‘YOURS LIVE’ 2013
Well folks, it’s that time of year again!
The dates for this years ‘Yours Live’ is Tuesday March 5th – Friday March 8th
at Butlins, Skegness
Three wonderful days of crafting events and
Read more…Yesterday morning , Wendy and I travelled comfortably all the way to an informal settlement known as Mamela near the Vaal Dam, some 140 kilometres south of Johannesburg, with the KASvan loaded to capacity !
Our visit was to the Sakhisizwe Day Care
Read more…The United Nations' (UN) International Literacy Day annually falls on September 8 to raise people's awareness of literacy issues in the world and so we have decided to use EDUCATION as our theme this month.
SO WHAT’S THAT ALL ABOUT???
OF COURSE -
Read more…KasSnippets - September 2013
Reporting KAS in South Africa
KAS HELPS THE VICTIMS OF SHACK FIRES
Wikipedia says, "Fire is a serious hazard in shack (informal) settlements in South Africa and it has been argued that "on average, over the past 5 years
Read more…This month the Square Heart Award goes to Rachel A. (USA)
Rachel is the extraordinary woman behind this beautiful purple heart.
Rachel has been an active member of KAS since 2009.
Rachel combined her alphabet and heart squares to make the South Afr
Read more…Hello everyone and happy Wednesday to you all!
As most of you know, the U.S. group has been running a fundraiser for the last few weeks, in order to purchase tables, chairs and other needed items for the Nancefield Creche. It has been an AMAZING fun
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ONE SQUARE FOR AN ELBOW - KAS BLANKET POEM
One square for an elbow, one for an arm,
One for a shoulder, to help keep it warm.
One for a wrist and one for a knee,
One for a hip - just how hard can this be?
One for a bicep, I nearly forgot!
Where i
Read more…Wikipedia says, "Fire is a serious hazard in shack (informal) settlements in South Africa and it has been argued that "on average, over the past 5 years, there are ten shack fires per day with someone dying in a shack fire somewhere in South Africa e
Read more…This month the Square Heart Award goes to
Anneke from the Netherlands
Anneke has been a devoted member of KAS since November 2010. You only have to chat with Anneke once to know what a wonderful, kind and generous person she is.
Anneke is a fiber
Read more…Slovenian Sister Fani … in Botswana.
Sr Fani is the dearest, kindest person, someone I was privileged to work with on the SPRED project at my parish. SPRED is [Special Religious Education for Special Needs kids in the Catholic Church.]
T
Read more…KasSnippets - August 2013
Reporting KAS in South Africa
Most weeks on the Forum we will be having a report on the activities of the KAS organisation from either Ronda or Wendy to keep us in touch with events in South Africa, volunteers and distribu
Read more…Well, Wendy enjoyed a geography lesson today when she learnt that Evaton is not a part of the Soweto municipal area – in fact, very far from!
Evaton is in an informal settlement north of an area called Sebokeng in the Emfuleni region of Gauteng. It
Read more…Which got me thinking about how many true friends Knit-a-Square has brought into my life over the past 5 winter seasons. And it's been an AMAZING few hours of reflection which had me scurrying into the archives, searching for photographs which mig
Read more…Welcome everyone, to the August Challenge of Stripes, Zigzags and Textures. I hope you will join me in a month of fun and interesting squares.
Super Stripes will be a great way of stashbusting your current yarn supplies in readiness for....more yarn
Read more…Yes, you are hearing from me again - albeit a rather shortened report for the week!
Ronda arrived back in Johannesburg all eager to get back into the swing of things, but unfortunately she came down with a dreadful tummy bug and our plans for the wee
Read more…SLIP-IN WISH LIST - JULY 2013
Ronda's stocks of plastic wool sewing needles has been depleted due to the continued rise in the number of stitching teams! Each of the new teams needs a collection of tools, especially these really useful needles.
Read more…Another week has just whizzed by and as always there is so much on the go!!!!
On Saturday, my daughter, Sarah, and I met Abegail and her daughter, Mandy, at the office. I wish I had taken a photo of Mandy sitting sorting all the beanies, but she has
Read more…Knit-a-Square has a new home !
Starting on Thursday 11th July, the contents of Knit-a-Square were gradually removed from Ronda & Peter Lowrie's home into our new offices!
We had hardly begun to settle-in when our first, most welcome, visitors
Read more…Have just discovered this event on Facebook and was wondering if any of our wonderful knitters and crocheters in Scotland could attend and hand out leaflets about Knit-a-Square? [I have some flyers if anyone needs some.]
Angus knitters are bein
Read more…July is always a special month in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician, served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first black South African to
