WISH LIST CHALLENGE RONDA'S WINTER DRIVE to ensure that KAS has enough stock ready for March-April 2013!
WARM TOPS - BEANIES - SCARVES - SOCKS (sox) - GLOVES OR MITTENS and, of course, CUDDLY TOYS NEEDED.
As most of us livi
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My December Project...
The December 2010 challenge caught my attention in a way that none of the other challenges had. Like most people, when someone asks "What does the world need most?", th
This month as a challenge we are just going to relax, stay calm, and make Plain Janes!
We have been very creative during the past few months, making amazing decorated squares, so we deserve to just take a rest and get back to basics.
This w
Read more…Christmas already !
Yes, KASFolk, it is time to think about Christmas.
There is a popular song in North America called:
All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth.
For a child in South Africa, perhaps we c
Read more…As a result of a radio interview I gave recently to try and make KAS known, I didn't get many enquiries from future knitters. However, I did get 2 donations of wool. One was a big bag of all different kinds of wool plus an afghan made of very fine wo
Read more…I'll be starting my third set of squares real soon. Currently, I'm on a long tea break. To be continued....
Read more…Hey new friends, just wanted to share that today I've made my very first square! Took me a little while to get the right amount of stitches/size of needles to achieve an 8in square but I got there in the end! It's bright red with a small white snow
Read more…Hi All Well here goes my first Blog ..... I found out about KAS from a friend's Facebook feed, looking at her page one day I saw a picture of a blanket made of squares that she had sewn together, drilling down into the post I found myself viewing a
Read more…This challenge will be on-going for some time to come. Therefore we are keeping it separate from the regular monthly challenges to avoid any confusion.
THE TOTAL AS OF 25th December HAS REACHED 450 !
BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR THE CHALLENGE :
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KasSnippets will replace the KasNEWS which was introduced earlier this year, and, will be a condensed edition of news and information updates, which we hope will prove helpful for members who are unable to visit the Forum regularly, but would like to
Read more…Need a free way to get large lot of knits transported to Johannesburg.
Do you know of anyone travelling in the near future from Melbourne, Australia to somewhere near KAS headquarters in South Africa?... possibly home for Christmas.... or for busines
Read more…Heidi the founder of our group "Knitting for Africa" attended a meeting on Friday to further promote the work we are doing, and hopefully welcome more volunteers to our group.
Knitting for Africa will be attending an 'Open Day' in conjunction with 'Ca
SQUARES SQUARES SQUARES!
Squares as always are what we need the most.
To make our lives easier, please only leave a tail 50 cms long. We bundle the squares into 50's and they can get into a terrible mess with very long tails. We would appreciate it
Read more…Hello fellow KASers!
Picture of Bluebell now shes getting a bit bigger and a little more naughtier.lol
Read more…If you have 2 and a half minutes, take a moment to view this short film from our recent Bagel Breakfast at Clear Lake United Methodist Church in Clear Lake/Houston, TX! We held a breakfast of baked goods and bagels for donations for postage to send o
Read more…Dear Kas Folk,
How exciting to get this month's tally from South Africa and see that we have only 784 items to go before we reach the half a milliion mark. With the volume of post still waiting to be opened, it will be well over half a million befor
Read more…I am the adult sponsor for the Forman School Knitting Club. In this club we are teaching the students how to knit and or crochet. This year we decided to knit for charity while learning the basics. Tomorrow I begin teaching 5 boys and 3 girls how to
Read more…We’ve been on quite a trip around the world this year - starting with our Flag Challenge, then on to Japan and Asia, then to Africa... and here’s our last stop - South America!
Hopefully you will find lots of inspiration for squares with this cont
Read more…just new to all this am looking forward to being able to help do i just knit a heap of squares or do you need hats and scarves as well, i'm teaching my self how to crochet bit slow but then practice makes perfect i'm in awe of some of the designs the
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