I can’t believe that Christmas is coming closer — like a runaway freight train. It’s charging toward us whether we’re ready or not, and there’s no way to stop it. Does that sound like I don’t like Christmas? Hmmm. Haven’t had time to think about it.
What I do like is joining my Castoff knitters on a cold afternoon — or any afternoon. We met at Julie’s house and, of course, there was a lot of knitting going on. I’m going to apologize right now for the first couple of photos. I couldn’t understand why they looked so awful — then I realized that I didn’t have my flash turned on. Grrr. Maybe Santa needs to bring me a camera that fixes itself. I’m very unreliable.
Carol is nearly finished with her entre-lac scarf. She still can’t decide whether or not to block it. Whatever you do, Carol, the scarf is beautiful. Leslie was in the photo making a point about Carol having no more yarn — ZERO yarn left. We get it, Leslie.
Done! Zero to go!
We love to start our projects, but we love even MORE to finish them. Leslie is knitting a couple of things. One is a triangular shawl using strips of contrasting multicolored yarn. She was trying to decide what to use for the edgings. Solid or heather? I voted for the lighter, heather yarn.
Bad camera. Pretty shawl.
Ah, which edging?
Leslie’s other project is an afghan for her grandson. He was feeling left out when he saw the cool gifts that she’d knitted for his brothers and sister, so he wanted a blanket. Leslie said, ‘Uh, not a blanket. How about a throw?” All good.
She’s using a log cabin pattern from Mason Dixon Knitting. The rectangles are picked up and knitted out from the middle block, so once you’re finished, there’s no sewing together. Fabulous. This would be a good stash buster.
Quilt knitting pattern from Mason Dixon.
Mary finished the bunny hat for Adela. These floppy ears will look adorable on that sweet little granddaughter.
A bunny wabbit hat.
Mary has begun another hat with ear covers and tassels. I forget who it’s for, Mary. My bad. Did you say it’s for Larissa? The pattern is one that several of us have knit – a perennial favorite for Montana winters.
I like the yarn. Great pattern.
Julie is knitting a short-row triangular scarf like one that Leslie knitted a couple of years ago. So far, it’s only large enough to qualify for half a bikini top. Julie was kind enough to model — over her clothes, of course.
Sock yarn and smallish needles will take a while.
Ooh, la la.
Mary asked if Julie had ever finished the popcorn scarf that she started after her trip to Key West.
“Why, yes, I did.” She brought it out to model. Love this yarn.
And it matched what she was wearing!
I brought my faithful, easy poncho. My mind was fried from writing non-stop for National Novel Writing Month (NanaWrimo), so I needed something mindless to work on.
Knit a row, purl a row, repeat.
That’s it for November meetings of the Castoffs. We’ll meet at Michele’s next time on December 1. Wow, this old year is just about worn out. It’s very cold, Castoffs, so keep those needles blazing.
