We were all aglow with post-Mother’s Day love when we met at Leslie’s house in the SUNSHINE!!! Summer hasn’t died in the cold north,after all.
JOAN is back! Yay! And she’s working on a new project <drum roll> it’s a SCARF. It looks suspiciously like the other one she knit. If I hadn’t seen the first scarf auctioned off at the library fundraiser, I’d say it had risen from the dead. She swears, however, that this is a different one. Okay, Joanie, if you say so. Like the other, it’s a ‘knit-only’ scarf.
Welcome back, Joan! You were missed.
Marylane is nearly finished with her cabled mittens. I really should make some of these for my Christmas present bag. They’d go beautifully with a neck warmer.
Matches Marylane’s Hawaiian shirt – in color only.
Mary’s hooded baby blanket is nearly large enough for her. It’s an illusion, though, she was sitting down. She’s ready to add the hood and welcome her new grandbaby.
Mary’s waiting to wrap up a new baby!
My Swirl Hat is taking shape, literally. I can see the direction of the swirls and it’s such an easy pattern once you get the hang of it. It looks too small, but Michele told me that hers appeared that way while she was knitting it.Turns out large enough, though tight-fitting.
Can’t really see it very well, but the swirls are happenin’.
Speaking of Michele, her felted table runner is turning into a mega-cloth. We all think it might end up being a wall hanging! Whatever it turns out to be, it’s very pretty. Can’t wait to see what she does with it.
The circle widens.
Leslie is working on a doll for Mira. She’s up to her armpits, so to speak. She never imagined she’d be knitting dolls, horse heads or monkeys, but being a grandmother seems to change a woman’s perspective on small critters. Or, so I’ve observed.
Talk about somebody being all legs!
Linda showed us the (nearly) finished tutu in pink. It’s so cute. She has one in blue, too. Are you going for the green, Linda?
I’d love to see a little girl model this.
Carol started a…mitten?…sock? I can’t remember what she said. Sorry, Carol. I think she was afraid of making a mistake on her sweater. I know it’s very hard, during one of our meetings, to concentrate on a crucial part of a difficult pattern so we have simpler items to work on in a crowd of talking women. This must be one of Carol’s alternatives.
We all have those little mindless knits.
Francy is knitting a baby hat for a friend. It’s so tiny that we knew it was for a newborn.
Green hat in the sunshine.
That’s it, Castoffs. Spring has sprung and summer is right around the corner. Let’s see…is there another cliche I can use? Keep those needles blazing and I’ll see you next time at Marylane’s house.
