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October 2024 Programs

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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

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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.com if you’d like to pick one up!

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

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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]

Workshop: Kool-Aid Yarn Dyeing

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Join us for our September Workshop featuring a fun experience dyeing yarn with Kool-Aid!!
This class is available to current, active KANG members only (minimum 5 participants and a max. 20 participants).
 
When: Saturday, September 28, 10:00am – 12:00 pm
Where: Richard & Meg Weekley Community Center, 8440 Greenhouse Rd, Cypress, TX 77433
Cost: Covered with Membership Dues, Limited to 20 people, Registration Required (closes: 25-Sep-2024)
 
Not a Member? Join here!
 
Supplies: Yarn kit with dyeing materials will be provided to each participant. 
 
Optional items to bring: Gloves, face mask, apron, food coloring (liquid drops, not gel). 
 

Charity Knitting – Sep 2024 Update

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We have 15 Head Start hats on hand and 8 kits with pattern and pre-cut yarn are ready to go. Contact [email protected] for more info. The goal is to have 50 hats ready by October 1 for distribution to HISD schools. 

We also have several kits for Knitted Knockers ready to go. These are always in demand and we’d love to collect as many as we can for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October!

Our charity yarn stash is running low, please consider donating or asking friends to search their stash for acrylic yarns of various weights. 

Speaking of stash, Ravelry has several patterns including the Snippet Scarf and Stashbuster Scarf that create fringe instead of ends to weave in. The Fidget Sleeve is also a good stash eater.  

We have many infant hats. Please consider making an infant blanket 24″x36″ or larger that will go to Project Linus or LBJ pediatric unit.

We have two upcoming Charity Events!

Sunday, September 15, 1:30-4:30 pm
Windwood Presbyterian Church
10555 Spring Cypress Rd
in Houston

Sunday, October 13, 12:30-3:00 pm
Senate Avenue Brewing Co
16000 Dillard Dr Unit F
in Jersey Village

From Our President – September 2024

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Welcome from your new officers! August has been a busy month. We went on a cruise to Alaska at the beginning of the month – had beautiful weather and saw lots of whales, bears, eagles, puffins, and other creatures.

I’m trying to get familiar with the President’s duties (like writing a column for the newsletter!) and hosted the first Executive Board meeting. Your chapter presidents can catch you up on what was discussed.

I haven’t had too much time to knit this month but I’m working on the Embellish As You Will shawl which was sold as a kit at Yarn Store Boutique a few months ago. The kit was called Spring in Texas and came with some beautiful yarn from Theodora’s Pearls in shades of blue (think bluebonnets!). Unfortunately, I messed up part of it by following the lace pattern in the middle of the stockinette section and didn’t notice it for several rows… I’m still trying to get that to look right 😊.

A few days ago, I tested positive for Covid, so I’ll be quarantining for several days – hurray, more knitting time!

Kate Wilson
KANG President
[email protected]

September 2024 Programs

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KIK – Social Knitting
KIND – Finchley Graft
KNIT – POM POM NIGHT
KNOW – Seaming 
SoCK – Making those UFOs become FOs

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.

August 2024 Programs

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KIK – Discussion on Tech in Knitting
KIND – Go-To/Favorite Knitting Tools
KNIT – Think Cool: Holiday Gifts & Decorations (Re-try due to hurricane in July)
KNOW – Basics of Tunisian Crochet
SoCK – Planning for the Coming Year (Re-try due to hurricane in July)

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 – Aug 2024 Update

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We have 15 Head Start hats on hand and 8 kits with pattern and pre-cut yarn are ready to go. Contact [email protected] for more info. The goal is to have 50 hats ready by October 1 for distribution to HISD schools. 

We also have several kits for Knitted Knockers ready to go. These are always in demand and we’d love to collect as many as we can for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October! You’re also welcome to make them from your own stash, but please keep in mind they need to be made from certain yarns. See their website for patterns and more information, and reach out to Julie if you’d like to pick up a kit!

If you are knitting Peyton Hearts, please follow the instructions on the KANG charity page for distribution. Do not send hearts to the charity co-chairs to distribute. 

Our charity yarn stash is running low, please consider donating or asking friends to search their stash for acrylic yarns of various weights. 

Speaking of stash, Ravelry has several patterns including the Snippet Scarf and Stashbuster Scarf that create fringe instead of ends to weave in. The Fidget Sleeve is also a good stash eater.  

We have many infant hats. Please consider making an infant blanket 24″x36″ or larger that will go to Project Linus or LBJ pediatric unit.

From Our President – August 2024

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My, how fast this KANG year has gone by. At the end of last month, we had an extremely successful turnout for the Handover Meeting for the new Executive Board. As your outgoing Guild President, this is my last article as I handover the Presidency to the very capable Kate Wilson. Instead, I will be hanging out in the background as the Webmaster once more! It has been a pleasure the last two years working with many talented fiber artists and attending so many events with you!

Meanwhile, I will continue to work on the many (unfinished) projects I have started! I am making steady progress in the ADVENT-ageous shawl—about one section per week. I also finally casted-on for the Casapinka MKAL shawl to join Sharon’s Road Trip. The colors I chose are a cotton-candy blue and a bubblegum pink with a neutral ivory and a contracting plum purple. The pattern has been quite enjoyable, and I have already learned a couple of new techniques. This will be a fun adventure!

Moreover, several of our local yarn shops have a variety of events coming up this month! Yarn Store Boutique will celebrate its 7th birthday with a party on Saturday, August 3rd. There will be ice cream, Blue Mule Winery wine slushies, Keenan Hand Dyed Yarns amongst other festivities at the shop!

Is it too early to think about Christmas? Certainly not! The Social Knitwork will be doing a kickoff event called the Christmas Project Club on Thursday, August 8th beginning at 4:30p! Although the event will run until November 21st , it’s a rewards program concentrating on Christmas gifts (or really anything you want to make as a gift). Registration required, so check out their social media for more details!!

The new Executive Board will meet for the first quarterly meeting later in the month and remember that Membership dues are…due…! These can be paid via the KANG website or in-person with your local chapter membership representative!

Lastly, The Texas Yarn Trail will kick-off on August 22nd and run through August 28th! Registration is done online and is required for a passport to be considered for the grand prize drawings! Nine (9) of our local yarn shops will be participating in the Trail again this year!

Please get out there, check out all the shops, and support all our favorite small businesses.

Until next time,

Lauren Levy
(Outgoing) Executive Board President
[email protected]