A small group of Castoffs met at Deb’s house on a cloudy day. We were greeted at the door by Deb’s Yorkie Izzy. So good to see an excited little doggie again. Izzy believes in getting up close and in-your-face for a good sniff and lick. I love Izzy.
Izzy - up close and personal.
While we were enjoying Fritos, Wheat Thins, dip and wine in the kitchen, Deb’s husband Glenn came in to say goodbye. I don’t understand why all the husbands make themselves so scarce during our meetings…or maybe I do. Anyway, Glenn was wearing the sweater that Deb knitted for him and it turned out fantastic. And it fit! Yay! Looks great, both of you.
Deb and Glenn and the fabulous sweater.
After we left the snacks and wine in the kitchen and migrated out to the living room, we were really into our knitting. I brought the afghan I’m working on for my sis-in-law Sue’s grandson Jonathan. She said he likes red, so I’m knitting him a bright red afghan. He’s five.
Yep, it's red.
Mary is knitting a (to be) stuffed monkey for her daughter’s baby-to-be. It’s a cute pattern. At first we wondered what those two, uh, things were that she knitted so far. Soon, however, Mary had joined them and, voila, they became the monkey’s legs!
Monkey pattern and two sausage casings?
Monkey legs!
Linda was there STILL working on that prayer shawl. Linda, please finish it, please. It’s going to be so hot to knit that afghan this summer. You’ll need something smaller and lighter when we are sitting outside on the deck sipping summer drinks and wearing shorts. I implore you! It’s very pretty, but…
The never-ending afghan.
I don’t know how I missed getting a photo of Marylane. She had loaned Mary some acrylic yarn in the BIGGEST ZIPLOC BAG that I had ever seen. As she lugged it out to her car, I worried for her back. That’s a lot of acrylic yarn, most of which belonged to her mother. Marylane was putting the edging around her crossover shawl – in a rather hit and miss style – so Michele and I explained the advantage of measuring the edge to pick up the correct number of stitches. Science is a good thing, Marylane.
Michele had five hanks of yarn leftover from Erica’s beautiful orange sweater, so she found a lacy sleeveless sweater pattern to use it. The pattern is in Australian – yes, that’s a foreign language – and was a bit confusing. Michele decided to do the yarn-overs her way – with our encouragement. The sweater is going to be pretty. She showed us a photo of a model wearing it – but the model must have gotten her sizes mixed up because she was PACKED into that little sweater. Michele assures us that she isn’t going for the sexpot look – it will be much looser on her.
Imagine Michele as the sexy model - only slightly less sexy and in orange.
Deb’s sleeveless vest is coming along nicely. She just keeps knitting round and round and what will come out will be beautiful. Still love that color, Deb.
Getting more and more like a real sweater.
Next time we’ll meet at Julie’s house and hope to see those absent travellers that we didn’t see today. I know that Carol was having fun in Moab, Julie in Seattle, Francy in Minnesota, and Leslie in Missoula. We missed them.
Until next time, enjoy the spring-like weather. You have to run out and catch it while you can on some days. Marylane and I have had some days biking in our winter gear, but it’s all good. Keep those needles blazing, Castoffs, and have fun.
