Another beautiful day in Woodland Park! It was so pleasant to watch the geese and ducks on the lake, listen to the birds sing – as well as the occasional shriek of children playing – while we sat and talked and knitted. Ahh, summer in Montana. There’s nothing quite like it. Francy is back from the birth of her grandson (yay!). She brought us a treat – Oreos . Joan must have been thinking of eating, too, because she showed up and plunked down a container of taffy. Wow. Simple but sugary. Thanks, you two.
Our feast. Just right.
We’re always interested to see how Joan’s scarf is coming along. She unfurled it and it was… long. It looks like what Waldo wears, but if Waldo wore this scarf, he’d never be hard to find. Just follow the scarf like a trail of bread crumbs.
There’s Waldo!
Francy is working a baby sweater, either for her new grandson, Owen, or for Heidi and John’s baby – gender unknown. It’s the new neutral, green. She has finished one side and is working on the other.
Cute little hoodie.
This is a picture of the baby hoodie that Francy is knitting.
Michele is still working on the skirt from hell. She has ripped it out and started it over four times. In the middle of our talking, we heard her say quietly, “I’m a stitch off.” Eeks. I think she’s going to go ahead and wing it.
Francy, Michele and Linda happily knitting in public.
Mary has finished the front of the summer top for Aurora. She also brought along the almost-finished sweater for Aurora – all the pieces knitted, but not sewn together – but nobody will volunteer to sew them together! Gee, go figure. None of us like to do that finishing stuff, either, Mary! She always asks, though. It’s too hot to wear a hooded sweater anyway. Hope Aurora doesn’t outgrow it before it gets put together.
Cute top. No takers on sewing together the sweater.
Marylane took the mitten that she’s knitting out of the bag and held it on her lap, but I’m not sure she knitted very much. I’m not sure that ANY of us knitted very much. Sitting in the park in summer was not conducive to handling wool. Deb joined us, but she didn’t even make a show of bringing her knitting. Good for you, Deb. Just say no to knitting in hot weather. She’s too busy hiking to knit.
Knitting? Knitting? I don’t need no stinkin’ knitting!
Linda brought her baby sweater that she has nearly finished, but OH NO! She’s afraid that she won’t have enough yarn to finish the final sleeve. She’s done one sleeve and thinks it’s a little too long, so I guess an alternative would be to rip it out and shorten it to have enough yarn to finish the other sleeve. Confused? So’s Linda. She brought a scarf to work on.
One sleeve down, one to go – if there’s enough yarn.
The alternate project – we’ve all got one or two (or three).
Well, Castoffs. Same place, same time next week. We’ll just keep on knitting in the park until the weather turns bad. Or maybe we’ll go to Arizona and move in with Joan and knit in a park down there all winter. Hey, that sounds good to me. In the meantime, keep those needles blazing and enjoy the gorgeous weather.
