We met at Michele’s house and she served us the most delicious lemon pie – and not a calorie in it!  Well, that part is a lie, but I’d like to believe it.  The last time we were at Michele’s, she baked a wonderful chocolate grenache cake that tasted heavenly.  But school will be starting soon, so there goes our baked goodies (it’s hard to bake when you’re teaching all day).  I hope that doesn’t mean that the retired members have to take up the slack!

Michelle has finished her curtain and hung it in her bathroom and it is beautiful!

The great Hemp harvest!

The yarn was hemp mostly.  Leslie kicked in the bottom multi-colored thread from one of her old projects (a shopping bag).  Michele used a fagotting stitch – the same one that Carol is using for a great scarf that she is making.

Just happy to be knittin'!

This yarn is sooo cool, fuzzy and elegant at the same time.  Carol is also knitting a skinny scarf in seed stitch with a smaller, glittery yarn for a Christmas gift.  Ya gotta start early!  I know that I’ll have to start my little mittens for great-nieces and nephews soon.

We were glad to see Joan again (Marylane’s sister) who is knitting a mysterious ‘hat’ that exists only in her mind.  So far we’ve seen two long strips and we’re dying to see the finished product.  Joan has become quite a knitter, considering that she is visiting from Arizona for the summer and Marylane dragged her to our meeting, thrust needles into her hand and said, “KNIT!”  So she did.  Good sister.

"Alright, already. I'll knit, I'll knit!" Ah, but she does look like she is having fun.

Have to show you a couple of projects, ongoing and finished, that Michele has done.  The scarf is the one that Leslie found for us in MASON-DIXON KNITTING.  It is made with both thick and thin yarns and looks so amazing that everybody wants to knit one.

Crochet thread and novelty yarn scarf

The other project is a top-down boucle 3/4 length sleeve sweater that is really adorable.  Marylane is knitting this using a solid color wool yarn.

Pretty boucle sweater by Michele

Marsha is knitting a purple (the photo lies) top-down sweater in worsted weight yarn on size 13 needles.  I like the looseness of the gauge and it gives me the illusion that I’m knitting very fast!  Even when I’m not.

Hey, I can do this with my eyes closed

Right after this photo, the batteries in my camera died, so I didn’t get a photo of Marylane knitting her top-down sweater.  Maybe next time at Leslie’s house!  We really missed Leslie(family in town), Julie (who spaced out the meeting, duh), Francy(who is out of town) and Mary(who is in Italy, poor thing) but hope to see them all next week at LESLIE’S house at the regular time (JULIE!).  In the meantime, don’t forget to use the pointy ends carefully!

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