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December 2024 Programs
KIK – Holiday/Social Knitting
KIND – Gnome Ornaments
KNIT – Holiday Party
KNOW – Holiday Party
SoCK – Holiday Party
For more information regarding the latest chapter programs, please visit our CALENDAR page! Here you will find exact dates for upcoming guild chapter meetings, including full program descriptions for each meeting.
On the Calendar page you will also find various guild-wide events (charity knit-ins, affiliate sales and the like) and up-coming events in the yarn community / Houston area (FiberFests, conventions, etc.).
Please visit the KANG Chapters page to find your nearest chapter.
Charity Knitting – Dec 2024 Update
Our next Charity Knit-In will be in January! Check back in the next newsletter for more information about what, when, and where!
In the meantime, please keep working on projects for our charity partners, including:
- hats for Houston ISD Head Start (we have tons of kits available)
- Knitted Knockers (kits available for these as well)
- chemo caps / hats for Knots of Love (must use yarn from their approved yarn list)
- blankets 24″ x 36″ or larger for Project Linus
- 7″ x 9″ rectangles or whole blankets for Warm Up America
- large, neutral-colored hats for men for the Robin Hood Project
- shawls, wraps, and lap blankets for the cancer infusion center
We have kits available for Head Start hats and for Knitted Knockers; please email [email protected] to see about getting those into your hands (or those of your chapter). There is also a ton of new yarn in the charity stash!
Our work and skill do not go unnoticed, and your donations help to bring warmth and comfort to people all over Houston and beyond. In 2024, we collectively donated:
- 17 chemo hats and 12 shawls to cancer patients at Houston Medical Center
- 17 infant hats to LBJ hospital
- 12 dishcloths to Cross Community Church’s food pantry
- 46 dog sweaters to Special Pets
- 8 pieces to Warm Up America
- leftover stash yarn and tools to Pearland High School
- additional stash yarn and tools to med students who knit for the Women’s Hospital of TX
- 74 hats to Houston ISD Head Start
- 11 shawls and 8 hats to Women’s Hospital of Texas
- several dark/neutral-color hats to the Robin Hood Project
- and much, much more to come!
From Our President – December 2024
A belated Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I hope everyone had an enjoyable time with family or friends and lots of good food! We spent the day with friends, eating and watching football… and I learned how to make a French 75 cocktail.
I finished my Kyler shawl this month (sort of… I short-cut the pattern a bit because it’s REALLY big and I was tired of knitting it!). Next project is the Hibernate Pullover by Aimee Sher. It’s a top-down raglan done in merino and mohair held together. She uses a technique called compound raglans which I was not familiar with. It’s supposed to make the sweater fit better. She has lots of information about compound raglans on her website: https://aimeeshermakes.com/.
We are trying to get ready to leave on a cruise to Antarctica on January 1. It’s the only continent I haven’t been to! Hope to see lots of wildlife and glaciers (especially penguins – they are so cute!)
Keep working on those Christmas projects – time is getting short!
Kate Wilson
KANG President
[email protected]
November 2024 Programs
KIK – Assigned Pooling
KIND – Stitch Markers
KNIT – Fall Decorations
KNOW – Social Knitting
SoCK – Socks
For more information regarding the latest chapter programs, please visit our CALENDAR page! Here you will find exact dates for upcoming guild chapter meetings, including full program descriptions for each meeting.
On the Calendar page you will also find various guild-wide events (charity knit-ins, affiliate sales and the like) and up-coming events in the yarn community / Houston area (FiberFests, conventions, etc.).
Please visit the KANG Chapters page to find your nearest chapter.
Charity Knitting – Nov 2024 Update
Keep the HeadStart hats coming. Seventy-four on hand so let’s get the goal to 100 so more little learners can have a warm, colorful hat. Kits with pattern are available through [email protected]. Use whatever pattern you like with your yarn on hand if that’s your preference.
