The Castoffs met at Joan’s new house that she and Jeff are busily fixing up for the permanent move next summer. We met in an added-on room that was really cool in the heat of August.
We filled up the empty space in a hurry!
We were glad to see Kerrie, out crocheting librarian friend. Sounds like she’s enjoying her summer, but only three weeks to go until the teachers have to be back at school. Boo!
It was ‘bring your own chair’ day, so we did! Joan’s fridge was a cooler full of beer, cider and other goodies and we ate some delicious cupcakes that I have the recipe for:
Self Filled Cupcakes
1 chocolate cake mix
1 8oz. pkg of softened cream cheese
1/3 cup of sugar
pinch of salt
1 egg
1 6oz. pkg of chocolate chips (one cup)
Mix cake according to pkg. directions. Fill cup cake paper 2/3 full. Cream the cheese with sugar. Beat in the egg and salt. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop a rounded teaspoon into each cup cake and bake as directed on the cake pkg.
Joan says these are very easy and they were very good, too!
Leslie was back from her daughter’s wedding with great photos and stories about the storm that visited the ceremony. She told us all about it.
Mother of the bride tells all...
We all feel like we’ve been on this wonderful journey with Leslie. Thanks for sharing this day with us, Les!
Francy was sharing issues of another sort with us. She is making a great three color sweater for her son but has found that the carryover yarn in back is too tight. This is a fairly common problem and Michele was happy to help. What she had to do was rip out part of the design, unfortunately, but not all. Now Francy has to loop her working yarn more often around the carryover yarn to give the sweater more…well, GIVE. Got it?
Great design, but a little tight
Michele the Ripper
Hopefully, this will help Francy in her multicolor knitting. She sent me a couple of photos of her daughter-in-law modeling the hoodie sweater that we watched her knit a few months ago. It turned out great!
What a wonderful fit!
Good view of the cables and hood
Linda joined us, getting away from organizing her new condo. “I’ve got too much stuff!” We hear ya, sista. We’ve all got a lot of stuff. She brought a star pattern dishcloth that she finished. I love this pattern.
Pretty star pattern - bright color!
Apparently Linda got a great bargain on cotton yarn. She’s gonna have to make a LOT of dishcloths to use up two big skeins of yarn. Here’s the other color.
That's a lot of dishcloths, Linda!
We need to have a contest to suggest other things that Linda can knit with cotton. Hmmm, let’s see…baby blankets, socks…what else? Let me hear from you, Castoffs.
Julie was with us and we were glad to see her and her current dishcloth…where’s that table runner, Jules?
Ah, summertime and the knitting is simple...
Marylane is still waiting for the rest of her Tahki yarn to arrive to begin her cardigan. We can’t wait for her to start, and I’m sure she can’t either. In the meantime, her needlepoint project grows and grows.
Where's that yarn!
I’m still working on my scarf/shawl. I finally finished one skein and have started on another. It’s a soothing pattern and I like it.
Neckershawl?
We had a lot of fun. Thank you Joan! Can’t wait to see the house again after construction.
Next time we’ll be at my house and I’m hoping the weather will cooperate. We’ve had craziness with thunderstorms lately, haven’t we? Until that time, keep those needles blazin’, Castoffs. Have fun in the sun while it lasts! Hey, Mary, we need some of those cherry daquaris!
