Author: KANGWebmaster

January 2025 Programs

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

KIK – Social Knitting
KIND – Charity Donations & KAL
KNIT – Crochet Basics for Knitters
KNOW – Emotional Support Chicken 
SoCK – Thrower/Picker/Flicker–Which One Are You?

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 – Jan 2025 Update

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

In November & December Charity distributed a total of 207 items to: 

  • The Landing
  • Foster to Success
  • Women’s Hospital of Texas
  • LBJ Hospital
  • Robin Hood Project
  • Head Start HISD
  • Cross community Church
  • Star of Hope

The recipients are always so thankful for the items this group has beautifully created. 

We look forward to KIK (hopefully) hosting an early February knit-in Charity event where we will hear from one or more of our charity recipient groups. Stay tuned for the details.

From Our President – January 2025

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with friends and family… Christmas, Chanukah, Diwali or whatever you are celebrating! It’s unusual that they all coincided this year.

As you read this, I’m supposed to be on my way to Antarctica. We scheduled a Viking cruise many months ago but, unfortunately, had to cancel it a couple days ago. I’m having a lot of trouble with my hip and can barely walk at times. A nine-hour flight and a lot of walking was just not going to work. I’ll see an orthopedic surgeon next week to see what needs to be done. As the saying goes, “getting old is not for sissies”!

Knitting is keeping me busy… still working on the Hibernate sweater. Knitting with mohair always makes me think of knitting with dust! Or maybe I could just pick up all the cat hair in the house and use that.

Happy New Year!

Kate Wilson
KANG President
[email protected]

December 2024 Programs

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

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

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

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

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

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

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

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

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

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

Posted on by KANGWebmaster

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]