The Knitting Group resumed, with Ethel back in pretty good form after hand surgery last week. Her new cast leaves more room for the fingers, so she can happily knit more. She was working on a Flit & Float scarf from the 2009 Knitty. So far, it’s beautiful in a cottony yarn in shades of pink. But the TBL instruction had Ethel wondering–am I going into the back loop correctly? The pattern she printed from online, features about 5 pages of charts with lace medallions.
Ethel did more work on the tapestry yarn sunflower; she just needs to get a pin backing for it at Michael’s.
I finished the malabrigo rasta collar; what a pleasure to work with that sumptuous yarn! BTW it came from Yarnworks of course, that garden of fiber delights! The pattern was Pout from Knit & Wrap by Nathalie Mornu. Everything else I tried to do all week didn’t turn out at all! So instead of knitting, I busied my fumblefingers by unraveling some tangled up bobbles.
Tina brought a big bag of yarn that she had been given, and we had a terrific time going over the spoils! There were lots of skeins of the fun fur, a few in what Ethel calls Ballerina Pink, several in a bright green, lots of various acrylic skeins in shades of blue, and this group of 4 that I took (thanks Tina!) Delicious! We imagined all sorts of fun uses–Christmasy!–for the green fun fur!
We’re still in discussion mode about the Florida Fiber In that will be held Sept. 16 – 18. Inconveniently for some of us, it is the weekend of the Primary Presentation, but if all is in order we might chance it! The big debatable option is whether we want to go Friday night and stay at the Radisson, then attend Saturday until we get tired, then drive home. Mmmmm, fiber world is beckoning…
My new splint is less knit friendly but I still have 3 fingers free. It is a removable splint so if I get really frustrated, I can remove it. naughty, but nice ;o}