Who knew?! Do you know the healthy benefits of knitting or crochet? Did you know that you can knit your way to a healthy mind? Come find out the healthy and positive benefits of knitting and crocheting. Let's start the new year in a healthy way. Just bring your smile, your knitting or crochet and … Continue reading February Program-Healthy Mind, Healthy Body
January 2025 Program
Happy New Year! This month's program is Two-Color Decorative Bind-Off. Please bring something to bind off. Meeting and Events News for January, 2025:1st Wednesday Meet Up - New Year’s Day, 10:30-12People’s Coffee, 1200 17th Ave, SC2nd Wednesday Meet Up - January 8, 1:30-3:30Pacific Coffee Roasting, 7554 Soquel Dr., AptosEvening Guild Meeting- January 14, 6:30–8:30 pmSt. … Continue reading January 2025 Program
December Program
Annual Knitting Guild Holiday Party --Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 6:30–8:30 pm --St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, 2500 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. POT LUCK: Please bring a main dish (ready to serve), a salad, or dessert to share. Also bring a place setting and silverware. The guild will provide non-alcoholic beverages, napkins and cups. GIFT EXCHANGE: Something … Continue reading December Program
November Program: PINE NEEDLE BASKETRY
KGSC member CHERYL VANDEVEER has been teaching pine needle basket making at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park for 10 years. Ponderosa Pine Needles are gathered in the Santa Cruz mountains. Her wish is to pass on an appreciation of all baskets as they are all created by human hands.
OCTOBER PROGRAMS
Evening Guild Meeting October 8 DON'T GO TO SHETLAND WOOL WEEK....before you see our pictorial expedition of Shetland Wool Week 2023. Some of us have been to wool festivals, but SWW is truly unique. We want to help you feel like you were part of it, too. We traveled to the Islands, meeting hundreds of … Continue reading OCTOBER PROGRAMS
September Program
September 10, evening guild meeting: Color Theory, presented by Dorothy Mayeda. Please bring any color work you have to share (doesn't need to be your work) and anything else you can share on the subject (books, exercises, vaiegated yarn, and such). Let's have fun with this. September 19, day guild meeting: Don't go to Shetland … Continue reading September Program
August Program
This is one of those months when both meetings are in the same week, August 13 & 15. To celebrate, we are having two-part programs. The first part is a short presentation in response to several requests we have received from members who want to learn more about knitCompanion. What is it? How can it … Continue reading August Program
July Program–Matching Cast Ons and Bind Offs
Cast Ons for our projects are often fairly standard, the long tail cast on and the knitted cast on. But what if you want something a little different! And heaven forbid, what if you would like your cast on and bind off to match, yes, look alike! Your Program team will present the PICOT, ICELANDIC … Continue reading July Program–Matching Cast Ons and Bind Offs
June Program: DON’T TRASH YOUR STASH!
BUST IT! with the guild’s Sea Glass Knit-A-Long for a fanciful foray into color and texture. We’ve chosen the Sea Glass pattern for its vibrant colors and stash-busting benefits. To make the event more exciting, local knitter Jourdan Rivas will showcase her Sea Glass sweaters and share her process. You can choose from five projects … Continue reading June Program: DON’T TRASH YOUR STASH!
May Program: So Many Ways to Join Yarn
Knitting a one skein project, simple, no yarn to join. BUT take on a striped sweater, a colorwork hat or a mosaic cowl, and you’ve made yourself some extra work. Doubtless, it will be attractive but at the cost to you of figuring out how you are going to join new balls of yarn. Our … Continue reading May Program: So Many Ways to Join Yarn
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