Tag: KNIT

KNIT Meeting – Guided Help

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW MEETING TIME!!!

Have a project you are eager to finish, but need assistance with a technique, instructions, or fixing a knitting error?
Bring the project to the April meeting for help from another member.
Also bring completed projects to show/share with members

KNIT Meeting – Purling Techniques

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW MEETING TIME!!!

Hands-on opportunity for members to learn different Purl Techniques.

Bring scrap yarn and needles to practice the different methods of purling!!

Also bring completed projects to show/share with members.

KNIT Meeting – Peyton Heart Project

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW MEETING TIME!!!

For our Valentine’s Day meeting, knit a heart for Peyton Heart Project (charity yarn will be available) or bring your favorite heart knit or crochet project to work on at the meeting.
An email with quick pattern ideas was sent to KNIT members. The details and pattern links for Peyton’s Hearts are available at http://www.thepeytonheartproject.org/making-the-hearts/.
If you would like to attend from another chapter, let us know and the pattern suggestions will be forwarded to you.

We will also have a show and share of current and/or completed projects!

KNIT Meeting – Patty Lyons’ Knitting Tips

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW MEETING TIME!!!

Come join KNIT for a Program on: Knitting tips

Patty Lyons’ new book, Knitting Bag of Tricks, will be shared including jogless stripes, joining in the round, bind off in pattern, count your cast on, ending the round smoothly, ditching the knot, and dropping a cast on stitch.

Members are encouraged to share their favorite tips also!

We will also have a show and share of current and/or completed projects!

KNIT Meeting – Holiday Potluck

Join KNIT this month for the following events:

  1. Holiday Potluck – Celebrate the holidays with your fellow knitters at our annual holiday potluck. Please let us know if you plan to attend and what dish you will bring (sweet or savory). The chapter will provide the utensils, paper products, and beverages.
    Email Karen by Dec 11th @ [email protected] to let her know what you are bringing for the potluck.
  2. Yarn Exchange – Bring a wrapped (doesn’t have to be fancy, a plain bag will do) skein of nice yarn (no acrylic please) for a fun exchange of yarn.
  3. Show and share of your recently completed projects.

KNIT Meeting – Knit-Along (KAL)

Join our October program as we begin a knit-along with Laura Nelkin’s Starry Light or Love and Light (both available on Ravelry).

They are created by knitting with LED fairy lights. The star and small version of the heart require a 66 foot (200 light) strand. The large heart requires a 99 foot (300 light) strand. They are available on Amazon and Ebay and possibly a local craft store.

Also, bring your Show and Share!!

The Zoom link will be included in the email to chapter members. If you are not a KNIT member, but would like to join via Zoom – contact Karen at knitatnightguildknit@gmail.com

KNIT Meeting – Techniques for Joining Yarn

Join our September program on Hands-on techniques for joining a new yarn.

Members will have an opportunity to share methods and practice techniques for joining yarn. You are encouraged to share more than one technique – for different types/weights of yarn, color work etc. Also, bring your Show and Share!!

Homework:
Bring a variety of scrap yarns and needles to practice.

The Zoom link will be included in the email to chapter members. If you are not a KNIT member, but would like to join via Zoom – contact Karen at knitatnightguildknit@gmail.com

KNIT Meeting – Creativity Exercise

  1. August program –  Kathy Wells will lead a creativity exercise. Each member should bring 3-4 SMALL balls of yarn to share for the activity. Bring different weights, fingering to super bulky, and a variety of textures- any ply, boucle, ribbon, fun fur, satiny to homespun, etc.  The yarn will be used by all for this fun and creative activity. Kathy will supply needles.
  2. Show and Share
A Zoom option will be available for those unable to attend in person and the link will be distributed to KNIT members. Other KANG members may contact Karen at knitatnightguildknit@gmail.com

KNIT Meeting – Bead Knitting

KNIT’s July program:

Crystal Smith will lead the July program – the topic is “Knitting with Beads”.
Any materials needed or homework will be supplied in an email to KNIT members.

Also, be sure to bring your recently completed projects for Show & Share!

 

A zoom option is available for those unable to attend in person. Email Karen at knitatnightguildknit@gmail.com if you are not a KNIT member but would like to participate in the meeting.

KNIT Meeting – Sock Inception!

Michele Whitebread will teach how to knit a sock inside a sock!!

Homework will be sent to KNIT members. *

Also, be sure to bring your recently completed projects for Show & Share!

 

*If you are not a KNIT member but would like to join the meeting via Zoom or need the homework information, contact Karen at [email protected]