Stitch and Chat

We had a large and animated knit session at Cosi's. There were six of us there to knit (seven if you include my daughter who was playing hooky from camp of all things).

Sheilah finished a beautiful shoulder shawl. The pattern is from Not Just Plain Jane, Simple Elegance Shoulder Accent. Sheilah is finding very creative ways to use odd balls in her stash.

Sheilah asked me about more colors in Sirdar Vegas, here's a color card. I just googles Sirdar Vegas Yarn.

Sara and Michelle came with their sweater projects for their husbands. Sara is just about to reach the arm hole shaping of the front. She's making her sweater in off-white.

Michelle is making hers in a charcoal grey and began sewing it together today. It was not easy to find the stitches in the dark charcoal! Once she got the first sleeve sewn on, she was really excited because it looks like a sweater with completion in sight!The pattern is from a Lopi book, it has great big cables across the whole sweater.

Robin brought the baby blanket she's been working on and learned how to change to a new skein of yarn. It's coming along beautifully.

For someone relatively new to the area, Robin continues to amaze me with interesting places she learns about that I haven't heard of. She told us about Beadz, a Bead store in Darien, Creative Kids in Norwalk, and cooking dinners (also in Norwalk). I don't know what I want to look into first. Click the name of the place for the link to that site. They are all really great!

Mary finished another panel of the bag bottom. The short rows get a little confusing, it's so easy to knit past the turning stitch. I still have to catch up to you Mary! I'm adding the first contrast yarn and I think it needs to be doubled. Hopefully I'll get more done by Friday.

Elizabeth made incredible progress on her Brilla Cotton Sweater. She even let me take a picture of it before it's done! Thank you Elizabeth, it's so beautiful and Theresa and Michelle will want to see it.

She's also started an afghan for her husband with dog motifs. It's going to be a surprise. We've brought Elizabeth over to the dark side of several projects at once! Welcome to the world of the obsessed (is there any other way?) knitter.

Here's a picture of the finished alpaca scarf, this yarn is so soft.

As for myself, I finished these ankle socks for one of my daughters. I'm going to use the leftover yarn to knit little ankle socks for one of my nieces. I also finished this lace cardigan (pattern is from Berroco booklet #255 and is called "Berlin". My mother loved it and wants one and I may make myself another one in brown.

I only have 3 motifs to do on my starry night shawl and then I can begin to graft them together.

Best line of the day:

"Notice to all teens, NO is a complete sentence.