November is Yarn Adoption Month! Bring yarn and other fiber-related beauties you would like for someone else to adopt.
We’ll hold our regular meeting, then adjourn to the parking lot. Those holding trunk shows should park near the side door. We’ll move this inside if the weather doesn’t cooperate.
Back by popular demand! Join us as we explore making a basket from stash yarn. We will be crocheting multiple strands and your choice of weight of yarns using a N or P hook.
The pattern is available on Ravelry: Big Beautiful Basket
If you want a preview, there is also a YouTube video.
To complete a basket, you will need 300 yards of three worsted-weight yarns, one P or N crochet hook, and at least two removable stitch markers.
Ziggurat Chevron Mosaic Crochet Blanket
We will watch a Marley Bird video on mosaic crochet. She demonstrates the beautiful, crocheted pattern used in the Yarnspirations “Ziggurat Chevron Crochet Blanket.” There will be free copies of this pattern. If you’d like to follow along, bring two contrasting colors of worsted-weight yarn and a Size H crochet hook.
Homework:
With Color A, chain 36
1st row: Using Color A, 1 sc in 2nd chain from hook and each ch to end of chain; 35 sts
Row 2: ch 1, 1 sc in each sc to end of row, changing to Color B in last stitch
We should have some extra crochet hooks if you don’t own any. (If the crocheters among us, if you can, bring a couple of extra crochet hooks.)
SOCK will be having a class on double knitting.
Participants need to bring DK or worsted weight yarn, and the appropriate needles and two-color ways.
The Handover Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, August 2nd 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.
SoCK: Planning, Sit-and-Knit, and Finished Projects
The program combines a sit-and-knit session with planning for next year’s programs. We’ll ask volunteers to claim a particular month. We don’t need you to know your exact program, just volunteer for a time slot. We’ll do the same thing for Door Prize volunteers. After that, we’ll show off finished projects and have a relaxing time sitting and knitting (or crocheting). Please join us!
Granny Squares are Still HOT!
Have you ever wondered what a granny square is? Join Debbie at the June SoCK meeting as we explore the basic construction of a granny square.
HOMEWORK:
Bring four colors of worsted-weight yarn and a 5mm crochet hook.
“Basic Granny Square” by Kristin Campbell-Harris is a free “starter” pattern on Ravelry.
If you are new to crochet, a great (and inexpensive) book is “Crochet Granny Squares” by Publications International Ltd., available on Amazon.
The world of fiber arts has always been a creative realm rooted in tradition and craftsmanship. However, in recent years, 3D printing has emerged as a groundbreaking technology that is enhancing and revolutionizing how these age-old techniques are approached. Join us as SoCK member, Lauren Levy, leads a program exploring some of the opportunities and challenges surrounding this topic!
knitCompanion Part 2: More Tips and Tricks
This is a follow-up to last year’s knitCompanion presentation. Learn tricks, including ways to set up projects and pattern pages, using highlighters to help you focus, creating one-tap row highlighters and automatic reminders, bringing a printed pattern into knitCompanion, and scanning paper charts to include in a pattern. Bring your tablet or laptop to follow along.
For a refresher, the March 2024 program handout (Ravelry & knitCompanion) is in the members’ section of the knitatnight.org website.