2nd Quarter KAL 2009 - Karma Tank/Karma Skirt, Spring Vines & Juno Regina Stole

Our second KAL of 2009 has begun! Your votes are in and this time we will be running a more "traditional" KAL in which a specific pattern has been chosen for the whole group to knit. As an added twist, we have also given you the choice of knitting either a small project or a larger project. Or both if you're that speedy! In the small project category, our winner and choice for the second quarter KAL is Juno Regina - a lace stole/scarf from Knitty, Fall 2007 (on Ravelry here). In the large project category, your choice was a tie between the Karma Tank/Karma Skirt by Wendy Bernard featured in Custom Knits, or Spring Vines by Dao Nguyen.

A few guidelines:

• Official KAL dates: April 4, 2009 - June 30, 2009.
• To participate, you may knit any of the agreed upon patterns in either the large or small categories, or both.
  
• Don't forget to tag your knits in Ravelry with SKC2009Q2 so people can easily find your related projects.
• Nominations for the third quarter KAL will begin June 15th.
  

We look forward to all of your lovely knits over at the Ravelry Group! Come join us! If you have any questions, you may contact either rchrispy or our new group moderator RobinM.

Happy Knitting!

2009 First Quarter KAL - Cables & Twisted Stitches

Our first KAL of 2009 has begun! Your votes are in and Cables & Twisted Stitches (i.e., any stitch sequence where stitches change position while they are being knit) is the technique of choice for 2009's 1st Quarter KAL.

A few guidelines:

• Official KAL dates: January 1, 2009 - March 17, 2009*
  
• A qualifying pattern will include at least 25% cables or twisted stitches
• You may knit any pattern that you feel is sexy and contains the technique we've elected to focus on this this quarter

Other announcements: Please welcome RobinM of Yarn Crawl as the newest member of our group leaders over on Ravelry. I'm (knittymuggins) taking a little time off from group responsibilities and Robin has kindly offered to step in and help rchrispy with the fun job of moderating our group and helping everything run smoothly. Thanks so much Robin & welcome! We'll also be welcoming Jeanie back soon to her leadership role at the group and are excited to have her joining us again - it's been a while and we've missed her!

We look forward to all of your lovely knits over at the Ravelry Group! Come join us! If you have any questions, you may contact either rchrispy or our new group moderator RobinM.

Happy Knitting!

*edited to change KAL dates

2009 1st Quarter KAL Voting Has Begun!

The voting has begun for our first KAL of 2009! For the 2009 1st Quarter KAL, we will be running a technique based KAL. You will vote on which technique you are most interested in, out of the following categories:

• Garter Stitch
• Stockinette or Reverse Stockinette Stitches
• Textured Knit & Purl Combos e.g., Seed Stitch, Ribbing, Textured Rib
• Cables & Twisted Stitches i.e., any stitch sequence where stitches change position while they are being knit
• Lace i.e., decrease and open increase combos
• Colorwork (2 or more colors, fair isle, stranded, intarsia, mosaic or slip stitch color work; stripes do not count) e.g., Fair-Isle, Mosaic, or Slip Stitch patterns
• Traveling (decrease and increase stitch combos)
• Unusual (Bobbles & Leaves & Entrelac - 3-D shapes on a knitted surface & anything else that doesn’t fit traditional categories)
• Beaded (any item that is attached to the surface)

For more examples of the stitches mentioned above, as well as accompanying images, please visit the Walker Treasury Project.

A few guidelines:

• Voting will run from December 27, 2008 - December 31, 2008
  
• Official KAL dates: January 1, 2009 - February 28, 2009
  
• A qualifying pattern will include at least 25% of the type of stitch pattern chosen by the group during the voting period.
  

We look forward to all of your lovely knits over at the Ravelry Group! Come join us! If you have any questions, you may contact either rchrispy or myself (knittymuggins).

Happy Knitting!