Tag: KNIT

KNIT Meeting – Make Your Own Buttons

Knitters Night in Town (KNIT) – Tuesday, October 10, 6:00 – 8:00pm

 

WHEN: 2nd Tuesday of the month, 6:00-8:00pm.

WHERE: Trini Mendenhall Sosa Community Center, 1414 Wirt Rd, Houston, TX

 

The KNIT Chapter will have a Make Your Own Buttons night.

Jan Clark will be giving hands on instruction.

Please bring:

– embroidery floss, perle cotton or fine crochet cotton

– fine crochet hook

– sharp scissors

Other supplies and an instruction take home sheet will be provided.

 

A perfect way to get the right button for your wonderful handmade knitwear!

 

Please RSVP to:

Jan Clark – clark11903@comcast.net   

Or 

Kathy Wells – knitalot@gmail.com

KNIT Meeting – Program Planning

Join KNIT to get acquainted / reacquainted with members and discuss plans for programs and suggestions for teachers, Saturday workshops, or weekend classes for the 2023-24 program year.

 

Please bring completed projects to show/share with members.

KNIT Meeting – HFF Show & Share

If you attended the Houston Fiber Fest, the July meeting will be an opportunity to share interesting or unique vendor items you saw, tell us about skills you learned in a class, and we would enjoy seeing new yarn purchases.
Please bring completed projects to show/share with members.

KNIT Meeting – Sit ‘n’ Knit

With summer approaching, the June meeting will be a “sit and knit together“, enjoying the companionship of your fellow KNIT members.
Plus we will discuss ideas for program topics for upcoming meetings during 2023-24.
Please bring completed projects to show & share with members!

KNIT Meeting – Knitted Edging

Kathy Wells will lead a hands-on program on knitted edging.
Homework: 
  1. Using long tail cast on and a standard bindoff, knit a swatch at least 4″ X 4″ (a dishcloth without a border can be used)
  2. Knit the swatch using a basic pattern stitch such as Double Moss , Broken Rib, or Ridged Rib
Bring to meeting:
  1. Knitted swatch
  2. Needles used to knit swatch
  3. A second set of needles 1 to 3 sizes smaller than swatch needles
  4. Contrast color yarn
Please bring completed projects to show/share with members.

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!