Happy National Crochet Month! It’s great to have a whole
month to celebrate crochet! Since CGOA is an integral part of National Crochet
Month, it’s fitting that the CGOA Board members participate in Crochetville’s
National Crochet Month Blog Tour again this year. Many thanks to Amy Shelton
and Donna Hulka for putting together this blog tour. We’re supporting the
charity, Halos of Hope again this year. For more information about Halos of
Hope, visit their website here: www.halosofhope.org.
I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Susan Lowman. I’m a
professional member of CGOA, working as a freelance crochet designer, technical
editor and teacher. I’m the secretary on the CGOA Board of Directors again this
year, the liaison to the CGOA Masters committee and co-chair in the CGOA Masters
program. I’m also one of the 2 co-chairs of this year’s CGOA Design
Competition. But I’ll let the other co-chair (Bobbie Matela) tell you about the
Design Competition in her blog post tomorrow! I love being involved in CGOA!!!
I’m very excited to tell you about the first full-length CGOA
Masters Day that we’ll be presenting this year at the CGOA Conference (aka:
Knit & Crochet Show or Chain Link Conference) in July in San Diego, CA. Our
first CGOA Masters Day was held last year at the conference in Manchester, NH,
but it was only a half day. Our full-length CGOA Masters Day this year will be
loaded with helpful information on how to improve your crochet, including such
topics as getting gauge, weaving in ends invisibly, joining smoothly, fastening
off neatly and much more. We’ll also be reviewing swatches in the program to
teach you how to review your own work and we’ll explain what we’re looking for
in the portfolio reviews. The day is split up between the morning session and
the afternoon session, so you can pick the session you’d like to attend or
attend both!
Jane Rimmer (the other co-chair of the CGOA Masters program)
and I, along with some of the other Masters Committee members (aka: portfolio
reviewers), are very excited about this Masters Day and we hope you are, too! We’ve
got a lot planned for the day and look forward to sharing it with all those in
attendance to help further everyone’s crochet skills and knowledge!
If you’re currently enrolled in the CGOA Masters program or
you’d like to learn more about the program, you’ll want to attend the CGOA
Masters Day on Wednesday, July 22 from 9 am – 12 noon and 2-5 pm. To read more
about this year’s conference, including the schedule for the CGOA Masters Day,
please check out this page.
For more information about the CGOA Masters program, visit
the CGOA website here.
This is the main page for the Masters program on the CGOA website. From here,
you can go to other pages on the CGOA website to find out even more about the
program.
For more information about the Knit & Crochet Show,
check out this website.
The complete show schedule, including more specific information on the classes,
is all there for you to read and plan your conference experience, along with
registering for a fabulous time!
Happy National Crochet Month and happy crocheting!
Susan Lowman
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I look forward to participating, Susan!
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