Events – Wild Knits

Assigned Pooling with Barker Wool is here!

BEGINNING CROCHET: CROCHET BASICS FOR CIRCULAR PROJECTS

Learn how to start projects like stuffed animals and baskets with a magic ring. Learn to single
crochet and make increases and decreases to shape projects. Become familiar with crochet
abbreviations and patterns. Students make an amigurumi pumpkin, animal or basket as they
practice their new skills.

Date: September 6, 2025
Time: 10:30 am -12:30 pm
Class fee: $45 (Cash or check paid to instructor)
Instructor: Carol May

Supplies:
Worsted weight yarn in a light color. (It is easier to see stitches in a light, solid color.)
Crochet hook in size F or G (3.75, 4 mm)
Or
Amigurumi Kit

TWOFOLD SWEATER KAL - AUGUST 23RD 2025

WHEN: We will meet Saturdays, 11am -1pm,
August 23, September 6 & 20, and October 4

An easy top-down, loose knit in bulky weight yarn OR two strands held together for a gauge of 10 stitches for 4” or 2.5 stitches for 1”

Wild Knits’ Recommended Yarns are:

Road to China Light + Lace Weight
Techno + Lace Weight
Jamieson Aran + Lace Weight
Imperial Klamath
Quince & Co Puffin
Malabrigo Noventa
Juniper Moon Beatrix
Universal Bella Bounce
(A few lace weight options are Alpaca Lace, Silk/Mohair & Suri Alpaca)
*It may take multiple swatches to get gauge*

Play & Have Fun!

*This designer does not sell thru local yarn shops on Ravelry
If possible, please purchase the pattern directly thru Ravelry

KAL YUME BY ISABELL KRAEMER - MAY 31ST

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Date: Starts Saturday May 31st 11am to 1pm and will continue once a month as follows: June 21st, July 19th, and August 23rd.

Mark your calendars to cast on with us May 31st! Isabell’s patterns have a high success rate, which explains why she’s 3 for 3 with our KALs. Yume is a sport/dk pullover (22st/4”) and can be adapted for warm or cool weather.

Throughout the Knit Along, you’re welcome to stop in with questions and/or post them on our Facebook Group (follow Wild Knits KALs ).

If you’d like to learn, meet nice peeps, and have fun, here’s your chance!

You can view and purchase the pattern on Ravelry here https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/yume

Our suggested yarn list is:

Cascade Anchor Bay
Cascade Pandamonium
Cascade MeriKash
Hikoo Sueno and Sueno Tweed
Berroco Lana’s Light
Malabrigo Susurro
Malabrigo Dos Tierras

Please call or email the shop to register.

GUEST SPEAKER DAVID ALTMAN - MAY 17TH 11AM - 1PM

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re excited to welcome David Altman this Saturday at May’s Knit for Mental Fitness (OSH volunteer hat knitters).

David is a Professor at Willamette University and will discuss the relationship between fiber arts, knitting, crochet and mental health. This is such a worthy topic and one dear to our hearts. We hope you’ll join us!

(*Cost of admission = knit + donate a hat 😉).

Oregon State Hospital Fundraiser

Throughout 2025
February 15, 11:00am -1:00pm - Volunteer Knit Time
(Continues the 3rd Saturday of each month, same time)

We’re excited to share we’ve been invited to partner with the Oregon State Hospital in celebrating the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!

If you’re familiar with it, you know Jack Nicholson wore a knit beanie for most of the movie. Wild Knits has been asked to donate handknit hats throughout the year, with proceeds benefiting the Oregon State Hospital Museum, as well as a nonprofit mental health charity (yet to be determined).

Su Fennern of the Salem Knitting Guild has adapted a 1941 Red Cross pattern found here Watch Cap Pattern

We’re hoping to get future yarn donations, but for now stash is great. The only requirements are that the same pattern and worsted weight yarn must be used (unless you get gauge on a different weight). Color is your choice. Finished hats can be dropped off at Wild Knits. We still have a few details to fine-tune, but you’re welcome to start knitting and join us the 3rd Saturday of each month!

Open Knit/Crochet Time

Dates: Wednesdays 11am - 1pm & Fridays 4pm - 6pm
Cost: None

Whether it’s knitting, crochet, or embroidery, you’re welcome to stop in during these times, make some progress on a project and get to know your Local Yarn Shop Community. This is a time set aside for what unites us, not what divides us.

ALL are welcome!

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