Tag: SOCK

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

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!

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

Interested in knitting socks but don’t know where to start?

Join the SoCK chapter for an overview of sock knitting basics!
No pre-work is needed for this lecture/discussion that will demystify sock construction and techniques.

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

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.

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

This year’s SoCK programs are designed to elevate your skills. For the September meeting, we’ll kick off our yearly challenge. The theme is “Making those UFOs become FOs.” For the challenge kickoff, there will be a prize for the person who brings the most UFOs (or photo evidence of them) to the meeting. At the end of the year, there will be prizes for the most completed UFOs.

You also can challenge yourself to dig into new skills you want to learn! Upcoming programs are on short rows, socks, backward knitting and knitting styles, Portuguese knitting, crochet skills, Knit Companion Part 2, yarn dyeing with Koolaid, and Granny Square crochet! Challenge yourself to grow your skills!

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

August’s meeting is the program we had planned in July that was interrupted by Hurricane Beryl.

It is a combination of a sit & knit and planning our next year’s programs.
We’ll ask volunteers to claim a particular month.
We don’t need you to know exactly what your program will be, just volunteer for a time slot.
We’ll do the same thing for Door Prize volunteers.

After that, we’ll show and share finished projects and have a relaxing time just sitting and knitting (or crocheting). Please come be part of this!

HANDOVER MEETING

The Handover Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, July 27th at 8:30a-11:30a at the Trini Mendenhall Community Center!

Meeting is intended for all outgoing and incoming members of the Executive Board and the Chapter Presidents. Membership persons from the chapter level also welcome.

Please bring your green KANG binder for the handover meeting!!

Refreshments will be provided.

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

Plans for the Coming Year!!

July’s meeting is a combination of a sit & knit and planning our next year’s programs.
We’ll ask volunteers to claim a particular month. We don’t need you to know exactly what your program will be, just volunteer for a time slot.
We’ll do the same thing for Door Prize volunteers. After that, we’ll show and share finished projects and have a relaxing time just sitting and knitting (or crocheting). Please come be part of this!

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

WHEN: 2nd Saturday of the month, 10am-12pm.

WHERE: Zoom and Weekley Community Center, 8440 Greenhouse Rd, Cypress, TX 77433

 

SoCK: Year-long Challenge Wrap-up

Bring your completed (or not-so-completed) Challenge Project. (We won’t judge if it’s not finished!) Tell why you selected your project, any pitfalls you encountered, and share what you learned along the way. If you need help completing your project, or just want inspiration, we’re here to help! We’ll also announce the slate of candidates for our 24-25 officers (to be voted on in July). June 8 is World-wide Knit in Public Day. We’ll decide where to have lunch and go knit in public after our meeting! As always, bring any other show & share or charity items.

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

WHEN: 2nd Saturday of the month, 10am-12pm.

WHERE: Zoom and Weekley Community Center, 8440 Greenhouse Rd, Cypress, TX 77433

 

Join the meeting for some Tips and Tricks on Amigurumi. Let’s have fun and crochet a Bee together!! 

 

Download & print the Megsmakescrochet – FreeBee pattern from Ravelry. (It’s free!) https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/freebee

 

Bring: 3 Skeins of yarn (Yellow, Black and White) or any 3 colors of your choice. Yarn options with recommended hook size: iLoveThisYarn from Hobby Lobby (4.5mm or 5mm hook) and Red Heart from Joann (4.5mm or 5mm hook). If you are feeling adventurous, you can bring the yarn and hook size suggested in the pattern.

Notions: Stitch Markers, Darning Needles, Scissors, Row counter, Poly Fill Stuffing (Hobby Lobby or Walmart), and 14 mm Safety Eyes

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK)

Saturday Cypress Knitters (SoCK) – Saturday, April 13, 10:00am – 12:00pm

WHEN: 2nd Saturday of the month, 10am-12pm.

WHERE: Zoom and Weekley Community Center, 8440 Greenhouse Rd, Cypress, TX 77433

Release your inner geek! The April program explores Ravelry and KnitCompanion. Both of these applications are very powerful aids to your knitting and crocheting. For Ravelry, learn how to build robust queries to search for particular designers, patterns, yarns, and LYSs. Get help and inspiration from project posts and community forums. Ravelry lets you save your searches and build collections of your favorite patterns. It also seamlessly feeds your patterns into KnitCompanion. KnitCompanion, an indispensable tool, is available for both Apple and Android devices. It stores your patterns in electronic format so you don’t need to keep track of paper copies. Learn how to create a project, customize counting, mark up patterns, track progress, customize charts, make notes, and more!