Finally decided on the pattern for the washcloth. Found it in the book Enchanted Knitting: Charted Motifs for Hand and Machine Knitting
Now the question is… do I remember how to knit? 
Posts Tagged ‘Knitting’
July meeting was great! I didn’t do any knitting or spinning. As it turned out, I was high (or low) on paint fumes from helping our new roomy paint her room. (Love the new color!) I was just chilling and chatting with people the whole time.
There were a lot of donated items for guild raffles. The proceeds are going to the Heifer Project in honor of Twisted Ruth (Ruth Schooley). There were tons of fiber, yarn, books, magazines and other stuff. I donated a set of five Japanese ceramic bowls.
Lots of Show n’ Tells. Hand-spun yarns. Yarns made at the Pluckyfluff Workshop. Finished knitting projects (check out Jill’s lace shawl.) And Deb and Helene’s woven pieces!
Old friends and new friends.
New roomy (with her Loch Ness Monster knitting project)!
And I met Ercil who brought her tablet weaving to the meeting. I wanted to see her tablet weaving and maybe ask a few questions. But like I said, I was high (or low) on paint fumes, and let that chance slipped away. Hope to see her in the next meeting. I also couldn’t figure out why I knew of her. Later I realized that I had seen her in Ruth’s photos of their recent gathering that included Sylvia, Stephenie Gaustad, and Joy.
I’ve started a new spinning project. Well, maybe not totally new. I am spinning blue merino fiber that I carded with some silver hologram Angelina for sparkles. The goal is to knit a Ostrich Plumes Stole for Kate. I am also spinning this for Ruth’s Spin for Peace group on Ravelry. Yeah, I started early. 
Hi all! A few things to update you on. CB is in the hospital. Nothing to worry about at the moment. He hasn’t been feeling well for a couple of weeks. He started having difficulty breathing last week, causing headaches and fatigue. He finally was willing to go to the doctor yesterday morning. The doc immediately found the oxygen level in CB too low and sent him to the emergency room. They performed tests on him for the entire afternoon and could not find the cause. Finally in the evening after doing a CT scan, they found pneumonia in a hard to detect region of the lungs. So, now he’s in the hospital for a few days to get better. They are also performing extra tests to see there’s anything else. It’s a relief to have found the cause of his illness. Now we can focus on getting better.
Remember that yarn that I named Forest Jewels?
I am going to start knitting something with it. I’ve always had Drifting Pleats from the book Knitting New Scarves
I joined Katherine’s Le Tour de Fleece 2008.
I had so much fun spinning and knitting for Fibre to Scarf Exchange, I thought I’d join up another spinning challenge. Maybe I’ll do well again doing a project with time restraint? We’ll see. Now I have to find something in the stash to get going.
Happy Fourth of July! I’ll be spending the afternoon with CB.
OH! Almost forgot. Chris, here’s the cotton I have to work with:
I am not an experienced cotton person. Maybe it is usual to get cotton in this condition. (It was given to me.) I have at least 30 times more of this cotton. What do you think? Keep or let go?
Last Saturday was the monthly GLASG meeting. We had our usual meeting and show and tell. Plus, Randall gave an introduction to spinning wheel mechanics. I should have listened carefully and learn a few things. But I was spinning with a drop spindle and was so focused that I didn’t hear most of it. Sorry Randall.
We had lots of beautiful show and tell items:
Do you see something familiar? Well, it’s probably hard to tell, but that’s the Hugger in the middle of things. Aren’t these a colorful bunch?
Here’s Dorothy showing off her needle felting jacket.
Jerry showing off his second finished skein of hand spun:
More amazing items:
See more pictures here. Next post, a very long, but very wonderful day at the temple.
