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…
Category: Miscellaneous
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…
October
Our October meeting was so fun! We had guest Speakers Lisa and Diane from Hands On Knitting Center who taught us to make the pumpkins shown. Also, Lisa demonstrated how to make a wool felted autumn leaf to embellish our pumpkins. below are a few fun photos from our meeting. Be sure to click on…
September
We had a fantastic September meeting with guest speaker, Lisa Ross of Paper Daisy Creations. Lisa shared her beautiful shawls brimming with color and texture. She showed easy ways to choose colors for her patterns using the rainbow and also using color gradients. She also showed us that she has a multitude of wonderful sock…
August
This month we were thrilled to have Guest Speaker, Kyle Kunnecke, who talked to us about his design process and some of the beautiful knitwear in his book, Urban Knit Collection. Kyle was very generous with his knowledge and gave us a few tips and tricks to help with our stranded knitting. Thank you, Kyle….
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