A very small group of Castoffs met in Marsha’s backyard on a beautiful Indian Summer day. It’s starting to look like fall especially when I noticed the leaves that had fallen off my big cottonwood tree. But the day was pleasant and the company was even better when Linda, Mary and Michele arrived.
Fall is in the air! And on the ground.
I had picked up the Chair – you know – the Chair to be yarnbombed for the Friends of the Library fundraiser in the spring, but there weren’t enough of us present to make a decision so we just ate and drank and postponed decision-making until next week. Ah, procrastination, thy name is knitter.
Mary had received some bad news. Her witch’s hat for her granddaughter Aurora hadn’t arrived when it should have and Mary was faced with knitting another one. During the meeting, however, Larissa called to say that all was well and the hat package was just placed in the wrong postbox. Whew. Not that it would have been a hardship for Mary. She loves to knit for her babies. Here is Moses’ pumpkin hat and onesie. Very cute.
This will be so cute on Moses.
Closeup of the leaves and stem.
Michele had brought a strip of knitting for the Chair, but decided to knit her sweater instead. She calls it her ‘hot flash’ sweater because the merino wool is light and soft and won’t induce additional sweating when those pesky hot flashes – or power surges – hit. I love the pattern and the yarn.
Ya know, most of us in this group could use a ‘hot flash’ sweater.
Linda is knitting a prayer shawl using Homespun yarn – soft and fluffy and washable. She is part of a group of women from her church who knit these shawls for women who are in need of both prayers and shawls. A good cause. Linda says that some of the women in the shawl-knitting group really whip them out fast. I’m not so sure that’s for our group – we’re the long thinkers – and wine drinkers (some of us). Doesn’t do to go so fast on a project, especially at our knitting group because we end up ripping out a lot of mistakes. Glad to see that Linda is bridging the gap.
Prayer shawl – pretty color.
I’d like to give a big thank you to Leslie who took great photos of the two meetings that I missed while I was on vacation. She emailed me the photos and it looks like I missed so much fun! I really miss my knitting friends when I’m gone and I miss doing the blog. The trip was a lot of fun and I got my beach fix in Oregon. Yay!
Next week we meet at Joan’s house. Joan and Jeff will be leaving soon to return to Arizona for the winter. We’ll miss you, Joan, so we’re especially happy to be seeing you one more time at your place. Until then, Castoffs, enjoy this gorgeous end-of-summer weather and keep those needles blazing!