Many thanks to the shawl creators for the 11 we delivered with 8 hats to Women’s Hospital of Texas on October 24. They are getting more young patients with aggressive forms of cancer so all support is appreciated.
The Robin Hood Project will be receiving several dark/neutral colored hats and scarves on November 10 at their Thanksgiving Feast. This group regularly serves meals for about 100 unsheltered Houstonians. Winter apparel is appreciated.
There is a lot of donated acrylic yarn available. The next charity knit-in will be in January. Stay tuned for updates.
From Our President – November 2024
Election Day is only 4 days away! I hope all of you are registered to vote and are planning to do so if you haven’t already.
This has been a clean-up month for me. I’ve decreased my WIPs from 8 down to 3! Granted, a couple of those got frogged, but I also finished some that had been on the needles for months (years?). Currently I’m working on the Kyler Shawl to wear to a wedding in February.
Lauren taught a class on dying yarn with Kool-Aid at the end of last month. It was such fun seeing what bright colors and variegated shades you can get with Kool-Aid! I’m going to use all my various colored yarns to make a hat.
Kate Wilson
KANG President
[email protected]
October 2024 Programs
KIK – Social Knitting
KIND – Russian Grafting
KNIT – Social Knitting
KNOW – Button Bands (closure to the sweater series)
SoCK – Short Rows
For more information regarding the latest chapter programs, please visit our CALENDAR page! Here you will find exact dates for upcoming guild chapter meetings, including full program descriptions for each meeting.
On the Calendar page you will also find various guild-wide events (charity knit-ins, affiliate sales and the like) and up-coming events in the yarn community / Houston area (FiberFests, conventions, etc.).
Please visit the KANG Chapters page to find your nearest chapter.
Charity Knitting – Oct 2024 Update
Due to an extremely generous donation of new yarn, we are able to give much of our picked-over stash to a fiber arts club at Pearland HS. They have added 25 new members just this year. Yay for the next generation of KNIT!
In other good news, a group of medical students in the south loop has grown from 2 who contacted Charity in December to 25 crafters to date. They received a bag of new yarn to keep their juices flowing. They will provide chemo hats and shawls to the nearby Women’s Hospital of Texas.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! We have several kits for Knitted Knockers ready to go. These are always in demand and there are several variations of the pattern (both in knit and crochet) for how you prefer to work them. Please contact knitatnightguildcharity@gmail.
Don’t forget about our upcoming Charity Event!
Sunday, October 13, 12:30-3:00 pm
Senate Avenue Brewing Co
16000 Dillard Dr Unit F
in Jersey Village
*REMINDER*
When making contributions to our charity partners, please adhere to their size requirements and date/deadlines:
Project Linus: minimum 26″ x 36″ (if you have smaller blankets, the KIK chapter has a recipient for preemie blankets who would love them)
Warm Up America: 7″x9″ required
Foster Care to Success: scarves about 60″ long and 5-8″ wide, must be turned in to Julie by December 1st so they can be mailed to Ohio.
From Our President – October 2024
Even though fall started a couple days ago, it still definitely feels like summer! But I’m ready to put away lightweight projects and start on something “fall-ish”. I think it’s going to be the Cabled and Buttoned Wrap. It’s a free pattern from Lion Brand that wraps around you like a shawl but can button in the front. Using Aran-weight yarn, it should be pretty quick. Thanks to a friend who just made one for alerting me to this pattern!
And thanks to another friend who got me straightened out on the Embellish As You Will shawl. We had to frog about 4” of it because of my errors but it’s back on track now.
I spent a week in northern Wisconsin visiting family this month… beautiful weather, but not much time to knit with 3-year-old twins running around and wanting Aunt Kate to play with them!
KANG has a workshop coming up on February 15-16 on mosaic and fair isle knitting. Details and registration will be on the website closer to the dates of the workshop. Also, keep your calendar open for the next KANG retreat March 27-30 at Camp Lonestar. Last year’s retreat was such fun – I’m looking forward to the one this year!
Kate Wilson
KANG President
[email protected]