We are happy to have you join us and hope you will find our group a positive and useful place to explore and grow as a writer. We are a working group of writers who support each other as we share:

? our own work
? feedback on each others’ work
? work we admire
? writing news and opportunities with each other
? skill building exercises

Click here to download the Writer?s Group Welcome Letter ? it gives you all the details so you know what to expect and what?s expected of you when you come for the first time.

Please feel free to join our Yahoo group to share work, encouragement, and comments:

Ames, IA 50014 – USA

Wednesday, August 25 at 7:30 PM

Attending: 2

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/13950852/

Ames C.art is getting all tied up this month! Come join us in the summer sun as we tie our way to some wonderful tie-dye designs. We will provide the instructions and the dye, you provide the material, and it all adds up to a great time.

Look for the red cart at Brookside to find us. Please bring your own seating if picnic tables aren’t to your liking. We will give a brief overview of the different types of designs that could be made and then get to it. Please bring your own cotton material (t-shirts or plain fabric) to dye.

Ames, IA 50010 – USA

Saturday, August 14 at 2:00 PM

Attending: 3

Fee: Price: USD 3.00 per person

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/14112685/

Come join us for an evening of fun and creativity. We have combined our Fibers and Drawing groups together to make a creative collision! Bring along your portable fibers projects or your sketchbook and drawing/painting medium.

It’s charcoal day for Ames C.art! This month we are learning how to make our own charcoal. We will have a potluck to start things off while the charcoal gets cooked in the grill. Then let us teach you techniques for your new drawing tool.

Or feel free to work on your own projects in our crafty atmosphere.

If you would like to join the potluck, please bring your own meat, a dish for sharing, and your own dishes/utensils.

See you there!

Ames, IA 50010 – USA

Wednesday, August 11 at 7:00 PM

Attending: 6

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/14112488/

Ames C.art is flying high this month and wants you to get in on the fun! Join us as we build kites from scratch with every day materials. We will work together on our creations at Brookside park, then head to the open space of the baseball diamonds to get them up in the air.

Look for the red cart at Brookside to find us. Please bring your own seating if picnic tables aren’t to your liking. We will have patterns, dowel rods, and string for you to use. If you have material you would like to share, feel free to bring them!

Ames, IA 50010 – USA

Saturday, July 24 at 2:00 PM

Attending: 7

Fee: Price: USD 3.00 per person

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/13984599/

Sharing and stitching together materials, ideas, and community! Come together to share your stash and find uses for what you take home.

We are making market bags using a template from Burda Style. We just got a huge donation of sweet fabrics! We can make some market bags, then fill them with goodies

Bring a project to work on such as garments to mend and alter, sewing problems to solve, patterns to share, fabric/sewing supplies to swap and use, or your latest knitting/crochet project.

We will have sewing machines, some notions, as well as craft items and patterns to share. All skill levels welcome. Come for the community, stay for the creativity!

The Workspace is giving us a great deal, only $1 instead of their regular $3 fee (+ $1 material fee for hand stitch project) – no pre-registration necessary.

Ames, IA 50011 – USA

Saturday, July 10 at 1:00 PM

Attending: 7

Fee: Price: USD 1.00 per person

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/13901089/

We are happy to have you join us and hope you will find our group a positive and useful place to explore and grow as a writer. We are a working group of writers who support each other as we share:

? our own work
? feedback on each others’ work
? work we admire
? writing news and opportunities with each other
? skill building exercises

Click here to download the Writer?s Group Welcome Letter ? it gives you all the details so you know what to expect and what?s expected of you when you come for the first time.

Please feel free to join our Yahoo group to share work, encouragement, and comments:

Ames, IA 50014 – USA

Wednesday, July 28 at 7:30 PM

Attending: 3

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/13844099/

Come join us for an evening of fun and creativity. We have combined our Fibers and Drawing groups together to make a creative collision! Bring along your portable fibers projects or your sketchbook and drawing/painting medium.

Come to draw and watch fiber artists work with needles and hooks. Come to stitch and watch journal artists sketch the world around them. Meet other creative members of your community and learn new ways of looking at the world.

This month we are giving special light to crochet: yarn, hooks, and instructions will be available. If you have always wanted to learn how to hook, here is your chance! If it’s not your thing, no worries, being a project and enjoy the company of other creative types.

Ames, IA 50010 – USA

Wednesday, July 14 at 7:00 PM

Attending: 7

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/13760148/

We are happy to have you join us and hope you will find our group a positive and useful place to explore and grow as a writer. We are a working group of writers who support each other as we share:

?our own work
?feedback on each others’ work
?work we admire
?writing news and opportunities with each other
?skill building exercises

Click here to download the Writer?s Group Welcome Letter ? it gives you all the details so you know what to expect and what?s expected of you when you come for the first time.

Meetings are from 7:30 – 9:00pm on average, but can go long.

This month please bring an empty notebook and a favorite book of poems or quotes so we can make an inspiration journal for when writer’s block strikes!

Ames, IA 50014 – USA

Wednesday, June 23 at 7:30 PM

Attending: 3

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/13749827/

At first we were just a few.

But before too long the table was full! What a great time of knitting, crochet, and stitching! I forgot my knitting project, my thread for my sewing project must have rolled out of my bag, and all I had was my sketch book. No one minded while I drew Sarah’s super cute knit chipmunk.

Crystal brought a great selection of vintage crochet books as well as pattern for a great charity project.

We are sponsoring a Craft Hope send out. Drop off your dishcloth donations by the mural exhibit during opening hours (June 15th – June 19th; noon -6 pm) to be included in our send out. The oil spill needs cotton clothes to clean up the animals. I think we all have time to knit or crochet a dish cloth for this great project.

Our next fiber meeting will be a great mix of fun things as the Creative Collision! Bring any mobile project you would like to work on and come enjoy creating with other makers! It will be July 14th from 7-9pm; brookside park again. Bring a fold up chair if sitting at a picnic table rubs you the wrong way.

Kristin Roach

Come join us for an evening of fun and creativity – all portable fiber projects encouraged. Come to stitch together, learn new skills, and enjoy the company of other creative people.

Bring along your knitting, crochet, needlepoint, or other fiber project. No formal instruction will be given, but all questions welcome.

We will be meeting at Brookside park this month. We will be by the front entrance and parking lot, just look for the red art cart! In case of rain, we will be meeting at Cafe Diem.

Come help us celebrate World Wide Knit/Crochet in Public Day!
http://www.wwkipday.c…

Ames, IA 50010 – USA

Wednesday, June 16 at 7:00 PM

Attending: 3

Details: http://www.meetup.com/amescart/calendar/13749760/