The Castoffs met at Marylane’s house on a cloudy winter’s day and were greeted with something new – Lemoncello! It’s an Italian liqueur that a friend distilled and it made quite an impact. Marylane also served us mushroom bread – yummy – and assorted wines. I’ll just say that we were happy little knitters.
Cheers!
Leslie especially got into the spirit. We spent most of the time discussing the Chair and trying to plan colors and designs to best set it off.
Hey! It was just that kind of meeting. And that kind of week.
As I mentioned, the Chair was topmost on our minds… someone counted the weeks until the Library fundraiser and we all felt a little jolt of panic. EEK! WE HAVE ONLY SIX WEEKS! While that might sound like a lot of time, it really isn’t, because we only meet to plan once a week. We tried out several ideas:
Linda’s triangles with pewter buttons…
We like this idea. It looks good with the poppy seat.
Strips of ‘sky’ behind the sun…
Blue strips behind the sun at the top. We were missing Julie’s strip of blue.
Teal coverings for part of the arms…
Coming together…
And green wraps for the rungs at the bottom…
There are two other rungs to coordinate. Pretty designs, though.
Michele joined us after her yoga class and suggested that we make a ‘vine’ of i-cord to wrap from the bottom to the top around one side of the chair. This opened a whole other discussion. How big should the i-cord be? 4 cast-ons? 6 cast-ons? 5 – yeah – 5 cast-ons! At least, I think that’s what we decided. By this time, I’d had too much wine and lemoncello.
Please use your imagination on this VINE.
Linda REALLY got into the discussion about vine size. Apparently, size DOES matter. She even gave us a visual illustration of how big one of the leaves should be – not too big to dwarf the vine, but not too small to look like a blob instead of a leaf.
All I can say is “Oh, my god, Linda! You go, girl!”
Amazingly, some Castoffs had actually knitted something besides Chair parts. Marylane was taking a class at Camas Creek and knitted a beautiful cabled mitten – second one to follow.
Love the cables and the wool feels soft and warm.
Mary was knitting sweaters for her grandchildren and is using the cutest pattern with Lion Brand washable chunky yarn.
This will look adorable on Moses.
We missed Julie and Deb but will catch them up on the Chair at Linda’s house next time we meet. Until then, Castoffs, enjoy this mock spring that we’re having and keep those needles blazing!
