WHAT'S GOING ON IN SOUTH AFRICA (19)
2024 BARN ACTIVITIES
The first opening day for the KAS Barn in 2024 was January 9.
This discussion will focus on all the weekly activities that take place on
Tuesdays as our volunteers gather together to open parcels,
sort, organized, pack and distribute all things
Read more…SEASON 3 - 2022 - KAS PODCAST
This is where you can find all of Leanne's episodes for 2022, Season 3
Episode 1 - Back for Another Season
Episode 2 - Doing What Feels Meaningful
Episode 3 - Led By Curiosity
Episode 4 - Dancing Children
Episode 5 - Rising To The Occasion
Episode 6
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…WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE BARN? - 2023
THE BARN -2023
This discussion is for all the news about The KAS Barn.
You can see photos or our incoming parcels, volunteers sorting all the goodies, the building of many layers of cake, the stocking of blankets, the gogo packets, and distributio
Read more…SEPTEMBER DISTRIBUTION
The first weekend in September, Athele went to Pietermaritzburg, about 500 KM from Randburg to make of distribution of 110 blankets with extra goodies for the children.
There will be comments from Athele's Facebook page about this distribution amon
Read more…THE BARN 2021
Opening Days in the
Knit A Square Barn 2021
From this...
...to this...
...to this...
...ending with full shelves.
Opening day at the KAS Barn is all about opening parcels and sorting the squares. Bundling the squares to be sewn into blankets and
Read more…THAT WARM FUZZY FEELING 2019
Opening days at the Knit-a-Square barn in Johannesburg happen on a Tuesday and are always rewarding. With mail arriving continuously from overseas, and quantities of squares and toys brought in by local knitters, we volunteers get to experience somet
Read more…2020 DISTRIBUTIONS FOR JANUARY THRU MARCH
This discussion will cover the distributions made from January through March of 2020. Please check here often to see updated photos of distributions.
Read more…BLANKET ROOM 2020
Welcome to the Blanket Room for 2020.
We hope you will enjoy the variety of squares/blankets/designs
that will be featured throughout this year.
If you spy some squares or even a blanket or two that you have crafted
please do let us know.
There's n
Read more…THE BARN 2020
Ever wonder what happens with all that mail that arrives in South Africa? It goes to the KAS Barn where many volunteers SORT everything out to eventually be distributed to local children.
Please check in here on a regular basis to see photos fr
Read more…SORTED IN SOUTH AFRICA 2019
Ever wonder what happens with all that mail that arrives in South Africa? It goes to the KAS Barn where many volunteers SORT everything out to eventually be distributed to local children.
Please check in here on a regular basis to see photos
Read more…MORE THAN 200 BLANKETS
On August 7 KAS collected more that 7000 squares from St Stithians Girls' Preparatory School. Here is Estelle's account:
This morning Ronda, Liz and I collected over 7000 squares from St Stithians Girls’ Preparatory School. The knitting and crocheti
Read more…THAT WARM FUZZY FEELING 2018
This discussion aims to give you an up-close and personal look at what happens on opening days at the Knit-a-Square barn. I'm a partially-sighted volunteer who who attends with my guide dog Tango and my driver Bongi, who has also become a keen volun
Read more…SORTED IN SOUTH AFRICA 2017 & 2018
Very late opening this thread this year for various reasons that you know about but lots of pictures have now been received and should be posted over the next few days. Many more will appear in the Blanket Room 2017 which will be opened shortly.
