We had a wonderful Guest Speaker, Ann Oswald, whose topic was “Tips, tricks and doodles – working with color”. She encouraged us to personalize our designs, and she shared some fun free patterns to get us started. Click Here to access her wonderful handouts. Member, Judi Brown shared the April block of the month. Find…
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March 2024 Fashion Show and Luncheon
The theme for our Fashion Show this year was “Out of This World”. We had a year long UFO challenge to support our theme. In the knitting world, a UFO is an Unfinished Object, and it is not entirely uncommon for most knitters to have several. The goal of the challenge was to finish our…
February
We had a fantastic Guest Speaker this month. Knitting instructor, Amy Snell, aka The Devious Knitter taught us Ladderback Jacquard, a clever method for carrying long floats in Fair Isle knitting. What a great skill to have in our knitting tool box. Congratulations to Emily Foster who donated knitted blocks to charity and won the Block-of-the-Month kit. Be sure…
January
We kicked off the new year with exciting announcements about our Annual Fashion Show and Luncheon. To learn more, click here. Congratulations to Rose Budek who won our Sunshine Award. Rose is so helpful behind the scenes. Thank you Rose for your positive attitude, willingness to share your vast skills, and your constant willingness to dive in and help…
December
We wrapped up 2023 with a fantastic holiday party featuring great knitwear, plenty of food, and a few prize winners! Congratulations to Leslie Marken, membership drawing winner, Emily Foster, Holiday Knitwear Challenge winner, and Peggy Tasaka, BOM kit winner. Thank you to all of our members for our fantastic year at KG Desert. We could…
November 2023
This month our guest speaker was Jan Runkel of Just Jan Designs. Jan taught us the linen stitch and showed us how to use our stash yarn with the linen stitch to make beautiful projects.
October 2023
This month our guest speaker was affiliate member Jim Cox, of James Cox Knits. He taught us helical knitting, a great technique to achieve joggles stripes. Our block of the Month is Rabbit Ridge.
September 2023
This month our guest speaker was Sandra Carter from Alamitos Bay Yarn Company. She gave us a wonderful tutorial on Double Knitting. Our Block of the Month is a Double Knit Square in a Square and we posted two free double knitting patterns on our free patterns page.
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