Knitting with Sequins and Jewels and Snakes and Rats

We had a newbie at Knitting this week! I think she had fun because there was a lot of laughing going on as she began mastering long-tail cast-on stitches.

Newbie Shauna gets the drift from Ethel

You tube has an amazing collection of videos on almost every aspect of knitting, Shauna, and Ethel might even make a house-call if you get in a bind before next time! Needless to say, we had a great evening.

Lois came to knit, and almost finished a new gator hat during the evening.

Orange! Blue! Orange! Blue!

Ethel was working on a snake for her grandson’s new bedroom theme: Savannah.

Snake pattern from Vogue Knitting Felting Book

Ethel with Lion brand Fisherman’s wool for snake

Ethel went shopping at Tuesday Morning and got the pick of the new yarn shipment. She got me some Rozetti sequin green lace yarn and an interesting Jewel skein with sparkles. Thank you!

Captivating green lace-weight

Jewel in green

She also got herself some sequined black and some Jewel in Riviera (a purple). Mmmmm, the possibilities!

I worked on the pink cabled slouch hat from last week, still. I love the way the yarn, with its 3 plies of white and one very thin, seemingly insignificant strand of red, makes the whole thing appear pink.

A little more done on the cabled slouch

Lois brought in some watermelon to share and a couple of possible future project ideas:

A knitted burger with everything on it

Guess what this is?

Lois had us all rolling with the picture of the knitted lab rat. Wouldn’t that be so much better than dissecting the real thing? “Mom, I forgot to tell you we have to dissect an animal in biology tomorrow–do you think you can knit me an effigy of one tonight so I can bring that to class instead?”

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