You Say It’s Your Birthday? at Knitting

This goes out to our former group member Kerrie, who had a birthday today. We miss you Kerrie! Interestingly enough, besides Kerrie, 3 other knitting groupies have had birthdays in the past month. Are people who were born under the sign of Leo natural needlework divas? I thought so.

Rachel contemplates a new project in crochet

Lois asks Ethel for some clarification in her sock project

Grayzie tries to dive in nose-first

how about this bag?

Wait, here’s another one! MMMMMMM….

I got up to “L” on the Martin Storey blanket

Hope everyone with a happy summer birthday feels renewed and ready to roar in a new year, full of great new needlework! XD

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“Always Look Eye! ” and Solve a Knitting Mystery

Wednesday Night. The yarn activity continues…

Ethel’s skills as a teacher were greatly in demand….

Someone wanted to learn to crochet

Someone wanted to learn to knit, but she was ok with learning to crochet, too.

Lois had some final touches to finish on these mitts

I am up to the letter I so far!

And I’ve started on another tote

I forgot to show my book of knowledge to the group

mysterious but perfectly preserved package

Meanwhile, we solved the mystery of the mysterious but perfectly preserved package.

While DH and I were at the Family Beach Weekend, he got an email stating that some tool or other he ordered would be delivered by UPS and would lounge around on our doorstep til we got home. So he called a family member and asked her to go by the house and please pick it up on her way to the beach. She did, but when we quizzed her about it, at the time it was in her car, so she described it as a book and a present. A present? Yes, wrapped in pink wrapping paper with butterflies on it. That didn’t sound like something DH would have ordered from Rockler or Woodcraft. When I opened the package, it was a beautiful arrangement of tatting mounted on black velvet in a silver frame. And the book was a biography about Teddy Roosevelt. Well, when I saw the tatting, I immediately thought, “Lois!” But then, the book had an inscription that mentioned “Ethel.” So I presented the treasures at Wednesday Night Knitting and learned that Lois had dropped these things on the doorstep for my birthday 3 months ago! She put them in the iron Dutch oven that resides thereon as a sort of rustic decoration. Thinking back, she did say that she had called. Which just goes to show that people need to spell it out, preferably using the NATO alphabet names (ie. alpha, beta, Charlie, November) or make exaggerated mouth movements after saying, like Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid, “Look-eye! Always Look Eye!” And then maybe I will get the gist of the conversation! Thank you, Lois! I am humbled that you thought so much of scatter-brained me!

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Yarn Crawl Texture: My Take on Weekly Photo Challenge

This week’s photo challenge is Texture. I went to The World’s Most Famous Beach for our family beach weekend. Sand, surf, the roar of traffic up and down A1A outside the beach-front hotels, hugs from big and little ones, crisp hotel sheets on sun-exposed skin, seafood restaurants, and of course, a yarn crawl. I had to see what the local yarn shop The Ball of Yarn had to offer.

Family Futbol on the beach

Sunrise the first day

2nd day sunrise

sunrise the 3rd day

Speedway entrance

Daytona’s LYS

Yarn Crawl Haul

Sandnes Kashmir Alpakka worsted weight: spaghetti-size

Mandarin Petite DK yarn: vermicelli-size

Kraemer Tatamy Tweed DK spun in Nazareth, PA

Grayzie nuzzling my sand-infused callouses enriched with plankton from beach walking

The Mandarin Petit and Kashmir yarns are from their Swedish import rack, although they have a flag of Norway on their labels. The shop proprietor told me that they love Kraemer brand yarns, which are spun in America and were used in the Ralph Lauren knitted apparel worn by our Winter Olympics competitors. Isn’t it a small world after all?

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We Love Knitting. Even though it’s August

Summer loving knitting! Yes, we do!

Ethel is thinking of knitting this cool sock from Interweave Knit

 

Meanwhile, she also thought about these:

 

 

bamboo, cotton and acrylic yarn

and she worked a little more on this project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lois made lots of progress on her afghan.

Lois’s afghan

Rachel started something new.

Rachel’s new project

I worked on the same project.

more squares finished

But it’s not boring! The blocks go fast, and I can’t wait to start on another beautiful color of Rowan felted tweed.

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