{"id":2438,"date":"2009-11-18T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2023-03-05T11:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:25:43","slug":"visiting-the-soundview-knitting-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/visiting-the-soundview-knitting-guild\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the Soundview Knitting Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to the lovely ladies of the Soundview Knitting Guild in Trumbull, Connecticut. It was a very special evening for both the guild and myself as I got to present the LB Collection among other new yarns. These women exude so much enthusiasm and passion for their craft that I knew they would be the perfect group to show the LB Collection to. Since these yarns are only sold through our Studio, catalog, and website, not many people have an opportunity to touch and see these exquisite yarns firsthand. It was so wonderful to see them experience these yarns for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2439 size-full lazyload\" title=\"soundviewguild1\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild1.jpg\" alt=\"Jack\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2439 size-full lazyload\" title=\"soundviewguild1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild1.jpg\" alt=\"Jack\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild1-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>I also had the opportunity to speak to the group about our amazing Lion Brand Yarn Studio, and I was pleasantly surprise to find that three women had already traveled to New York City to visit the store. By the end of our meeting the ladies were discussing getting a bus and taking a group trip to check out the Studio.<\/p>\n<p>The cherry on top of the cake for me was having four Blumenthals from different generations &#8212; Ruth, Irene, Rhoda, and Mark (not shown) &#8212; come to see my presentation and say hello. It is always fun to see relatives that you haven\u2019t seen in ages. Here at Lion Brand, family is of the utmost importance so having them there made the evening that much more special.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2440 size-full lazyload\" title=\"soundviewguild2\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild2.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth, Irene, Rhoda and Jack\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2440 size-full lazyload\" title=\"soundviewguild2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild2.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth, Irene, Rhoda and Jack\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/soundviewguild2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Have a group of 50 or more in the tri-state area? E-mail jack@lionbrand.com to arrange for Jack to come speak to your guild or yarncrafting group!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Related links:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/lion-brand-visits-the-danbury-crochet-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lion Brand Visits the Danbury Crochet Club<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/lion-brand-on-long-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lion Brand on Long Island<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/one-of-the-greatest-parts-of-my-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One of the Greatest Parts of My Job<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/community\/blog\/lion-brand-visits-the-westchester-knitting-guild\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lion Brand Visits the Westchester Knitting Guild<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to the lovely ladies of the Soundview Knitting Guild in Trumbull, Connecticut. 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I have a 1954 working Coke machine and a bubble gum machine from the 50s, a collection of Norman Rockwell plates of people knitting, articles by my Dad of a book he wrote the introduction to on knitting from 1953, a needlepoint made by my second grade teach showing Lion Brand on a pushcart, The Simpson family, sitting in front of the T.V. with Marge knitting. This was a cover of T. V. Guide. When I called them and told them I was in the yarn business they sent me the original artwork (called a cell). I have a tin that we used to give to stores in the 1950s, a photo of my son modeling a Lion Brand Sweater, a French poster of a girl knitting from 1928, a Red Cross poster from World War II that says, \u201cour boys need socks, knit your bit\u201d, a cover of Life Magazine from 1941 with a woman knitting (Life was 10 cents), a cover of New Yorker Magazine with a big ball of yarn, about 40 images of Lions counting stuffed animals, needlepoint, and framed images. A collection of books, some autographed, by Vanna White, Kate Jacobs and Debbie Macomber, all famous knitters or crocheters, a Build-A-Bear of a Lion, a picture of Wallace and Grommet knitting, a poster of an old catalog cover that was a take-off of American Gothic with two Lions knitting and crocheting, a clock with the Lion Brand logo, a framed 1946 Saturday Evening Post from with a picture of a dog sweater being knit. I have lots of photos including my father with Henry Kissinger, photos of me with Jackie Mason and Mohammed Ali, a picture of my Uncle Isidor, A picture of my parents in front of the Taj Mahal from 1971, picture of Warren Buffet knitting (his daughter had a knit shop), color card books from the 60s to the 90s, license plate holder, that says \u201clicense to knit\u201d, What is your earliest yarn memory? When I was 5 I took a paper bag with spools fo thread, I went to my parents friends on the street and to go door to door selling spools of thread for a nickel a spool.","url":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/author\/jack\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63950,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/63950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com/community/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}