Welcome Guild Members and Friends! The Monthly Round-up is where you’ll find a summary of upcoming guests, workshops, knit-alongs, with topics and links gleaned from our monthly meetings. Please enjoy and feel free to drop us a line with any suggestions or corrections. knittingguildofthedesert@outlook.com
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Upcoming Events
Knitting Guild Meetings
October 3rd – L’Atelier
November 7th – Gina Carlson from Yarnaholics
December 5th – KG Desert Holiday Party
January 9th – Amy Snell, www.deviousknitter.com
February 6th – Casapinka! With a class on the 5th
March 6th – Fashion Show/Luncheon
Day Trips
Sept 28th – Alamitos Bay Yarn Company – Lunch and Workshop
Local
- San Diego Yarn Crawl – Sept 9-12
- Knit Dizzney – Sept 18th
- Stitches SoCal, Pasadena – November 12-13
September Meeting
We all really enjoyed Nancy Bates, author of Knitting the National Parks, who spoke about her hats and her design inspiration and process. She brought all 63 of her National Parks hats for us to see and touch. The hats all had beautiful patterns and colors of yarn from “Indie” yarn dyers. For more information, patterns and kits, go to
www.nancybatesdesigns.com or https://www.ravelry.com/designers/nancy-bates.
Nancy’s next projects are the state parks and other natural highlights of California and more seasonal/holiday beanies.
September Knitting Zoo Patterns
by Meri McGraw
World Rhino Day – September 22
Who doesn’t love this almost prehistoric creature?
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rhino-baby
https://www.craftpassion.com/amigurumi-rhino-crochet-pattern/
September 26th – Shamu the Whale Day!
Did you know that some whales
can live up to 200 years?
The Shamu family has 20 whales
between the three SeaWorld
parks.
Between the three SeaWorld
parks, SeaWorld Orlando,
SeaWorld San Antonio, and
SeaWorld San Diego, there are a
total of 20 orcas!
https://knittybutton.com/2010/11/20/orca-whale/
The Knitting Zoo would like to have some wonderful examples of animals
❖ Please feel free to knit (or crochet) any animal for the “zoo”, you don’t have to follow the monthly “animal” and can use any pattern.
❖ Patterns we provide are free and will be posted on our website
❖ Bring your finished animals to any KG of the Desert meeting. You will be registered for each animal you knit. There will be a special prize drawing at the luncheon in March for anyone that has knitted (or crocheted) an animal.
❖ Animals should be at least 5” in size – no miniatures!
❖ All animals will become property of KG of the Desert and will be donated to a shelter (To be announced) after our luncheon in March.
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