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What's On Your Needles and Hooks in March 2023?
What's on your needles and hooks this month?
As we welcome the change of month and season, will your
colours /patterns/textures/appliques/embellishments reflect this, I wonder?
Will it be a month of completing projects....new yarn.....new pattern
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KAS SNIPPETS - MARCH 2023
Donna Verhaeghe
Beate Shilton
Wendy Strang
Rahaba
What's on your Needles & Hooks?
WHAT'S ON YOUR NEEDLES & HOOKS?
2023 DISTRIBUTIONS - FIRST QUARTER
Our volunteers are always busy looking for locations to distribute KAS packages.
This discussion will focus on those distribution made during the first quarter of 2023 - January through March.
Pure Joy from Clay Oven Informal Settlement
Return to sender in Australia
A week ago I was surprised that my garage door wasn't closing. When I looked, there was my parcel of 250 squares, my Covid lock-down production, posted more that 13 months before, on 10 January 2022!
The only clue about what had happened was an Aust
Read more…Remembering P Jeanne Haessler
(Pam) Jeanne Haessler
1951 - 2022
Written by Gloria Grandy
Another precious KASvoice from our Square Circle Forum has gone quiet.
The voice of our KASsister Jeanne Haessler was, as many of us know, an uplifting, positive and immensely funny voice. T
Read more…FEBRUARY THEME Fruit and Flowers
FEBRUARY THEME
FRUIT and FLOWERS
Over the years this has been a regular theme: a sign of freshness, beauty and hope, bringing colour and warmth to our KAS kids.
I confess to being a hopeless
knitter. Crochet is more in my line. Fortunately he
KAS SNIPPETS - FEBRUARY 2023
DISTRIBUTIONS
Here you will find Estelle's report from
THE BARNEstelle's report continues here ...
Natalie
Fiona Peacock
Hannah
Carolyn McIsaac
Jessica Maldonado
OUR KA
UK ROYAL MAIL SECURITY ALERT!
There is a current security problem with UK post being mailed abroad, this is down to a cyber incident apparently- please click this link to read more...........
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64231473
Read more…What's on your Hooks and Needles in January 2023?
HAPPY NEW YEAR
EVERYONE.
Wishing you all good health and happiness.....
and LOTS of 'craft time' in 2023.
I hope Santa had a little something in his sack for you at Christmas.
We start the New Year with a little 'kick back and relax'.
This mon
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KAS SNIPPETS - JANUARY 2023
FYI
WHAT'S ON YOUR HOOKS & NEEDLES?
Belinda Ewer
Jane Durbin
Sarahj
Beatrice M. Brough
Elisabeth Heukshorst
Helen Foster
2022 SQUARES LIST
The NOVEMBER Squares List is available
Scroll down to page 5 to see the Squares List.
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Please click here: POSTAGE INFORMATION Square Circle Forum
2. Inside the parcel: PLEASE
2022 DISTRIBUTIONS - FOURTH QUARTER, OCTOBER - DECEMBER
2022 FOURTH QUARTER DISTIRBUTIONS
KAS FINANCES 2022
The Knit-a-square program has inspired volunteers in more than 60 countries to knit and crochet more than 1.5 million blanket squares, hats, hand-warmers and toys. Your efforts are helping to keep the children warm but to keep this operation running
Read more…PURCHASE A SQUARE FOR OUR KAS SHOP
Every year, an annual subscription fee is paid to Weebly, the company that hosts our KAS Shop. This also includes a domain name fee so that we can own knit-a-square-southafrica.com. The total amount is $334.90 US.
Are you able to help cover this cost
Read more…NEWS FROM THE BARN 2022
Knit a Square moved into what we loving call The Barn in 2015. It is located in Randburg, not far from our post office. This is a very large space that allows us to sort all the post, make blanket packs, stack blankets, and most important create ou
Read more…HAND-WARMER CHALLENGE
At the end of July Estelle put out this post to Karen Gordon...
Karen I remember opening a box of approximately 50 pairs of hand warmers from you. If you have any more small balls of yarn we’d love some hand warmers from our star knitter….we have su
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