Six of us met at Linda’s house and it turned out to be all CHAIR. We heard today (three days after the meeting at Linda’s) that the chair needs to be finished by the second week in March. That means we have about five weeks to get our planning done and implemented, and turn in the Chair. Gulp. We did get quite a bit of planning done at Linda’s house, and all of us could see the big picture…finally. It’s going to be fabulous.
Linda graciously fed us fruit, truffles and wonderful hummus chips that we couldn’t keep our hands off of. And wine, of course.
Almost too pretty to eat… almost.
Our queen of calorie counters, Julie, whipped out her Weight Watchers conversion tool to see how dangerous the chips were. Da da, da da, da da. (This is supposed to heighten the suspense). The chips turned out to be not so bad at all. So we all ate more.
Let’s see…calories, check…fat, check…fiber, check…OK! Clear to eat!
Coincidentally, Julie was the only one to bring a non-Chair item to knitting this week. She’s knitting some very cool socks using Deborah Norville’s yarn, Serenity. Pretty.
Sockies!
So, on to the Chair. Linda and Carol had taken the ‘sun’ shopping to see about buying it some bling. They ended up with dark bugle beads to sew into the rays of the sun and in the arch of the top. It’s subtle, but effective.
Not easy to see, but the sun has bling.
We talked a lot about leaves for the vine. Leslie and Linda are working on leaves – yarn leaves, wire leaves, embroidery and wire leaves. I can’t wait to see the leaves. Linda brought some ivy leaves that I loved, but I’m not sure if they’ll make the cut.
These are beautiful.
More leaves on the seat. These leaves on a vine are going to be great.
We all got our assignments: leaves, strips for rungs, lace covering for behind the sun, more i-cord. I can’t wait to see what we have to put together next time.
As we were ready to leave, Mary asked to use Linda’s yarn swift to wind yarn for her slippers. She and Linda were struggling with a tangle and winding yarn as quickly as they could. I couldn’t resist taking a couple of shots.
The big tangle.
I want one – but since three of the Castoffs have one, I probably don’t need one.
Next time we meet at Leslie’s house, so bring your assignments and your design thinking-cap . We’ll kick it into a higher gear and get this Chair finished! Funny, but we’re already mourning not having the Chair to work on and it’s not even finished yet. Well, until it is, keep those needles blazing, Castoffs. See you next week.
