoy the same respect as quilted and woven textiles. To that end, Karen and others, including Margaret Peterson, organized a symposium. The gathering...