Hi everyone! So let's see what all you talented KAS-folk can come up with in BLUE!!! Blue skies, blue eyes, blue flowers, blue ice, etc. plus, all the many shades of blue, the variegated blues, textured blues, and all the blues mixed with other color
KasSnippets - August 2014
REPORTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
KIDO'S CUTE KIDS REPRESENT KAS!
A few months back we decided we needed to take some updated photos for the purpose of marketing Knit-A-Square. As we are mindful of not to be seen to exploit t
Read more…A few months back we decided we needed to take some updated photos for the purpose of marketing Knit-A-Square. As we are mindful of not to be seen to exploit these orphaned and vulnerable children while promoting the purpose of KAS, we approached Ju
Read more…Last Thursday our volunteers did an incredible job of opening all the mail that had accumulated over two weeks and the mail was cleared and up-to-date by the time they left. This week we did not have a large delivery to open because the Post Office
Read more…On Wednesday, 12 February Wendy and I met Rev Brent Chalmers, the Managing Trustee of The Soul Provider Trust, to hand over 20 of your beautiful blankets for the little boys who recently moved into the Mike Howe Boys House in Springs.
Ronda handin
The temperatures in South Africa have dropped to below freezing during the evenings in many parts of the country recently and there have been reports of snow on the mountains – we have been making sure that the little ones are all wrapped up warm in
Read more…There seems to be a bit of theme of tea parties coming along - mentioned in the KAS Snippets Mar 2014 and Elaine Jones and I are about to hold our first Knit for Life Volunteer Tea Party on March 25th.
We have been overwhelmed with knitting from our
Read more…This is the next fundraising plan - to open my garden for a charity day in June 2015.
I have a fairly big garden - 1/2 acre - and don't get me wrong it is very very far from perfect - but it has great views and anyway people are always nosy and just
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Twice in one month! A couple of weeks ago, we were able to connect with Heather Mensah who was vacationing nearby Yesterday was another red-letter day and another meeting of some the Canadian KASfolk!
Linda and Dave Maltby were in the Newmarket
Read more…As the header on my last blog was so out of date I have started a new one for the new year.
Read more…SQUARE HEART OF THE MONTH AWARD
Edited this month by Gloria Grandy
The Square Heart Award for July 2014 is for
Beth - Canada
Beth has been a member of the Knit-a-Square Forum since July 2010. Since then, she has been quietly working away to keep t
Read more…Here we go again!
It’s been almost a year since we had our last Stripes, Zigzags and Textures challenge and it was such a resounding success that we are doing it again.
We managed to fill our Discussion with 156 pages of pictures and chat
Read more…Yesterday was a red letter day!
I found out a few days ago that our Heather Mensah (Last month's Square Heart awardee and prolific crocheter/knitter) from England, is visiting family in Canada.
Now Canada is a pretty big place, so what are the chance
Read more…SQUARE HEART OF THE MONTH AWARD
Edited this month by Gloria Grandy
The Square Heart Award for August 2014 is for
Lorinda - South Africa
Lorinda joined the Forum in August of 2012. She discovered KAS on the web whilst working with projects throug
Read more…What an amazing week it was last week culminating in the many Mandela Day initiative that Knit-A-Square took part in, or was associated with, on Friday, 18 July.
I have to mention one of our very special volunteers, Molly, who set a personal goal to
Read more…Since I am heading up the July challenge (Stripes, Textures and Zigzags), I decided to get ready early. I have basically finished the squares I wanted to do (can you tell I’m a worry-wart???)
So what do I do now? Well the answer came when I opened a
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