http://www.crochetville.com/community/topic/19968-teddy-bear-square/#entry267109
If you can get to this link, I would like help on how to make this cute little teddy to put on squares.
Thank you.
Read more…Happy New Year, everyone!
Welcome to 2014.
I hope that everyone's 2013 will be remembered fondly, and that you are all looking forward to another fantastic year.
I know the moderators have already planned all sorts of exciting new challenges and
Read more…I am still trying to learn the best ways of posting information on the site, and hope I am now doing it correctly. If not, many apologies to everyone! Over the weekend I made a little video about how I strengthen the edges of loom knit squares, and
Read more…Ronda and volunteers take a well deserved break while sorting the parcels that arrive every Thursday. It is hard to believe that a small group of volunteers is able to open and catalogue all the wonderful items that arrive from around the world.
Read more…Okay, so I'm not only a yarnaholic butalso a KASaholic...beyond any hope of a cure. As an obsessional being, I tried to convert others to become as addicted as I am myself.
In October 2012, I was lucky enough to be granted a half-hour interview on a
Read more…I have just looked in my diary and see that Ist December 2014, the first Sunday in Advent, is also World AIDS Day,
are there any leaflets about this organisation that I can distribute at church to highlight this wonderful work ? Or is all your infor
Read more…Can anyone help? On the KAS Facebook page Sue Edwards has posted the following question :
Hi, I was wondering if the Children's knitted pullover on the Knit-a-square website is the updated version?
Thank you
I'm not a knitter or crocheter, and wou
Read more…Have you, or do you know of an instance of Accidental Goodness, or, acts of goodness that have had wonderful consequences and made a difference? Please feel free to share and add to this thread.
The TV and news media would have us believe that lif
Read more…October 2013 marks the 5th anniversary of KAS.
Let us raise our hooks and needles to 2 creative women who turned the desire to provide warmth and comfort to Orphaned and Vulnerable Children into a reality:
Here’s to Ronda and Sandy !
Five years o
Read more…Dear Kas Community
As we in Australia head into the final stretch of 2012, with just a few hours to go, we want to wish you all a wonderful celebration as you move towards the New Year.
We wish health and wellbeing for you and all all your family and
Read more…Can someone help me with the pattern for ‘Wendy’s Slip Over’ please?
I am knitting size 10 and the length from top of shoulders reads 22 inches = 56cms
The measurement from casting on to the start of the sleeve/armhole says 30cms/12 inches
At the end
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The Rotary club of Jeffreys Bay and Spirals Studio have started a project where children are encouraged to collect, sort and deliver “recyclable junk” to a central point and exchange it for tokens.
They can then use the tokens to “shop” in an ass
Last evening I gave a talk to a local machine knitting group, using a vido I'd created - about the orphans and KAS.
I then posted it on YouTube:- http://youtu.be/hgPcGIT3n6A
I also posted a link on my Wokingham Wool Aid web site:- http://woolaid.wo
Read more…The school bus loaded with the parcels that were piling up in Ronda's garage, ready to be transported to Beaulieu College where the 8th graders will help unpack, sort, bundle etc tomorrow as part of a community service project.
Ronda and Tracy take
Read more…I got a note the other day from Nicky (Jan B's daughter) with the very sad news that Jan passed away early in February.
Many of you will recognize her by her adorable avatar
Jan was a very committed member of KAS. She must have been an expert kn
Read more…I was asked to do a presentation about KAS, on February 24, to our Sunday School.( Children aged five to 11) YIKES! - that’s hardly my forte.
We had about 45 children (thankfully it was the last day of Winter Break, so lots of families were away)....
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 posted this in the UK Group forum but,for those of you in the UK who are not members of the UK Group, we thought I should post it here too.
As you will know, Pam Johnson and I have formed a UK registered charity called Knit for Life for the purpose
Read more…Ronda reports that in December 2012 KAS supplied John Crane House with blankets so the former street children have a warm cover during the cooler months of the year. Here is a report from the Rev Brent Chalmers
We are delighted to report that fourtee
Read more…Thank you to Ronda and the volunteers for taking the time to record all the squares and other goodies that arrive by the hundreds. Imagine Ronda's house on Thursday ! There isn't an inch to spare.
You can help by remembering to include a note list
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