Today was our first meeting at church.
To explain, one of our members, Deb, is married to Glen, a pastor at the Presbyterian church downtown. When we were discussing where to meet during the winter, Glen offered a wonderful room in the church for our Castoffs meetings. It’s warm, cozy and has comfy leather armchairs. There’s a gas fireplace that will be perfect for those chilly afternoons that are coming … sooner than we’d like. Thank you so much, Glen and Deb, for allowing us to meet here!
Carol stretching out in front of the fire.
The leather chairs are great, but you’d better get to the meeting early – there are only six. Other chairs are available and they’re comfy too – just not leather.
Marylane and Francy are enjoying the comfy leather chairs.
We were all working on the same projects as last meeting, but now that winter is coming (and Christmas), I know I’ll see a lot of new knitting. I just started another purse to felt for a great-niece. I know that Francy will have three grandchildren to knit for this year.
Julie had to rip out a LOT of her top down cardigan that she’s been working on. Bummer. Sometimes it happens that a mistake is made, or a pattern is misread, or even that you don’t like the look of the stitches and you just want to do it over.
This is what it looked like last time we met.
She doesn’t look happy, does she? I know she’ll have it back the way it was in no time.
Deb’s sweater looks beautiful. Here is the back:
It’s going to be a great sweater.
We’re all about helping each other out. Carol was explaining a pattern interpretation to Deb while she was knitting her own fingerless mitten.
I love the post-it notes on Carol’s pattern.
Soon after this meeting, I went to Canada for a little vacation so I missed the following meeting. I can hardly wait for Thursday to see what the Castoffs got up to in my absence. I always look forward to seeing my friends and their projects. I’m knee deep in felted purses, myself. Now, I just need to keep my needles blazing and get some encouragement from my sister needle-ers.
In the meantime, Castoffs, keep on knitting and enjoy the fall colors. See ya in church!
