We met on a cloudy, blustery day at Carol’s house. I was really surprised to find a birthday party for me going on with cake and ice cream, party hats and my knitting friends singing merrily (and loudly, and slightly off-key) to me! Yay! It’s fun to be the big 6-0! Especially when I’m joining several of my Castoffs.
Party hats! Linda and Leslie look like unicorns.
Party hat hotties! Joan, Francy and Michele. Arrgghh, matey Francy!
Leslie, Carol and Linda surround the birthday girl.
Mary drinking to my good health...and hers.
Michele showed us a party game that nobody really got. Francy thought she got it. But not so much. Anyway, it was a fun diversion and a good way to tie up your guests…literally.
Then you put this hand through this loop and uhh...no, THIS loop...uhh.
You might think that no knitting went on, and you would be correct! Well, not entirely true but we did do a lot of talking about knitting.
And then it was time for CAKE!
Carol made me a delicious German chocolate cake! With squiggly candles!
Glad there weren't 60 candles!
I was so excited that I forgot to make a wish! But then I looked around and realized that the only thing I could wish for that I didn’t already have in this room were Marylane, Julie, Deb and Roxanne here with us. We missed you all and hope to see you soon!
As to the knitting portion of the afternon, Michele is working on the cotton sweater for Erica, her daughter. She moaned a little about how hard the yarn is to knit and I talked about fiber memory. Back in another lifetime, I knew a lot about fabric, yarns, cloth, etc. Plant fibers like cotton and linen don’t have good ‘spring back’ memory, so are less forgiving to work with. Thus the moaning that we do whenever we knit with cotton, hemp and linen. Animal fibers are much more stretchy and bounce-backy. That’s a technical term.
Michele can't even bear to look at the no-memory stuff.
Carol was casting on a mystery project. She is so darn cute, isn’t she?
Hey, careful with those dimple-makers.
Joan is back with us for the summer! Yay! She brought some yarn to knit (not purl) a scarf to use this fall when the Bobcats play. Go Cats!
Just say no to purling, Joan.
To keep things fair and balanced and to keep peace in the Castoffs family:
GO, GRIZZ!
Here is a peek at the mystery project yarn which will be hinted at later. Pretty, isn’t it? Hmmm. Wonder what it’s for?
I spy something and it starts with G, B, R, T
At the end of the party, Carol whisked herself off to change for a date with her man. We all stuck around to get a glimpse of him and we all approve. Bet he’s glad to know that! Anyway, our Carol looked beautiful…and happy.
Ooh, Carol!
Next week we’ll meet at Julie’s house. She just got back from her vacation and it will be good to see her. Until then, may all your birthdays be as fun as mine was this year. May you all enjoy good friends, good wine and CAKE! Keep those needles blazing, Castoffs, until we meet again.
Love and thanks from the Birthday Girl!
