El Segundo Slipt Stitchers

Contributed by our Vice President – Gillian B.

We had a great time visiting in December at our annual Holiday Pot Luck party. Thanks for the tasty treats!

 

There is a lot of information here about the January meeting and the process of determining our programs for 2026.  It's long but Gillian wanted to be sure that all the information was in front of the membership, so please take some time to read it over before the meeting.  If it is easier for you to read it as a pdf, you can find that version here.

For our January program, we’ll have a discussion and vote on program topics you would like for 2026.  Bring your ideas to the meeting; we’re all excited to learn about everyone’s interests. So far our list includes (with the name of the person who has volunteered to teach it, (if any)(and sorry, I don't have definitions for these):

 

Field trips / workshops (these may not work with a regular meeting, and we need to do more research):

1. Visit to a fiber producing farm

2. Return to Trendsetter Yarns

3. Natural Dying Workshop

 

New (ish) topics for regular Meeting Programs:

1. Magic Loop (postponed from 2025)                                                                                  Tonya

2. Contrast Vertical Stranding (holdover from 2025)                                              Mary Beth?

3. Reading Charts                                                                                                                          Joan

4. Organizing Knitting Stuff

5. I-cord edging                                                                                                                   Mary Beth

6. Yarn dying with Easter Egg dyes

7. Knitting Machines demo

8. Basic Knitting Skills workshop

9. Emotional Support Chicken workshop and/or knitalong (KAL)

10. Tubular cast ons                                                                                                                     Gillian

 

Older Topics that are holdovers from January 2025 or even earlier, they don’t have anyone to teach them at present:

1. Breakaway Crochet  – anyone know what this is?

2. 3D Knitting: Knit Gnomes; Knit/Crochet Softies, Knit Sculptures

3. How to Read and Understand Patterns (assistance is available at our monthly Sit-And-Knits)

4. Knitted Garment Construction Methods (i.e., different ways a garment is constructed: top-down, bottom-up, seamed, no seams, raglan, in the round, flat, etc.).

5. Knit Finishing (seaming/joining, buttonholes, sewing on buttons, bind-offs, hems, weaving in ends, blocking); topics could be broken up/covered in separate programs)

6. Entrelac Knitting

7. Finished Object Silent Auction  - members bring in finished object to meeting and they are auctioned off; money goes towards our charity donations (or perhaps to help balance our budget?) Action: Board to discuss further.

 

As you can see, we have more ideas than we have months to fill! Yay!  But not enough people to teach them.  So please include stepping up for the Slipt Stitchers as part of your New Year’s resolutions and think about what you might be willing to teach.  You don’t have to know the material in advance – part of our philosophy is that you learn new things yourself when you teach a program.

 

Meanwhile, I’ll come up with a way to vote on these… Happy New Year to you all!