A small group of us met at Marylane’s house on a beautiful spring day. Finally! The sun is shining, the grass is green and it’s almost time to plant our gardens and flower pots. Aaah. I thought it’d never come. Marylane surprised me with a birthday cake – a delicious white cake with orange/pineapple meringue topping decorated with pansies. Thank you, Marylane – it was so much fun!
CAKE! and crackers, pita bread and dips. Yum.
Between the trick candles and the breeze, I wasn’t sure we’d get the candles lit OR blown out.
I have nearly finished the baby sweater for my cousin – just need Francy to show me how to crochet an edge. FRANCY! Please come home soon. I need you. I decided to knit a hat to go with the sweater, so I’ll work on it for a while.
Cute little baby sweater and hat.
Marylane and Carol are both working on mittens. Marylane’s are full mittens with a cable. She’s thinking ahead to Christmas presents. It’s hard to think about Christmas when we’ve just started to believe in spring, but she’s a good one for planning ahead.
Marylane and one of her mittens.
I always like to look at the pattern – this one is from a local knitter, Kara Basko.
Carol is knitting fingerless mittens. She was concerned with the look of slightly elongated stitches that fell between the double pointed needles as she knit, but once it’s all done, they’ll be much less noticeable. Pretty yarn, Carol!
The cuff of one fingerless mitten.
Deb joined us on the deck, but I’m not sure many of us got any knitting done. It was so pleasant to sit in the shade gazing out into Marylane’s garden, and listen to the sound of her fountain. I love spring. Fingers crossed that the cold weather doesn’t come back!
Deb showed us how far she’s got on her sweater. She has the back finished and has started on the sides. What a knitter!
I think this is the back of Deb’s sweater.
We missed Francy, Linda, Julie and Mary who are traveling out of town. We always think of Leslie and Michele, too, and wish they could join us.
CORRECTION!
We will not have a Thursday meeting as previously published. We’ll meet instead at Mary’s house on Saturday instead of at Carol’s house on Thursday. Sorry, but we all spaced it out at the meeting. Too much cake, I guess.
