Laura 2 and Laura 3

I just posted this exact same post on my personal blog, but I neglected to mention that Laura K. was there too! When am I going to learn to remember to take my camera to these things?! She had never felted before and her stuff was beautiful. If you like this, check out my blog. I'll post the link to the left.  

I hope to get to knitting Thursday  (Oct. 9) as there are no kids in class on Friday!


So, I started and finished a new project all in one day! I went to a great workshop about making felted flowers at a great little local craft/book/high quality natural toys and art called Creative Hands Mercantile. I made this gorgeous flower garland in 3 hours!



In fact I think I might go embellish it a bit with a few beads.....

Stolen Day

As many of us who could steal a day from our schedules did so to meet at Jake's house for a D-licious potluck lunch last week. Here are some not very good pictures of us. We were glad to get outside into Jake's beautiful yard after an uncharacteristically rainy August morning.  

I only got one close up photo and it's of my own sweater. One of the other Laura's gave me some good ideas about altering the pattern to make the sleeves and body more contiguous. I LOVE that about this group--it's more about each other than it is about ourselves.


Fleece and love always among us.

Meredith Knits

adopt your own virtual pet!

Knitted Landscape

I thought you guys should see this, it's really amazing. Go to: www.knittedlandscape.com  I would love to do this with someone(s), maybe for  Art in the Vineyard or the Celebration. Not to sell, but to look at and wonder about. Anybody interested?

I was wrong about the link's list

For some reason, I can't access the layout. I wonder if I'm no longer an administrator? In any case, the link is (see post below for details): http://www.petitiononline.com/1234lulu/petition.html

I don't think you can just click on it, so cut and paste into your browser address bar. See you all later!

Knitty Gritty Cancelled?

There is a petition to save Knitty Gritty. The link to it is in the links list to the left. I've only seen the show a few times, but I think Vickie Howell is a worthy Ambassador for knitters everywhere. I would watch it more if I had DIY.  

Snapping Turtle Skirt

So I finally finished my first skirt, the snapping turtle skirt from "Knitting Nature." It took some strength to pick up the 240 stitches for the trim, and I altered the waist somewhat because if I had just put in a zipper it wouldn't have stayed up. I also shortened the skirt by one full row of hexagons. The pictures are from before I finished the waist band and trim, and it's currently in the blocking stage. Also, I fixed the block with the missing second color. I thought of adding the color after I knitted that block, and so I had to undo it and re knit. That's one reason to really love this construction: If you notice an error, you only have to undo one hexagon, rather than row after row. Reasons not to love it: 2100 picked up or cast on stitches, and the zillions of ends to weave in. Of course my choice to use a second color made for more ends. I love it and I'm next going to cast on the Trumpet Skirt from "Knitting Lingerie Style." 

Footless socks?

I was knitting away on #2 needles and skinnier-than-I-care-for sock yarn on my Over-the-knee knee-socks over break, when my mom (whom I had told earlier that I wanted to make leg-warmers) walked by and said, "Oh! Are those your leg-warmers?" I looked at her, I looked at the sock, I thought about how my sock feet never turn out the same, and I said, "You know, I think they are." I finished them off with a crocheted ruffle, so although they are tighter than the usual leg-warmer, at least they don't look like unfinished socks (which of course they are). It's a good thing too, as they don't stay up over my knee all that well anyhow! It's amazing how warm they are. I can't believe I used to make fun of leg-warmers! I guess I was subconsciously jealous.

Nina

Sweater Girls

Aren't they GORGEOUS!

Folk-art Log-cabin Blankey

I finished my chubby homespun blankey, including requisite silky edge, a few days (weeks) ago. It is finally wrapped and ready to send to my friend in cold cold Massachusetts. It was fun to actually make it to Theo's last Thursday!

Louise and her hand dyed flaming sweater

Spinners at Silver Falls

I had a wonderful time at Silver Falls Knitting Retreat (a couple of weeks ago) and wanted to share this photo of some happy spinners:

I wrote about the retreat on my blog too, in case you want to read more about it!

Fall term has begun which means that I won't be able to join you for knitting at Theo's. I'll try to get there on the days that my Chemistry Lab gets out early... until then, HAPPY KNITTING!

--- MEGAN

Duduza comfort dolls

Hooray -- I'm on the blog, the blog, the blog -- typing on the blog!!!! ;-)

Finally I can post this picture of the Duduza comfort doll family I donated through the Soft Horizons charity Stitch-a-Thon. The dolls will go to African children who have been orphaned by AIDS. Here's a link for more information on the comfort doll project:
http://www.cindi.org.za/?q=Comfort-Dolls

Hello from Minnesota

Nice job on this blog, Meredith! All the photos are fun to look at, too.
It was good to see everyone at knitting in Eugene.
We just got back to St Paul on Sept 2nd - no more bridges have collapsed and no flooding, so things are pretty calm here.
Happy knitting,
Elna

more retreat pictures

B & B Day Knitting Retreat 8/07

On this wonderful, sunny Thursday several of us met at Donna's River Walk Inn B & B for a day retreat. We had a delicious potluck lunch and pasted the time relaxing on the upstairs porch knitting and laughing.

Typical Thursdhursday at Theo's Coffee House

We always have such a variety of projects in progress. This time we had:


Zombie dolls



a baby blanket



some little slip of a tank top like thing made of Hempathy yarn


another baby blanket


something which was not a sock (was it a sweater sleeve?)





an almost done shawl










a just begun....













comfort dolls for AIDS orphans/babies in Africa















2 hats















a blues shrug













and a 1st try at a top down sweater.











Of course no knitting group is complete without at least one crocheter sneaking in with her afghan squares!

Knitting Retreats

OK, I made it here, finally.

I know that in looking around, I saw Marina's post in response to Meredith's request for info on Fall knitting retreats, but now I can't find that page, so will add this here.

There is an Ample Knitters Retreat in Ashland the first weekend in Nov, to which Marina and I are going, along with our DHs. The AKers have had a Yahoo group for a number of years, and this will be the third year for the retreat. The group focuses on issues regarding finding and tweaking patterns to fit non-standard sized people, so whether you're a plus-size or you knit for plus-sized people, or other non-standard sizes, this group helps.

I can send more info if anyone is interested. I just registered last month and there were still vacancies at the motel where we're staying.

Or if you want to head north that same weekend, the knitting guilds in the Puget Sound area convene at Ft. Worden in Port Townsend annually the first weekend in Nov. There are probably ~100 attendees. Cost is reasonable. I don't know if there are any vacancies for this year, but you can contact Pat Brunner for more info. I went several years ago and aim to go back again sometime, maybe next year?

I may be a bit late on Thursday to Donna's; DH & I are going up to Portland for a concert Wed night and will be driving home Thurs AM, but I will be there.

Joan