Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The Castoffs met wearing the green–well, some of us, anyway. I think the most Irish of us is Carol Sullivan. I loved her shirt with the shamrock and I loved the top-down sweater that she’s knitting. The color is great.
Top o’ the mornin’, Carol. Or, uh, afternoon.
She had a rocky start. She was advised to have a 24 inch circular needle but it was soon apparent that she needed a much longer one. Her stitches were too bunched up on the shorter needles. Now it’s all better and I can’t wait to see her progress by next week.
I’m not making a lot of progress. Life and it’s many pleasures has been interfering with my knitting, so I’m still on the second fingerless mitt. Maybe I’ll get some more done this weekend. If there’s a golf game on, I’m can make a lot of progress. Golf is so easy to ignore.
Second mitten is close — kinda.
Leslie has finished the gold tutu for her granddaughter – so adorable! The next photo of it will be Mira as model. Now Leslie is back to knitting her scarf using Marmot yarn (the brand name, not the critter). I forgot and called it her ‘weasel’ scarf which cracked her up. Weasel/Marmot – I got confused.
Hmmm, Francy has a granddaughter who might like a tutu.
Well, maybe not weasel yarn…
Michele is using yarn from her stash to make a circular table centerpiece. She’ll knit around and around using the same ten-stitch pattern that we used for the seat of our ‘Growing to the Sun’ chair. After she knits a table-sized circle, she’ll felt it down to fit the center of the table. Cool idea! and it uses her bits and pieces of wool from her stash.
Beginning of the circle.
I have a pattern by the same designer for a ten-stitch zigzag pattern. It would be a good table runner pattern.
Speaking of our ‘Growing to the Sun’ chair, Marylane re-donated it to the Loud@Library fundraiser this year and it sold for $250! Wow. It was fun to see it again. Congratulations again, Castoffs, for making such a beautiful piece of art.
At this meeting, we started playing around with an idea for a future fundraiser. We thought about knitting a scarf/wrap/stole/shawl with different textures or stitch patterns. That way, we could pass it around to everyone in the group for their turn at knitting, and have a unified design to give away at the end of the project. Leslie and Carol immediately began imagining how to present our shawl/stole/wrap at the future fundraiser – what the model would wear, how the model would interact with the prospective buyers, how great the model would look in basic black and high black leather boots…
“Wait a minute, maybe we should actually decide on a shawl pattern first?”
I’m afraid old practical me brought them down to earth. But at least we’ll know how to market it…when we get it knitted, that is.
Francy is working on the hood of the baby sweater for Samuel. It is very cute – and suitable for a girl baby, too. She’ll be traveling to Michigan/Minnesota to see her growing family of babies next week. We’ll miss you, Francy!
Samuel will look very dashing in this sweater.
Speaking of traveling Castoffs, Marylane is in Patagonia, AZ for a few weeks, and Mary is visiting her kids and grandkids in Denver. We miss you! Deb and Julie were MIA but hopefully we’ll see you next week.
Linda is all about babies right now. She knit a hat for her niece’s baby and is knitting a sweater for the sibling of that baby. Very industrious, Linda.
I love the ruffle around the bottom.
Top-down toddler sweater.
Hope you all enjoyed St. Paddy’s day. We are experiencing a disappointing return to winter temperatures, but someday stubborn winter will fade away and we’ll be able to bike and boat and garden…Ahh!
Keep those needles blazing and I’ll see you at Leslie’s house next time!
