Knotty Minutes

Knotty Carvers meeting minutes December 6, 2025

Proctor Area Community Center

President Barb Hokanson brought the meeting to order at 9:00 with 20 people in attendance.

Sign-in sheets for attendance. Please sign up on the way in because the treasurer pays the PACC $2 for each person that attends. If anyone gets COVID, we have a list so we can contact people.

Meeting minutes: November meeting minutes were emailed out and were approved.

Treasurer report: educational fund $1,059.28 General fund $4423.56

Communications:

• Thank you from the Proctor Schools, they are going to buy tables for the Event Center

• Second Harvest sent a thank you for the donation.

• Kathy sent thank yous to vendors and submitted the report to Proctor tourism

• Barb mentions the letter from National Woodcarvers Associations, the organization that

• publishes chip chats.

• Snowdaze flyer came – Barb talks about it.

Show & Tell: Sandy will take photos to post on our Knotty Carvers Facebook page.

Guests: Evan Hart was a students of Charlie Banks, just moved to Duluth

Education:

• Reminder that scholarships are available to members for classes – just contact Kathy or Barb to learn more about it.

• John Carlson - old style chip carving class – he’s available to teach.

• Bill Geddes presenting a talk on color & painting projects, maybe in January or February.

• Bruce Ankeny agreed to a class this spring. Kathy will keep us posted. Hoping to get a date set.

• If anyone wants to demonstrate anything to the club, let Kathy know.

• Paul Karlsson – cottonwood bark wood spirit would be available to teach a class in May, bark comes from the southwest. Takes 6-7 hours, will be held after our meeting in May. If you buy wood from him it will be $4/lb. Barb is looking for 10-12 people. Cost for class will be low.

Old Business:

• Charlie Banks Nordic Man class was held November 22 & 23 at the PACC. See Show and Tell table for some of the completed projects. Barb talked about her figure, and she also bought a Viking from Charlie and painted it. Kathy bought a couple of Charlies, unpainted. Earl won the carving that Charlie did during class. Sandy mentioned a couple of takeaways. “First cut is the last cut” means those first big flat plane cuts are still evident in the finished project. He also encouraged us to turn the feet and turn the head to make them more interested.

• Jim cut out Christmas ornaments for club members. Jerry also brought ornaments. Available today.

• Still trying to get ahold of someone to store the books at the PACC

New Business:

• Our member Spencer Stone passed away a couple of weeks ago.

• Thanks to Sherry, Doreen and Kathy for treats today. Need more people to sign up for treats in December.

• Head Start is going to be coming into the whole back area of the PACC so we may need to find a place for our library materials

• Al Alm brought some turkeys that Jim Patten made. They are on the table to give away.

• Do we want to have a show next year? October 24 or 31 st ? We choose Oct 24th.

• Smore’s this month will be the 19 th instead of the Friday after Christmas.

Ongoing Carving Opportunities:

•  Carves ‘more- meets the 4th Friday of the month at the PACC from 10-12. $2 per meeting.

•  Snow Daze https://www.centralmnwoodcarvers.org/product/snow-daze-carve-in-2026/4 April 24-26, 2026 in Sartell Community Center, Sartell, MN

Meeting adjourned at 9:23 time to carve.

Next meeting will be January 3, 2025.