CHIX Mtg – Joining Yarn
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesCindi Thiel will demonstrate different ways of joining yarns.
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CHIX Mtg – Matching Cast-Ons & Bind-Offs
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesSue Werner will do a program on matching cast ons and bind offs.Click Here to find the handout from this program.
CHIX Mtg – Two-Color Brioche
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesJudith Gerst will teach us how to do two-color brioche.
CHIX Mtg – Buttonholes
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesAt January's meeting we will learn how to make sturdy, neat buttonholes. For homework, using a light-colored DK or worsted weight yarn, cast on 12 stitches and knit 4 rows. Don't bind off, just leave your stitches on the needle.
CHIX Mtg – One-Skein Projects
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesDue to a scheduling conflict, our February meeting has been changed to the One-Skein Project we talked about at the December party. In case you missed the last couple meetings, here are the details.Either knit a small project using a single skein of yarn or look through the projects you already have finished and pick […]
CHIX Mtg – Knit One Below
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesIf you like brioche stitch, the knit-one-below stitch (K1B) achieves a similar effect but involves no yarn overs, burps or barks. All you need to know is how to knit and purl. You can create a dense brioche-like texture with a single color or columns of 2-colors in stockinette. HOMEWORK:For the first sample, you […]
CHIX Mtg – Park Avenue Yarn
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesAs knitters in the Greater Houston area, we are fortunate to have several very nice yarn shops, but we all have seen a number of our favorite shops go out of business for a variety of reasons. We probably all do some of our yarn shopping online, but most knitters and crocheters want to touch […]
CHIX Meeting – Substituting fibers
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesSandy Zeringue (formerly of Knitting in the Loop) will talk about substituting yarns, with the emphasis on different fibers. For example, what can you expect if the pattern calls for merino and you want to use cotton instead?
CHIX Meeting – Math for Knitters
Tracy Gee Community Center 3599 Westcenter Dr, Houston, TX, United StatesThis month we will talk about how to substitute one weight of yarn for another. If your pattern calls for a DK weight yarn and you want to use fingering weight, what can you do to be sure it fits? This is a follow-up to Sandy Zeringue's program last month about substituting one fiber for […]