At our December meeting, Valarie Nicholson will lead the group in making Gnome ornaments using scrap yarn.
Supplies members will need include:
Valarie will provide the rest of the items
If you have glue guns, please bring.
CHANGE OF DATE!!
The KNOW chapter will be having our annual holiday party early.
We will meet Monday, December 16th at 6:30 pm at Spring Creek BBQ.
There will be finger foods and everyone is encouraged to bring a sweet or savory holiday treat. We will be doing a gift exchange/party game. For those who want to participate, please bring a wrapped skein of fingering weight yarn (no acrylic please!) in the $30-35 range. Hope to see everyone there!
Join the SoCK group for our annual holiday party.
Formulate your gift-stealing strategy for our White Elephant Gift Exchange Game. Bring a $20-25 wrapped gift without any name tag (stash dive if you want). The gift should be related to or themed after knit/crochet/yarn, etc.
Participation in the White Elephant is optional, but it’s a lot of fun and can be quite competitive! Bring yarn-friendly snacks or finger food. With any luck, the weather will be cool enough to show off lovely hand-made scarves, shawls, or sweaters. Join us!
CHANGE OF ADDRESS!!
Our Annual Holiday Party will be held at the home of Karen Fern.
Please bring an item for a Secret Gift Exchange — Yarn only— wrapped any way your inspiration takes you.
Please bring a dish to share; beverages will be provided.
KNIT Chapter members will be sent the address.
If you are not a member of the KNIT Chapter and would like to join us, we are happy to have you. Please email knitatnightguildKNIT@
Please join us for a sit-n-knit on Monday, November 25th. We will use this time to work on our sweaters or whatever project you wish.
Many members often come early to have dinner and support the restaurant and their generosity in letting us meet there. Guild members and visitors are welcome to join us.
At our meeting in October we learned about Knit Companion, shared WIPs and FOs.
We also talked about charity knitting for the Neonatal ICU at Memorial Hermann NE and some of the items they need.
In November we will be having a class on assigned pooling and the designer of the Summer’s Meadow Shawl will be joining us.
This month, we will be revisiting making stitch markers!!
Our president, Sunita Parambel, will present this program.
Our sweater series is drawing to a close. It’s time for closure on our sweaters! Button Bands! (Did you see what I did there?)
At the October meeting, we will discuss various buttonholes you can knit, how to plan out their placement, and how to stabilize buttons on a knitted garment. In the workshop portion, we will pick up and knit a button band with buttonholes.
*NOTE: Please bring two 3 x 6 blocked stockinette pieces in worsted weight yarn, knitting needles the same size you knitted with, and additional worsted weight yarn to knit the bands.
Also, if you have any additional questions or concerns particular to your project, please email your questions to [email protected]. And I will prepare my best answers for the meeting to help you be successful. Don’t forget that December will be our show and tell time!
I’m finishing up my sweater for then too.
The program for the October 19th KIND meeting will be presented by Valarie Nicholson. The topic for the program will be Russian Grafting, an alternative to the Kitchener Stitch, which uses a crochet hook rather than a darning needle.
Homework:
Materials:
Make one swatch
Cast on 20 stitches and knit in Stockinette stitches for about 2 inches ending with a knit row.
Transfer stitches evenly onto the dpns.
Experience the magic of short rows.
Short rows let you add interesting design elements to your projects and improve the fit of your garments. Practice Wrap & Turn, German, Japanese, and Twin Stitch (fish lips kiss) techniques. Learn why some methods are more suited to stockinette and garter stitch and why some are more visible on the back side of your work.
Bring smooth yarn (worsted or DK weight) and suitable needles.