This month we celebrated the season with a Holiday Party filled with food, games and prizes. The winner of our annual Membership Contest Was Joan Cohee. Leslie Marken won the Charity Prize and Rose Budek won the Block of the Month Prize. Finally Pieter Strydom won our fun fur challenge. We had a fun White…
November Meeting Highlights
This month we had guest speaker Amy Snell, The Devious Knitter. Amy taught us new ways to purl to improve our knitting. She taught us Combination/Eastern Purling, Norwegian Purling, and Portuguese Purling. She even encouraged us to try backward knitting to see if it improved the look of our knitwear. Amy truly is Purl Wise….
Highlights from October Meeting
We had a fantastic guest speaker this month at our October meeting. Barry Klein, owner of Trendsetter Yarns, shared a little on the history of yarn. He showed whats going on now, and what’s coming in the future. He showed us wonderful knitted samples from his shop made with yarn he sells. He also showed…
Highlights from September Meeting
Our September meeting was on Zoom. We hosted guest speakers Lisa and Diane from Hands On Knitting Center (HOKC). They showed us how art and nature can inspire our knitting. They also introduced us to the project we will be working on during our upcoming field trip to HOKC. At our meeting we also talked…
Highlights from August Guild Meeting
We had a fun and well attended August meeting with guest speaker Kait Hilliard. Kait is a guild member and owner of Coachella Valley Yarn LLC, in La Quinta California. Kait told us all about this year’s H+H Americas trade show in Chicago, IL. We loved seeing the 2025 yarn and fiber trends. Kait’s, presentation…
July
Our July meeting was on Zoom with a fabulous member speaker, Jeffery Pinkston. Jeffery’s presentation titled, “Yarn First, Patterns Later”, gave us loads of inspirational tips on how to pick patterns for our beautiful (and maybe impulsive) yarn purchases. His vast list of resources was colorful, fun and modern. Jeffery’s presentation and resources are available…
June
Our June meeting was conducted via Zoom. We hosted guest speaker, Marie Green of Olive Knits, who talked about her love of knitting and showed us examples of her products and services. We had a wonderful Show and Share as well. Download the Show and Share below to see more.
May
Our May meeting was our last in-person meeting until October. We will meet via Zoom during the Summer months. This month we learned some helpful ways to fix our knitting mistakes. Members were encouraged to bring their problem projects and get help. We wrapped up with a fabulous show and share event where members brought…
April
We had a wonderful April meeting with guest speaker, Kyle Kunnecke, general manager of Makers Mercantile. He showed us all the wonderful new yarns for spring knitting. We also had a fantastic show and share thanks to our wonderful members. Click on the download below to see what was shown.
March
Rock The Sock Luncheon We had a fantastic KGD Luncheon at the Classic Club in Palm Desert. We had a great Stash Sale and Fashion Show. Many, many attendees won raffle prizes and door prizes donated by some of our wonderful members and sponsors. Congratulations to member Joan Cohee who won our Grand Prize. Congratulations…
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