The Castoffs met at Deb’s house on a cool fall day. We enjoyed cookies, crackers with dip and a crisp white wine (or tea for some). Deb’s Yorkie, Izzy, entertained us by careening over the furniture and sniffing our yarn bags. She liked Michele a lot.
I think Izzy needs a tiny little knitted coat
Deb is working on a hat. Love the self-striping colors and the yarn is so soft. I didn’t get a photo of the scarf that Deb finished for her daughter, but she added multcolored strands of fringe from Leslie’s stash. Turned out very well. I’m sure her daughter will use it a lot in North Carolina winters.
Love these colors
Leslie is making a rug for her guest bathroom that matches the bold colors of the bath and bedroom. She is knitting blocks that she’ll sew together and the pattern is similar to the banded washcloth pattern that we all know so well.
Happy not to be knitting 'thick and thin' scarves
Mary was showing off the polar bear scarf again. Show-off. Still hasn’t given the poor mammal any eyes. C’mon Mary, let there be eyes. She is also knitting a baby hat in vibrant green.
Sure wish the polar bear could see this darling hat...
Kerrie joined us and showed us some hot pink flowers that she knitted for Mary’s pink and white baby hat that Mary finished last week. Hopefully, we’ll see the finished product, with flowers, next week at Julie’s house. The yarn that she used was fleece – going to be so cozy on that little head.
Linda was with us knitting socks. I begged for a simple sock pattern and she said that she’d let me have one like hers and like the socks that Carol was knitting last week at Mary’s house.
That's Linda in the dark knitting a sock. Sorry about the picture quality!
I was knitting a sock also – with a ‘magic loop’ technique. This is a sock that I started several months ago and put aside in mild disgust because I didn’t like the way it was turning out. I was kind of in a blue funk over my green chevron scarf. I finished it but completely botched the grafting on the two halves of the scarf. I put it away to think about it and pulled out the sock. Finishing something is always a problem for me. I’ll be better next week.
Speaking of, we’ll be at Julie’s house next week. I’ll leave you with a quote from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s book “At Knit’s End: Meditations for women who knit too much” – “Knitting is a human activity. It’s okay if it looks like a human did it.” Whew. Mine looks like a humanoid did it.
