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Coming Events

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ESSS meetings and activities:

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February 21 -10:00 am-1:00 pm - ESSS General Meeting

[This is on the third Saturday unless otherwise noted]



February 8- 12:00 noon-3:00 pm Hybrid Sit 'n Knit

This is an El Segundo Senior Club activity that we support

[Sit 'n Knit is on the second Sunday unless otherwise noted]​​

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Join us in person at the Joslyn Center for Sit 'n Knit or join us virtually. Click here to go to the Member's only page where you can find the Zoom link to join us at Sit 'n knit virtually or to join us virtually for the Wednesday and Friday social knitting discussed below

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Wednesdays- 5:00 pm -7:30 pm -in 2021 we began regularly knitting together virtually on our WIPs for the WIP challenge that year.  Although the challenge is over, we always have WIPs so we kept meeting on Wednesdays join us to work o your WIPs or any other knitting you would like to work on.

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Friday "Happy Hour" - 5:00 pm -7:30 pm , bring your favorite Happy Hour beverage (the Webmaster's current favorite is water but others sometimes indulge in "adult beverages" at Happy Hour)

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Click the envelope below for a sample of the latest

Monthly Cable newletter

For members, a full copy of the newsletter is available here.

Other upcoming events of interest:

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Virtual Events:

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Ongoing, Second Tuesday of the Month (4pm-5pm)- Welcome Blanket Craft-along on Zoom (If you would like information about the Welcome Blanket project, click here  you can also find links to their social media on their website if you would like to follow them.  If you still have questions, Mary Beth K. is a good contact for more information)​

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 March 14, 2026 - TKGA Social Hour meeting,

(for TKGA members only) Virtual meetings are free to all TKGA members, but you must register for the meeting, click here, (you will need to sign into your TKGA account)

[Future TKGA Social Hour meeting tentatively scheduled for  7/18/2026]

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​​​​May 23, 2026 11am - TKGA Presentation meeting, Presentation: Knitting with Linen by Allison Daneels.   Virtual meetings are free to all TKGA members, but you must register for the meeting, click here, (you will need to sign into your TKGA account) [TKGA Presentation meetings are held approximately every 4 months, the next Presentation meeting is tentatively scheduled for 9/12/2026]

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 February 12, 2026 -Los Angeles County Fair deadline to enter Home Arts Competition--you must enroll and pay the entry fee ($4 per item).  Date for dropping off your item(s) is 3/7/2026 and pick up date is 6/9/2026.  More details here

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Interweave @ Home

​​​Interweave has a number of virtual classes coming up later in 2026.  Several classes about fit with Kate Atherley are available in the next few months. For more information, click here

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In Person Events:

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​Ongoing: 4th Saturday of the month (February meeting is 2/28/2026), 11am-12:30 pm, Dude Where's My Yarn?, needlecraft group meets at Fullerton Public Library, for more information, click here​

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​Interweave has a number of events planned for  later in the year both online and in person.  For more information, click here

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February 14-15, 2026 -10:00 am-4:00 pm South Bay Quilter's Guild Quilt Show held at Torrance Cultural Arts Center. Click here for the address and a discount card you can print out or save to your phone and show for a $2 discount on the entrance fee.  For more information (and the discount card) see the SBQG website (click here)

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October 8-December 3, 2025 - Adult Knitting Club, meets Wednesdays, 1-3 pm.  Cheviot Hills Recreation Center.  For more information, email the Cheviot Hills Recreation Center cheviothills.recreationcenter.@lacity.org

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November 21-22, 2026 - SoCal Fiber Fair, LA County Fairgrounds.  For more information, click here.

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Interweave

​​Interweave has planned a number of Maker Fests coming up later in 2026.  Currently a Maker Fest is scheduled for August 5-8, 2026 with more being planned.   For more information, click here

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Another exhibit mentioned at our meeting:

 

There is an exhibit at LAX, between Terminals 7 & 8 (after going through security) of Welcome Blankets. Photos and information is available on the Welcome Blanket website.

A Message About Programs

from our Vice President, Gillian B. 

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Thank you to everyone who stayed at our January meeting to brainstorm and vote on topics for our 2026 programs.  We had a very well attended meeting, and lots of great suggestions.  We also had several new volunteers offering to teach topics, which is wonderful news!  An extra big thank you to everybody who volunteered to teach a topic, and to Joan for her help with the projector too.

First, a few words about Field Trips:

Field Trips and Workshops require months of planning and coordination.  We’re not able to schedule anything immediately, but we’ll continue to work on opportunities.  These have been suggested:

  1. Visit to a fiber producing farm:  The farm Charlene K. went to before stopped doing tours.  She recommends Vista Fiber Arts Festival (May 2-3) as an alternative.  If any members know of actual farms we could visit (presumably not more than a day trip), please let me know. (I prefer an email or something in writing, otherwise I’ll probably forget!)

  2. Return to Trendsetter Yarns:  A lot of members voted for this!  We’ll try to arrange something with Trendsetter for later in the year.  If it works out, we’ll re-jigger the schedule.

  3. Natural Dyeing Workshop with Griffin Dyeworks:  It seems, based on my very incomplete idea of the costs, that there is not enough interest to do this as a Guild workshop.  (For those still interested in Natural Dyes, Griffin Dyeworks has a weekend workshop in August which I will announce at the next meeting.)

 

2026 Programs:

Here is our schedule for 2026 (as always, things might change, this tentative schedule of programs can be found on the meetings tab—you may need to scroll down a bit):

We had more topics that people were interested in learning about than we had space for in the calendar year.  Topics for future consideration (including holdover ideas from prior years marked with an asterisk*).  Many of these topics also are in need of a volunteer to “teach” them.  This is a excellent opportunity to research and learn about a topic you’ve been wanting to learn.  Then teaching it to the group will help solidify your knowledge.  Look over this list and see if anything appeals to you—at this point you would have a year or more to master a new technique!

  • Seaming

  • Tubular Cast Ons

  • Emotional Support Chicken workshop / KAL (Knit A Long)

  • Yarn vendors visiting us.

  • Natural Dyes (paid 1-hour talk – needs Board approval).

  • 3D Knitting: Knit Gnomes; Knit/Crochet Softies, Knit Sculptures *

  • How to Read and Understand Patterns * – (assistance is available at our monthly Sit-And-Knits)

  • 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.).

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

  • Yarn Tasting *

  • Entrelac Knitting *

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Gillian's message re: Jan. meeting

Be sure to check out the great list of events at Knitter's Review:

Knitting and Fiber Events

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