Love my needle tribe!!! This last week was great at the studio! Wish everyone was well and could have joined us! Stay healthy all...
Feel free to bring a mug to live at the studio for you to drink out of when creating. OK...studio will be open Wednesday 2-5 and Friday 2-5. We have learned some new skills....cabling and picot edging....more to learn. Watch for next week to see the new skill for the next "Learning Late Night". Found a shawl that uses fingering (sock) yarns to make this beautiful shawl. In case you are not ready to knit socks and you collect fingering yarns (that is me!), this shawl is for you. Here is the link and it is free. www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/color-shifting-shawl Designer Jennifer Fish....enjoy!
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Life is good! Studio will be open for our Late Thursday time 3-6 and a Friday 2-5.
Last Late Thursday we began cable knitting. Those who missed this easy lesson can come by Thursday and get you guys cabling! Ask Geneva and Joanne....they now cable! So proud of them for accepting the challenge!!! This Thursday, we will learn how to Picot edge - look at the brim edge of the hat in picture. You can also use this on all ages of hats, edge of blankets, edge of scarves, etc. I love it and I am going to put it on several edges of my charity hats. Come join us for the lesson on this edging or cabling!!! Looking forward to seeing you and catching up on your lives! Oh yeah....if you want to learn to knit or want to have time to sit and practice your new knitting skills....run by either day and let’s get you going!! Hugs and kisses! I have racked my brain on how to make the week work efficiently. So I guess what will work the best is... the studio will be closed this week. I have 2 random trips and 2 different appointments. All this conflicts with my knitting schedule....drat it all! Oh well....you guys enjoy your knitting and I will be back ready to get those needles clicking the next week!!! You guys are the best!!!
Thought I would share this gorgeous free pattern! Can be used with any yarn!!! Here is the link www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/temperature-timepiece Hope all is having a great start to the new year. As a math person, I love the year...it is a pattern....2020.
This week at the studio is Monday 2-5, Thursday 3-6, and Friday 2-5. Notice Thursday is the late night...will have snacks but I have a new plan for these late Thursday. I want all to come knit and enjoy but I will be offering a learning experience for the ones who are interested in a new project that day. You can bring the project/projects you are working on but I will offer a new stitch, a new method, or a new skill in this lovely knitting world we are living in. This Thursday the new skill will be an easy one for you knitters who have your knitting and purling down. We are going to learn to knit a cable. So simple...look at the picture. This makes a head wrap for the cold weather AND you also learn how to cable. Here is what you need to learn how to cable: 1. A bulky yarn...about 70 to 80 yards. I have plenty at the studio for you to choose from. All I ask is that you purchase a replacement skein sometime from Michael's or Hobby Lobby next time you are near one. The ones at the studio are for charity knitting but we can use them and replace them. 2. Size 11 needles. You can use circulars or straights - any length. 3. A cable needle or a double pointed needle that is smaller than size 11. If you have none of these, we have plenty for you to use at the studio. That's it!!! Come learn how to cable. Promise you will enjoy and will have a project that you can be proud of and you can then be so proud of yourself for the new knitting skill! The word stash originally had such a bad meaning. You were a bank robber or some criminal if you had a stash. Now the word is used for several things and my favorite is a yarn stash. Yes...I have a yarn stash and I love it. It is on some open shelves in one of my guest bedrooms. I see it everyday because my vanity is in that room. I love seeing all the colors and textures every morning. Many times I sit down to put on my make-up and I catch myself reaching up and grabbing a skein to feel and think about what I could knit with this skein. Many times, I look at the skein and try to decide if the knitted project I had in mind when I originally purchased it is still a good plan. If you are a knitter, you may change the plans for a skein soooo many times. That is part of the fun!
Some skeins in my stash will probably never be knitted. I have some yarn pets (thanks for this term Yarn Harlot)...these are skeins that will sit on the shelf and make me smile but there is probably not enough of that yarn to make the project it deserves to be knitted into. I am fortunate to not have my stash in bags or containers. I get to look at them when I need a yarn fix. If you are a newbie to knitting, it will take you awhile to build your stash. In the future, you will look at some of the earliest skeins you bought when beginning to knit and your taste will have changed. My stash has no acrylic yarn in it. I want only natural fibers and that is my personal preference. Yours will be what you make of it. Well, got to go knit.....enjoy your stash...love your yarn....Knit On!!! |
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