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…
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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…
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…
December
Our December meeting was fun and full of surprises! Kait Hilliard of Coachella Valley Yarn gave a wonderful trunk show featuring Ambah Obrien patterns made with Koigu Yarn. Kait has kits available while supplies last. See the slide show below for more information. Sue Dunning won the Block of the Month (BOM) Prize. Thank you,…
May
Our May meeting was our last in-person meeting of the season. We had a wonderful guest speaker, Nancy Bates, Author of “Knitting the National Parks” and “Knitting California”. These wonderful books feature original beanie patterns inspired by America’s National Parks and Callifornia’s rich culture. We also shared some wonderful fun and free sock patterns to…
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…
June 2023
The Monthly Round-up is where you’ll find a summary of upcoming guests, workshops, knit-alongs, the Quarterly Knitting Challenge, Block of the Month, the Monthly Stashbusting Skillbuilder and whatever else grabs our interest that we want to share with you.
January Monthly Round-up
The Monthly Round-up is where you’ll find a summary of upcoming guests, workshops, knit-alongs, the Quarterly Knitting Challenge, Block of the Month, the Monthly Stashbusting Skillbuilder and whatever else grabs our interest that we want to share with you.
December Monthly Round-up
The Monthly Round-up is where you’ll find a summary of upcoming guests, workshops, knit-alongs, the Quarterly Knitting Challenge, Block of the Month, the Monthly Stashbusting Skillbuilder and whatever else grabs our interest that we want to share with you.
November Monthly Round-up
The Monthly Round-up is where you’ll find a summary of upcoming guests, workshops, knit-alongs, the Quarterly Knitting Challenge, Block of the Month, the Monthly Stashbusting Skillbuilder and whatever else grabs our interest that we want to share with you.
Knitting Guild of the Desert 