Amy Snell gave us a thorough exploration of stranded colorwork. While we are only partially in-person at the Joslyn Center, you all showed wonderful work for our zoom show and share.
Category: Miscellaneous
May Meeting Highlights
For May, Special Guest Jan Runkel talked about all the ins and outs of sweater construction and pattern choice.
April Meeting Highlights
April we talked about our theme, Year of the Sweater. Jeffery talked about his own challenges with sweaters and gave a quick refresher on finding a pattern.
January Meeting Highlights
This month we hosted a fantastic guest speaker, Edie Eckman. Edie is a fiber enthusiast who loves to knit, crochet, weave, and sew. she is an author, designer, and instructor and her passion is to bridge the divide between knitting and crochet. She showed us the benefits of adding crocheted edgings to our knitting projects….
December Meeting Highlights
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…
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.
Knitting Guild of the Desert 