AMWA Charity Ball

The AMWA Charity Ball last weekend was a huge success! We raised over $400 for the Domicile! Thank you to all the hard workers who gave their time and effort to donate the lovely hats (in no particular order): Kristen Cline, Kourtne Murphy, Whitney Burnett, Emily Bray, Tina Firouzbakht, Kelli Gross, Valena Sellers, Dawn New-Weeks, Claire Cummins, Maranatha McLean, Jill McAngus, Pam Hayes, Kim Burckart and Niloo Al.

Special thanks to Yolan Shaw and Rachel Shin for putting NK's Baskets together and organizing the details. Thanks also to Maryann Mbaka and the AMWA Social Committee for working with NK :)


Teaser pictures below, see the slide show for more!

Fruit Basket

Sports Basket: mix of crochet and knit

Click here to view a slideshow of some of the pictures from the Charity Ball.


Also, check out our Ravelry page! If you login, you can see more of our profile!

Winter Fundraiser 2011

View a slide show of several of our Winter Fundraiser Pictures! (Opens in New Window)

Knitting Behind Bars

We feel that knitting provides everything you need to do, everything you should have learned in kindergarten. It teaches you how to focus. It teaches you how to make a task and meet that goal. It teaches you how to control your anger. And we felt that all of these skills are life skills, are job skills. These are skills that, quite possibly, many people in our society are lacking.

-Knitting Behind Bars founder

Visit this link to listen and read the story!

From NPR

How to Undo a Stitch

Whether beginner, advanced or anywhere in between, we all need to undo our work sometime or other. It is much easier to know how to go back one stitch than to start all over again (believe me, I speak from experience!)

A more experienced knitter is not always available to fix it for you, so here's a very helpful video to show you how to undo your knit stitches:



(There is another one for taking out Purl stitches)

Happy knitting!

Halloween Hat Distribution

Our Halloween hats were distributed on Monday, Oct. 31st --perfect timing!

Halloween Baby hats!

In all, we donated 21 hats of all shapes and sizes. Many of these hats were also featured at our booth during Welcome Weekend...see which ones you can spot in both pictures :)

Knit Circle

Hi NKers,
We will have our regular Knit Circle at Joe's Cafeteria this Friday from 12 - 1.

We will also discuss our upcoming Fundraising project and our Christmas baby hat donations.

Join us to knit, crochet and/or chat and socialize :)

Community Fair 2011

Netter's Knitter's booth at the Community Fair was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We had several large stress pills, around 100 keychain pills and several cute hats :) (Also, there was a skull on the table, can you spot it below?) Click the link below the picture for more...

Recap of our First Year

Walk down memory lane with us, as we revisit pictures of our weekly knit circles:

(Or view it in a different window.)

Thank you to all those who joined us! We had a great year, and hope you did too.

Keep knitting and hope to see you in a couple of months!

Easter Hats!!

We donated our completed hats to the Newborn Nursery and NICU on Easter Weekend!

View a slideshow of all the hats we donated :)

We also got recognition on the official UTMB Facebook page Check it out!

How to Add a Pom Pom to Your Hat

Embellish any hat with a pom pom!

Video (Crochet):


Link to Youtube

Another method for knitting/purling :)

Bunny Hat Patterns (for all ages)!

We recently found these patterns that you can use if you want to try something new: Bunny Rabbit hats:



Bunny Beanie Pattern
Softee Chunky Hat
Delia's Knitted Things

Pictures of our Valentine's Day baby hats

Aren't they adorable? We ended up being able to donate 19 hats to both the newborn nursery and ISCU (Infant Special Care Unit). A big thank you to everyone who contributed!

Butterfly Hat

Recently, I discovered the Butterfly Hat pattern. Isn't the texture of the hat so much fun? It looks kind of lumpy and bumpy when not worn, but I'm kind of a fan of textures. Will definitely try it out on some other yarns.

If you want to make a hat for a preemie or newborn, I would recommend casting on 40 stitches for preemie, and 50 or 60 stitches for newborns if you're using worsted weight yarn. Since the pattern is based on repeats of 10, you'll just have less repeats than the original pattern has.

I used a sport weight yarn (Meadow) for mine, cast-on was 80 stitches.

A tip: make sure there is some slack in the working yarn after slipping the 5 stitches. Later on in rows above, you will be picking up these strands of yarn. You will have to experiment to get the right tension.

Let me know if you have any questions about the pattern! Post questions in the comment section, or you can e-mail NettersKnitters@gmail.com

Yolan

Knit/Crochet a Heart Shape

***EDIT: We received a Thank you card from the nursery!
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Hello All!

I hope you enjoyed your ice vacation and are working hard on your Valentine's hats! Remember: the hats are due this Friday (2/11).

In case you would like some more inspiration, here are some quick and fun patterns for a knitted heart and a crochet heart.

The knitted heart pattern is also good for practicing different increase and decrease techniques. The links on the page show you how to do each one.

You can just add these hearts to your hats as decoration.
So...if you would like to make a Valentine's hat, but the one you are currently working on isn't that festive, just slap a heart on it and voila, instant Valentine's hat!

Good luck knitting, and see you Friday!

Deadline for Valentine's Day baby hats

If you would like to contribute to our Valentine's Day baby hat donation, please bring them to our next knit circle Friday, February 11, 2011, 12-1pm, or e-mail us at NettersKnitters @gmail.com for another collection time and place. Hats will be washed over the weekend, and then distributed on Valentine's Day.